I'm Back!

I have made the mid-year resolution to try and blog again every week. I have a lot to catch up on, and with Hallie having her 2nd birthday, it has put me back in the mood to tell everyone about my beautiful child.

You may have noticed some updates to the blog, I decided with my new resolution, comes a new template. Go me. And I added a family member in there...

So here is the quick watered down update.

APRIL

1. Jordan and I celebrated 5 years of marriage. We went on a cruise to celebrate in February, so we just went to dinner. We didn't want to do anything to expensive, but actually celebrate too. We went to Jaker's. My steak was amazing. I don't remember really much else than we may have gone to a movie too or got a redbox movie. Who knows. It was 3 months ago.

2. We withdrew our offer on the first house we put an offer in on. I just couldn't sit well with it, and when I explained to Jordan, he agreed.

3. The day we withdrew our offer, we started looking at houses again. YAY!

4. My best friend from my childhood, Bonnie, got engaged. Finally. ha jk. Girl you know I just wanted you to get married the minute after I did. I also took her engagement pictures (post to follow).

5. My niece Elena Lin Anderson was born. I wish I could remember the date. Sadly. I think it was April 28th? 29th? I don't know. We visited her the night she was born. Hallie loved to hold her and it was so fun to hold a baby that weighs pretty much nothing. I also took her newborn pictures.

MAY

1. We put an offer in on house #2 at the beginning of the month. It was actually a for sale by owner home, and we sat down with them and talked price. Our offer was accepted right then sitting with them, and we went to a realtor's office the next week to sign contracts and send info to the bank. Closing date set.

2. I had another niece born! Payton Grace Sautter. She reminded me of Hallie, only in that c-section babies have the most perfect shaped heads and beautiful skin... but only because they don't have to go through all the trauma. Hallie loved holding Payton even more. I think Elena warmed her up. When we held Payton Hallie rocked back and forth, and cried when we took her away. I also took Payton's newborn photos.

3. I took my niece's, Maya, 5 year old pictures. Man I have taken a lot of pictures lately. She was adorable as always.

4. My little bear, Kaylie, graduated from high school. We traveled to Colorado to celebrate. It was a very fun trip. Don't ask me what we did besides eat at Chipotle, go to the graduation, and have a graduation party, because I couldn't tell you other than that. Things in my mind seem to run together lately.

5. WE CLOSED ON OUR HOUSE! May 30th we signed the papers. It was crazy how many signatures they need. But we got some awesome water bottles out of it. Oh yeah, and our awesome house.


JUNE

1. We moved into out house June 1st. Isn't that appropriate? We're so lucky to have majority of Jordan's brothers and bro in law near by. The moved everything with a truck, suburban, trailer and stuffing our Escape, and a van. Plus getting everything out of the basement apartment was an adventure. 6-7 men lifting a couch is hilarious.

2. We painted a ton of our house. I hate painting. The idea of painting is fabulous. Actually doing the task kind of stinks. Our house was crazy though. I think the upstairs was 3-4 different colors. That doesn't include bedrooms. So we decided a nice light gray would do the trick. Jordan picked the paint, and we have loved it. Much more us.

3. About a week after we moved in, we adopted Copper! He is our shi-poo. We love him so much. Especially Hallie. We were going to get him for Hallie for her birthday, but when we saw him in person we had to take him home. Hallie has been hugging/kissing/carrying/body slamming him every since. It only took us about 3 weeks to name him, but Jordan put his foot down and named him Copper. He was Dax, Bruce Wayne, Scout, and a few others for a few days.

4. We bought a lawn mower (and many other household supplies, but this one seems the most noteworthy). I have officially mowed the lawn 1 1/2 times. That is 1 1/2 times I have my entire life. We have been doing a ton of yard work. It's been fun, but I feel like a major dork doing it because of my scrawny muscles and feeling uncoordinated. I mean seriously they need a class in school on how to use a shovel and not look stupid doing it. I wish my Momma lived nearby because she is the queen of beautiful yards. The invitation to live with me is always open.. or to move to Idaho.. hint hint?

5. HALLIE TURNED 2! She is awesome. A huge ball of energy, and super hilarious. She is an amazing talker. We get comments all the time on how well she converses. It makes me very proud, so I have to share with everyone the awesomeness of my kid. We had a birthday party for her. She had a Minnie Mouse cake (which she is obsessed with Minnie), all her family and our close friends came over, and we had the best food (another thing my mom and sister are amazing at!). My mom bought Hallie a Bitty Baby. If you don't know what this is... shame on you. Especially if you have girls! I think I was more excited than Hallie was, but she still loves the doll. They came out with new twin sets, so they have hair like the American girl dolls. She even bought her the matching outfit. Pictures to come! Overall it was an amazing day (bigger and better post later). I also took Hallie's 2 year old pictures.

JULY

1. Not too much to note of yet this month. We went to the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration, which is the biggest fireworks show west of the Mississippi! It was amazing (even though it started an hour late....story for another time). Hallie loved the show. She didn't move the whole time except to move from me to Jordan. She told me the fireworks were, "so pretty" the whole time.

Well that's all for the update folks! Hopefully I didn't overwhelm you with all our awesomeness over the past 3 months. I promise to blog more frequently.