April has been a pretty crazy month for us! We've had tornado season like crazy, as has much of the south if anyone has seen the news lately. Fayetteville and surrounding cities got hit pretty hard a couple weeks ago. I'm terrified every time we hear about a tornado watch or warning now just because I have seen the reality of the destruction it can cause, whereas before it was just a distant possibility. We live far enough out from the main city area that our home and neighborhood were safe, but many were not so fortunate. One thing that was nice to see after all this is the community getting together and helping each other out.
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| This was a Lowes after the tornado! |
Corey and I spent a quiet Easter together. We made a nice dinner, colored some eggs, and ate candy (that part was probably just mostly me... we can pretend he helped me eat all the cadbury eggs)
In anticipation of getting new carpet we have been trying to organize/ spring clean our closets and garage and things. We spent the last couple weekends cleaning! I had Corey rearrange our living room furniture, go through all our clothes and shoes and everything and make donation and trash piles. We had a Corey-truck-load of trash to take to the dump at the end of it, and I still have one more closet to go through! Everything looks way better. I should have taken before and after pictures just remind myself how bad we had let things get, haha. I felt like a hoarder at the end of it all.
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| After the furniture move, we have our old couches piled on one another in our room. Corey, of course, thought it would be fun to crawl in them haha. We should probably move them to the garage or something. |
Mya has been very sick lately! I had to take her to the vet multiple times. At first I thought she had caught Bubba's kennel cough, but the vet said no, she had allergies. She also had a weird limp, and it turns out she has a bad knee that pops like crazy. Poor baby was so sick and limping.. it was so pathetic. When she wouldn't get better and she just got sicker and sicker I took her again and asked them do more testing. They ended up finding out that she had a really bad upper respiratory infection (I don't know how they couldn't tell just by listening to her struggle to breathe!). They put her on some stronger antibiotic and got her treatment started there for a while before letting her come home. She is much better now, I am happy to say, but still a little sick. I hate feeling helpless when any of the babies are sick.
We had good weather the past two days so we wanted to get out of the house and go exercise. We tried to go hiking in a place we haven't been to yet, about an hour away. We took Bubba and loaded geocaches into our GPS and everything, and when we got there they were having a lame festival and had ruined our plans. They wouldn't let you park, you had to take a shuttle, and Bubba couldn't get on the shuttle that was across the freeway from the place, so we called it quits and went home. We were very disappointed. Maybe we will try again next weekend if it doesn't rain or tornado on us again.
Baby Update:
We have decided that her name will be Joslyn (I am pretty sure on the spelling, I asked most of our family members what they thought and I think I am persuaded on this spelling/very slight pronunciation difference over Jocelyn). I can feel her moving around sometimes now, which is a pretty weird sensation. Mostly flutters and every once a couple days something stronger. Hopefully Corey will be able to feel her soon!
We still haven't bought much for the baby or started on the nursery besides having painted a couple months ago. We are waiting until our new carpet is installed before we buy furniture or anything, but I have a million ideas so hopefully within the next month I will have pictures of progress!
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| I don't know if anyone saw these on facebook, but they do this all the time haha. They are so cute Bubba is in Mya's bed. |
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| Mya is in Bubba's bed. |
