Moving Day!

What a month February has been. I am so glad that March is approaching us because we are getting ready to move next week! I can not wait to move everything because right now I feel like I don't know what to do next. This weekend my parents are coming down to help me get ORGANIZED!!! We have lived at this house for almost 3 years and I said that I would get organized with that move and I have yet to concquer that. There is one person that always seems to push me in the right direction and that is my mom :). She gets me motivated and helps calm my nerves about everything. I can not wait to see them as it has been almost a month since I saw them last and I have missed them so much. They are going to spend a few days so that I can get the new house clean and start moving things that we don't need. Then the next weekend we have some friends to help us move the rest of our furniture and we are finished!!!!

I have been so nervous about this move. It is a bittersweet moment for me. I grew up living in the same house my entire life. I love going back to visit my parents because it is "home." My dad has even kept the tree house up that we had as kids. Of course, they have updated the house but it is such a great feeling every time I step foot in the door. So, I feel like I am leaving behind so many memories. This was our first house as a married couple. This is where our first child was born. We have made the house "home." But, I knew when we bought the house that we could not have more than 1 child here. We could definitely make it work, but it would be a tight squeeze. So, leaving these memories behind only means that I get to look forward to the ones we are going to make in our new home.

Meanwhile Mason is doing so many fun things now. He is at such great age and I am loving every minute of it. So far his daycare is working out and he loves going there. I think that it has been so good for him to be around other kids. He has been battling this cold for about a month now and we just finished our second round of antibiotics. He seems to be feeling much better and acting his silly self again. He loves to dance around the house. He follows me everywhere I go and half the time I am stepping on him. His new thing, is putting everything he can find on top of his head. No matter what it is, it goes on his head. He is so goofy which is what makes my bad days turn right around :). Below is a picture of him just being so sweet.

SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!!!!

I can not remember the last time I saw 22" of snow!!! Yesterday was the first day Mason and I left our house since Monday. I think we were both going stir crazy. I actually went to work and Mason went over to our friend's house. He has never napped at other places very well, but yesterday he slept over 3 hours there!! He must have played real hard with his friend Hunter. When I brought him home yesterday he was such a mess. It was like he didn't want to come back home. He woke up in a much better mood and I took him to Wal-Mart this morning. Boy, was Wal-Mart a nightmare. I usually go to the store on Monday mornings when nobody else is there. I will never go again on a Saturday!!! I exchanged one of Mason's toys he got for Christmas because he already had it. He has some kind of infatuation with balls. Do you know how hard it is to find toys with balls???? Well, I finally found one and he hasn't put the balls down since we got home. I wanted to take him outside in the snow and take some pictures. He would not put the BALL down. He cried every time I took it out of his hands so it was our prop in the pictures. He started off a couple of weeks ago with a cold and horrible cough. They thought he had RSV but he didn't so they put him on some steroids and an antibiotic. He still has a nasty runny nose that is not going away. Today seemed to be the warmest day so I decided to take him outside and get some photos before the next round of snow appears!!!! He had a blast and it was fun seeing him touch the snow and make faces. I can not wait to take him outside and actually play in the snow. It will be so much fun!!! Here are a few that I got.
It is so hard to believe that a year ago this time, Mason was that small. This was his very first snow day and he will have many more to enjoy!!! Time goes so fast that I have to enjoy all of these fun memories with him.