Happy Anniversary- 5 years!!!

Eric and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on Friday. WOO HOO! We had a great day. We just hung out during the day with our kids, and then Eric's parents came over to watch Cole and Raleigh while we went to dinner. Eric made reservations for us at the Melting Pot; one of our favorites! If you've never been there before, you really must go. It's a very intimate setting, and what is more romantic than fondue?! We were taken back to our table, and there was a beautiful pink rose waiting on me! Eric paid the restaurant to have them set that up for me. The part that made it so funny, though, was that they didn't tell him how much they charged to do that! When we got our bill, they charged him $14.95 for a single rose! I was dying laughing. What a sweet gesture, but he didn't think to ask about the cost. Of course, he tried to make it smooth by saying I was worth it and he'd have done it no matter what, but I knew he was like, "You've got to be kidding me!" I mean, that's ridiculous to charge that, but obviously, people do it! The food was wonderful, and it was so nice to be able to spend some adult time with my sweet husband. I love him. :) Especially when he gets me a really great anniversary gift like he did this year. He is so cute; he cannot stand to hold on to a gift he has gotten me. You should be around our house at Christmas time; he is constantly trying to get me to open up my gifts way before Christmas morning because he gets so excited! So the entire day, he kept saying, "Do you want your gift, do you want it?" I was like, "Didn't you say you wanted to give it to me at dinner?" It was funny. So as you can imagine, we didn't even get seated good until he slips me a tiny little box across the table and says, "I can't take it anymore, open it!" It was a beautiful diamond anniversary band! I was so excited, and impressed because he picked it out all on his own! I'm a lucky girl! Check out my ring and my hot husband below!




So, just as we were finishing up our dinner and thinking the night couldn't get much better, it did! My phone rang; it was my mom. Our house was shown right before we left for dinner, and we drove by our house a couple of times; the people were in there for awhile, so we thought, "Good they must like it!" So, we left it at that. But my mom called, and I thought to myself, "Please let this be something about the house!" We have been stressing out so much trying to get it sold. So my mom tried to play it cool for awhile and I finally was like, "OK, have you heard anything about the showing?" And she said, "Oh yeah, they made an offer!" I started screaming in the middle of the restaurant. Eric and I were so excited! We picked up our things and ran out to our car. To make a long story short, we accepted their offer. The only thing was they want to close on Sept. 30th!!!! Yeah, we have 1 month to find a house, pack and move. With two kids. And Eric's outage starts next week, meaning he is working like 26 days in a row. Awesome timing; but hey, the house is sold!
We have been looking at houses for days now, stressing again because we couldn't find anything that we thought was us. It was looking like we were going to have to build, which meant we'd be renting an apartment for 6 months. Once again, with 2 kids. Yeah, feel our pain?! So last night before we went to bed, we did the only thing we knew to do; we prayed. We asked God for direction and wisdom as to where he wanted our family to go. I went to bed aching with stress, and we woke up this morning with peace. We knew everything was going to be ok, and we had total faith He would lead us there today. And you know what? HE did! We decided on a new house that is complete, and we made an offer this afternoon. Hopefully, we can make this work and we'll be in our new house at the end of the month. We are so excited and feel completely blessed to have options like these for our family, especially during this time. Thank you, God.
And last, but no way least, I had a big day on Sunday. In front of all our family and church, I was baptized. It really was one of the greatest moments of my life. Especially because my son got to see the whole thing. He's so young, so he doesn't really understand, but I still was so excited. I was baptized when I was a child, but had no idea what I was doing or even what it meant to be baptized, so I felt like I needed to do this for myself. To show the world and my Savior that I love Jesus. I tried to explain as best as I could to Cole what I was doing. I especially didn't want him to get upset when he saw our Pastor dunk me under the water, so I wanted him to be prepared! I thought for sure he would yell, "Hey, Mommy!" when he saw me in the baptismal pool, but he didn't. Eric did say he recognized me and said, "Look, Daddy, it's Mommy; she's getting bafftized!" Bafftized; how darn cute is that?! And before we even left our house that morning, Cole looked at me and said, "Mommy, I'm so proud of you!" It doesn't get any better than that.
So needless to say, it's been a crazy few days, but we are getting through. I know the stress is only going to heighten, but it'll be over soon and it will all be worth it when we get our new, beautiful house. We are so excited!!