January round-up

Can we take a deep breath together? Is everyone else moving at warp speed even after the holidays? Shew, I feel like I need to just inhale deeply and let my heart rate slow down for an indefinite amount of time. I shouldn’t complain - January normally creeeeeeeps by and this year it’s just whizzed right past me so that’s nice, but I’m ready to resume a fairly slow and boring life again. I don’t see that happening anytime soon so I guess I should just buckle up and enjoy it.

A few weeks ago my good friend Jen and I decided that since our boys were born only weeks a part and they have the same circle of friends that we would do a combined birthday party for them. It was so great and it worked out perfect - it was cheaper, easier on our friends, and just a fun time. I highly recommend this! We held it at an indoor play park that was FREE to rent (cha-ching!) so we got the kids all hopped up on sugar and then sent them in to play.

The play park has a water-theme to the decor, so we just extended that to the party and did everything in fish. A shot of the cuppies:

Last week we FINALLY got some snow and for once I wasn’t the only one who went nuts over it. Conner’s recently become obsessed with snow and snowballs, so as soon as he woke up I took him to the window and asked what it was and his eyes got as big as golf balls and this huge smile spread across his face as he exclaimed, “SNOW!!!” And that’s all we heard about all morning. This was Conner’s first official snow, so we bundled him up and took him out in it and holy smokes this kid had the time of his life.

He didn’t care that his cheeks were beet red and his gloves were getting packed with snow - when it was time to come inside he had a breakdown and boohoo’d for a good while. I’m so glad that Conner shares in my love of the snow.

As exciting as the snow was and celebrating my baby boy turning two (sniff, sniff), the big news around here is we bought a new house! I’ve been kind of mum about it, just because it is such a vulnerable process and once you put something “out there” you may have to do a lot of explaining if it doesn’t work out. And part of me just really wanted to protect this as much as I could. We sold our house by owner at the start of the month (totally a God-thing - we were approached by buyers and it just worked out beautifully!!) and were renting back from the buyer until we found something. We drug our poor realtor all over the map, both in house-style and price range, and finally decided on something we had looked at a few months ago and it just hung in the back of our minds. After a period of intense prayer and begging the Lord to guide us in what to do, we made our way back to this house, made an offer, it was accepted and in three weeks we will have a beautiful new home to grow our family. I would love to share pictures, but again in an effort to protect this I think I may hold off before I post any pictures. But as soon as we have keys in hand you can bet I will be showing off this gem. And I need to slap some paint on the walls to really show of it’s fabulousity.

Okay, I think we’re all caught up now! February is going to be a big month for us (closing, moving, and finding out if this baby is packing or not - pray for an exhibitionist! I want to know!) and I am just so excited. Now if I can just turn off this pregnancy insomnia and get the rest I desperately need I’ll be all set. I leave you with these pictures of our small family celebration of Conner’s second birthday.

Now that is how you should eat a cupcake.