Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Making Progress
Just have to say that although the housing market is supposed to be at an all time low (or whatever the press is saying), the housing market in Canton/Cartersville is not so bad. We've got visitors #4 heading to our house tomorrow so keep your fingers crossed! So far we've been choice #2 for everyone or they decided against us when they saw we didn't have a basement...Keeping the house clean hasn't been as bad as we thought so hopefully we can keep it up! Lyndsey headed back to school this week and is now happily settled at GSU. I don't expect that we'll see her for awhile, however, she did email me today saying that she needed pics of Linc...so maybe the nephew will keep her coming up her at least a few times a year!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Holiday Photos and More!
So, I've finally gotten some pictures from the holidays! The photos from Christmas might seem cruel, but I couldn't resist when I saw the Reindeer Costume. I got it for 50% off and with a gift card. I was a terrible wife and dressed LJ up for Tim's office Christmas party. The guys, of course, totally made fun of him (more Tim than LJ) and the girls all thought he was adorable! New Year's Eve we attended a party at our friend's house. We had a great time. LJ was passed around until he passed out and then he slept until literally five minutes before the ball dropped. He woke up to kids honking on their noise makers and then he started to freak out. The funny thing is that right as everyone yelled "Happy New Year!" and really began to blow their horns and yell he totally stopped crying and just began watching everyone.
The week after New Year's I came down with an awful bug. I literally only remembering throwing up three times in my life (usually I say twice, but I forget that I did kind-of do it at the hospital too)...Anyways, starting at midnight I got completely sick. I got through it and then Tim got sick. Our two best friends got sick, their parents and probably a dozen other people from the same party...but now we are all recovered, so it's much better around the house.
The same weekend we got sick we were also prepping the house to sell. It is now on the market and so far we've had two visitors to the house. Our area seems to be selling pretty decently so hopefully we'll get some bites. We had one guy offer to take our dog, Mel, with the house if he bought it, but I told Tim "No!". The nice thing about having the house on the market is that our house is constantly clean. We have been working really hard to make sure everything is put away and that we are not leaving crap around. It's amazing how much better we both feel when the house is not a chaotic mess!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Currently...
Currently, LJ weighs 13.5lbs! He is growing so fast! He has conquered rolling over from his stomach to his back and he loves to mimic. With Tim he mimics sticking his tongue out and with my family he mimics a pouting lip. Kevin will say, "Don't give me no lip!" and LJ will stick out his bottom lip as far as it will go. Everyone gets a laugh! He is super flirty with all the girls and still gets tons of attention from the ladies at the daycare and the nursery at church. Christmas was good. He slept through all of it. I haven't downloaded any pics yet, but I will soon.
Today, after church, Lyndsey spent the day with him at our house (I hung out with her and Tim pressure-washed the back of the house...more on that in a sec.). She heads off to Georgia Southern on Monday to register for classes and get her dorm room ready. She'll only be back once a month, so she was trying to get in a ton of LJ time.
Tim pressure-washed the house b/c...we're putting the house on the market! We found a neighborhood in Canton (we're 30 minutes out right now) and if we can make a move soon then it would be a fantastic investment. It's a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath with a formal living room, dining room, breakfast area off the kitchen and sunken living (family room). It's a lot of house for the price and we would love to be able to take advantage. The neighborhood is near our friends (in fact some of our best friends are looking to move into there as well) and has sidewalks and streetlights (silly, however our current neighborhood is pitch black at night and zero sidewalks).
We really feel like this is the time to move for us so we have hit high gear to try and get the house together to put on the market. The big question many people are asking is, "Does it make your (Courtney's) commute better?" Short of moving to Atlanta, my commute will never be better. At this point it will be the same or maybe 10-15 minutes longer...Luckily because of the new hours I've been working with the exception of rushhours on Fridays and major wrecks, I should make decent time. So if everyone could start praying that our house sells quickly we'd be thrilled! The new house will take 3-6 months to build so we'd like to be able to get that started anytime soon. I'll post floor plans eventually, but will wait until things are a little more solid.
Lincoln, Great-Grandpa, Tim & Courtney
LJ, Jere (Tim's brother) and Laura (Jere's girlfriend)
Jere & LJ
Fun Pics of LJ!
Today, after church, Lyndsey spent the day with him at our house (I hung out with her and Tim pressure-washed the back of the house...more on that in a sec.). She heads off to Georgia Southern on Monday to register for classes and get her dorm room ready. She'll only be back once a month, so she was trying to get in a ton of LJ time.
Tim pressure-washed the house b/c...we're putting the house on the market! We found a neighborhood in Canton (we're 30 minutes out right now) and if we can make a move soon then it would be a fantastic investment. It's a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath with a formal living room, dining room, breakfast area off the kitchen and sunken living (family room). It's a lot of house for the price and we would love to be able to take advantage. The neighborhood is near our friends (in fact some of our best friends are looking to move into there as well) and has sidewalks and streetlights (silly, however our current neighborhood is pitch black at night and zero sidewalks).
We really feel like this is the time to move for us so we have hit high gear to try and get the house together to put on the market. The big question many people are asking is, "Does it make your (Courtney's) commute better?" Short of moving to Atlanta, my commute will never be better. At this point it will be the same or maybe 10-15 minutes longer...Luckily because of the new hours I've been working with the exception of rushhours on Fridays and major wrecks, I should make decent time. So if everyone could start praying that our house sells quickly we'd be thrilled! The new house will take 3-6 months to build so we'd like to be able to get that started anytime soon. I'll post floor plans eventually, but will wait until things are a little more solid.
Lincoln, Great-Grandpa, Tim & Courtney
LJ, Jere (Tim's brother) and Laura (Jere's girlfriend)
Jere & LJ
Fun Pics of LJ!
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Christmas In Georgia
12/22
Tomorrow is the day before Christmas Eve and I am so excited! Our church has been doing an incredible series on Revolutionary Love (more about it below) and tomorrow they announce that we're getting together on Christmas Eve around 4pm (so I won't be there because I'll either be: A. Sitting in traffic:( or B. Picking up Lincoln from my mom's house) to pass out Krispy Kreme donuts to people in the community who have to work that evening. A guy at our church either manages/owns a Krispy Kreme and is donating 250 boxes of donuts! It's been pretty sweet the last few weeks seeing everyone step up...Lincoln has started going into the nursery at church which is okay, especially since I've started volunteering again. At 3 months we don't allow children in the service (to keep distractions down, allow us to deal with mature subjects...and the kids area is phenomenal) so the week before he turned 3 months in he went. He does fine...He gets held a lot and receives lots of attention no matter where we are so I don't worry about him being upset (and that's good b/c he never is).
Christmas Day should be fun. Tim and I are getting Lincoln a few gifts, but not a lot b/c in reality he doesn't understand any of it and won't remember anything. We are spending Christmas Day morning with Tim's parents and then the rest of the day with my family. Kevin is flying so we will celebrate Christmas on Friday. We plan on baking cookies that afternoon/evening and take them out to police/fire departments for fun. I'm very excited about that.
Below are pictures of our new crib. Our friend painted LJ's name on it as well as painted it white along with our other furniture...
From earlier this month....(I was having issues getting the video to load so it took some time)
So it's Christmastime in Georgia which means a week of 40-50 degree weather and then today...70! We have the tree up and the mantel decorated. We're going for a low-maintenance Christmas this year. We are trying to focus more on our family and less on the craziness of Christmas:) Our church is doing a series called "Revolutionary Love" and I have to say that so far it is my favorite. Last Sunday the church gave back the offering to everyone and asked them to use it to bless someone. Follow this link to hear the stories:http://revolutionarylove.tv/2007/12/02/revolutionarylovetv-share-your-story/#comments
The stories are amazing and show why this truly is my favorite time of the year!
The below video is from the birth of Lincoln. I've had a few people ask about it. You don't see the actual surgery, but you can see Lincoln coming out and Tim does a little dance at one point! :)
Tomorrow is the day before Christmas Eve and I am so excited! Our church has been doing an incredible series on Revolutionary Love (more about it below) and tomorrow they announce that we're getting together on Christmas Eve around 4pm (so I won't be there because I'll either be: A. Sitting in traffic:( or B. Picking up Lincoln from my mom's house) to pass out Krispy Kreme donuts to people in the community who have to work that evening. A guy at our church either manages/owns a Krispy Kreme and is donating 250 boxes of donuts! It's been pretty sweet the last few weeks seeing everyone step up...Lincoln has started going into the nursery at church which is okay, especially since I've started volunteering again. At 3 months we don't allow children in the service (to keep distractions down, allow us to deal with mature subjects...and the kids area is phenomenal) so the week before he turned 3 months in he went. He does fine...He gets held a lot and receives lots of attention no matter where we are so I don't worry about him being upset (and that's good b/c he never is).
Christmas Day should be fun. Tim and I are getting Lincoln a few gifts, but not a lot b/c in reality he doesn't understand any of it and won't remember anything. We are spending Christmas Day morning with Tim's parents and then the rest of the day with my family. Kevin is flying so we will celebrate Christmas on Friday. We plan on baking cookies that afternoon/evening and take them out to police/fire departments for fun. I'm very excited about that.
Below are pictures of our new crib. Our friend painted LJ's name on it as well as painted it white along with our other furniture...
From earlier this month....(I was having issues getting the video to load so it took some time)
So it's Christmastime in Georgia which means a week of 40-50 degree weather and then today...70! We have the tree up and the mantel decorated. We're going for a low-maintenance Christmas this year. We are trying to focus more on our family and less on the craziness of Christmas:) Our church is doing a series called "Revolutionary Love" and I have to say that so far it is my favorite. Last Sunday the church gave back the offering to everyone and asked them to use it to bless someone. Follow this link to hear the stories:http://revolutionarylove.tv/2007/12/02/revolutionarylovetv-share-your-story/#comments
The stories are amazing and show why this truly is my favorite time of the year!
The below video is from the birth of Lincoln. I've had a few people ask about it. You don't see the actual surgery, but you can see Lincoln coming out and Tim does a little dance at one point! :)
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Off to Work I Go!
Started working Monday and so far so good. Tim and I have developed a pretty good schedule. He takes Lincoln to daycare in the morning which helped me to not freak out. Lincoln loves daycare...or so we believe. Each afternoon when we arrive to pick him up he cries...He does not, however, cry when we drop him off! The ladies love him b/c he doesn't cry a lot and apparently lots of the teachers stop by to hold him. He's already a ladies man and only 8 weeks old!
Returning to work has been different. I am enjoying being back in the office, but there are lots of changes. They are all good changes b/c people are moving on to better things, but sad as well because I will no longer be seeing them on a day to day basis. I am just glad that I returned to work this month and not January - otherwise I would not recognize anyone in the building! This is normal for this time of year, but change is never easy. I truly believe that part of the reason I went through so many moves and issues with friends was to get used to change. It has been the hardest part of being in a church plant, but also one of the reasons I've been able to look back over my life and say, "Oh, that's why that happened!" Okay, that was a little random to be on LJ's blog, but it's true. I hope that throughout Linc's life he'll be able to hold onto friends from elementary school and on.
Linc's next doctor's appointment is on the 30th where he will get his first set of shots...Kind of sounds like a puppy dog! We have found that we've owned dogs one too many years...all of the ways we talk to Linc sound like we're talking to Pug or Mel. This morning Tim said, "I have to put him in his house." He meant carseat, but it came out house. For the dogs there "houses" are their crates/doghouse.
As for the dogs they are still getting used to Linc. Mel's been going into the garage on nights with cold weather (freezing or close to freezing).One evening Linc was sitting in his house b/c I was about to go somewhere and Mel trotted over to him and was rooting his nose through the carseat. It was humorous! Linc just takes it all in. Pug still sniffs around and then ignores, but anytime we are not holding the baby Pug parks himself in our laps! I've got a couple cute pictures of Tim holding both Pug and Mel and I'll try to post them...along with whatever other pictures I've promised. This is getting extremely long so I'll cut it off for now. Next week is Linc's first Thanksgiving and the first time he will be meeting Tim's brother, Jere, and his girlfriend. They live in DC and it's the first time Jere's been able to come home. I'm so excited about the holidays! It's my favorite time of the year!!
Returning to work has been different. I am enjoying being back in the office, but there are lots of changes. They are all good changes b/c people are moving on to better things, but sad as well because I will no longer be seeing them on a day to day basis. I am just glad that I returned to work this month and not January - otherwise I would not recognize anyone in the building! This is normal for this time of year, but change is never easy. I truly believe that part of the reason I went through so many moves and issues with friends was to get used to change. It has been the hardest part of being in a church plant, but also one of the reasons I've been able to look back over my life and say, "Oh, that's why that happened!" Okay, that was a little random to be on LJ's blog, but it's true. I hope that throughout Linc's life he'll be able to hold onto friends from elementary school and on.
Linc's next doctor's appointment is on the 30th where he will get his first set of shots...Kind of sounds like a puppy dog! We have found that we've owned dogs one too many years...all of the ways we talk to Linc sound like we're talking to Pug or Mel. This morning Tim said, "I have to put him in his house." He meant carseat, but it came out house. For the dogs there "houses" are their crates/doghouse.
As for the dogs they are still getting used to Linc. Mel's been going into the garage on nights with cold weather (freezing or close to freezing).One evening Linc was sitting in his house b/c I was about to go somewhere and Mel trotted over to him and was rooting his nose through the carseat. It was humorous! Linc just takes it all in. Pug still sniffs around and then ignores, but anytime we are not holding the baby Pug parks himself in our laps! I've got a couple cute pictures of Tim holding both Pug and Mel and I'll try to post them...along with whatever other pictures I've promised. This is getting extremely long so I'll cut it off for now. Next week is Linc's first Thanksgiving and the first time he will be meeting Tim's brother, Jere, and his girlfriend. They live in DC and it's the first time Jere's been able to come home. I'm so excited about the holidays! It's my favorite time of the year!!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
WAR EAGLE!
Tim, Lincoln and I are watching our Auburn Tigers play the UGA Dawgs. I'm going to fit Linc for an Auburn jersey sometime soon. In the mean time he'll be in mine:) I'll post a pic later. For now, I've got a picture of Tim's mom, Judy, changing Lincoln when they babysat a few weeks ago. I hope everyone is doing well!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Two Weeks Fly By Fast!
So my two weeks are almost up and work is getting closer by the day. As I said before, I'm not upset about going back, but it will be sad not to be with Lincoln 24/7 and see all the new things he will learn until evenings. I've got some more pictures. Grandma Boutet paid us a visit and spent the day with us. Lincoln had a blast smiling at her and being held. She was very good at putting him to sleep! I also took some pictures of him after bath time as well as some of him playing with Tim. He's growing everyday and seems to be showing more personality as well.
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