Life (and family) changes!

last week, the boys were gone for a few days.

GT hunting and Judson to the grandparents

at first, i wasn't too sure about the arrangement.

not in relation to what they were doing...that part was great!

the part where i wasn't with them.

that part isn't fun.

so, they were gone for a few hours and i sunk deep into single/independent life.

within the 3 days that they were gone,
I:

read a 450 page book

re-organized our hall closet

put away Christmas decor
crocheted a few hats

did endless loads of laundry

cleaned the house (like real cleaned)

went to the movie theatre
did education stuff at work

shopped with my mom

drank an entire cup of coffee in one sitting- thrice!
baked lots of banana bread
and checked my pulse
and apparently, jotted down my hourly events...
(obviously, i'm on a break from school)

4 years ago, these are not things i would've done if i had a few days all to myself.

life changes

and so do our priorities

and our social life

prior to those few days, i had neglected our house.

in a bad kinda way

mostly because we had spent the majority of our time away from home with the Christmas festivities, only going home to sleep. and then i could ignore the complete disaster our house had become.

also, i had little to no energy to deal with it

all of my energy had been distributed among various things- grad school, Judson, Christmas and...

....growing a new baby!

say whaaaa?!?

Judson's thrilled.

new little bundle of love nuggets will be here (predicted) July 7th.

i'm 14 weeks along

3.5 months into this gestational thing

or 2.5 months pregnant

however you want to line the ducks up.

next year, out church directory picture will be redeemed by the addition of another little Taylor.

we arrived on time-that was the only good thing about this picture.

and GT's hair.

another dude or perhaps a little sister?
 less than one month and we'll know what kind of human we got growing.

we are obviously overjoyed with the gift of another life!
Judson has been so so good to us and if future babies are cut of the same cloth-we're likely to have 10.
honest.
we really like this gig!
God has blessed us immeasurably and we intend to raise the children He gives us to pass that on and be good to others, loving Him the whole way!

in the meantime, i'll be hoping for more energy and less heartburn and nausea.

here's to hoping for a life-giving 2nd trimester!