It's time!

I should begin by saying that Sean and I are probably 2 of the most impatient people you'll ever meet, no joke! We began our marriage 5 years ago with the conversation of where should we live...we are both from Asheville, but had jobs and apartments here in Charlotte. After praying about it, the answer was clearly to start our lives here, but we always knew we wanted to be back in Asheville and closer to family and hopefully that time would be when we had children, because we want them to grow up with the same close-knit family that we had. Well, after years of waiting for the right time, His timing is perfect and His hand is sovereignly at work. A nearly perfect job opportunity has opened up for Sean and starts just in time for busy (tax) season. So here goes, our house goes on the market and we have hopefully found a rental house to move into in 2 (yes TWO) weeks, yikes! Talk about tossing my little "everything is planned and happens at the same time every day and the same day every week" world upside down! While we are greatly looking forward to being move involved with our families and letting our children have the privilege of growing up with so many loved ones around, this was quite a bittersweet decision. You see, I don't handle change all that well and Charlotte has become our home for the last (counting college) 8 years. We have made so many wonderful friends, joined a church that has been an amazing blessing in our lives, come home as newlyweds into our first apartment together, bought a house that fits our family to a T, brought 2 amazing babies into the world, and made many, many wonderful memories. Some things just don't quite fit into moving boxes! Our hopes, dreams, and prayers for our family all point towards making the move back to where we grew up and I can't even begin to express how excited I am to see our families so much more often. Yet, as I type this, I see the stairs that Porter learned to climb up before he could even walk, the playroom that he learned to crawl in and took his first wobbly steps in, the garage door that we walked through to welcome both of our babies into our home...the list goes on and I'm feeling quite sentimental, but it's just a house (right?!). The memories are in our hearts (and about 1,000,194 pictures) and we will make more as we go. As Porter would tell you, home is where ever mommy cuts the apples and lets me hold my sissy ;) With bittersweet feelings in our hearts and a lot of anxiety about what the next few months might hold, we begin to say goodbye to our lives in Charlotte. I couldn't be more thankful for all of the sweet friendships that we have made here. Each one fulfilling our lives in a different way and at a different time. Bring on the moving boxes, packing tape, and let's be honest, a few tissues...

Happy 2 months!

I'm learning quickly that things with baby #2 aren't as prompt (or well documented) as baby #1. But better late than never, right?! (if that's not true, then I am surely in trouble!) This past weekend, we celebrated our precious girl's 2 month birthday. Boy, have these been an eventful 2 months (...more on that later, stay posted!). Sweet Savannah has fit so perfectly into our little family that it feels impossible to imagine life before her. She is one loved little girl! Her brother adores her, and that's putting it lightly. Whatever man (in a long, long, long time, mind you) tries to date his sissy is going to be put through the ringer! And I can't say that I'd blame him, she's a doll baby! (ok, yes, I'm partial. I'm her mom, what did you expect?!)

Savannah Joy, at 2 months you...

~sleep from 8:00-6:30 and still take 3 naps a day
~eat 5, 5 oz. bottles/day
~are desperately trying to sit up, which will far surpass your brother's rate of doing so
~want to see and hear everything that is going on
~smile the biggest, sweetest, happiest smiles I have ever seen
~recognize mom, dad, and Porter- your smiles give it away ;)
~continue to wrap your daddy tighter around your finger with each grin, so sweet!
~weigh 11 lbs 1 oz and are 23 inches long, grow baby, grow!

We can't wait to see what the next month has in store for all of us! We love you sweet girl!

(so, so sorry, but my blog has decided that the maximum capacity of pictures has been reached, ugh! so this blog will be pictureless until I can figure it out!)