Delivery #2, Due Date Day, & Nine Years!

We finally got the rest of our household goods this past Saturday (HALLELUJAH!!!), which worked out perfectly so my mom could actually have a bed when she arrived late that night into Las Vegas! We are so thankful to have had her here to help us get the house in order & to be here with us in case the baby came while Derek had to take a quick trip back to Lackland for a couple of days.

Hadley's first night in her new big girl bed :)

 

And waking up the next morning after her first night in the new bed! This girl has been such a trooper! In the past month, she's gone from sleeping in a crib, to sleeping in a toddler bed (just one rail of her crib lowered), to sleeping on an air mattress in our house in San Antonio, to sleeping in a queen size bed with Daddy in 2 different hotels, back to sleeping on an air mattress in our new house in Las Vegas, and then finally to sleeping in a twin size bed in a different room in the new house. That's a lot of changes for a 3 year old, and this girl has slept like a champ through it all. We're so proud of her!

Taking a break from unpacking!

Just to give you an idea of what our house has looked like over the past couple of weeks ;) 

Las Vegas children's museum

Today at Pump It Up..Shelby jumped off the edge several times, but Hadley didn't attempt it.

It feels like the to-do list & projects for this house are never-ending & the unpacking/organizing/settling in is taking significantly longer b/c we have less space in this house than our last house, so we're trying to consolidate things & purge a bit to make room for what we need. But every day we're making huge progress! Little things like getting our gallery wall up & getting Shelby's calendar up on the wall in her room are starting to make it feel a bit more like "home." Today has actually felt the closest to "normal" for us since this whole move process started back on the 6th. I got up and showered before the girls woke up, we had breakfast together, went to Pump It Up, & came home for lunch & naps. While we were getting the girls ready for naps, I had a load of their laundry folded for them to put away. That may not sound like a big deal, but we've finally gotten to the point where the girls' clothes all have a "home" and the girls know where it is...so they could finally put their own laundry away again! It was a big moment!!!

We still have a looooong way to go with this house, and it's so easy to get discouraged and feel like there's no light at the end of the tunnel. But the good news is, we've done this before & we know we can do it again. I can still vividly remember sitting on our couch with Derek in San Antonio shortly after we'd moved there and thinking when would we ever get to the point where we felt like the house was "done" and we could actually relax after the girls went to bed at night instead of working on one project or another....but somehow we got there, and I know we'll get there again. I just wish it could happen a bit faster sometimes. ;) 

It's been a week of milestones for us! Monday marked our due date for Baby #3! And just like with the girls' due dates, this one came & went with no baby. ;)  But of course, we still have PLENTY to do....so it's just fine by us if this baby sits tight for a little while longer. ;)  But I did officially get the crib bedding & all of the baby clothes washed & put away in the nursery on the day of my due date...just in time, huh?! I'll have to take a pic & post it soon, I love how the bedding turned out!

And today marks our nine year anniversary!!! Crazy to think that nine years ago we were dancing the night away with our friends & family at our wedding reception in Athens, and here we are nine years later...Derek is 1300 miles away at Lackland, and I'm in Las Vegas with two kids and #3 on the way hoping and praying this baby doesn't come before he gets back. ;)  The past nine years have been an adventure to say the least, but I wouldn't have it any other way!