Home Sweet Home

    It's crazy to believe that we have already been living in our new house for a month now, and we are still sleeping on a blow up bed! Let's scratch that, I am sleeping on a blow up bed, Aaron's sleeping on the floor because he can't handle my tossing and turning {gotta love pregnancy insomnia}, and Connor is sleeping upstairs in his room on a cotton filled floor mattress. Minus the sleeping situation, we are loving our new home. We received our small shipment of unaccompanied goods from Italy, but are still waiting for all the rest of our stuff. We are really hoping it comes sometime next week because this 29 week pregnant mama has slept on an uncomfortable blow up bed long enough!

Rabbit Fest

     On May 18, Connor, Aaron, my mom, and I went to the 37th Annual Rabbit Fest in our towns city park. We didn't know much about it, except from the little bit of info that I was able to find online, so it was a surprise for us when we got there opening evening after Aaron got home from work. It was bigger then I imagined, with rides, food vendors, and even a small arts and crafts section. The weather forecast called for rain, but luckily it didn't rain and it just stayed overcast with a nice breeze.

Mother's Day

   Our Mother's Day this year was very laid back. My mom was staying with us for the week, so I got to spend it with my baby and her!  It was the first time in over six years that I was able to celebrate with her, so I was pretty happy.

Closing On Our First Home

     We have been in the process of building a home since September 2016. We knew Aaron was going to get stationed at Fort Hood, and we were really tired of throwing our money away into rental homes, so we decided to buy. Since we both like newer homes and wanted to pick everything out ourselves, building was our best option. The process was a little stressful, especially because we did almost everything from Italy. Thankfully my parents and Aaron's dad made trips to the house for us while it was being built. 

    Back in October I visited our empty lot, took a tour of a home similar to ours, and picked out all of our selections {paint, brick, stone, granite, flooring, etc}. I had a pretty good idea of what it was going to be like, but it was a surprise for Aaron when he saw it for the first time on May 4. We did a final walk through then and then finally closed on May 12. After signing what seemed like a million documents, we were done! We drove to the model home, picked up our keys, and went to see our beautiful new home.

It's finally ours and we love it!

Connor's Fourth Birthday Party

    In April Connor turned four years old. We didn't throw him a birthday party because we were in the process of moving, but we did promise him we would celebrate when we got to Texas. We kept that promise, and on May 6 we threw him a small birthday party at my mom and dads house. He had a lot of fun playing with his cousins and eating the special strawberry cupcakes I made him {he requested them months ago}.