House Pics

Hey everyone! I promised house pictures so here they are! I did not photograph the bedrooms, well actually I did photograph them in their messy, unpacked state but I am not posting those pictures. The rooms should be finished and decorated by the end of the month and I decided to wait until then to do a "bedrooms" post. We have a three bedroom house which I thought might be a pain because we had a four bedroom before but I really love this house. It's cute and comfortable and so easy to keep clean. It has made me realize I'd really like a one story house when we buy (although Sam still wants a two story) Our Master is big enough that Sam is able to have an office in our bedroom and we have really beautiful tray ceilings in our room, a huge walk in and a large on-suite. I don't think we could possibly need more. The girls also have a large walk-in closet in their room.  I had the option of having a boys and girls room or a big kids and little kids room and Felicia was quick to say she wanted to share a room with Audrey and have a girl's room which made me happy because Sam and I already had all these ideas for how we want to decorate Jack and Josh's room. Anyhow, as soon as I have finished the rooms, I will do another post. Here are the front, back, and main living areas of our house for now:

I had to post this one first even though you can barely see the front of our house. I love Audrey's smile in this picture! She loves to be outside now and is all smiles when we go for walks!

Front

Front 

Front door / Foyer

Living room 

Dining room

Kitchen (View from Family Room)

Kitchen - The door in the middle leads to our garage and the door to the left is the pantry door

Kitchen 

Windows in Kitchen (view of backyard)

Playroom (Family Room)

Backyard

Backyard

Audrey's getting ready to do some exploring

Backyard (Right)

Backyard (Left)

I hope you enjoyed the pictures. We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Love and hugs to all,
Nicole and Sam

First weeks in Georgia

So far we absolutely love living in Georgia! It is definitely a big change from living in Florida but we really love everything about it up here (besides the fact that we miss our Florida family and friends so much). We are renting a ranch style house in Fayetteville. We live on a culdesac and we have the sweetest neighbors! The neighbors to our right are around our age and they have two small children. All of the neighbors who live on our culdesac came over to introduce themselves and welcome us to the neighborhood when we were moving in and we have had the pleasure of speaking with them several times since. We also met a nice family around the corner from us who also have two small children close to Audrey's age. Everyone has just been so welcoming and sweet including Sam's amazing family who lives here.

The weather has been so beautiful this weekend. It has been in the 60's during the day and in the 50's at night.Sam is actually doing yard work while I am writing this. We have finally started settling into our home and are just about done unpacking and organizing.  As soon as we are done I will do a house post so that everyone can see our house.

Yesterday Felicia, Audrey and I went to a local antique store and found a really cute Welcome sign for the front door and some cute pictures for the kids rooms and bathroom at Hobby Lobby while Sam did more yardwork. I managed to snap a couple pictures of Audrey when we got back. This morning we went to church and then to Sunday dinner and I took some pictures too. I hope you all enjoy them!

Audrey is thoroughly enjoying living in a house with carpet

She plays with her stroller that was a gift from Aunt Jen and Uncle Eric everyday. She puts all sorts of things in it, pouches, blocks, hydro-cortisone cream, whatever else her little toddler hands can get to!

This is our family room which is currently being used as Audrey's playroom

I'm very excited to have a mantle and a fireplace! I have been looking at "Mantlescapes" on pinterest and I can't wait for the next Holiday so that I can really decorate it!

This was taken just before leaving for church. Audrey actually went to the nursery for the first time by herself and she did great! One of the ladies who works in the nursery asked me if she could keep her!

This outfit was from her Aunt Jen and I think it is adorable!

She had to do a few laps with her stroller before church :)

Audrey decided to bring her baby to church. Felicia was more worried about sending Audrey to the nursery than I was by the way! She wanted to stay with her. She is such an amazing big sister :)

After church lounging.. Audrey seemed excited about the Braves game at first...

After about a minute she realized it may not be as interesting as it seemed... 

Definitely not as interesting as it seemed...

And she is officially over it! Good thing Dad is going to have a boy to enjoy the games with soon because Audrey takes after her Mama when it comes to baseball! 

I took this a few days after we moved in. The first few days Audrey rolled around on the carpet pretty much all the time. I think she was shocked at how different it was from tile!

I love these cute overalls my Mom got her!

We miss everyone so much! I will try to post more pictures soon!

Love you all! xoxo

Nicole

Easter in Georgia

We had a really lovely Easter this year! It was our first Easter living in Georgia and I couldn't have imagined it being more fun than it was. We went to church with Sam's sweet Aunt Madge and then had Sunday dinner and the kids had an Easter Egg hunt with our Georgia family. We missed our Florida family very much! Here are some pictures and I am sorry that I didn't take more and didn't post them sooner. I find myself frequently enjoying moments so much so that I forget to take pictures and later wish I had, especially with so much family and friends living so far away - I definitely want to keep everyone updated. I will try to get better!

We went to Sunrise service for Easter and it was in the 40's that morning so I had to layer underneath Audrey's dress. Audrey's Easter dress for church was not warm enough so we improvised and she wore this one. It actually looked really cute with her dark blue coat and tights but I didn't snap any pictures while we were at church :( Luckily she was able to wear her Easter dress for Sunday dinner because it had warmed up by 2pm :)

She wasn't interested in waiting to unwrap the Cadbury eggs. Those were definitely her favorite Easter candy! She takes after her Daddy!

Audrey was very interested in pushing this around!  

She is definitely proving to be quite an outdoors girl! She loves being outside! 

Daddy or Uncle Bill owe her a ride on this soon! 

Audrey's cousin, Harper is so sweet to her! He plays with her so nicely. She follows him around every time we see him!

We hope everyone had a Happy and Blessed Easter!

Nicole
xoxo