Our New Adventure

We're now a couple months into our adventure, but it all started back in December...

Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Greg called me from school in the middle of the day and asked me if I wanted to sell our house.  Mind you we had not talked about this AT ALL.  I laughed (literally) into the phone.  He proceeded to tell me that he was talking to a guy at work who was also a real estate agent.  We could apparently get mega bucks for our house because the market is totally crazy.  I continued laughing.  How would we be able to afford anything else in the area we want to live?  Well, we couldn't afford anything currently built, but we could afford to build a new house.  I know, it sounded crazy to me too which is why I continued laughing. Antonio (the real estate guy) had comps that he would email us.  Wait, that really sounds a little too serious.  WAIT A MINUTE...are you really considering this?!?  I stopped laughing at this point.  We talked, looked at comps and talked some more.

Friday & Saturday December 6-7, 2013
We looked in new construction neighborhoods.  They are all very close to our current house and in the area we wanted.

Sunday, December 8, 2013
Yes, this is FOUR days after he called to ASK me if I wanted to sell our house.  Antonio came by to take pictures of our house.   

Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Our house was on the market.  YES, this is LESS than ONE week from when he CALLED to ask me if I wanted to sell our house.  My husband does not waste any time. 

Tuesday, December 10-Thursday December 19, 2013
We had 10 showings of our house. 

Sunday, December 15, 2013
We found a house that we were pretty sure we wanted to buy.

Monday, December 16, 2013
We signed a contingency contract to purchase the house.

Thursday, December 19, 2013
After being on the market for TEN days, our house SOLD!!!

Friday, December 20, 2013
We signed papers.  This happened as we were leaving town to go to Dallas for Christmas.

Wednesday, January 1-Friday, January 10, 2013
We packed...Christmas decorations along with the rest of our house.  We moved our stuff into storage and moved in with my amazing in-laws.

Talk about a whirlwind.  Crazy, I know...we are totally crazy.  So far the most common question is...how is it living with the in-laws?  OR  a blanket statement...I think I would kill myself if I had to do that.  Well, no worries here and I'm not just saying this because they might read it.  Living here so far has been great!  They are more than accommodating and honestly I do feel very at home here (always have).  We brought the bare necessities, but little touches make it feel like a little home away from home.  Brody seemed to make the transition pretty seamlessly and I am pretty sure he's getting used to the extra attention.  I might have a little monster on my hands when we get back to "real life".  I think Brody thought moving was FUN!

 

 

Wrapping Up 2013

There is just something about the end of the year that makes it hard for me to stay on top of blogging.  Obviously, I'm SUPER far behind.  Holidays have come and gone and our lives have moved on in a BIG way.  But I would be remiss if I didn't document the end of 2013 before moving on to 2014.

The Bad New First

In the fall, Greg and I went through the IVF process again.  Since Brody was born, we had thought we had 8 embryos left, but apparently this whole time we only had five.  We didn't lose any, but there was a miscommunication.  So, with five embryos left we went through the process and put in two.  Apparently these two babies were not meant to be a part of our family here on earth because neither one took.  After they tested my levels initially we thought we could be, but my levels were very low and they continued to drop each day which basically meant there was not a viable pregnancy.  It was sad and we mourned the loss of what could have been, but are thankful we still have three embryos left and will try again at some point in the near future.  It's a hard process with shots and medicine and appointments and it's hard to gear up knowing that's in your future.  BUT obviously it's totally worth it and we are SO grateful for this process because it gave us our little man.  Speaking of which...

Things To Be Thankful For

 

We had a great Thanksgiving spent with the Kraus Clan about a mile from our house.  It's always great when we don't have to travel for Thanksgiving because Greg gets such a short amount of time off.  It was relaxing and wonderful.  Food was delish and we also got to spend a lot of time together as a family of three.  We are so grateful every day for our little Brodster.  God has blessed us in so, so many ways, but Brody will forever be such a huge blessing in our lives.  

 

 



Entertaining himself with my slippers while I cooked on Thanksgiving morning.



Daddy feel asleep while on duty and he hadn't even eaten any turkey yet!



My boys on Thanksgiving.

 

Cousins!

 

We had a blast a Dewberry Farms!











 

 









 

 



Christmas

 

 

We were fortunate to spend Christmas with my ENTIRE side of the family...yes, all 12 of us stayed at Sarah and Marc's.  It was loud and crazy and I loved every minute of it.  Always thankful to be able to spend time with my family since they all live so far away.  And since it was a Texas Christmas, we went to the Ft. Worth Stock Yards.  Brody LOVED the animals and didn't want us picking him up AT ALL while we were there.  He wanted to be wild and free to explore.

Getting the milk, cookies and carrots ready for Santa and the reindeer.

Icing cookies with Nana.

The little people (especially mine) were OVER taking pictures!

 

My body guards.

The hockey stick was a gift from Daddy.  Brody LOVES it!

The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse was a hit, Nana!

A glimpse into my future?

No, I think THIS is a glimpse into my future!