Monday, June 24, 2013

Too Much Going On

I've been meaning to post a number of things for the past couple of weeks but it has been quite busy in the House of Lyons.

To summarize: we bought a house, moved, David was out of town for a week and we had friends over for the weekend who arrived while David was still out of town. This all happened in two weeks.

So, to the most exciting news.....


We bought a house! Well, townhome, if you want to be specific.

It's definitely happened a lot quicker than we expected (I, especially, was not expecting it) but, in the end, it was for the best. When we moved here from Florida, we moved into a one bedroom, one bath apartment. Then we found out I was pregnant. Well, we could have made do for at least the first year, but we would have needed a bigger space sooner than later. David was very anxious about space and the like so after discussing it, I agreed that we could start looking for houses, but there was no rush at all in finding one right away.

The only reason I was reluctant was because I didn't want to deal with the whole process of buying, moving and maybe even renovating a house while I was pregnant. Especially in my third trimester. There were plenty of sites that said you shouldn't buy a house while you're pregnant because it could cause a lot of unnecessary stress which then can lead to early labor. No thanks. So I told David we can start searching but if we didn't find anything by mid-July, we would stop looking. It was a good compromise since he promised he would take care of the bulk of the house issue. All I had to do was pick the one I liked.

So, it does seem like it's out of the blue but we have been looking at  townhomes for months. And we finally decided to go with the home we moved into. It had all the criteria we were looking for. The price was right, the location was good, the size was perfect, and it was ready to move in to. Sure there are several things that could be changed, and they will, but they are all things that are not urgent or dire that needed to be taken care of before we moved in.


It's all ours!

The day we closed on the house was also the day we started moving. And man was it a pain. Only because we didn't want to do any major packing until we knew for certain the house was ours. And the only way to know for certain was to close. So I focused on packing while David and Joe (thank God for Joe) started transporting things to the house (It was not far from the apartment). Then the next day he did all the heavy stuff and the rest of the boxes with the help from his boss and coworker.. oh, and boss' 4-year-old daughter (thank God for them).

Why didn't we wait a little or take our time? Three things. One, David didn't want to pay more rent since we had to break our lease anyway. Two, he was going to be out of town for the week. Three, we were having guests over the next weekend.

We pulled through and made it and while David was at his conference, I started to slowly unpacking the house. It got to a point, though, where I couldn't do much since I am unable to lift heavy boxes in my present condition, but I did what I could.

Last Thursday, our friends came into town for the weekend. Then David came home Friday. It was a fun time. Celebrating a birthday is always a great time to get together. And, as always, there was cosplaying.



Can you guess who they dressed up as?

I did not dress up but I was partying for a little bit. Until I got tired and went to bed around 11:00. You can even see that I'm tired.

So tired. But I stayed up long enough to play one game.

I'm impressed I even made it that late.
So, that's what happened the last couple of weeks. We are now finally having a normal week in our new home and it's exciting. Except for the unpacking part. But I'm not too stressed about that since I have time. And now, I can earnestly start baby shopping since we have the room for it!

Oh, and Baby Lyons was in top form this weekend and she was showing off to our friends. She was wiggling, punching, and kicking and they got to see and feel it. Seriously, that is the best part of being pregnant.

Lastly, to end the post, I am officially in my third trimester! I'm almost there! So the next post will be a lovely huge update on how it's been so far.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Summer Mountain Games

Happy birthday to me! And it's been a great birthday.

Today we headed to Vail for the Summer Mountain Games. We were supposed to go there in February for the Winter Mountain Games but weather and illness kept us from going. So I was very excited that we were going to the Summer Mountain Games for my birthday.

Just as a warning, this is going to be a pretty photo heavy post.

Because of gorgeous backdrops like this. And the guy's is pretty hot too.

The weather was absolutely perfect and there was a lot to see.

Hello, porcupine!


Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Meal Planning (A Link Up)

This is my first link up! A friend of mine Nichole and a friend of hers wanted to do a link up for those who meal plan for the week. And I thought it would be a great link up to participate it!