thanksgiving

I am always amazed when I step back and think of all the things that I am grateful for. This year I have been blessed a little extra: I have a beautiful, healthy son who has the most adorable personality, my wonderful husband and best friend, Jared, and a warm home to keep all my special people in. I am grateful for many more things but they just don't top those three.

Thanksgiving this year was really fun. We drove down to Kim's house to celebrate with her family. This was the smallest Thanksgiving I have ever attended (inside the US). But it was perfect. Kim did a great job with the majority of the food and the decorations. I really owe her for letting me get away with only making 1 side dish and the desserts. The food was delicious and the company was great, making Tren's first Thanksgiving a hit.

 Jared and Averi played Guess Who while we were waiting for the turkey.

 Kim said that the manliest man carves the turkey and I agree.

blessing day

Our little boy is already 1 month old. Time is flying by. Sunday was the first of many special days in his life, he was blessed in church. Jared did a great job and it was such a perfect blessing for Trennon. He loved all the attention and getting to snuggle with grandparents, great-grandparents, and aunts. He wasn't too sure about all the cousins up in his face all the time, but he made it. He'll be running around with them in no time. Jared and I are so incredibly blessed to have such a wonderful little boy in our family and our love for him grows everyday. If I haven't said it lately, I'm jealous of myself.

I think Tren's face is priceless in this photo

our little monster

Halloween is not terribly exciting when you're 3 weeks old but we still had to dress Tren up. He was a little green monster and he helped me pass out candy to the neighbor kids; in between naps of course.

pumpkin walk: year 2

We really needed a reason to get out of the house as a family other than doctor visits or boring errands so we decided to go to the Pumpkin Walk. It's always fun to see just how creative other people can be. Plus Kristina was visiting so we had to pretend we aren't horribly boring. There were some great displays. Jared loved seeing the Calvin and Hobbs ones and my favorite was either the Nightmare Before Christmas display or the Despicable Me one. Tren was asleep for nearly all of it but he got into picture time at the end.

Trennon Wayne

Our sweet baby boy is finally here. He was born Saturday night and came at the perfect time. He was 7 lbs 9 oz and 20 inches long. We are such proud parents. I don't mean to brag but this kid is cute. We have so much fun watching his personality come out. He's going to be a stud, just like his daddy.

He's telling us who's really in charge

owning a home

We absolutely LOVE our new house. And slowly we are getting it all put together as our home, one room at a time. While I was visiting my parents for a couple days Jared was hard at work hanging pictures and decorating. I think we found the next HGTV star. He had some help from his mom but she claims that he was still in charge of how it all came together. It looks really good. He finished up the front room and the baby's room. So those are the only pictures we can show for now. 

 

There is a lot more to this room but it is hard to take a picture of everything when the room is so small. But baby sure does have a lot of stuff.

We do have one very big problem that is preventing us from moving in completely: our basement flooded. Yep, the day after we moved in we found that everything was soaked. It was due to over watering the new sod and not properly sealing the foundation. We are fortunate that we found the problem now but it is still a pain to have all the construction guys coming and going all the time. Not to mention the rancid smell of dirty water that plagues my pregnant nose. They are projecting to put it all back together next week so hopefully I will be posting a much better looking picture of our family room. As for today, this is what I am living with:

movin' on up

Does anyone ever get more grown up than when they buy their first house? I feel like such an adult because today Jared and I finally got to close on our house.

(*This was taken before the landscaping. We actually couldn't close until the fence and lawn were in.)

Now onto the grueling moving process. We are VERY fortunate to have such wonderful family. My parents came down to help us out in any way they could. So they crammed as much as they could into the van. Jared's comment was that they are very good at tetris. And I would have to agree. After a few trips over with them we ran out of stuff they could take. They helped so much and we really appreciate all of their help. Plus it was really fun to talk to them in person and have some company while Jared was at work. And they brought Keegan down with them, and that kid is just plain adorable. Next was Jared's cousin Jeremy. He lent us a trailer to haul all of our big stuff over. Tonight while Jared was at work he rounded up some teenage boys and came and unloaded it all for us. We could not be more grateful, especially since I am somewhat useless in the carrying heavy objects department right now.

We only have a few things left in our apartment (like our bed and the washer and dryer). So tomorrow won't be too bad at all. We get to start the fun part of putting everything in its place and deciding exactly what to do with our new home.