We have broken ground!

FINALLY! Yesterday we started making progress on our new house! The lot has been scraped off and is ready to be staked off. Now if the rain will just GO AWAY, we can resume building! Yippee!

I’m going to be an aunt again!

Soooooo my sister April is pregnant!!!!!!!!!!! I am SO SO SO excited for a new baby to snuggle on!! After she told her kids and the rest of the family, I decided to tell Noah. April and Josh are not going to find out what they are having so everyone is working on their predictions. Noah has a sixth sense when it comes to predicting baby genders, so I couldn’t WAIT to see what he would say! Here you go:

I can’t wait to see if he’s right! :)

Our weekend in Dallas!

Thursday, Brad and I headed west to Texas for the weekend for the Bama vs. Michigan game. We drove. Through the hurricane. For 10.5 hours! We will definitely be flying the next time we go that far away!

Before we left, I decided to go get a pedicure so my toes would be fit for game day! I told the pedicure lady that I wanted houndstooth on my big toes and she said she had never heard of houndstooth before. We live in TUSCALOOSA and the lady didn’t know what it was. For real. So once she finally figured out what I was talking about, she said she would do her best. Apparently her best is sucky.

Exhibit A:

It’s laughable, really. But I’m pretty sure Noah could have done a better job! Luckily, a friend recommended Sally Hansen’s houndstooth fingernail sticker things and all was right with the world again!

But enough about my feet. :)

Here are some pictures from our trip!

Driving up to our hotel. The Gaylord Texan is by far the best, fanciest hotel I’ve ever stayed at. It was HUGE and had 5 (I think?) restaurants in it, numerous shops, a water park, etc. There was plenty to do without ever having to leave the hotel!

My sweet hubs on his 27th birthday!

This was Saturday before we went geocaching. Don’t hate.

I took this picture one morning as we were eating breakfast at one of the coffee shops inside the hotel. So pretty!

My grandparents live close to where we were staying, so we got to meet up with them for dinner one night! This is our before-dinner picture!

When we got bored, we just walked around the hotel at night. It was the perfect temperature in the atrium and there were little streams running throughout inside. So romantic!

My game day attire! RTR!

Walking through the hotel’s vineyard

The Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium!! That thing is SO BIG!

We had to walk about a mile in the 100 degree heat to get to the stadium, then stand in a line outside in the direct sunlight for about an hour before we could get in. I thought I was going to die. Or pass out, literally. The back of my hair was dripping with sweat. Gross. This picture was taken as soon as we walked inside the stadium.

We walked around for the longest time trying to find a ponytail holder/rubberband/ANYTHING to get my wet hair off my neck! Luckily a vendor found a rubberband for me!

Our view!

We had so much fun and a nice baby-free few days to enjoy each other’s company. I missed my little man SO MUCH! He had so much fun with his cousins, though. He never wanted to talk to me on the phone for more than a minute! Stinker!

House setback

Hopefully this isn’t the start of a bad trend. After hours of work perfecting our house plans and finalizing everything, we found out yesterday that there is an easement going through our lot so our house can only be 55 feet wide. Our original plan was 65 feet wide. Cue my puppy dog eyes…..

When I first heard the news, I literally wanted to throw up. Brad and I were so excited about the plans that we already had and now all that work and dreaming were for nothing.

So now we are back at square one. And probably set back a few weeks as far as the move-in date goes.

We started looking at plans again last night and we think we found the one! It will need a few tweaks, but overall we aren’t as bummed about the setback as we were at first. The new plan is actually bigger and is very similar to the original plan.

Happy weekend everyone!

I’m no chef

Remember the Protein Brownies recipe I posted? I made them a few nights ago.

My supplies:

Mix dry ingredients:

Then add wet ingredients:

Make into patties and add coconut:

Eat or freeze for later!

Now for my issue. After calculating from the Nutrition Facts of my ingredients, my brownies came out to 199 calories each. NOT GOOD! I need to majorly tweak my ingredients for lower calorie options! Hopefully they will come out closer to 50 calories each on my next try! :)

Our weekend

Friday, Noah came to work with me for a few minutes until his Gammy could come pick him up. He loves coming to my office and playing with my grown-up things!

We were up bright and early on Saturday to get our back-to-school haircut! Noah loves ‘helping’ me put on my makeup in the mornings (although it makes his Daddy cringe!).

Saturday afternoon, we went to a friend’s birthday party.

A bouncey house+cake=Noah’s love language.

Here is the birthday boy and his super cute cake! (Did I mention that my child stuck his fork in to the side of the cake before they cut it? Yes. I was MORTIFIED.)

And I also spent some time snuggling this little guy at the party.

Sunday morning, we headed to church. It was Promotion Sunday so Noah got to move up to the 2 year old room. He was excited about the new toys and new scenery! After lunch and nap, we headed to his preschool’s open house. He was not thrilled about cutting his nap short, so afterwards we made a stop at Dairy Queen for some ice cream. (No picture, bad Mommy). Then we went out for a little caching!

And Daddy gave Noah some driving lessons…

:)

Then we came home and worked on cleaning out/sorting through our closet to get ready for the move in a few months! We did our yearly purging of our clothes to donate to the Honduras missing trip.

It was a busy weekend at our house!

We’re moving!

We finally picked out a lot and we are 99% finished tweaking our house plan. EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I don’t know who is more excited about our new house, me or Brad.

I’ve heard that if you can build a house together, your marriage will survive anything. We haven’t really argued about anything yet, just a small disagreement on the paint color for the kitchen. :)

We close on our lot tomorrow and then the real fun begins!