Our house

I promised pictures of our new house and here they are! I already deleted the picture of the outside of the house but it is on the blog already- the white house in the blog below.


Our backyard- which is HUGE for this area, with a nice size storage shed for all the extra "stuff".

This is the master bedroom. The bedrooms are all alike pretty much, all upstairs on the 2nd floor, ours being a little bigger with a nice size walk-in closet.

This picture is standing in the formal dining area looking into the formal living room. We will probably use the extra living area for a play room/office.

This is the kitchen (obviously) :)

This is the living room/family room.

We are very excited about our new house and we will have plenty of room to come visit, so YOU BETTER COME SEE US!!!! We are only 10 minutes from the oceanfront, so what's your excuse?

An emotional day...

What a ride we have had this weekend.... on Saturday evening, I started having contractions that I thought were only 10-15 minutes apart. I called the doctor and he said to come on in to the hospital to get checked out. When I got there and they put me on the monitors, I was contracting every 4-5 minutes...not a good thing. They gave me 2 shots of some kind of medicine to stop contractions and thankfully it worked. We were discharged around 2am, with no restrictions.

Sunday, I took it easy and thought I was feeling better- a little tired, but ok. Around 4am, the contractions returned waking me up and we found ourselves back in the hospital. After this episode, the doctor decided I should be on bedrest. Not TOTALLY restricted, I can move around, shower all that good stuff, but the nurse said to take it easy, no shopping :( or anything that requires me to be on my feet for any period of time.

The good news for this day- we got a house! In the post below, the picture of the white house is our new home! We will meet the home inspector today to make sure all is well, and should close on the house December 12th in time for Christmas- and hopefully before baby! It is amazing how God works things out. It is really ironic though- the day I found out I was pregnant with Caleb was the same day we sold our house in NC. Yesterday, the day I was told to "stay strapped in the bed" as Matthew says, is the day we got a new house!

Keep is in your prayers today as the home inspection takes place- that there will be no hitches, and all will go smoothly! I will post pictures of the inside of the house later.

Momma/baby update

Hello all! I hope you are all staying warm! We have had a cold front this week and it has been COLD!!! The average temps are supposed to still be in the 50's and 60's here, but today we saw snow showers off and on all day long! The teachers at school were going nuts like they had never seen snow before, running out the door during lunch taking pictures with their cellphones. It was hilarious!!! The kids in my class asked me if we were having a blizzard! I was cracking up.

So I went to the doctor yesterday, and they have started me on insulin because my sugar is still too high, despite the fact that I am practically STARVING myself to cut carbs at every corner and have only gained 16 lbs (no weight gain for 4 wks in a row). He wanted to see me back in one week, but that is Thanksgiving Day! The Tuesday after Thanksgiving I will return to the doctor and have another ultrasound. From here on, I have to go to the doctor twice a week to do a non-stress test where they will monitor the baby closely. I have realized through all of this that my body does not like to be pregnant, so more kids you are asking? Not unless Matthew can carry the next one....lol. I am working 1/2 days after Thanksgiving on the days I go to the doctor. Hopefully this will eliminate some of the stress on my body. Keep me and baby "Caleb" (we think) in your prayers until our hopefully uneventful delivery in a few weeks.

It's been a while...

Sorry so long! I knew I would have a hard time keeping up with a blog, but if I can at least post once a month, that's doing good! I have posted some random pictures of things we have been up to since Halloween! All is well here, getting chilly and I am getting bigger!!!! We are ready for this baby to come! The doctor has already said an early induction 1-3 wks early depending on what the next ultrasound has to show... they will do another one in a few weeks to see how big baby boy is, then they will decide how early to take him. My due date is January 17th, so we are looking to have the baby right around New Year's, or earlier.

We have started the house hunt! The following pictures are 2 of the houses we liked.

This is a picture of one of the houses we really liked. It is really big but needs some updating on the inside. It is in Chesapeake, about 2 minutes from my current school, and about 10 minutes (on a good traffic day) to Matthew's work.

This was another house that we really liked. It is move in ready with no upgrades needed. This house is in a community called Ocean Lakes, in Virginia Beach. It is about 10 minutes from the beach, but 20-30 to both my school and Matthew's work. Keep us in your prayers as we continue looking for the right house!

Mommy and Drew smiling after the Wiggles concert in Hampton.

Daddy, Mommy and Drew posing for a picture before the Wiggles concert!

For those of you who do not have small children, you have probably never experienced the Wiggles. They are a group from Australia, and their show comes on Disney every morning at 7:00. Drew watches them everyday. They are a lot of fun! Drew loves their music so we surprised him with tickets to see them in concert! It was a pretty good show! They did a lot of singing and dancing! I think we enjoyed it more than Drew.... as well as the other parents in the audience...

Drew and Daddy posing for a picture at Chili's.

This is a picture of Drew at his daycare Halloween party. We each rolled orange paint on the back of our hands and made a family pumpkin patch! We had a good time!

Drew is enjoying putting the "stems" on his pumpkins with the glue stick.

CHEESE! A picture after his big night of trick-or-treating.