Thanksgiving 2011

We had a great Thanksgiving. Of course you know we ate too much and looked at Black Friday sales papers. That is tradition. Adam got off work so that was a nice surprise. He was scheduled to work. I had plans to go shopping early Friday morning but my body had different plans. I woke up sick as a dog through the night. I think it was something I ate because I was fine the following day. Anyhow, we didn't go shopping till later. I still got almost everything I wanted on my to do list. I also got a new Christmas tree for the new house. I LOVE it. When I get it all decorated I will take a picture. Saturday I put up my tree and stuff. Then we had to break and go watch the big game with Friends.. Well actually Adam watched the game. I didn't watch any of it :) That just isn't my thing.

It was a good Holiday break!!!!!!!!!! We have so much to be Thankful for!!

We closed!!

We closed last Wednesday on the house!!!! Yay! I can't even tell you how glad I am that its all over!!! It all worked out great and I am SO grateful. So the fun part began to move....UGH. Me and Adam decided to do it ourselves because the quote from Two Men and a Truck was CRAZY!!!! Let me just say it might have been worth it. I helped him move almost everything. There were some larger pieces that I didn't even attempt and a good Friend helped him with that. Thank God. My arms were like jello by the time the day was over. I haven't been that tired since childbirth. LOL Well maybe not that tired but you get my drift. So we moved the furniture and necessities Thursday. I worked Friday and I felt awful. Well we just blamed it on pushing myself too much moving. Well NO...Friday night the virus bug hit....hard. I felt like you had ran me over with a semi. So needless to say I was in bed all weekend. At least it was in my new house. :) I got really acquainted with my bedroom and bathroom!!!!! The worse part other than feeling awful was all the work I need to be doing to get moved and organized. Oh well I guess it will wait..right?
Hopefully I will post a picture soon of the outside. I want to wait until its not major chaos to post pics of the inside.

Gatlinburg 2011

Cousins.....Ava and Gabe's smiles are hilarious.

Posing!

At Dixie Stampede...Adam was saying something.

Ride the Carousel

With the lady at Dixie Stampede

Cheese!

We went to Gatlinburg November 4-7. It is an annual trip with Adam's side of the family. The weather was great, cool but not freezing. I love this time of year. This trip kind of fell in the middle of our craziness with the house. I wish it would have been another time so I could have enjoyed it more. Oh well it was nice to get away and be with family. Ava loved being with her cousins!!!!!!!!!

Halloween 2011

Here is Ava Monday night before we went Trick or Treating. I am not really sure what her costume was. A Friend gave it to me and it was so adorable I wanted her to wear it. Plus I didn't have time to go out and buy something.....nor did I want to spend $30 for something she would wear one time. She called the hat a train conductor hat. It did resemble it. We had a fun night. We went to a couple local churches that have trunk or treat. Then we hit up some family and Friends that had the kids special treats. By the end of the night Ava had the "Trick or Treat" down. It was so cute!!!!

Notice my poor pitiful pumpkin. This is the first year I can ever remember not carving my pumpkin or having just one. I just didn't have time this year. We have been SO busy with the house.

Which by the way we should be closing this week HOPEFULLY!!!!!! Please say a prayer for me. I feel like I might have ucler's before this is over. Its just so stressful.

Whats been going on

So what has been going on lately in our world.......potty training, last minute decisions on house stuff, and your basic work, etc.

Ava is doing great at potty training by the way....or at least I think so. She has learned to tell me more when she needs to go to the potty. Not always, but we are getting there slowly. I have learned to NOT rush her and try to let her wear panties to bed. She requested to wear them Sunday night so I am thinking why not? She must be ready. She did great and stayed dry the whole night. I on the other hand didn't get much sleep because every minute I was waking up making sure she hadn't peed. OH and yea she sleeps with us. I know, I know...bad right? That is another battle I will take up when we move. The second night she went the whole night again. I checked her when I woke up. Then by the time I had got ready for work she woke up and peed.....everywhere! So therefore I was busy that night washing loads and loads of laundry. SO she is back to a diaper at night until she will tell me she needs to go.

The house.....It is basically done. Roller coaster would be a good description of how I feel. I thought we would be done and closed by late Sept/First of October. Then I thought it would be second week in October. My builder was gone last week out of the country. So here we are at the end of October. I am really hoping we close next week. We have just been waiting on the rest of the vinyl to be complete. It is taking forever for these guys to get done.
I am SUPER excited to start moving stuff in. I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have started packing a little.

Yeah, and my new addiction is Pinterest. My mind is full of ideas for this new house. It could be a good thing or really bad :) I think good. I used a recipe I found off it last weekend. I am obsessed with Nutella so I made Nutella no bake cookies. YUM!!! I even took out some sugar to make it healthier :) Go me.

Tate Farms 2011

Her new obsession..sticking her tongue out :(

Petting the rabbit

Hay ride!!

buried in corn!

Corn Train....she loves this.

Notice where Ava gets her solemn looks??

We had a good trip to Tate Farms yesterday. I took off work for half the afternoon and enjoyed my time with Adam and Ava. Ava loves it and of course we love taking her. All our Saturdays are either spent doing something with the house or Adam is working, so I just said I would take off work so we could all 3 go. I thought it was going to rain but it was just cloudy. It was the perfect time because it wasn't' crowded at all.

We grabbed dinner together and of course bought some stuff for the house! I can't make a trip to Huntsville without a mile long list of to dos.

Potty Training ...Take 2

Yes I am attempting it yet again. Last Wednesday I went and bought her big girl princess panties. She was VERY excited about them! So far she has done awesome. We have only had a few accidents. She doesn't always tell me, but I just take her to the bathroom very often. Like for instance last night at church I was very nervous. :) I took her like 3 times...LOL.
We even took a trip to Huntsville on Saturday to run some errands and she did great.
I am proud of her but kind of sad in the same way. She looks so big in her little panties.