This past year...

My mom reminds me every now and then of all the things that have occurred this past year and what I (we)  have been through.  Now that things have started to settle down a bit, I have actually realized that she is right! It all started on December 5, 2010 when Sean proposed to me in Key West.  I will never forget how Sean just couldn’t find the right spot to propose to me that night out of all the places we walked around to and ended up proposing later that night in our room at the bed and breakfast place we were staying at.  He completely surprised me because I really thought that he was never going to pop that Question.  He couldn’t have given a better proposal and from that day on was when our lives officially changed.  We decided to wait at least a year before getting married to figure out the plans and I was just so excited to be engaged that I could wait for a wedding and was in no rush for one (or planning it). 

I keep this champagne cork on our kitchen window sill from the night Sean proposed. 

Proposal night in KW.

I found out that next December 29^th to be exact, that I was pregnant! About 3 months before I had a miscarriage and was thrilled that I got pregnant soon after.  What a way to bring in the new year huh?  We had already set our date for the wedding to be April 8, 2012 so I knew that I was going to be a busy girl.  I was very fortunate to have an easy pregnancy so the planning with my mom (via Charlotte) was pretty easy.  We decided to get married in Key West, since this is the spot where technically Sean and I orginally met way back on our cruise in 2007 and where he proposed.  So we knew that this destination wedding would be a hit.  Plus we would have a lot of our family coming in from out of town and what better way for them to be on vacation and see us get married.  That Monday of our wedding week (we were married on a Friday), was our ultrasound visit to find out if we were having a boy or girl. My mom was already down from Charlotte helping with the last of the wedding planning and had brought down a bunch of goodies if we were having either a girl or boy.  She's so prepared!  I remember that I was opening a lot more things that if we were having a boy and she even got us a stroller and carrier that was more boyish colors than for a girl.  My mom kept telling me that we were having a boy and sure enough, we were! I’ll never forget that when the ultrasound tech was doing the measurements on Hunter’s little foot that right then was when I knew we were having a boy, his foot looked exactly like Sean’s! Narrow and long toes.  I had already told the lady that it was a boy and right after she confirmed it.  Sean was so excited that he was going to have a litle boy and I was so excited to have another a little guy that would look just like him!  Before I knew I was pregnant, I had already bought a dress so when I was 18 weeks pregnant at the time of our wedding, I needed to get another one.  I had already tried to get my dress altered and they told me that there was no way they could do it,  because I was "showing" already and obviously, I didn't want to be uncomfortable.   I got a new dress and I was more happier with this one than the orignal one. I did have to spend more money on it but it was worth it!  Our wedding couldn't have turned out any better and we had such a fabulous day with all of our friends and family.  I remember feeling soooo exhausted that night woke up starving that morning not realizing that I hardly ate the dinner at our wedding.  Too bad I didn't save any food for myself! We had such a great time. 

That summer we started to realize that having a baby was going to need some extra room in the house and we looked into some options that we could make regarding the house. We had Hunter on September 8, 2012 and the next month we put our house on the market and decided to do a Short Sale.

We knew that we wanted to get out of our house and into a bigger one but knew that we would not make any money on it because the value went way down and figured if we were going to do anything that now would be the time.  We knew the one major disadvantage of doing a Short S7tg6gtale was the effect it was going to have on Sean's credit afterwards but were fortunate enough that my name was not on the deed so we knew that I would need to buy our next house. They approved our Short Sale twice. The first offer, the buyers walked away and then the day that we put the house back on the market we had an offer the same day.  Our second offer was approved 5 months later and we moved out at the end of August into our new home in Fort Lauderdale.  

Old house.

New house!

Now we are just enjoying our new chapter in a new city and new house.  We've been doing some work on the house and yes, I admit we still have at least 10 or so boxes that have not been unpacked but we have the rest of our lives to get them unpacked! We are in the process of getting a shed and having a yard sale with our community in the next 2 weeks to get rid of all the unnecessary stuff. It's a work in progress.  In the meantime, we'll see what the future holds for us.  Who knows where we will be next year!