7 Months Old

At the Home & Garden Show, and this is how I found Ryan after I went and checked my email. He had scootched backward under the couch.

Ryan turned 7 months old this past week! I can't believe how quickly they grow. We are always told, "it goes by so fast," but how true it is! He's actually at the age where you start thinking about the next one - but that's all we might be doing. There aren't any plans yet. But it's never too early to be praying for wisdom and when to plan for the next one. Ryan can now successfully roll from his back to his tummy, crawl (inching around) backward, and I now often find him in his crib having rolled to his tummy and moving around the crib, blankets askew and Curious George faithfully soaked from drool. It's quite humerous, however, I still want my baby to fall asleep. I'm not quite sure how I could teach a 7 month old not to party... I might have to go back to swaddling!

We also got some work on our house done. We exchanged the sliding glass door for a set of french doors, and we switched out our front door for a new one. They look nice and are much more energy efficient and block out a lot of the road noises. So far we have enjoyed hosting a couple of dinners already and look forward to having more friends over! We love our house and I can't wait until we can paint the walls and do all the upgrades we hope for. That will be years, of course. Enjoy the pics!

Welcome to our new home!

We have a home! This is a very exciting time for us. We are so happy and relieved to be done with moving for a very long time. The Lord has been so gracious to us while searching for a home, during three moves, and also in getting this house. We loved it when we saw it and afterward nothing else quite compared. It's 2300 sq ft, the lot is .26 acres (HUGE compared to California), it's a tri-level, 4 bed/2bath. We have many plans for updating and renovating, but those jobs will be done a little bit at a time and for years to come. Below are some started pictures that I took during our initial inspection. All the Wassmers were there for the occasion.

Above is the formal living room and our backyard view from our dining room

This is the upstairs bathroom and kitchen (the downstairs bath has the same beautiful green laminate floor that isn't square to the wall ;). We have since replaced the lid on the toilet to one that matches its color.

Sometime later we will be sure to post pictures that have any updates! Until then we will enjoy our home and our neighborhood. We live a couple blocks from the elementary school and a couple of parks. I also found out I live just down the street from an old high school friend.