Monday, September 30, 2013

The Faces We Miss Most

Saying goodbye to our family in Orlando was the hardest couple of days I've ever had! We know we will visit often but it's not the same as being able to "pop over" and see everyone. This move is definitely a shock to this Florida born and raised girl but we are looking forward to what God has for us in Charlotte. I couldn't leave without getting in some quality time with the people I love most in this world.

Took all the kiddos to a movie

Mimi and Gamps with the 2 newest grands
Family dinner

Josh and some of his women

Seriously love them

My sweet Caroline

Auntie Mel loves Joshie

I love her

Uncle Jason and Josh-man

Ice cream smiles


Smiling at the lights

The VanLue nieces and nephew
The sibs and the youngest kiddos

I adore this lady

Mollie Bear

Uncle Jon and Mollie

Caroline kissin on Josh

Cade and Josh - sorry to take away the only other boy buddy!

My squish!

Jon shooting hoops (and losing) with Cade
Love my brother
We're sad can you tell?
Mel is uh-mazing

Daddy's girl forever


Mimi and her Wubba
My Kristi Lue

Giggles

Gamps and Josh

Me and Mei Mei

Me and Leni Girl

We were tickling each other :)

Josh and his aunties

Katie loves holding Joshie
My best friend - love you mom!

Josh's Newborn Photos

Here's some of the wonderful pictures that our dear friend Taraleigh captured of 3 week old Josh. We are so in love with this little boy!

















Thank you Taraleigh! We will treasure these photos forever!

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Weeks 3 & 4

Josh's 3rd and 4th weeks of life pretty much consisted of packing, packing and more packing. Of course I couldn't do much of this packing since I was still recovering from the c-section but I made lots of lists and told Jon what to pack! Oh and I kept a tiny little human alive which is a huge accomplishment if you ask me! Here's some pictures of our moving progress!


My servant husband packing the night away
Lots of boxes!
Our living room was such a mess!
A (messy) work in progress
Packing up the kitchen
Josh was happy to sleep while we packed
Jon looks a bit overwhelmed

We also had a few more visitors these weeks. First, my dear friend Janelle and her husband Eric, who are about to have a sweet baby boy of their own!



And my beloved friend Tammy, who has been a faithful mentor to me since before Jon and I got married. Will miss her so much!


We also had our last Sunday on the worship team at Grace. Such a sad day! We cannot say enough good things about this church and the people in it. Leaving these faces is one of the hardest things about this move. They threw us a great going away party so we could say our goodbyes to everyone!


Jon and I on our last Sunday

Jon and Kyle - so sad 

Us and the Carden's (minus baby Lyric)

Me and Stephanie aka stage manager extraordinare
Us with Kyle and Katie Gentry

Jon and Mike Price
Me and Anne - love her!

Josh with Kim and Norm

Me, Josh, and Amber
Chad, Rick & Jon
Me and Josh with our favorite little buddy Reuben


Us with Hilary - will miss her so!

Us and Chad - our most wonderful worship pastor


What Josh is up to:

- He is mastering the fencing pose

Love this picture of Josh "fencing" with daddy

- Sleeping so well on his belly for naps (still on his back/side during the night)

Pouty little sleepy lips
- He is now taking bottles full time (we had many issues with breastfeeding that I won't go into but let's just say Mommy and Josh are both SO much happier doing bottles only)

- He had his first photo shoot (another post on that coming soon)

- Had his first and second visits to church - did super well during rehearsal and LOVES the music

- Loves being swaddled when it's time to sleep - daddy is a swaddle master



 - Giving us TONS of smiles in his sleep and after he eats. Too cute!





I'm hoping to post his newborn photo shoot pictures and about our moving day and first 2 weeks in Charlotte soon! Then I will finally be caught up and can blog in "real time". Whew! Happy Saturday everybody!