We're Finally Home!!!

Well we've finally moved into our new home! I haven't had much time to take any final pictures, but I have a few of the carpet and cabinets in some of the rooms that I can post until I get some new ones up. We made the transition this past weekend with much help from our family, and we spent our first night in the house on Monday night. The only family members who have yet to join us are our fish and Flash (the turtle). They're still hanging out at Grandmama and Grandpa's house, probably until Sunday afternoon. The baby shower at the church is this Saturday, and we've got lots of Charlotte family coming in as we speak to be with us. So we're hurriedly trying to put a few finishing touches on the house so it will be ready for company. Here are a few other interesting things of note with us recently: this week is my third anniversary working at the County (although it feels like longer), and this week Cody accepted a new/old job, working back with the Witts at G&K Nursery in Ellisville - I told him that maybe the third time's the charm! He worked there in high school, and then went back for three years or so before taking his current job with Chestnut Hill. What seemed like a very stressful situation in the beginning turned out to be a true blessing from God. He's provided for us over and over again in ways that never cease to amaze me. We were looking around for jobs because his current one wasn't working out, thinking all along he would probably have to take a pay cut. But now we've ended up with something where he'll be making more money than he is currently, and we'll be saving money on gas because he's only about five miles from work! I'm excited because that means he'll be able to come home for lunch and spend time with me and the baby while we're home. And he won't have to keep working every Saturday so we'll have our weekends back together. God is good, huh? There's just no denying it around our house these days.

Update

Well I've been waiting and waiting because I have lots of pictures to post, but we are presently without internet connection (due to the fact that we are also without home) and so they're all still just sitting on my camera or computer waiting to be retrieved.......so I thought I should at least give everyone an update on where we are with things. So much has happened since the last post. Everyone always talks about home building as being a 'hurry up and wait' process, but we've been blessed to have everything roll along smoothly since day one. We (by we I mean my Grandpa) finished up all the painting except for a few touch ups, we've got the cabinets finishing up today (I hope), our power is on, the AC is up and running, and all we're lacking is a final inspection and Certificate of Occupancy, which we're hoping for tomorrow. I can't believe we're finally here.

They sold the property where we've been living, so we (and all our pets) had to move out of there this past weekend and are currently staying with my parents (God bless 'em!). So hopefully we can start moving in furniture and actually be sleeping there by the time the weekend is over.

As for Baby Banner, everything is still going along smoothly. We finished up our childbirth classes last week and we've just got a short newborn care class and a breastfeeding class and we'll be fully educated (yeah right!). We're 33 weeks along and still feeling great. God has been good to us to keep me in such good health and spirits because I don't know if I could've done all of this while pregnant otherwise! We've got a baby shower coming up at church next weekend and most of the ladies in my NC family are coming down to visit - I can't wait to see all of you! So it won't be long before we can settle in, relax, and wait for baby. It'll be here before we know it!