the plan

A few weeks ago we received some amazing news that we had been waiting for, Mr. Murphy has gotten into the University of Georgia!

 He will be finishing his bachelors and Masters there as an accounting major.  We hope to be able to get it all done in about 3 years.  I am so proud of him and can't wait to see what this new adventure holds for us. 

We will be moving our little family of four back to the country and into my mothers house. When she got married in February she moved out to Douglasville with her new husband. So now we will have that big beautiful home and land all to ourselves.  I loved raising Evaleigh there for the first 9 months of her life and I can't wait to do the same with Avett.  Our days were spent outside swinging under trees, playing in the barn, and laying out on blankets in the pasture.  

We will make the move at the end of October a few weeks after Avett is born.  It will be a hectic time to pick up our family and move but we know it's the right thing.  I feel sad about leaving the city that I love so much and in my heart I hope we will be back in the future.  We have so many wonderful friends here and we are grateful for the love and support they have shown us.  John has been with the same company for the past 4.5 years and he has learned so much, it has been wonderful for is. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to be with them for as long as we were.

We are so excited to move along to the next chapter in our lives. We are a little nervous about going back to the student life but it's also exciting to do it together! So, that's the plan, and we can't wait to get stared!

(Back in 2011 when we moved in for the first time)

moving and change

We've been busy moving all weekend. God bless the handful of people we had come help us. We've had two nights in our new place and they've been great but FREEZING. In all of the madness of returning from a week long trip to Colorado then packing and moving in a few days we forgot to turn on our utilities. Whoops! Evaleigh, who detests blankets, has had to suck it up and I've been sneaking in after she goes to sleep and covering her up.

We adore our new home and are falling more and more in love with it as the hours pass and things come together. I'm amazed at how quickly I am getting things to look like home.

Since our water is also not on yet we went to my dads house last night and took the biggest bubble bath with Evaleigh that has probably ever existed. I don't know who enjoyed it more, John or EJ.

Today I am continuing the endless task of unpacking boxes and Evaleigh is pulling herself up on every single thing. It's making unpacking a slow but fun process. She is getting so good at standing and sitting. I love watching her get herself around and she is shocking me with how quickly she is learning new things right now.

I kind of love moving. I love change.

big changes!

We are on our way to the Denver airport right now! We have loved our week here in Colorado so much. I've never seen trees so yellow and full of fall. I have a few things to share from our trip later.

We have some pretty big changes taking place when we land back in Atlanta. When we get back we will start packing up our things in my mothers country farm house and we will begin moving to a townhouse in the city. We are so excited for this move and to finally have it be just our little family of 3. We have loved so much living with my mother. I am so grateful for the time she got to spend with Evaleigh and that I was able to watch their relationship grow to be so close.

Leaving is a little bittersweet but we know that it is absolutely the right thing for our family. I am beyond excited to decorate our home and make it ours.

Can't wait for the changes ahead!