Welcome to the Neighborhood

Mike and I have been hard at work to move everything from our townhouse to our new house AND make our new place cozy, presentable and "ours". It's a work in progress, ESPECIALLY when we don't have our usual firepower (and yes, I'm talking about me here). :-)  I'm still participating in the packing, moving, unpacking, cleaning, ripping apart, putting together, etc. that IS moving, BUT I don't have my usual "firepower" behind me with being all 6 months preggers and all. Mike ends up carrying quite a bit...or telling me to put things down if he sees me carrying something that he thinks is too heavy. It's all coming together though. We are finally out of the townhouse (well pretty much, Mike has ONE more thing to pick up there tomorrow)...woohoo!! It was nice to have time to move slowly but it also meant we would use every bit of the time and drag the process out.
We also have been working on our yard. As I mentioned before, Mike is now a yard aficionado. :-) No really, he's getting pretty good. He has removed a TON and I mean a TON of plants, bushes, trees, weeds, flowers, etc from around our house. If you have visited our house or remember from past pictures, there was quite a bit of overgrown landscaping. And now...well now most of it is gone! Mike rips it out and I bag it up, he carries the bags and I rake through the dirt, he sprays the weeds and insects and I...well I don't do much with that part, too many chemicals. I DID put together our rocking chairs and tables and my mom and I planted the flowers in my planters. We still have more we want to do with the front of the house (i.e. plant new bushes, etc.) but we still really LOVE our porch. Here are a few pics.
From the road:

 Loving our Rocking chairs! Thanks for the birthday presents Mom and Mark!

And here you can see our planters and flowers, LOVE. Thanks Mom and Grandmomma! (and Annie for helping to plant!!)

And our ferns (yes, I'm not as good at ferns yet) and new "J" mat...you know I love the "J". Thank you Mom and Grandmomma for the ferns (Easter bunny was very nice to me this year) and Muffy for the "J" mat.

Here are a couple pics from sitting on our porch. Just a few houses and then the beautiful hills...going to LOVE this even more in the fall. And to the right is a new playground that the neighborhood JUST installed in May. When our little one is old enough to be there, I'm sure we'll be the "bathroom" house. You know, the one that all the little kids run to with our daughter saying, "Sophie has to pee! Can she use our bathroom?".

And here is a pic of the back patio.  Mike cut back the magnolia tree and we spruced up our "old" patio furniture. 

And here are some pics of the back of the house. It may seems pretty basic but let me tell you, that "basicness" took HOURS of work. Mike and I (ESPECIALLY Mike) have spent an incredible amount of time removing weeds and overgrown plants from the back of the house and shed. For once, we are proud of "basic" and "plain". :-) We will add more plants later, but for now, we are enjoying NOTHING.

So, I know I haven't posted any inside pics since we moved in but I promise they will come. Just trying to get it all put together.

We did have a funny (well crazy, but funny) experience yesterday. Our kitchen faucet decided to turn into a geyser and explode water EVERYWHERE in our kitchen. It took both of us to get the damn thing off and by that time we were laughing like crazy and soaking wet. You have to laugh or you might want to cry. Since our wood floors are new, we were like maniacs trying to get the water off of them. We had every towel in our house in the kitchen soaking up the water. Water in the floor, in drawers, on the ceiling, everywhere. But we got the water cleaned up! And have had a fan blowing on the floor since. (check out our flowers on the island...they are from a plant in our yard that we had to cut-back, pretty!)

A plumber came and said that other than needing a new faucet, we're fine. We purchased the faucet today and it should be installed tomorrow.  Hello home ownership. You didn't take long to rear your ugly head and show us who's boss. :-) Oh well, we laughed through it. Thank GOODNESS Mike was here when it happened b/c it took two of us to minimize the water.

Whew, this was a long post! :-)

Baby Jackson is doing great!

Happy Father's Day to all of the wonderful Dads in our lives. We love you! And also to Mikey, the soon to be Daddy. (He had a big breakfast this morning from me, baby Jackson and Finn...Finn was instrumental in making the pancakes.)