Busy April

Wow! It has been a whirlwind of a month. April was full of unpacking, setting up house, potty training, Easter and a natural disaster! We moved into our new house the last week of March and celebrated Emma Kate's 4th birthday! I still can't believe that she is 4! We drove down to Birmingham and celebrated with Gigi, G Daddy, Warren, Abbey, Baxter, Boyd, Nelson and Sarah. Baxter turned three 2 weeks after Emma Kate turned four and so we had a buzz lightyear/ princess birthday party. The kids loved it and it was so fun to be together and know that we will get to be together more often now that we live so much closer.

We tried to take it easy for a week or so in order to allow my body to rest and not go into labor. We had a few times we thought labor was coming but fortunately they were false alarms. I am now 36 weeks pregnant and pretty uncomfortable but so thankful that the baby and I are both healthy. Emma Kate and Mason both decided to arrive during my 37th week of pregnancy and so we will see what next week has in store!

Easter was great and it was wonderful to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord with family and friends. We enjoyed a wonderful service at church and the kids enjoyed several egg hunts over the course of the weekend. It was a lot of fun to see the kids hunt eggs and actually get into the event.

We are completely out of boxes thanks to help from all of our family. We couldn't have done any of this without their help and support. The nursery is ready to receive baby Alexander and I owe the thanks entirely to Mom. She came up after Easter to wash clothes, organize the room, and set up the crib. It feels great to have the house ready to bring home baby.

Last Monday I started potty training Mason. He has been showing signs of readiness for a while and I thought now would be a good time since Mom was coming up to help with the baby's room. We did a 3 day potty training method (thanks Valerie!) and it worked great. By the third day Mason had 2 accidents and now that we are a week out he is not having any. I am SOOOOO PROUD of him and glad that we did it. It is great not having any diapers...if only for a week or two!

The biggest amount of news we have going on is the storms and tornadoes that came through our neck of the woods a few days ago. The tornadoes came through on Wednesday and we closely watched the tv and took shelter in our laundry room. We feel so blessed to all be safe and to not have received any damage. We were without power for a few days but that pales in comparison to what people are dealing with around here. While we were without power we went down to Birmingham just in case the baby decided to come early. We are continuing to pray for peace and patience during this recovery time. We are also praying for guidance to know how we can help.

Thanks for keeping up with us and what we have going on. I know I say that I am going to try and do better with the updates but it just never seems to happen. I am sure it will be even more difficult once the baby gets here. I will do my best!

New Adventure

Hello friends! So this post is LONG overdue but I wanted to send it out and let you all know what is going with us! The second week of February we found out that our request to be transferred to Huntsville, AL was accepted. The next day we booked flights for the following day to fly to Huntsville and do our house hunting trip. It went so quickly that we didn't have time to think! We were in Huntsville for 8 days and the kids were in Birmingham with my parents. We successfully found a home and signed a contract. It is a new construction that is scheduled to be completed around the third week of March. We are so excited but overwhelmed with how quickly it is all happening...especially being 29 weeks pregnant! It has been a blessing that we are able to get this transfer to happen before the baby gets here or before I become more pregnant! We came back from Huntsville 2 weeks ago and we are thinking the move will happen next week. The kids and I are flying and Matt is driving with Ashton. We covet all your prayers during this time of transition and hopefully once things settle down I will be able to catch up with everyone! We are going to truely miss our friends and family here in Yuma as you have been God's hands in making Yuma our home over the past 5 years. Thank you all for your support and encouragement. We hope that everyone is doing well and I apologize for the lack of posting as I am in the middle of packing, cleaning, organizing, patching holes walls, taking care of a 3 yr old, a 2 yr old....oh and being very pregnant!

It's A....

I wanted to let everyone know that we found out the gender of our upcoming addition. I told everyone I know that it was a girl because of how similarly I felt to EK's pregnancy. Well....I was wrong! It's a BOY! We are thrilled and know that baby boy Alexander will make a perfect fit into our family. Thanks for checking and I hope to get some Christmas pictures up soon. I am going to have to "borrow" them from Abbey and Warren's photo site since they were much more proactive at taking pictures. Good night!