Just Peachy: Time for some yard work...

Yahoooo!!!!!!! Yippeeeeeeee!!!!! Wahoooooooo!!!!!!!!!! HOOORAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, can you tell I'm a wee bit excited?? Well let me tell you why - we bought a house! And we moved in! And we're all unpacked and settled in! HA. So the last one was a complete lie, because we are nowhere close to being unpacked, settled, organized, decorated, or any of that good stuff. But praise the Lord, all the boxes are out of the old place and at least somewhere in the new house - now it's just a matter of finding them all and figuring out where all of our ~~junk~~ treasures should go. So if anybody wants to take a trip to Cumming, GA, please feel free 'cause this girl is pregnant AND she also has 0 decorating sense. Please excuse our mess in the pictures, hopefully one day in the near in future I'll be able to post some of a neatly organized & nicely decorated house. Until then, these will do:

Getting the old place all packed up!

Pullin' out with our first load! Thanks for bring the truck, dad - it was a HUGE help!

All piled in the truck.

Check out that dodge neon. She's lookin' good and lovin' the new house!

Quite possibly my favorite room of the house - my beautiful kitchen!

The formal sitting room/office/catch-all room/who-knows-what-we'll-do-with-it room.

Living room with all of our pictures leaning against the wall - where they may or may not still be.

Our dining room currently has 2 chairs + 2 folding chairs. We like to keep it classy, folks. Only the finest furniture for the Armstrongs.

Guest bedroom - where are you people with sleep when you come visit us!

And that's where you'll put your clothes.

And that's where you'll do your thang.

Baby's room! The walls will eventually be gray, but I love that she has hardwood floors. She is just like her momma - so fancy.

Master (and still unpacked) bedroom. Yea, that's a wood burning fireplace. And yea, it's flippin awesome. I may start a fire even though it's in the 80s just because it's so enticing.

Again, unpacked and disorganized. We'll get there eventually.

Master bathroom that will eventually be redone. I love gold, just not for my bathroom. Unless it's gold jewelry that is in my bathroom. That I'd be ok with.

Bonus room/extra bedroom/current office/sewing and craft room.

Not to mention it has this awesome fan with spaceships and a globe light.

And our other favorite part - the backyard!!! Fenced in so kids can run free, a swingset for them to play on (although they may have to fight Brad - he keeps calling it his fort...)

They even left a garden for us, which currently has a massive amount of basil, tomatoes, giant jalapeños, green & red bell peppers, mint, parsley (I think?), and pretty flowers. I'm super excited about all the yummies we'll get from there.

Brad hard at work with his new lawn mower!

We absolutely LOVE our new house. We love the big fenced-in backyard, the swing set, our beautiful kitchen, our fireplaces - we just love everything about it! And the location is better than we could have ever asked for. The Lord has been so good to us and I'm extremely thankful that He has brought us here! Now all that's left is a sweet little baby girl to put in the nursery that isnt even close to being finished :)

I can't move on to another subject without giving a HUGE shoutout to everybody that helped us with our move. Our good friends Jalyn & Heath (& little Braxtyn, of course), Bri & Jay (with the help of Bowyen, Boston & Braven!), [these 4 folks and their kids also made us an AMAZING dinner so we wouldn't have to worry about cooking while unpacking, which was such a huge blessing. They are good people, folks. Good people.] Ms. Katherine Hupert, Jon & Jess Christerson (LOVE my wine bucket & poo-pouri, by the way) ;), and of course, the biggest helpers of all - my parents! They drove all the way down from North Carolina and spent several days here helping us pack, clean, unpack, clean some more, unpack some more, organize, shop, feed friends, and unpack and clean some more. We literally would not have been able to do this move without their help and we are so grateful to them! Thank you, mom & dad!!

In other fun news, we got a crib!

And a stroller!

We are slowly making progress in getting baby girl the 5 gazillion things she apparently needs before she's born. I am really excited about the crib because it makes her room actually start to look like a nursery :) Now it's time to try my hand at making a crib skirt and possibly curtains - if anyone has experience and would like to teach me so I don't have to try by trial and error, I will not say no :)

Speaking of baby, homegirl LOVES to move. She likes kicking, punching, flipping, elbowing, dancing, swimming, jumping, yoga - honestly I have no idea what she could possibly be doing in there. Our first glimpse of that was at her ultrasound, because she would just not stop moving! She seems to like her own space - if I bend over too far and crowd her or wear shorts that are too tight, she kicks and kicks and that spot until I change into looser clothing. Last time we were at the doctor listening to her heartbeat, she even kicked the doppler to let us know the nurse was pushing a little too hard and she needed to back off. If I had to guess, she's going to have quite the personality, and maybe even follow in mommy and daddy's footsteps and be a little soccer player herself! And let's be clear - I wouldn't have it any other way. Anyone who has had children knows what an amazing and special feeling it is to have your baby dance ~~on your bladder~~ in your tummy. Thankfully she isn't big enough (about 14 inches and about 1 2/3 pounds) to cause me any discomfort or pain yet, so I'm just enjoying this stage while I can. Only a couple more weeks and we'll be in the 3rd trimester - my how time has flown!

Ok, if anyone is still reading - congratulations! I'll leave you with weeks 22-25 of the belly!