Is that a tooth?!!!

I think Mason has a tooth coming in!!! I tried to take some pictures, but it was very hard to get a clear one!





I think it will be here soon! I think Mason will look so cute with a little toofer!

Moving!!!

Well, we're moving! Parker has a job, we found a place and now we have a date! We're moving to Spotswood Commons.



Here is the layout.


I'm excited for something new! :) But I'm not completely sure about the possibility of Parker not staying in the Marine Corps. It's hard to change your way of thinking when you have been planning your life to go a certain path and then you take a detour that might not take you back to the original path.

I don't know, I have mixed feelings.

MY BABY!!

Well its been almost a year, so I figure its about time to update. I had my beautiful baby boy, Mason Parker Mills.



He was born on May 11, via c-section. 9lbs 6oz. He is perfect! Very mild tempered, hardly ever cries. He's just the sweetest baby boy ever! I love him. Here are some pictures.



















First smile caught on camera.











The 4th of July.












Those were just a few of my favorites.

Pregnant

I never mentioned in my last post that I'm pregnant already. I was kind of embarrassed and almost hated to admit it. I've been talking about wanting another baby since McKayla was a baby, so it really isn't a surprise that I got pregnant after being married for just a month. BUT, it honestly was not planned at all! We really wanted to wait until Parker got into OCS. We also wanted to wait until enough time had past that I wouldn't be due around Kirby and Stella's wedding. Well, I'm due 20 days before the wedding........I'm do May 6th.

For a while I was actually a little bummed about the timing of this pregnancy. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt bad for feeling bad. I would never ever want my baby to think I wasn't happy about their arrival! Because that couldn't be farther from the truth. I am very excited to have another baby, I'm excited to hold a little baby again. So I started focusing on that, instead of stressing about the timing.

If all goes as planned, I will be quitting my job at the end of April. Parker won't be going to OCS until June, which really works out perfectly, he'll be here for a month with the baby, before he has to leave.

McKayla is at a great age, she is independent and I know she will be a big help to me. She is extremely excited. She tickles my stomach every night before bed. I just love that little girl so much, and being pregnant brings back so many memories of when she was a baby. I'm constantly hugging and kissing her, more than usual. She's growing up too fast. She's a freakin' 2nd grader!!

So there. I've blogged about my pregnancy....I've been meaning to do that for a while now. I'm 17 weeks and 4 days pregnant. We will be finding out the sex of the baby January 4th. Hopefully I will blog again before then.

LOTS of updates

Wow I haven't posted in here since JUNE!! So much has happened. I'll break it up into categories.

Townhouse
We spent about 2 weeks fixing the townhouse. Painting it, putting down new carpet and linoleum, putting in new light fixtures and toilet seats, pulling down wallpaper, OH YEAH and patching the walls from all the termite holes!! Luckily the termites were gone and all of that was old. But it was a lot of work! It was so much fun moving in though, and finally having a place of our own. It looks so much better now. It looks brand new. I'll post before and after pictures whenever I get the after pictures taken. Its a great neighborhood, McKayla is outside riding bikes with the little girls that live around us every night! I'm gonna be sad to leave it.


Wedding
Well I was still working on things the morning of the wedding!!! I took on way too many projects. But I don't see what I would have done different either because I loved how everything turned out. If I were to do anything different, I would have done MORE because I didn't get to do everything I wanted.


Honeymoon
OMG I LOVED our cruise. That was the best vacation I've ever been on. We had a blast!! Parker and I have decided we will be "cruisers." We want to go on cruises all over the world. I can't say enough good things about it. It was just so much fun!! Here are some pictures from the cruise.

This is what we saw when we first stepped on the ship.


This is out on our balcony as we were sailing out of the port in Ft. Lauderdale.


Our first breakfast with an ocean view. Beautiful!


Parker played in a paddle ball tournament.


Some of our shore excursions.

Helmet diving. (Crazy fun, I'd love to do that again!)


ATV tour of the island of St Maarten! That was really cool too, until they took us to a nude beach



Every night we ate dinner and watched a movie on the top deck. The Princess Cruise ships are the only ships with a movie screen on the decks.


One night they even played Rocky Horror Picture Show!!


Here is our ship, I circled about where our room was. And the next picture shows how much bigger our ship was compared to the other ships. We really made the right choice with the picking the Princess. (Thank you Travel channel!!!)



Then the last picture was from the formal night we had. It was fun getting all dressed up and eating really nice food....for free! That was my favorite thing, eating in a restaurant and not having to pay a bill afterwards.


I have a lot more to say but I think I've made this post long enough!