Four months

Not to long ago William went in for his four month check up, including another round of shots. He weighed in at 12 pounds, 3 ounces and it doing fantastic! He took his shots like a champ, which probably made Nick think I was over reacting about the last ones.

He is getting stronger by the day, and although he still doesn't enjoy tummy time very much, he can hold himself up for about a minute, so we are making progress.

He is starting to form his own opinions and thoughts about things, after whining about being on the floor, I finally put him in the swing, where he proceeded to stare at his toys on the floor. There is certainly never a dull moment with him around!

New car

A couple of weeks ago while Nick was on his way into training one morning he was rear ended by someone in a truck who, according to Military standards, was drunk.

The bumper was crumpled and the frame for the hood was completely bent, making it extremely difficult to open, and then impossible to close.

Luckily, no one was hurt, but that meant that we had to go car shopping.

So, we started looking, and after a day of driving around and just seeing what everyone had, we went home and did some research on what we thought would be the best and bought this cute little car the next day. It is a 2011 Nissan Versa, and we are loving it! It has tons of space, more than the crossover they gave us to use while we found a car and gets awesome gas mileage.

I would certainly have to say that this was the best car experience we have ever had, and hopefully this will last us plenty of years, so we wont have to do it again.

Finally settled

As you can imagine we have been crazy busy getting everything unpacked, put away and just getting settled in our new home.

We are really enjoying it here, and loving all of the space we have.

When you walk in the front door there is the living room and dining area with a good size kitchen behind the wall.

On one end of the house is a large family room.

The other end has the bedrooms, we even have an extra room so I can finally have a craft room to keep all of my mess in.

Then we have William's room, which is my favorite.

I spent many months collections  things and planning out how I wanted to decorate. I even found someone who would make me Raggedy Ann and Andy wall decals.

We have a huge back yard with four giant trees. Nick hung up a clothes line for me and I love doing the laundry outside watching the two bunnies that hang around our house and eat all of our dandelions.

The weather is fantastic here, it's been pretty warm, but not uncomfortably so far and not very humid. We love how green it is and all of the rolling hills, it seems to be a great mixture of Utah and Massachusetts. The only complaint is the bugs. There are bugs everywhere, but it doesn't get cold enough in the winter to kill them so they get pretty big. 

Easter

I know I'm a few days late, but here are William's Easter pictures.

We had a quiet day at home, it was strange to not be with any family, but this is just the first holiday of many. It will give us a great chance to make our own memories and traditions though.



Learning to Laugh

While changing William today I was making faces and noises trying to keep him happy, I kissed his tummy and he broke out in a huge smile so I gave him a raspberry and he broke into the biggest laugh, this went on for two or three minutes, just laughing up a storm.

Moving Road Trip

Thursday afternoon we got on our way to Kentucky. We had great weather almost the whole way there and William was great. We stopped in New York  City on our way through, and spent two hours driving around lost for two hours. We tried to find Central Park, but it wasn't showing up on the GPS. We went over the Brooklyn Bridge and saw the Hudson River, which was beautiful.

It was great to see another portion of the country, meeting the people and laughing at all of the funny names they used for cities and countys.

We got to Fort Knox late Friday afternoon. We found our house, only to find that the water and electricity wont be on until Monday. So, we went and found a hotel to stay in for the weekend.

We can't wait to get into the house and make it our own. After driving around post and looking at the housing we are eligable for, we have decided to stay in this house till he gets re-stationed. It's going to take some work, the last renters had very interesting taste that we'll have to cover up but with a little time and work it will be perfect for us.

Saying goodbye

With all of our things packed up on the truck making their way to Kentucky we stayed our last night at Kim's house to get a little more family time in before we left.

 Everyone helped feed him and held him one more time before they had to leave for school.

 We are really going to miss them, we have had so much fun doing things together and just spending time with each other.

It was so great having family in Massachusetts, and it will be a hard adjustment not having any here in Kentucky. We can't wait until we get together again in July.