In February, we bought a house! We originally thought it'd be a little later in the year that we made our purchase, but we started looking early because we wanted to see what kind of things we were wanting in a house and what we could get for our money in the area, etc and we just happened to find the perfect house and the perfect time and got a great deal on it! We put in our offer in December and it took a couple months to get everything done and we had a few hiccups along the way, but we closed like beginning of February on it. Since we didn't have to be out of our rental house until the end of June, we took some time before moving in to do some work around the house. We pulled up the majority of the baseboards and then we did some painting. We wanted to be sure to paint all the rooms where we'd have a lot of furniture in because it's way easier when that's not in the way! Then we had to get new baseboards and cut them and paint them...then nail them down and caulk and touch em up. We spent a lot of hours here working, but it was worth it. I love sitting in our living room with our newly painted walls and new, pretty baseboards! :) Since we were just moving across town, we tried to bring a car load of stuff everytime we came to the house to work so when moving day arrived it'd be alot quicker to move everything...I still felt like we had a ton of stuff to move! We had 6 or 7 guys from church show up and help us and everything was moved in about 5 hours. We're so thankful for their help. We've been here about a month and a half now and still have boxes around and nothing on the walls...but there's kind of been a reason for that, which I'll touch on later. Anyways, we've got the most important rooms settled for the most part and are working slowly at getting all the extra things put away. We still have 2 rooms to paint and put baseboards down in, but we're hoping Ben can get those done this summer! I'll do a post hopefully later this week with more pictures of the house but for now, here's the front of it!
In other news, work has been going well for both of us. Ben is really liking what he's doing and has gotten to work on some cool projects that have had him traveling to Boston and Cinncinnati. Over the next few months he's going to be doing some training where he'll be gone for a week at a time for 4 different weeks, kinda stinks, but atleast it'll be over with by the beginning of August and he can check it off his list. Work has been going well for me also. The kids I watch are still adorable and I love em to pieces...most of the time! Matthew is 3 now and is a great big brother to Amelia, I think he's enjoying her so much more now that she's more like a "person" and can interact with him instead of a tiny baby that just sleeps, eats and cries! She is 8 months old now and is walking on furniture and behind rolly things already. She's getting braver and braver every day trying to take a few steps between things..it won't be long and I'll really have my hands full! Only a month left with them as full time and then I'll just work a day or two a week this summer. It'll be nice to have some time off but I'm sure I'll miss them!
We're still really liking it here in St Joe/Stevensville. We are loving the church we go to and are enjoying getting more involved there and getting to know everyone. I'm looking forward to the summer and getting to spend more time with everyone! We're still getting to know people in the community very slowly and are finding that married couples our age are a small minority of the population here, so it's been difficult to get to know anyone our age, but we've made some good friends that are just slightly older than us! :)
I guess the only other real exciting thing that is going on is that we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our first baby, due November 8th!! That's right...I'm pregnant! We are so excited and November already seems so far away. Everything has been going well so far and I seem to be feeling better week by week. We're almost out of the first trimester already. I think time has actually gone by kind of fast so far. Hopefully that will keep up! Anyways, that's why our house is still not unpacked...I've had NO energy at all. I'm so not the type to leave stuff in boxes and things not put on the wall, but this baby is draining me already! I'm hoping I get this "new energy" everyone keeps telling me about very soon so I can get some work done around the house! But we can't wait to introduce you all to Baby Alexander in 6 months or so! We'll be sure to keep everyone updated as things go! :)
Well, I better get a few things done before it's time for bed. Hope this finds you all doing well and that you have a great night!
