And we are MOVING!!!

So I have been working on this post gr over a week now. Every time I go to add or change it my mind races at the magnitude of what God has done for us through all this and I become very overwhelmed and feel like not one word I write could ever be good enough to adequately explain what He has done. But here is my best attempt ;)
I feel like my head is spinning!! So we decided to put our house on the market about a week ago. The thought process was that it would take a month or two to sell and then we would begin to look at places to move to. WRONG!! Our house was under contract in less than 24hrs and we put a contract on another 4 days later! Never did I imagine that this would happen! So now we are moving into what we believe to be our dream home and I couldn't be happier about it!
But here is the even cooler part in my opinion! When all of this started and we were deciding where to move there was a lot to consider. Get into a good neighborhood with good schools, make sure that is was a house that we could grow into, something that was in our budget, not wanting to make a mistake and have to move again and a gazillion other things along with it! Knowing all of this is a tad bit overwhelming to say the least. I found myself feeling very anxious about the move and not knowing what to do. So I did the only thing I know to do when I start to feel that way. PRAY! I asked God to please help us make to right decisions that are in line with where he wants us to be. That it would be very clear to us on which house we should be in. I asked that we BOTH feel drawn to one house without influence from the other. After a very full day of looking at houses we went home and didn't say much about the day. Then sitting at work the next day I get an email from Jonathan say he couldn't stop thinking about the same house I was!! That was just mind blowing!! But the list price on the house was too far out of our price range. We decided that we would just put in an offer a little lower than we could afford and see what happened. After we put the offer in and we didn't hear anything back for a full day we thought for sure that they wouldn't take our offer. Nope! They did!! We were so shocked and happy at the say time! These were just a few of the ways we felt like God pointing us toward this house. There have been numerous things through out this whole process that have blown me away. God has used the smallest little details to confirm our decisions. For example. A random insurance person we talk to about the house that happens to live in the same neighborhood raving about how much he and his wife love it and how good the elementary school, that is 3 streets away from our house, is. The inspection of the house was almost spotless, other than a few cosmetic type things. Finding out that someone i know works at the daycare we want him to go to and can get us a discount!! Ok maybe those last few aren't so small :) Regardless, big or small He has been all over this and I am overwhelming blessed and humbled! As if I wasn't before, thus has made me so excited about the future of our family!! Thank you Father for your undeserved blessings!

We have forward movement people!!!

Watch out world! Mason is on the move!! Several weeks ago he figured out how to turn in circles on the floor to get to toys that were all around him. Now he has figured out the sniper crawl! It is a very slow sniper crawl but he is for sure on the move. He can get his legs up under him but for now it's just his arms getting him around! Man this is so fun to watch!! He will also lean in when I say "kisses"! And as you can imagine this mommy was through the roof excited!! I can already see him becoming more and more independent and to have that little reminder that he is and will always be a momma's boy makes it all ok! Oh AND when we went to the doc Tuesday for the other have a his flu shot and he is 20lbs!!! Hopefully he got his daddy's height and not mine!

Catch up and some thoughts

Wow I feel like I haven't been on here in forever! Well, we made it through the whirlwind holiday time. I feel like it flew by! But I guess when you have 3 different families to visit in a 5 day time period it will seem that way. We drove to Marble Falls, Abilene and back and forth to North Austin 3 times! Oh and on top of that my sweet pea was sick. Poor baby! He had bronchiolitis. Like bronchitis but in a different part of the lungs. We had to do breathing treatments every 6 hours to help him breath better. Which for this Momma was a very scary thing! Oh of course my sweet boy took it like a champ! With the help of Baby Einstein videos of course. He is mesmerized by those things! He has a favorite little grey puppet that he laughs at everyt ime he comes on. It's so cute!! All this aside, we had a great first Christmas as a little family! We all were spoiled this year. However, Mason cleaned up! I don't think there is one toy out there that he didn't get. It was so fun to watch him open his presents. I would start a little piece and in seconds he was tearing into it, banging on the box and trying to get to the toy! He has played with every toy he got and loves them all! And the faces he makes as he tries to figure out what each button or moving part does are hilarious. You would think he was trying to figure out how to build a rocket! He is so serious.... until he figures it out. Then it is on!
We missed Grandma Nita's Christmas in Georgetown because of the kiddo being sick which is a bummer. But I hear it was quite the Party! We made it to Gran's Marble Falls Christmas though and got to watch all the little ones tear into all the goodies! Gran spoiled as usual. And she made me the sweetest quilt! It's a comfort quilt with a border of comfort scriptures that my sweet Pa picked out and it even has a patch of one of his shirts on it! I can't wait to cuddle up in it! The Christmas Eve/Day festivities at my parents house was perfect! MY BROTHER WAS HERE! He lives in Louisiana and does get to come home very often so any time we get with him is always a treat! We went to the candle light service at my parents church and then back to the house for some viddles and family time. Always such a good time!! Had so head home early though. Sweet Pea needed his rest for his first Christmas! Because he was sick, Mason slept in bed with us so we could keep him propped up. And I think Jonathan and I were more excited for him to wake up then he usually is! We immediately went to the living room to start opening our gifts to Mason. Jonathan and I did ours a couple days earlier. When I got my awesome new phone!!! I felt like I was in a dream watching Mason open everything up. I have wanted to be a mommy for so long and to have those special mommy moments. As I sat there watching Mason open and Jonathan video and take pictures I thought my heart would explode! God has blessed me beyond everything I have ever dreamed about! First a husband that loves me and his son with every fiber of his being. And does any and everything to make us happy and well provided for! And then the most perfect son!! This kid makes my world turn! I never knew things could be like this. A love like this is beyond explanation. Every time I look at him I am reminded of how much I love him AND what God's love for us must be like. Well, I don't think I could ever really know but I get a glimpse. OK I better wrap this one up. I could go on and on about all this! To sum it all up, Christmas was amazing ,as expected, and I am once again baffled at the blessings in my life! Until next time....

A jolt in the Christmas Spirit!

So now that Christmas is only days away I am really beginning to feel a jolt in the ole' spirit! As kids Christmas was so big and awesome and exciting. But the older I got it was really more about hanging out with the family and I didn't really get into much of it. Now that Mason is here I want to do everything! I want his Christmas memories of being a kid to be as awesome as mine are about how ours were as kids. Starting the day after Thanksgiving our house was turned into a winter wonderland! I am not exaggerating when I say Christmas threw up all over the house. PK had every inch of the house covered in something Christmas. On the tree all of our ornaments were in different sections and I would love going and looking at my section of the tree every year! There is the missile TOAD that hangs in the entry to the kitchen, the Wise men that my great Nana hand painted and many other staple Christmas decorations I looked forward to seeing every year. I will have to work up to the amount of decorations that she has but I want Mason to have that too. It just puts you in a good mood every time you look at it! It has changed a little since then, not the amount, but locations and the tree is a little smaller. Although I think there are more ornaments on it??
In addition to all of this something else has been stirring in my heart in regard to Christmas. Really trying to teach Mason the real reason for the season. We are not celebrating a jolly old fat man. We celebrate the birth of our savior!! I want to teach him about the real St. Nicholas and how he was a wealthy Saint that had lots of money and gave it away. That the Santa Claus we know today is the evolution of this Saint. I want to use Christmas to teach Mason of what baby Jesus' birth meant for us and still does today. I feel like all of this has gotten lost and we celebrate a jolly made up fat man and not the birth of our Lord. Now Grandparents don't freak out!! We won't be doing away with gift giving! We will just teach Mason that the reason we give gifts is to represent the gifts the wise men brought Baby Jesus.
I think I will leave this post on that note! Merry CHRISTmas everyone!!

6 months old!!

My little sweet pea is 6 months old! I can't believe I am even typing that right now. I was laying down with Mason over the weekend and laying there looking at him thinking "Oh my gosh slow down" Time has flown by! I remember when I could hold him all wrapped in one arm and when he would lay on my chest his feet barely made it to my waist! Now he does not like to be all bundled up and when he sleeps on my chest his feet are WAY past my waist! He is growing so fast! He went to the doc yesterday and weighs 17.9 lbs and 27 inches long. Long and skinny just like his daddy! Developmentally I feel like he is doing something new everyday. He loves to be on his tummy when he is playing and has now figured out how to turn circles and ooch to get to his toys that are out of his reach. The look of accomplishment on his face when he gets to them is priceless! And he is trying to get those knees up under him! I am guessing crawling in a couple months for sure. Last night Jonathan was rolling a ball to him and he would lift up his hand to catch it!! Baseball player on our hands? Wide receiver? Daddy can only hope! Mason is also a fan of bouncing. Grandpa started this a while back when he was holding him and then at school his favorite bouncer/exersaucer has bungee type cords on it and he jumps like a crazy man in that thing. We can't stand him up without him wanting to jump. Grandpa counts to 3 with him and he knows on 3 to bend his knees so Grandpa will pick him up in the air. What a genius we have! So about a week or 2 ago he started making the cutest face when he smiles at me. He scrunches up his whole face, eyes and all, and sticks his tongue out to the side. So funny! I have said it before and I am sure I am sure I will many more, but I am so loving watching this kiddo grow! Very bitter sweet. I want to keep him little but it is so cool to watch him learn new things!

Until next time.....

5 months old!

My little sweet pea turned 5 months on monday! I feel like I blinked my eyes and he was all of a sudden 17 lbs and 26 inches long! I've been looking back at pictures from the hospital and the few days after and I just can't believe it. He was so tiny! The last 5 months have been so amazing to be a part of I can't even phathom what is to come! I am still in awe at the thought of the Lord blessing me with such an amazing gift. Mason is... I can't even describe it! I am sitting here trying to find the words to type to express the way I feel about that kid and I can't find one that would even slightly capture it acurately. I look at him everyday and my heart smiles. He can make the crappiest day turn right around with that sweet smile! Oh I just love the crap out of him!!!
There have been many developments since the last post. He is now spending most of his time on his tummy and sitting up. (still with some help) He has for sure found his voice!! And if he yells, not screaming or crying but yelling, Mommy jumps. Made the mistake one time of mimicking the sound he was making and it hasn't stopped! Mason also likes to pick at his cousin Averi.When she gets close to him, after a minute of just letting her hang out, he yells and makes her cry! Can't imagine what is to come with these to!! In addition to finding his voice he found out he has feet and that they fit perfectly in his mouth! It is so funny to watch! The minute I take his footed PJs off in the morning his feet go straight to his mouth! Bath time at our house is an event! He has always loved the water but now that he is bigger and has realized that moving his limbs makes the water splash EVERYWHERE. It is much more exciting that way! I almost always have to change clothes after every bath because I am soaked. But watching how excited he gets makes it all worth it. I'm sure there are many more things I'm forgetting that he is doing but I will just have to make even more blogs about him!! Such a hard task :) Here are a few pics of my tiny sweet pea I left the hospital with and now!

Sweet Pa

So ti's been a long time since my last post but with all that has gone on the last few weeks I had to take a break. On October 23rd our sweet Pa was called home. He sufferd a massive heart attack and God called him on. I am still really processing it all. I get mad and then sad and then God reminds me of the truth and I feel a little more at peace with it. That truth being that are days are numbered here and God is totally in control of all of our lives. When things like this happen so suddenly it is a very life jolting reminder of that. Out of the many loved ones that I have lost in the past 4 of them were very sudden and each a reminder that He is bigger. I go through life knowing that but not until something like this happens does it ring so loud in my head. I feel very sad, mad and confused a lot of the time but God has helped me remember that He was right there by my side through it all and hasn't left. And it's not good bye just see you later. We will all miss our sweet Pa. He loved the Lord, my Gran, his family and friends, grandkids and great-grandkids with all his heart. And I know I will see him again someday! Go rest high on that mountain Pa! Your work here is done!