Christmas 2013 and Our BIG Move!!

I absolutley can not believe Christmas is just two weeks away! Where has time gone!? We have been so crazy busy with work and packing we have barley focused on the holidays. Payton is loving this time of the year.. He keeps talking about Santa and how he's been a good boy haha. He loved helping each person put up their tree, and also loved helping Grandma make christmas cookies!

My sweet boy all happy to do a days shopping with Mommy!

I really wanted to try and get a good photo of the three of us

dressed up after church one day..But once again this is the best ya 

get with a two yr old! haha

Payton is really starting to voice what he likes and show interest in 

certain things. Right now it seems to be Elmo and Henry Hugglemonster..

He LOVES wearing his Elmo jammies his Aunt Peppy got him while sleeping

with his Elmo doll. He was so excited to go to bed.

He was a great helper putting up the trees. Or maybe he was 

just great at taking everything off the tree while you put it back on.

Never the less it was cute and he has fun! My Mom would kill me if she saw this picture

but it's the only one I got of the three of us!

For Thanksgiving Ashleigh (SIL) Mom Sims (MIL) and I 

made Christmas wreaths! We had so much fun and theirs turned out so

much better and modern than mine. lol 

Payton could see when his Grandma out up the tree all the way from the up stairs 

window. He looked out and said "Ew Mommy pretty lights!! Let's go see!!" 

haha.

Well.. As you know Chad got accepted into Pharmacy School in West Virginia.

We had originally planned to move at the end of May 2014 since school wouldn't 

be starting until Aug 2014. When we made our trip there for the interview in Sept

I went ahead and dropped off resumes at all the surrounding Kroger's just

to get my name in the air. Well on November 5th I got a phone call asking if 

we were planning to come up anytime soon cause they were looking for

a full time tech. I politely responded with no we didn't plan to move until May.

He then added it was full time morning shifts with no weekends....

I stuttered and said let me talk to my husband and call ya back lol. 

After talking it over we realized this was something we just couldn't pass up..

If I declined this position and moved in May and no one was needed I 

would be stuck working late nights and weekend. With Payton so small and no family 

around thats the last thing I wanted. 

SOO.. here we are packing and leaving in just 14 short days.. The day after Christmas (weather permitted of course ): we will be heading out. It looks like everything is set to go from here!

We never realized how much junk we have! This is roughly 70 boxes packed with stuff

and that isn't even half our stuff... ugh I have definitely figured out moving is so exhausting. 

This is our town house we are renting. We are so excited and so proud of it,

being our first real home together. It is 3 br/2.5 bth with 1 car garage. Not huge for most, 

but ginormous for us..

This is all the pictures I have for now, but don't worry there will be more to come!