catch up

wowee.  it has been busy around here lately.  

it's been all i can do to post a picture on here lately, sorry about that guys.

let me catch you up.

a couple weeks ago my hubby and i were kind of thrown into a house hunt.  his childhood home came up for sale and we were pulled into wanting it.  it obviously wasn't the perfect timing so we backed off.  

but in the meantime we found a different beautiful house with over double the square footage of our current house, but much more affordable and realistic.  it is really close to our families and will take luke less time to get to work.  in looking at all of these houses we realized how terribly we have grown out of our little 1400 sq ft townhome.  while it is the absolute perfect, cute little starter home, that's just it - it's a starter home.  we are now a family of four and our stuff has taken over our little house.  it being a townhouse we don't have much of a yard and also no basement.  my girls need space to roam free!  so we put an offer on this other house and hopefully we can work things out.

we've also put our townhouse up for sale.  we decided to get it out there and see what happens.   townhouses are a notoriously harder sell.  i am just hoping the right buyer comes along. so operation de-clutter and clean has been commencing.  luke bought six huge rubbermaid containers just to throw our excess junk in.  

haven LOVES to help clean.  i mean seriously, she would windex and sweep my whole house if i let her. (that may sound good, but at this point she makes more of a mess than she actually cleans.  hopefully her love for cleaning continues into her teen years...)

our realtor told us there are two keys to showing a house: 

 create space and clean windows.  

so that's exactly what we're trying to do.  

already haven's toy pit in our living room has gone from three overflowing toy bins to everything fitting nicely into her toy chest.  yay!  i am going to tackle her room next.  it's amazing how many toys one girl can accumulate in her less than three years she's been on this earth.

all of that is great, but there is much bigger news i have to share.  

my little sis had her baby!!  i am an aunt x3 now.

Carter Richard was born July 1st @ 2:51 a.m.

7lbs. 13.8oz. 19 inches

he is so sweet and i am so happy for chelsea and jack.  

they're a cute little family.

oh, and here's parker doing what she does best.

she is just the sweetest, happiest baby i've ever met.

i feel pretty lucky.