18 months

Stella turned 18 months on May 1st so I figured I should jot down some updates about her before the month is over.

Stella. 18mo.

21lbs 30inches Still just a little peanut

Favorite foods- berries, peanut butter (or as she calls it pizzuh ba) hummus, kiwi

Loves her books, baths, blankies, going to park, and playing out side in the water

Says please and thank you 

Getting pretty good at saying the abc's and counting to ten

Favorite songs are wheels on the bus, and itsy bitsy spider

Has been going to the nursery class at church and loves playing with the toys and other "babies"

Loves talking on her phones- she has about 3

Hates going to bed, but sleeps good once she falls asleep

Loves shoes and bows

Has discover playing in moms shoes. But only the pink and yellow heels. 

Says I love you (sounds like aw-chew)

Loves to tickle mom and dad

Talks constantly and knows her animal sounds. My favorite being her donkey sound.

She is pretty attached to us and isn't the warmest to strangers

Always asks to look at baby pictures on the iPad. 

Excited to see her become a big sister.

Home

We are finally in our house, and have been for little over a week now. It's been a busy busy week but it feels so good to be in our home. I have had lots of people ask for pictures so here are some grainy iPad pics before we started moving our things in. Once we get all 'decorated' I will post some more.

Baby baby

We found out shortly after Thanksgiving that we were expecting baby number two! Even though I still had my rough days in the beginning, I wasn't nearly as sick as I was with Stella, and I was carrying a little differently, so I thought for sure it was a boy. So we were pretty surprised to find out it was another girl at the ultrasound. It will be really fun having girls close in age, not to mention we are already completely prepared for a girl. I am due August 8th. I will try not to complain too much when I am huge pregnant in the middle of a North Carolina summer.

Family Pics

These were taken way back when during Thanksgiving by my brother in law Josh. Love my family!

The House

Well after 7 years of marriage we have finally decided to settle down in one place for awhile.  When we moved to North Carolina in August we were excited to start looking for a house.  Not an apartment, not a town home, not a rental, but a house of our very own. Big deal for us. House hunting was fine and all but we really weren't finding exactly what we were looking for. Whether it be the house, land, location or price, we weren't finding "the one". 

To make a long story short we happened to come in contact with a local family owned builder who had a perfect lot on a quiet gravel road in the trees. 

So we decided to build a custom home from the ground up.  It has been quite the experience involving every sort of emotion we have. But we couldn't be more happy with the decision. 

We move in at the end of the month, and to say we are getting a little antsy is an understatement. I seriously lay awake in bed at night thinking about it.

This is the wooded lot before construction.

Cleared lot in November

Framed in January. And the rest of the pictures are completely out of order.

We decided to do a one story ranch with a big great room in the middle, two bedrooms on the left side of the house and two bedrooms on the right. And there is even a space for me to have a little salon so I can do hair at home.  



More Christmas

 Mount Rainier :)

 Hanging out at one of my brother Perry's basketball games. Go Hornets!

 Christmas day...These pics are all out of order.

 Nice Perry. ha.

 Christmas morning with my fam.

 Skyping Elder Rockwood in Texas!

 The babies! Both Cooper and Amelia were not happy, probably because this is after Stella stared hitting them in the face. Sorry guys!! We have since continued teaching "being soft".

 And a few pictures from our Christmas Eve dinner at aunt Jeri and uncle Alans.  Such a great night!

 My mom with her dad and 3 of her 5 sisters.

 Coop.