The Move

We are moved and situated for the most part. My closet is NOT unpacked, but I can only wear about 5% of my wardrobe at this point anyways, so no biggie there.

The garage also still has to be organized...Lots of Christmas boxes in the corner out there. Hopefully in the next week, we will be able to park in the garage. By that time, it will be consistently in the 50s and won't matter anyways. :P

Here are some photos of the house. You can see that the kids have had no problem unpacking themselves and feeling at home.

The living room right off the foyer.

The dining room off the living room.
The kitchen. The first thing we had Papa do is install baby gates to keep the dogs and Logan out of the kitchen. I cannot tell you what a difference this has made in my world. Cooking dinner the last 2 nights was amazing!
The family room off the kitchen. And a big thank you to Minnesota for providing great antenna service. We were going to get cable, but the channels we are getting with just the antenna are better than we had in Illinois, so we can save that $50 a month!!!
The view from the top of the stairs. Overlooking the foyer and living room.

I am so happy to be unpacked, and sort of settled. We are here in Minnesota for the next 3 weeks and then heading back to Illinois to await the littlest member of the Smith clans arrival. Hopefully, he will make his grand entrance sooner than later. Upon packing up things, Isabella and I came across her baby book. Inside was the receipt from my pregnancy test with her. As of next month, I will have officially been pregnant for 27 of the last 60 months. So if you have seen me in the last 5 years, you have a 50-50 chance that I was pregnant! Awesome! The cool thing for me (being a numbers person) is that Isabella's date of conception is approximately 5 years to the day of Henry's due date. Very cool, and maybe a big huge sign that we are done having babies! (If anyone wishes to complain about this, Jonah and I are freely accepting donations to raise the kids. With unlimited financial resources that would include a nanny or 2, or at least afford the "grandmas" the ability to not work and come stay with us for a month or so at a time, we will be happy to add to the brood!)

One thing that has been really fun about the move is seeing what things remind the kids of "home". Logan was happy to point out "Matthew's car" while driving up here. Isabella thinks that Famous Dave's is just like Grama and Papa's house because they have antlers and corn on the cob. Any red barn is immediately Grandma and Grandpa Sanye's house...

So, settled and happy to be together, we are. AND anxiously awaiting the next arrival!