We are home owners!

For the past two years, Greg and I have been living in a third floor, one bedroom apartment and we decided it was finally time to buy a house. Little did we know that when we signed our contract to start building, we would find out baby Anna would be coming into our lives 9 months later! Now construction is finally over and we have closed on our first home! Here are some pictures from the beginning to move in!

Our lot!

Excavation begins...

The frame is up.

  

Our house is looking like a house! (the garage on the right is the next unit... we do not have a three car garage!!)

Inside the living room.

Our teeny tiny (but perfect) backyard!

Finally finished! (gotta love all the construction going on next door!)

We are home owners!

The moving begins...

The "after" 

Greg and I are so blessed with a home for our growing family and cannot wait to keep "making it our own!" 

Dresser DIY

Thanks to Pinterest, I have been bitten by the DIY bug! Lucky for me, my friend Summer found this great dresser outside on her neighbor's curbside that they were going to send to the trash!

I think this will make a great dresser/changing table! I plan on painting it white and adding some cute nobs.

Can't wait to post "the before!"

Thanks again Summer!

The reveal party

After finding out we were expecting a baby girl, Greg and I wanted to tell our family in a special way! I got the idea from my sister-in-law Cristie, who revealed to the family she was having boys with a blue balloon and a blue cake, so I came up with an idea myself...

Everyone arrived in the color of their guess... we had a nice mix!

My mom had everyone fill out either a blue or pink heart with why they thought it was a boy or girl. 

This was while reading Steven's answer "I think it's a girl because Greg is a woman" Oh brotherly love!!

Once all the guesses were read, I couldn't wait any longer! I handed everyone a "mystery" cake ball...

and when I said "Go!" everyone was to take a bite and see the color inside!

Here are the priceless reactions!

Sorry Steven... I had to put this one up! It's my favorite! haha!

And then I got to display all the fun clothes I bought immediately after my doctor's appointment! 

Thanks mom and Ciara for putting together such a cute and fun reveal party! 

It's a Girl!

My 20 week appointment is finally here! Greg and I were so excited, it felt like an eternity to make it into that ultrasound room! I can't even begin to describe how amazing it was to see that little baby. The ultrasound tech pulled up the first image and asked if we knew the gender yet. We said "No! But we want to find out!" And that is when he said "It's a girl!"

Greg and I looked at each other with such excitement- we are having a baby girl! I had to try so hard to stop laughing for joy so the tech could get more pictures! haha!

And here is the little princess. She was being a little "shy" and wouldn't show her face, but you can see a side view with her hand covering her head and her legs folded against her body. 

She is so beautiful :-)

As soon as we left the office, I couldn't hold it in anymore! I immediately started crying my eyes out! I was overwhelmed with how much God had blessed Greg and I with a beautiful, healthy, and perfect baby girl!

Now the fun part.... the reveal party!