The BIG but not so very big move!!

Well it's official! We will be closing on our house next week and moving out of our home this weekend! It has been a great 3+ years in this cute home but we are excited for the next adventure. We plan to build our next home with my brother-in-law and so for the next period of time we will be down graded from a 4 bedroom 2.5 bath home to a basement with two bedrooms and one bathroom and nothing else at my moms. This will definitely be a journey and hard change, but totally worth it!
We had no intentions of selling our home at first. We love it and there is plenty of room to grow, but a few other things triggered us to try selling. The main thing is that now is the time to buy! The market is so low right now and rates have never been this great. We could stay in our home and wait for it to gain even more equity or we could sell and start earning equity in a home with a yard and it's own driveway! Also, by the time we earned more equity, the next home we get would be even more $$. So yes! We made up our mind. The crazy thing is that we sold it on KSL and had 2 offers within 4 days!! Talk about timing! We feel The Lord has helped us and has been guiding our paths. Here's to a new adventure! Hope I survive moving back home for the time being.
The BIG move will be when we move into our second home! So until then.. This is the big move but not so very big move :)

Valentines day!

This year was a special day of love in the Ballard home on Valentines day. I am one lucky lady!
To start it off Greg ran to the store at nearly midnight for a few things and I laid in bed wishing I'd already been sleeping (since Hayden would be up to eat in an hour or two) but instead Greg called me on his way to the store and asked me to please turn the dishwasher on. I tried getting out of it, but he was asking me so nicely saying "it will only take a second". So I reluctantly got out of bed and went downstairs to turn it on. As I trudged around the kitchen getting ready to go back to bed I had a sweet surprise awaiting me. He picked out my favorite candies and had a huge ballon,teddy bear,roses, and a very sweet and thoughtful card from him and Hayden. It made my night. :) I got to start valentines day off right!
For Greg I made homemade pizza in the shape of a heart and sugar cookies shaped as hearts with sprinkles (can't forget the sprinkles) and had many different food items labeled with reason why I love him. For example: big hunk because he's a hunk, donut holes saying "donut you know I love you a hole bunch, Funyuns because he's fun to be with, starburst because just one look and stars burst .. Etc. corny but he liked it.
Most importantly we were able to express to each other, how much we love each other and also were able to have our son present who is a great outcome of our love. Valentines day was special this year. This year we shared our love to each other and had a special boy who has only made our love grow stronger.

First Night Away

Greg and I have been married for almost 4 years and until just recently, have never had a day where we haven't seen each other nor spent a night apart from each other. Well... we can finally cross that off our list.
Greg went to Phoenix for a leadership conference with eBay for 4 days and left Hayden and I home by ourselves. I know I'm an absolute baby but I don't do "alone" well at all. To top that off we stayed up until 2am the night before and woke up at 6 to get him to the airport in time. I thought I'd be able to come home and take a nap, but Hayden had no intentions of going back to sleep. So.. We stayed up. Then went to a baby blessing. He was good long enough to get through the blessing then cried the rest of the letting so we spent the rest of church bouncing his full 15lbs up and down while getting weird looks as he cried (imagine that..a baby that cries lol) after those events we went to my moms to kill sometime watching the Super Bowl but he just wouldn't have it. Super fussy! So we went home, he got his routine bath and was fed.. Still no sleeping. This first night away was hard. I broke down, probably due to lack of sleep, and decided to just lay in bed with him and cuddle him until he was finally out. Finally he gave in and fell asleep! Yay!
The next day was light years better. He was an angel! So happy! Not gassy! He woke up laughing and smiling and talking to himself. (Heavenly Father knows how much I can take) then the rest of the days flew by as I filled them with things that kill time!
We finally picked Greg up at the airport and had a very sweet family reunion together. Hayden missed his daddy. He gave him big smiles and played with daddy for a while and then went to sleep like an angel.
My heart goes out to those women who are military wives. I personally don't have it in me for that. I can tell you that distance has made me appreciate the smells things that my hubby does on a daily basis. I also realize that having a child is a two person job and even of I'm only relieved for a few min each day by Greg holding the baby; it keeps me sane.i love my little boy and I love my hubby. This was our newest adventure. We are stronger from this small experience. There will be many more nights spent apart, but we made it through the first. :)