Crazy life...

In about ten days we went from not really thinking about moving to buying a house and selling our house. I haven't been blogging because I am so tired at the end of the night I barely get my face washed.

The month of August went about like this: Andrew found this house online so we went to check it out. It was a disaster inside. It was a foreclosure and really beat up. The kitchen was so dated and gross and the bathrooms were awful or in the middle of a renovation so they were unusable and that was just the beginning. BUT... the location is amazing, the floor plan is wonderful, the yard could be amazing, and it had tons of potential. So we put an offer in. We didn't think we would get it because there were three other offers on it but SURPRISE we got it!!! They called us on a Friday evening so we decided to list our house on KSL that night before we went to bed. We showed it twice on Saturday and once on Sunday and by Monday we had not one but TWO offers!! We were so thrilled. With everything happening so fast we felt like we were definitely supposed to move. The people who bought our house have five kids and wanted to move before school started so we packed our whole house and moved in about two and a half weeks. It was super fast but we moved about ninety percent of our stuff to our new house (in the rooms we aren't renovating yet) and moved in with my parents. We have been here almost a month now and our house is in the finishing stages. We hopefully will move in in about two weeks. The workers we have had have worked so hard and fast for us. They are starting the finishing details and it has been so much fun to see the progress.

I sometimes forget that we are having a baby until I remember that feeling pretty crappy and tired everyday isn't normal or my big belly isn't normal either. It is crazy how fast that sweet baby is going to be here. We are in a rush to move in so Charlie can get adjusted to the new house before this baby turns his world upside down once again. Charlie has been a trooper through all these changes. We have had our share of temper tantrums, no naps, and short nights. I think he has been trying to figure out what happened. I think he was afraid of us leaving him at the old house because he slept awful leading up to the move and still after a month he makes sure that we are not going back to the old house. It broke my heart to see him so confused. He is doing better and I know this will be better for him in the long run.

I have a ton of before pictures so as soon as there are "after" ones I will post all of them. Hopefully in two weeks we can move and get settled in...then we have unpacking, the holidays, and a baby coming so I think we are in for a busy six months:) I couldn't be more excited about all the exciting things coming up in our life right now.

We found out what we are having and....

 

 We are beyond excited!!! We found out a little over a week ago and I still have to pinch myself. We are excited to have a little baby with pink clothes and a bow on her head. We feel so blessed to be able to expand our family and so lucky to have a boy and a girl :)

Bear Lake

As always we went to Bear Lake with Andrew's extended family for the week of the 24th. It was a blast. We had great weather, good company and yummy food. Charlie is still saying "I want to go to Bear Lake", too bad he has to wait another whole year.

Charlie loved having his own chair.

He was especially happy when he had "baboba and mmmm" with him.

Sadie and I were sitting on chairs a little farther than this picture was taken from. Charlie decided he wanted to go and sit on this chair all by himself. So he marched over there with "baboba and mmmm", climbed on the chair, sat down and stayed there for quite a while.

 

Amazing Andrew

Andrew just ran his first half marathon on Saturday!! I am so proud of him. He was in the best shape of his life when he got cancer and he even ran everyday after chemo. Chemo wiped everything out of him. It took him two years, but he is back to where he was when he started chemo (maybe even better). I am so proud of how determined and motivated he has been. I am sure this is the first of many races in the future. Congrats Andrew we are so proud of you!!!

The Fouth of July week.

The Fourth of July week is so much fun. I feel like we were partying for a whole week. We celebrated my birthday, went to Logan and had a BBQ and watched fireworks, went to a parade, had a fun evening at Oakridge with food, games, and fireworks, went to Logan's car show and celebrated Sam's birthday. Charlie was pretty worn out by the end of the week but we had such a good time.

Charlie

I just wanted to write a few things about Charlie that I don't want to forget.
-He calls his blankie "mmm" and his binkie "baboba".
-He is always asking me "Mommy doin' now?" and then when I tell him he always responds "oh".
-If I tell him something fun we are going to do he will sometimes say "pretty lucky".
-He loves to count to 12 and sometimes 15 (with help).
-He loves when I sing songs to him regardless of how bad my voice is.
-He can sing the abc's.
-He can talk pretty well, and I can understand most things he says, but for sorry he will say "warty".
-When I change his diaper he will say "peedew  ___" and he will fill in the blank with Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, or Grandpa. He thinks he is being pretty clever.
-When we ask him if he wants a baby brother or baby sister he always says "I want a big truck".
-He is a very polite little boy. He is always telling me please and thank you and if he doesn't want something he almost always says "no thank you Mommy".
-He is such a sweet little boy and such a blessing in our home. We feel blessed each day to have the privilege to raise such a good boy. We love you Charlie.

I wanted to add these few pictures of Charlie sharing his "pop pop" with baby Annie:

He got sick of waiting so he decided to start eating the other side.

Elder Cox is home!!!

About a week ago my brother returned home from serving a mission in Budapest, Hungary. It is nice to have him home. My sisters, Chelsea and Ashlee are both pregnant too and Matt didn't know about any of us. So Chelsea had the idea to have us wear matching shirts with the month we are due. We were so excited. My other sister Whitney isn't pregnant but didn't want to miss out on the fun so she made a shirt that said "nope" across her belly. It was an exciting way to welcome him home.

 

We made these shirts of the Hungarian flag for the kids.

 

Nope, its a November baby, December baby, January baby.

We are so happy to have Matt home :)