Welcome to our blog!

Hi everyone and welcome to our first ever family blog! Since I am extremely "blog-challenged", I need to give a big thanks to my friend Karen for helping me set this up! I figured this would be a great way to keep all of our friends and family updated and in touch as we get ready for our big move to NC!

Right now we don't have too much exciting news to report. We are (or rather, I am) starting the unpleasant process of packing/throwing away/donating the entire contents of our house. You wouldn't think that would be too much work, our house is not all that big. But I have apparently become quite an expert at fitting a lot of useless stuff in a relatively small space! So over the next 2 months I need to sort through everything we have accumulated here in the last 5 years! Our new house is much bigger than this house, but it doesn't have a basement or an attic! (Apparently folks in the South just put all their extra stuff in storage facilities!) Since we won't be doing that, we really need to take just the important stuff with us. So I guess the garbage men will hate me and the Salvation Army will love me!

We have had a pretty low-key weekend. I hosted a Cookie Lee jewelery party last night. I was glad to see a lot of my friends and Kiera and Nicole had a great time picking out some jewelery for themselves! We went to church today and the kids have been playing outside most of the day. Our sonogram is scheduled for next Monday, so hopefully the baby will cooperate so we can find out if it is a he or a she! I have a feeling it is a girl, but the boys in the family disagree. Michael says that if the baby's a girl, he'll "stuff it back in til it turns into a boy"! I don't think so buddy!