The 4th & More

I have to start this blog by saying, we sold our house on July 3rd! How exciting!!!!! This whole process has been pretty easy and enjoyable. We are ecstatic about moving, but we will miss our first home together. I mean we put our heart and soul into this place, and now we are passing it on to someone else. I do feel very good about our buyer. The feeling of passing your home on to someone who you know will take care of it just puts your mind at ease. We really did have a great time flipping our home together. I just love how we made everything just the way WE wanted it. We were hoping to move into Auburn without having to worry about all of the construction and renovating; but, do not worry, we are looking to take on another project. We have our eyes on this great house in Auburn, in an amazing location, but it does have quite a few projects as well. I do think quite a few people could move into this house and everything would be just the way they wanted it, but not us! We are too picky! We are closing on our house July 20th, so we need to move quickly. I do smile every time I think about living in Auburn. Opelika has been good to us, but we just have too many responsibilities in Auburn, and we belong there.

In other news, we had an AMAZING 4th of July weekend. We had a TON of visitors: Kev, Kim, Kate, Jack, Dave, Surin, mom, and dad. The Koseks and Dave came into town Thursday night and we all took a day trip to Atlanta on Friday We visited the aquarium and planned to visit the coca-cola museum, but that never happened. After we toured the absolutely packed museum, we were too exhausted to go through it again. So we just ate some seafood at Legal Seafood and headed back to Auburn..

My parents came into town on the 4th and we had the Adams out to the house for an exhilarating day of fun. We sat out on the back porch all day, grilled out hamburgers and hot dogs, played in the sprinkler, and combined a 25 foot painters' tarp, a kiddie pool, and a homemade ramp into the world's most fun slip-n-slide. My sister captured these hilarious moments, so pictures will be posted soon, but man it was so much fun.




One of the best parts about the 4th of July was that our little girl turned 4 months old. It's very strange, time has flown, but it has also gone by so slowly. I am trying to cherish every moment of this last month at home with Ryan. I cannot believe I am going back to work in less than a month. I really thought I would be fine leaving her at daycare and being in the adult world again; but the whole process has started to upset me more and more. I know it will be a hard transition, but a necessary one.

Bill and I were discussing how the 4th of July will always be special to us, because it is the day we found out we were having a baby (this picture was taken hours after we found out). Last year we were visiting Bill's parents at their cabin and just had a feeling we were pregnant. We traveled to the local Scottsboro Walmart and bought three tests. I came back to the cabin and took one and before I could even get out of the bathroom, the test said positive. Bill and I knew at that moment our lives would never be the same- and we could not have been more thrilled. We kept saying, "At this time next year, we are going to have a four month old." I cannot believe that year has gone by already. I find myself thinking, where are we going to be in another year? I cannot wait to see what God has in store for us.