Life is Good because God is!

Just a quick update (since it's been forever!).....We finally did get a house. Yay! We are super excited to actually own a place of our own. It's so nice not to feel like our money each month is going nowhere....although now our money just goes into our house...and lots of it! We bought a fixer-upper because we enjoy doing projects. But I think I've about had enough painting for the next 10 years! It was somewhat crazy trying to get the house ready to move in while trying to take care of two little boys, but we had a lot of help from Andrew's family and my sister, Lisa.

Andrew is amazing......We didn't have a whole lot of money to put flooring in, but the house needed it pretty badly. So, Andrew came up with a whole new flooring that looks awesome! He used 4x8 sheets of plywood with an oak veneer and then cut them into 4x4 squares, stained them, varnished them, nailed them in and grouted them.....yes, I said grout. I know it's a bit unorthodox to grout wood tiles, but it looks awesome! It's a really large area that he did it in, so it looks so cool to have the huge wood tiles. We're still not sure how long it will hold up, but so far it's doing great. :) Right now, it's a lot cheaper than any other flooring we could have done.
We finally moved in to the house about two weeks ago. It's been a lot of work. We can't wait to have all the boxes unpacked and the projects done. But from what I'm told, the projects never end.

Our boys are still growing like crazy. While Ashton is doing a lot of intellectual growing, Caedmon is still doing more than his share of physical growing! Our doctor said that most babies at 1 year old are 20 lbs. Caedmon was 22 lbs. at 6 months old. Yea, a bit big...but he is sooo cute! Ashton has started talking quite a bit. He can put sentences together, but I think Andrew and I are the only ones who can understand him. :) Andrew is teaching him all kinds of intellectual sayings like, "stinky booty" and "sweet mother!" (from Curious George). I'm so glad our children will grow up with such a cultured vocabulary. :) Ashton will be 2 yrs old in May and Caedmon is 8 months old. We enjoy our boys so much! For those of you who didn't know, we had gotten pregnant again about 2 months ago, but the Lord saw fit to take our little one. We didn't know the gender, but we named her Abagail Hope. Thank you to everyone that prayed for us through this time. Many people were such an encouragement.

Thankfully, Andrew's business has picked back up, and things are as busy as ever. The busyness is good though, because that means food on the table!

I stayed home from Easter celebration with the family today because I have been pretty sick. But it was good, because it reminded me to stop and truly revel in the grace of God that this day represents. May you, also, not forget to offer up every second and every ounce of energy as praise to our Savior for what He did for us undeserving sinners!