Happy Valentines Day ♡

We've had a great Valentines Day! Colin and I met Keshia, Sarah, Joanna and their kids at the aquarium and then lunch at Big River!

 

We had a family trip to target and then came home to relax. Tonight Derek and I have a dinner date at Public House while Erika keeps our mini valentine ♡

 

 

This is our 10th Valentines Day together!! So hard to believe it's been that long. He is such a great husband, I'm super lucky!! This has been a very different Valentines Day, but a great one too thanks to this guy :)

*Snowy Week*

Good thing we headed back Monday night! It's been a snowy week here and everywhere in the south! It has been 3 days of being stuck inside! Thankful no power outages though. I'm personally over the snow and Colin can't enjoy it yet, so I'm ready for spring! 60s next week :)

 

 

Derek had to work the last 3 days so Colin and I stuck inside and watched the snow from indoors. This dude is always all over the place with his mood after coming home from a trip. Today he hasn't been as fussy so maybe we have moved past the cranky now!

 

 

 

He sure has been Mr. Personality this week and won't stop smiling and talking. He even laughed in the tub-cutest sound ever! He has some strange faces!
 

 

He has been practicing rolling over too. Not a huge fan of tummy time still, but loves to roll to his left side and play! We'll get there!

Today the snow finally stopped. I believe we had around 6 inches total! Derek and I enjoyed some snow-cream, mmmm :)

 

The snow is melting fast and I couldn't be happier! Colin and I have a big date tomorrow at the aquarium with the girls and their kids! We are both so ready to get out of this house :)

Traveling family!

Colin is getting to be a traveling pro. He and I packed up and headed to Huntsville again on Friday morning. Derek worked night shift for a few nights so we went to see grandparents!
 

All smiles these days :)

 

 Big Brown eyes!!

 

We had some good relaxing time with Poppy and Moppy and did a little shopping too! Mom found a nice bookcase on her online yard sale for our new house and we also found a good deal on a Johnny Jumper for Colin :)

 

 

Sunday we headed to Doozie and Nana's. She went with me to Chattanooga to pick up Derek after he was off work.

His hair kills me!! The front is starting to grow back nice though ;)

Such a big boy talking away

Monday Derek and I went to Birmingham for our house inspection!  We had a painter and floor person come give us estimates for some updating. Thankfully everything turned out pretty good! So excited about moving now!

 

All about those fingers now! Such serious eyebrows :)

We quickly went back to get Colin from Nana's and hit the road for Chattanooga!  The weather is supposed to be bad the next 2 nights so we didn't want to get stuck!

SOLD!

We are now owners of a beautiful home in Birmingham! Thank goodness something came out of that snowstorm adventure :) It's a great family home with plenty of space, a huge unfinished basement (Derek's dream project), and a large private yard. We are soo excited!

 

We celebrated by going to the aquarium since Derek was off work! We finally caught some butterflies!!

 

Little man stayed awake almost the entire time. Those bright lights!

 

 

We've been mostly at home the last week recovering from our Birmingham trip. Unfortunately, one of Derek's attending docs died Friday. We all went up to the hospital to eat and hang out together. It was so sudden and very sad. Derek dressed Colin like a little man :)

 

Loves watching TV

 

This past weekend Derek had to work so Colin and I went to my work and did some chart audits. He did soo good! Colin also had 2 nights where he only woke up once. It was amazing. Then he stopped-for good. Bummer :\ One day we will sleep!

 

 Loves to bust out of his swaddle blanket in the morning

 

There has been so much house stress it's so great to get things done! Derek goes next week to do the inspection in Birmingham. Now we have less stress and more time to enjoy this silly guy :)

 

 

 Holding his lovey blanket :) Liking mirrors these days too! 

 

Snow Storm 2013...while House Hunting!

What a week it has been! We left Monday morning for Birmingham for our house hunting adventure. An adventure it was :) We met our realtor that morning and probably saw 8 or so homes and drove by even more. It was a long day! We saw some good ones, but really liked a new construction home the most.

We picked up PF Changs and took it over to Heinz and Leah's house. We got to see their new baby, Owen, who is 1 week younger than Colin. Wish Colin could have met his future buddy! He was such a cutie and Alex was a little ham! After dinner we headed to Seth and Jessica's to hang out. We took them out to the house we liked too!

Tuesday we got up (after a full night's sleep-wahoo!) and went back to meet our realtor, Shelley, at her office. We started driving to the first house and it started to snow a little. We went to a house pretty far back into a popular neighborhood in Oak Mountain. Derek and I both loved it and decided it was our new favorite! As we were walking around the house the snow started to get heavier. Once we got outside everything was pretty covered!

Pretty, right? That's what we thought too. We made it half way through the neighborhood and had to overcome some pretty big hills. By this time, the roads were pretty icy and cars were starting to slide. After about 2 hours in the car attempting the hills to get out of the neighborhood, we got to the last big one and got stuck on the top. Everyone had abandoned their cars at the bottom and were walking up the hill towards us to get home. We parked the car and a nice man walked by and we casually mentioned we were now homeless ;)

 

 

We got his address and a little while later decided to call it a day and head to his place. We spent the day watching the news cover horrible wrecks and traffic issues. Our host was so nice; he had older kids that had moved out so we got to sleep upstairs in their rooms. Of course, we had been riding with Shelley so we had no bags, clothes, nothing. We at least had a hot shower and he had a lot of left over Carraba's for us to eat! Our host's wife was stuck at work too. His high school kid had a lot of friends over in the basement. We made them a big breakfast and played with their fun dog, Tank.

 

 

The next day our realtor's friend came to rescue us in his 4x4 truck. It took us a while, but we made it to the top of Hwy 31. He gave Derek and I jackets/gloves and we started our hike down to our car.

 

 

Hwy 31 was blocked on one side for a while, so we walked right down the slippery road :) We took a break at the mall. All the stores/restaurants were closed except Great American Cookie Company. They gave away free cookie cakes :) We grabbed a slice and hit the road. On the way down Lakeshore we hitch-hiked with a nice couple to Mountain Brook Village. We were sooo excited to see our car! After scraping the ice off, we hit the road! The interstates weren't bad to Huntsville and we were so glad to be reunited with little dude!

 

 

 

So grateful we made it back safe and that Colin was warm and happy in Huntsville. There were so many wrecks and people stranded in their cars. So crazy! Chattanooga and Atlanta got hit soon after really bad too.  Colin has some awesome grandparents that kept him. He didn't give them too hard of a time but I'm sure they were glad we came to retrieve him ;)