more big changes for us

Steve has accepted a job in Minneapolis, Minnesota and we are moving in just a few weeks! We decided that one major life change (baby) wasn't quite enough, so we're now adding a job change, a cross-country move, selling our house, and potentially buying a new one :) Steve's last day at his current job will be tomorrow. Things are moving quickly, we're planning on being in Lafayette until the week of Christmas. We'll be in Minnesota for Christmas anyway, so we figured that that week would be a good time just to pack up our cars with as much as we can fit, and go. I'll stay up there and Steve might be down a time or two to deal with house stuff until ours sells.

It's hard to imagine starting over, we've grown to love Lafayette and our community here. Although it's also very comforting that Steve's family will be so close, his parents and 2 siblings and their spouses all live up there. So it will be very bittersweet for us, but at the same time we're very excited to begin this new phase of life. Your prayers for our transition will be greatly appreciated!

the last few weeks

I can't believe how quickly Thanksgiving is approaching! It seems that the last few weeks have blown by with a lot of things happening around here. One exciting thing is that we are leaving tomorrow morning for a week in West Palm Beach, Florida! Yay :) It's been over a year and a half since we've had a vacation so we're pretty pumped to relax, sit in the sun and decompress before the holiday busyness coming up.

As far as baby update - I can't believe how much bigger I have gotten. And how much harder he can kick now. I can see his kicks from the outside sometimes, which is really cool to watch.

Here I am at 19 weeks
(the only pic I got was with the flash, then the battery
died and I forgot about it for that week)

Me at 20 weeks, the day we found out he's a boy!

And here I am today, at 21 weeks

our beautiful baby boy

Yep, it's a boy. Go figure after having a closet full of free girl stuff, he'd go and be a boy :) We're super excited. I can't believe how clear the ultrasound was, we could see the shape of his little ear, his fingers and toes moving around. It was crazy. And yes, he was very fidgety and wiggly but I knew that before seeing him. At one point he stuck his finger in his ear :)

Everything looked great, it was a relief to see everything in the correct places and working properly. Now on to buying boy stuff!! Haha. Here are some of the good shots we got.

I like to curl up with my hands under my chin like my mommy. 4 fingers, playing with my ear.

Who do you think he looks like?
We'll see in 4.5 months.

my favorite conversation of the day

Kid 1: "Yeah, and we got to eat string cheese"
Me: "Yummy!"
Kid 2: "I don't like strange cheese"
Me: "Well, you can just give it all to me and I'll eat it" :)

Tomorrow morning! Can't wait to see my little jumping bean in there!!!