We're Moving! - Diary Entry Week 3

Has anyone out there ever moved before? I'm sure most of you have... and hate it as I do! I never knew how much junk you can accumulate over a brief period!!! and Boxes, Boxes, Boxes everywhere! Everything is a disaster zone, and mice are over-populating your house faster than you can trap them! This has been week #3 for me, of our Moving Adventure.

But maybe I lost some of you... let me back up. We are officially MOVING!
As of November 1st, we will be living out in the country!!! We're moving in with my parents for the winter, in their big blue "hotel" as they call it.. a 5BR 3BA Farmhouse.. which in the spring will be officially OURS, as we are purchasing it! My parents are building a smaller house next door.. (Their "retirement house" as they call it) so we will be homeowners.. and land-owners.. with 20 acres!!!!!! We are so very excited, and I especially can't wait to start hobby farming. (I need to post a blog just for my dreams of farming, gardening, and landscaping!)
My parents graciously asked us to move in with them this winter, which will almost triple our heating savings as opposed to staying in the house we are now. So, when spring comes, we will have a great down payment put away for our house payment! :) So great!

So, we're moving our whole entire household of stuff out to the country, and will be getting 3 bedrooms of the upstairs for us. (One for us, Leah, and a nice sitting room/living room area) So privacy won't be such a hard thing, but it will be an adjustment! Sharing kitchen space with my mom, storage space with my dad, and lots of other things. But we're all very excited and I think it will work out very nice. Another huge plus about moving is Leah LOVES it out on the farm.. so much she cries when we have to leave.
We also have gotten a 4 month old puppy!!! Another great reason to move out! His name is Teddy, and he is a purebred Golden from my parents' dogs. He was the runt of the litter, and never sold.. I have no idea why, he is the sweetest, most loveable dog! Leah and him have so much fun together, when he isn't over-licking her! (I'll post pictures of him soon)

So all in one month so much can happen! :) Moving has been an adventure... but not so much as the mice have been lately. Yuck... I hate mice! They are over-taking our entire house... and forcing me to be extra-cleanly while in the midst of moving... when my house is a disaster area!!! They come up on the counters and eat food I leave there... (Like one night my biscuits... which WERE covered!) Josh has been very diligent in trapping them.. in about 1 1/2 weeks we've gotten about 11! Isn't that just creepy???? So.. at least we leave that problem behind us. :)

All in all, moving is hard work. Our final move in weekend is next weekend, and then we will be out of our little house forever. It seems so sad to leave.. this was our first house together, and Leah's only memory of home. But what a great opportunity to live out in the country, in a HUGE house on a farm! :) We're excited! Plus with the new baby coming in May, we will need the extra room! :) and that is our life so far... will keep you updated and post pictures after our move! :)

Itasca Trip Pics

Here are some pics from Leah's first trip to Itasca State Park! Grandma Tracy and Uncle Isaac came with! Leah just LOVED the park, especially walking through the water! (Don't worry this was from a month ago, when the water was still warm!) Enjoy!

Grandma and Leah take the first dip

Leah and I at Headwaters!

Walking across the bridge, as I did as a child

LOVING the slides!

Even went down the big one all by herself!

30th Anniversary Pics!

As promised, and very late, here are some of the pictures from my parent's 30th Anniversary Open House!

The celebrated couple!

Feeding each other cake!

Anna and her helper make more punch

The photo slideshow Dad and I made was the highlight of the party!

Auntie and Leah hang at the party

Their wedding album and 30th Anniversary scrapbook

This cake was as scrumptious as it was beautiful!

Our refreshments; peanuts/M&M's, meat/cheese tray, crackers, cake and punch!

Their lovely welcome table

Special Friends Gardell and Judy Emery

Gardell and Judy play a special song for Mom and Dad

Grandma Elizabeth, Catherine and Eric enjoy the slideshow

Pregnancy again...

Ok, I'm back in the blogging world! I hope to have pictures to put up soon, but for now it's my chance to update everyone on our newest little one!

10 weeks along already! It's so hard to believe, yet I wish it would go faster. At least through the morning sickness. Well, for me it's more like evening sickness. Every night at 5:00 I start feeling naseaus, and yucky. I'm not actually throwing up, only feeling like I could, which I think is worse. But at least it's not feeling like that all day! I'm very thankful!

I've also had kinda odd food cravings already! And things I can't and can eat! For example, eating food in the morning is sooooo hard for me! For the last 2 weeks the only thing I can stomach and keep down (that tastes good) is cottage cheese with an avacado sliced in it. weird huh? It just is so good to me! Funny how cravings go. One week I wanted nothing but egg salad sandwiches, then it was Mac and Cheese. Then chinese food cravings! It's been an adventure! :) Now I have been able to keep more breakfast food down, so that is good, because even cottage cheese/avacados can be boring sometimes!

The next weird side effect of early pregnancy I didn't remember was the emotional basket case I become while watching movies!! I cried the other day watching "Pinnochio" with Leah!!!! How mushy can ya get?! Seriously movies I don't usually find sad or emotional I suddenly do and am crying like a baby! For instance watching "Little Women", I cried for the whole second half of the movie!! Crazy. does anyone understand this weird thing called pregnancy???

Thanks for letting me share my life, as I see it so far. The baby is very healthy, continuing to grow, and I am looking forward to being done with the first trimester! :) Will keep you updates and hopefully post our first ultrasound pics soon! :)