Finally....

I'll just skip the part where I'm supposed to talk about how bad I am at blogging because you all already know that. On to the fun stuff.

I was just re-reading over the last post and I laughed out loud when I read over what my dear, sweet Travis wrote. Especially this part, "I've felt many emotions ranging from confidence to hopelessness and Linz was steady through it all (at least outwardly she was. Haha)"
Ohhhhh, my poor, poor Travis. Little did he know that would be the last little bit of steadiness that he saw from me for a week or two! I was more than excited and thrilled that he got this job and I was actually looking forward to moving to a new place. Those things weren't scaring me. What was scaring me was having to find a place to live (which would be much smaller than where we currently were), packing up our entire lives and moving in less than two weeks. All while being 7 months pregnant and trying to keep up with an almost two year old. During this time all three of us also got stomach flu and we flooded part of our house. I WAS STRESSED!! I tried to be a good sport. I really did. But let's just put it this way, the two weeks leading up to our move were not my most graceful two weeks by any stretch of the imagination! The Lindsay monster may or may not have come out. Ok, it came out. I sure am grateful for a very forgiving husband :)


Here we are ready to start unloading.




Anyway, it's been over a month now since we've moved and things are beginning to settle in place and we're finding some normalcy. Overall, we are REALLY enjoying living in Charlotte (well, technically just north of Charlotte). The landscape is really beautiful. The people are nice and Travis' commute is 9 minutes. NINE MINUTES!!!!! After commuting an hour each way to work for a year, we couldn't be happier about that. Travis loves the absence of traffic and I LOVE having him home earlier. I love having so much quality time together during the week. Sydney loves it too.

After such a crazy and chaotic moving process, we decided it would be best to spend Christmas with just our little family. It was a really sweet, quiet Christmas. It was fun to just be the three of us and start some Simon traditions.

We have pretty limited space in our new home so we decided to go with the 15 dollar Walgreens special for our Christmas tree :) I love it. I think we'll end up keeping it forever. It will always remind me of our very first Christmas with just us.

Oh how quickly the mood can change at our house with a 21 month old around haha

Here are some pictures from our Christmas morning.

Sydney talking on a play phone from her grandparents
Sydney spending some quality time in the time out chair. She's a frequent visitor to this spot :)

My present from Travis. Check out that wrapping job. Somebody was obviously paying attention in principles of design class. He never disappoints!

My love :)



The week before Christmas the Bowen fam stopped by for a sleepover! We had so much fun chatting, catching up, eating and getting in touch with our 5th grade levels of humor :)

In other news, on Monday I will officially be 35 weeks pregnant. How is that possible? How did 35 weeks just go by? Ready or not, he's coming and he's coming soon. I better soak up all the good night's rest while I can. I'm excited to see what Sydney thinks about him. I actually feel pretty optimistic about how she'll adjust to having a baby in the house. She seems to be interested in other babies that we see or play with. But that's completely different than bringing another baby into the house to live and split attention with. We will see.