Okay, well I am FINALLY getting around to updating Ye Ole Bloggie. It has taken me about a bagillion years, but finally a quiet moment in time. I really really want to stay more committed to this thing. Let me warn you.. this may get long. You better go pour yourself a cup of coffee or sweet tea and plan to be here a while… 🙂

Alright, first things first. Thank you ALL for praying for our house and for our sleep! Both issues have improved greatly! While our house hasn’t sold, we are moving into a town house!!! Thank you LORD (and Grandma DeeDee)!!! My mom decided to invest some of her money into a townhome for us in Bellevue. We are going to live there for a couple of years and pay rent to her. It works out great on so many fronts for both of us. Here are some pics of it…

Living Room

Master Bedroom

Harper’s Room

Guest Room

Kitchen

Patio

Of course, we will add our touch and TLC to it, but these are your little preview shots so that you can see all of our hard work along the way! We close August 14 and will probably move in sometime the last week in August after a quick trip to GA to get all of our stuff that has been sitting in our house for the last 7 months.

As far as sleep goes…

Well, Thursday night we decided to camp out on the pullout couch in the living room and let Harper CIO (Cry It Out).

(I know some mommy and daddy’s do not agree with this method, but we knew it was the right thing for Harps.)

She had been doing GREAT prior to our trip to NC when she got sick with a bad cold. She started waking up in the night about 2-3 times to nurse because she was so stuffy. Well, it created a bad habit that could only be broken by a few tears (from both Harper and myself). And let me tell you… IT WORKED! After a VERY long night, and encouragement (for me) and comfort(for Harper) from Chris. She has slept AMAZINGLY the last 3 nights… like 11-13 hours! And she is her happy self – actually, even MORE happy than before because she is rested! (and WE are more happy because we are rested too)

So this begins the blogging update of our lives… (oh, because now that she has her nights figured out, she is also napping well during the day(which means I have time to think)… until her first tooth decides to interrupt our happy lives – maybe it won’t be too bad though)

I have never been so tired in my life. Harper is sleeping in only about 2 hour stretches at night. (She slept better than this when she was a newborn)!!! I don’t know what her deal is, but I am about exhausted. Okay, I AM exhausted! She is in our room with us due to limited space in a one bedroom apartment, and this really needs to end, except for the fact that she has no where else to go. 🙁 Today I am grumpy, yet so much needs to be done. I need to take a nap, but I don’t even want to make a peep to go into my bedroom because she is sleeping… and I dread getting woken up by the ear piercing scream she has. It is literally enough to send me from a dead sleep into fighting mode in about .00002 seconds!!! She doesn’t just easily come out of her sleep, she screams herself awake. Well, it feels a little better to get that out. Any mamas out there who wouldn’t mind praying for us – and for our house in GA to sell so that we can fix this little situation of ours – would be so much appreciated!! I need a light at the end of the tunnel, and I don’t see one yet…

Oh yeah… still planning on updating the other blogs… when I can see straight 🙂

Well, I know the blog is seriously lacking. We are back from all of our travels and are adjusting well to a nice and neat schedule – which I love after several weeks of no schedule. Since Harper is still on some sort of a napping strike – only sleeps 30 minutes at a time – I have limited time to post. However, here are some of the topics that will be covered in the next week or so…

– Travel to Raleigh
– Nancy’s wedding
– Fun Times at Lake Gaston

Stay tuned…

I sat here and was moved to tears watching this video. What a powerful God we serve!! Do you KNOW Him? If you don’t, I would love to tell you how you can!!!!

Oh yeah… don’t forget to pause the music at the bottom 🙂

Well, I finally captured Harper laughing!!! (Remember to pause the music at the bottom of this page so that you can hear her)