Hilltown House: February 2014

Happy New Year!!......What do you mean it's already February????

So between having a baby, raising a 2 year old, working, Thanksgiving/Christmas, buying a new house, and trying to cram 6 months worth of home repairs into 2 months....let's just say I am now finally getting a chance to concentrate on my blog again (note: I WOULD NOT recommend tackling all of the above, unless you're looking to lose weight! Just put together crazy stress, not eating, and carrying around a newborn and you've got Lindsey's full-proof weight loss solution *patent pending).

But now that things are starting to calm down (please???) I'm going to make a new effort to keep up and post a new "Ten things I'm Happy about" list each week as well as pics of fun recipes I've made, tons of pics of my boys, and soon to be tons of pics of my plans for our new house! So let's ring in 2014 just a wee bit late with my first Top Ten list of the year:

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1. My Peanut - Look to my last post for my full Grayson feature, but he deserves another shout out here for making me happy every day

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2. The Olympics - sad that the closing ceremonies are already tomorrow. I have one more day to reach my goal of watching all gold medal winners....only about 5 left to go
3. Picking out Paint Swatches for the new house - going for a Gray base with touches of blue
4. My new lamps - Been lusting over these at Target, then saw them in my HGTV magazine...took that as a sign to just buy them
5. Finally moving ahead in Candy Crush - ended my months long ban and cruising along nicely again
6. Fresh flowers in the house - buy them for the Open Houses, but keep them around for the smiles they put on my face
7. My 1st Pinterest board - finally made my own Pinterest board to document the gone, but so not forgotten, ABC nursery
8. Addie at Dave and Busters - somehow she won 1,000!!! tickets at this game...none of us can figure out how she did it or even the general rules of how to play it....but to see her with this un-ending stream of tickets was priceless
9. Pics of our house - I don't toot my own horn too much, but I am incredibly proud of how my house came out
10. House is up for sale - after weeks of working late into the night, snowstorms, Superbowls, CLEANING, and god only knows what else.....the house is up on the market

A boy named G.O.B

For anybody wondering, yes, we did make those his initials on purpose. We were going to name him Oscar, but I was afraid kids would call him Oscar the Grouch or Oscar Meyer, so we changed that to his middle name and went with naming him after a failed "illusionist" instead. But who could resist this face??

Even though he's been here for 4 months already, I wanted to give a proper spotlight to our cuddle bug Grayson. I can't say enough times how wonderful he is!! He is the sweetest, smiliest little boy I've ever known and I just want to cuddle him all day long. To see his eyes light up with glee when I go in to wake him up in the morning --- It warms my heart every single day. I can't wait until he is old enough to run around with his brother Blake, but for now he just likes to watch him run around by himself like a crazy man.

I feel incredibly lucky to this happy, healthy little boy in my life. Stay just as sweet and smiley forever and ever!!!!!

Moving on Up to Sellersville, PA

So this Black Friday we took shopping to the next level and bought a new house! We've been talking about moving closer to LDale/North Wales for a while, and for lots of reasons that I won't bore you with, decided that the best way to get what we wanted was to build again in Sellersville, PA. We never kept a good record of building our townhouse, so thought it would be fun to blog the ongoing process so we can share it with the boys down the line. Here's the progress so far: