Awesome August!

August was a great month for Lee and me.  We were extremely busy but able to start settling into our life in Albuquerque a little.
The first week of the month, we spent unpacking the new rental home with everything from our house in Tucson.  It feels great to have all of our stuff, finally!  I also had lots of auction meetings and work things to attend to before we jetted off to a 4-day weekend in Notre Dame, Indiana for our good friend, Ben Ellison's wedding.  Here are a few pics from that trip.

The following week, we played catch up at work, had doctor's appointments for Baby Landon, started our childbirth classes (that was an adventure!), auction meetings, had a date night at home, went to Santa Fe for the day for a wedding, and had a soccer fundraiser event.

The third week in August was filled with Lee playing in a golf tournament, Lee's staff party at our house, more childbirth classes, auction meetings, Lee going to Farmington NM, mom coming into town for 10 days, and Tucson for my Tucson Baby Shower.  Here are a few pics from Tucson.

The next week was sooooo busy but so fun with mom in town.  We worked A LOT since it was auction week.  We worked on the baby's nursery and mom even painted the walls.  I'll post pics as soon as it's complete!  Lee also spent the first part of the week in Ruidoso for the basketball trip.  Lee and I had another childbirth class to attend as well as baby doctor appointments.  Friday, Auction Day, was spent at the hotel setting up and then putting on the event....boy, I'm glad that event is over and now I can focus on Landon getting here!  Saturday was spent resting, finishing the baby's nursery, and going to a football function before we took mom back to the airport on Sunday morning.

Finally, the last week was filled with breakfast with ABQ ladies to talk about my Albuquerque Baby Shower ( have I mentioned how blessed I am?!), running lots of errands, catching up from working the precious week, finishing Landon's room, and attending our last childbirth class.

Whew!  What a month for us but it sure was an awesome one!



July....

Where has this summer gone?  It has flown by, and I've just realized that I have not blogged on our life since June....oh my!

July was a fun, crazy, and emotional month for us.  We started off the month by moving into a furnished rental house here in Albuquerque for what we thought would be for the next two months while we continued to try and sell our Tucson home.  As it turns out, this house did not have central air conditioning but rather a "swamp cooler" and we all know that was not going to last with a 7 months pregnant Lacey.....so, we spent the first few days looking for a permanent rental house in the Q that has air conditioning.  We finally find one and all is well with that emotional roller coster!

The rest of the first week of July looked like this for us:  I started really heavily working in Lee's office on his auction that is coming up at the end of August, shopped for rental homes in ABQ, picked up Lee's new co-worker from the airport and showed him around town, visited our country club to layout by the pool and hit golf balls, more Auction meetings, went to our first Isotopes (minor league baseball team in ABQ) game, had my first doctor's appt for Landon and loved my new doc, and lunch with the auction ladies.  That weekend was pretty low key also.

The second week in July got really crazy when Lee told me his new co-worker would be moving in with us in our rental house for the remainder of the month.  Thankfully, I liked Reggie or that situation could have been really uncomfortable!  I had my lovely glucose test for Baby Landon to start off the week (yuck!), lots of auction meetings, auction menu tasting at the hotel (yum!), and more auction meetings.  That Saturday I also flew to Dallas to start off my 8-day stay in Texas.

Speaking of Texas, it was sooooo good to be back home for a little while.  I think that's the longest I've been in Texas without Lee though.  While in Texas, I had a baby shower in Houston and Dallas, worked on Auction stuff, shopped, relaxed, ate lots of tex-mex, wrote tons of thank you notes (great problem to have!), visited with family and friends, and just hung out with my momma, brother, and newphew.  Here are a few pics....

Finally, the last week in July was equally as much fun as my week in Texas.  After I went to doctor's appointments and worked on the Auction a bit, I flew to Las Vegas on Friday morning to spend the weekend with six of my Tucson girlfriends visiting one of our friends who moved there for the summer with her husband.  We had a blast hanging out at our hotel, eating lots of good food, laying out at the pool, eating more food and desserts, getting a foot massage, and shopping.  I even stayed an extra day with Betsy and Captain James to see what their life is like in Boulder City.  James surprised me and took me for a helicopter ride over the Hoover Dam during one of his tours....so fun!

Hope you had a fun and crazy July too!  August was just as great for us as well!