Friends

We were fortunate enough to be able to spend some awesome quality time with our dear friends the Groves last week.  We miss them terribly since they moved back to Georgia.  We were thrilled to be able to meet sweet baby Katherine for the first time.  She is beyond gorgeous and it was just heavenly to have a newborn around here again.  It definitely made all of us even more eager to welcome baby Andrew.  Shirley's sister Ginny stayed with us a few nights as well. It was wonderful to have a house full of kiddos (10 total).  Sounds like mass chaos doesn't it?  Absolutly not!  Their children are so beautifully and wonderfully gentle, sweet, well mannered, helpful, and delightful.  Seriously.  It was downright ridiculous how fantastic they all behaved.  It was such a joy to have them all here!  We are just so very thankful to have them in our lives.  Can't say enough about what an inspiration Shirley is to me.  She has such a joyful and encouraging spirit about her.  Her beauty is contagious and she truly enriches everyone she meets.  And her beautiful and well mannered children speak loads about her amazing diligence in raising them.  Every time she walks out of our home I always feel a bit of a "Shirley high" and find about ten things I should add to our routine to increase the discipline and holiness in our home.  She is absolutely infectious in her duties as a wife and mother.  Here are just a few of the pictures from our visit with our dear friends.

Game Ball

Curtis was awarded the game ball tonight by his Tee Ball coach. He really did a great job at pitcher and was pretty darn proud of himself. He had lots of plans as to what kind of pictures he wanted with his special ball. Perhaps mommy takes too many pictures of him?! If you can't already tell we are all loving tee ball around here!

Celebrate

All work and NO play...thats our motto these days. But yesterday we finally took time to celebrate!! Selling one house, buying and renovating another, my 29th birthday, and we are 28 weeks along with baby Andrew. Our entire family made it out to Pappasitos to celebrate with us and then joined us for Oreo Cream cake at our house afterwards. One of my favorite moments of the night...when the mariachi band sang me a birthday song...TEQUILA...hysterical! Perfect birthday song for a super prego lady! We love you all and are so thankful for all of your help!

Goodbye Pearland

Its official. The house is no longer ours. Don't you love the "five year old attempt at a picture" we kinda look like we are a two armed four leg person...awesome. But it captured the moment. The last time we walked out of the house. And here we are the first time we walked in it...almost newlyweds...7 years ago.

Honestly the hardest part was saying goodbye to our amazing neighbors. We were very blessed to have made some lifelong friendships on Linden Place. We know this isn't goodbye but its hard to think about not being right across the street anymore. We are so thankful that we only own one house again. We are all thankful to be done with the driving back and forth and feeling torn between two places. Tomorrow night we celebrate...Pappasitos with our family...too bad I can't get a margarita...I feel like I deserve one (or fifteen) after the chaos that was this month :) We are so blessed!