New Home = Lots of Work!

We've finally gotten everything out of our old home and into our new home. And by "into our new home", I mean stacked up in the basement waiting to be unpacked. We closed on both homes Friday which was a little bit stressful. Everything went smooth (other than Luke's daycare being closed because of illness. He got to tag along to both closings and everyone was super kind about it). We started moving on Saturday and by yesterday evening we had moved everything out of the house. We still have to pick up our canoe, but we'll probably run by tomorrow or Wednesday and get it. 

It really is amazing how much stuff you can fit in a tiny home. AND we've taken several loads to Goodwill. Dillon's mom came and helped take care of Luke while we were packing up the truck and many thanks to our friends who helped us, too! This evening, my legs hurt down to my ankles and I can barely hold my eyes open.

I will say though, it feels so nice to be in this house, even though it's not where we want it to be quite yet. I thought that I would feel a little more sad about leaving our first home, but I'm just happy to have it all behind me right now. 

I don't have much to say this evening, other than I'm glad to be here. 

These were left over pictures from Mother's Day. We haven't really had the camera out since then.

Moving day! Yeah! 

What our "guest room" was turned into at the end of our tenure. 

Strong man!

Grammy came down and entertained Luke while we loaded the van. He's been battling a cold since Friday so we may be taking a trip to the pediatrician in the morning.

Stair climbing

The future Mrs. Feaver was kind enough to come and help!

Two strong men

This morning after we tidied up some

Our first home

Our new screened in porch

Our new kitchen... I'll be replacing the window treatments

Our living room

Our bedroom with new furniture that came today! In a few weeks, the walls will be painted a charcoal gray

Luke's new room! 

The decorations were actually right on with what we had in his other nursery

Our guest room

The view off our front porch

The front deck

Our driveway

Back deck

The woods out our back door. Beautiful.

13 Months...(Or 1 year and 1 month)?

I'm not sure how you categorize a baby (or toddler, now I guess) with their age past 1 year. It sounds weird saying 13 months. And anyways, I'm not going to continue with the monthly photos with Luke's stats. I pretty much can't get him to sit still for 5 minutes now, but I do like keeping up with what he's done each month. Kind of like a baby book, but I can just type it out. 

Luke's had an eventful 13th month. He's certainly "talking" more now and actually saying words. He's starting to say "more" and "dogs" and when he doesn't use his real words, he has plenty to say in gibberish. He's taken a few steps on his own, but isn't truly walking just yet. In the next month or so though, I think he'll be walking everywhere.  He's completely weaned from his bottles now and once we finally got through the separation of formula and bottles, he now LOVES milk. Every few days I'll give him some apple juice which he likes, but not as much as milk. His favorite food right now is Chinese lo mein noodles. He scoops up a handful and sucks the noodles down. We feed him pretty much everything that we're eating now, just cut up into tiny pieces. He likes to bite down on chips and pretzels with his 4 front teeth that are finally in and he gets so angry if we eat something and he doesn't get a bite. He's still in 18 month clothing and hopefully will remain so throughout the summer. 

He has started having temper tantrums on the reg. If he has something taken away, if you scold him or if you just try and keep him from doing something dangerous, he will stiffen up and throw himself on the ground. We had a full on tantrum Friday evening for about 30 minutes. Kicking and screaming, I left him to his own devices and he finally quieted down and crept back over to me, sheepishly, as if to say "Sorry, mom. I'm all better now!" 

Luke's also becoming quite dexterous. Like I said, he's on the verge of walking, but he's starting to climb over things. Today, my mom and dad came down to pick up the dogs and Luke was once again having a tantrum because he was over-tired. I went and laid him down in his crib and usually within a couple of minutes he's off to sleep. Not today, though. We heard a thud and my mom went upstairs to check on him. By the time she got up the stairs, he had crawled to the door and was trying to come downstairs. Thank goodness that door was closed, because he had flung himself over the crib in an attempt to escape. I do believe we'll have our hands full in the coming years. 

Our move is coming along. This time next week we should be spending our first night in the new house. We have a week in between closing and having to be out of our current house, but we have a truck next weekend to move the big stuff so we'll have to sleep where the bed is. We've spent the weekend spackling and packing. After we get everything moved out next weekend I'll spend some time cleaning up this house for the next owner. This is all a little nerve-wracking and I'm so ready to be settled. It's annoying to have everything packed into boxes. I don't have many pictures from this week, we're honestly just in survive mode until the move takes place. Hopefully, next week I'll be able to share some photos of the view off our new deck and maybe some pictures of rooms that don't look too messy. 

Here are some videos of Luke since I'm lacking on photos!

Mother's Day 2014

Happy Mother's Day to all the ladies out there! 

We've had a great weekend here on our end with nice weather (at least today) and getting to hang out with some friends we haven't seen in awhile. 

This week was still a little crazy for us. Luke finally got the hand, foot, mouth disease and while it wasn't as bad as it could have been, we still needed to keep him out of daycare for a day and a half since it's contagious. My mom was kind enough to drive back down here Thursday evening to watch Luke on Friday since I had to work and so did Dillon. We both had off the whole weekend though, so that was nice. Yesterday we spent the morning packing and getting things ready for our move. I know it sounds silly, since I'm so very excited to move to our new house, but I'm a little sad about leaving. Mainly because of the memories that are attached to this home and the fact that Luke won't remember any of the happy memories we've had here. Other than that, I'm not too sad about leaving. I'm just glad that in a few short weeks this will all be done. Moving is stressful and I don't want to go through this again any time soon. 

Yesterday we got to celebrate our friends, Rob & Amber, and their upcoming wedding! It was so good getting to catch up with friends and we even got to grab a beer at Highlands Brewery. 

Today was a great Mother's Day complete with a trip to Marco's after church. Dillon gave me my gifts last night and he obviously knows me well... I got Oreos, a bottle of wine, and yoga pants! Seriously, the best gifts ever. I may just have a glass of wine along with some Oreos this evening while watching Mad Men! 

I'm so thankful for all the women in our lives who have motherly roles and I'm also thankful for my sweet baby boy who allowed me the privilege of being a mama. Even on his grumpiest days he makes me so very happy. 

Less than 2 weeks until we're in our new home! Yeehaw! 

Luke's been having a lot of fun playing outside with the warmer weather

I got this picture Friday night while I was working at Relay for Life. I laughed so hard and texted Dillon to make sure Luke wasn't fussing, he was actually laughing in this photo. 

Dillon said "see he's happy"

And then the last photo before I got home...

Mother's Day last year! We celebrated at Marco's both days...

And Mother's Day this year. Boy, how things change quickly!

Chaos is a friend of mine. True story

Work. House buying. Baby Luke. All of these things combined make stressful situations sometimes! 

This week has been just a little insane. We've been trying to pack up the house and get some old junk off to Goodwill. We've succeeded a little bit, but still have so much. How do we accumulate so much in such a small space?! I've realized a lot of this does not need to go with us to the new house. We've already taken a few loads off to donate and I've contacted Habitat Humanity to come pick up some furniture that we'll be replacing. Our bedroom suit that we have now was my parents when they first got married. This stuff is over 40 years old! The drawers don't close on it, and it's basically falling apart. Maybe the folks at habitat can give it a little TLC and fix it up to sell. We went yesterday evening and picked out a new bedroom suit, with a king sized bed! Now we can have Luke and both the dogs sleep in that bed and everyone will have their own little section (just kidding, we're really working with Luke on sleeping on his own).

Anyways, the week started out and I worked all week planning on our patient appreciation picnic for Saturday. On top of that we had work dinners in the evening and Dillon was slammed at work too. We had to stick with a strict schedule this week to make sure everyone was where they needed to be and we had baby coverage. As things usually go, Luke got sick on Friday, the busiest day before the picnic. It wasn't anything serious, just a rash, but thankfully my co-hort in planning, Heather, didn't mind Luke joining us in running errands. I took him to the pediatrician Friday afternoon, and waited over an hour to be seen. We found out that the rash wasn't hand, foot, mouth, but was in fact an ear infection with a secondary rash. Break out the amoxicyllin. Luke had no symptoms of an ear infection, so I felt terrible for not bringing him in sooner.

Thinking that he did have hand, foot, mouth, my mom and dad rushed down to help as I had to work all day Saturday and needed Dillon's strength to help set up tables and games. Since Luke wasn't sick with the virus, everyone got to attend the picnic on Saturday. We had a great weekend, even though it was busy. I'd like to think that things are going to slow down, but work is still crazy this week and we only have two weeks until closing. I think after we're moved in, I may just sleep one whole weekend. I'll need it after this month. 

Mommy's night on baby duty and I let him pull the shampoo bottle on his face. See the small cut under his eye? Boo on me.

At the picnic, having fun and eating popcorn!

Grandpa carrying Luke around...

Buddies from the start

Wallering on me. He's getting so big I'm having trouble carrying him around.

What he thinks of picture taking.