Home Sweet Home

We are finally moved into our new house, and we're trying our best to get settled in. There's not much time to settle, though, with trying to keep up with three children all day! It's been fun not knowing how to find anything around the house--which box did I pack that in? Where are the bowls? Where are the fingernail clippers??? Jeremy and I are loving our new house, and Jeremy is loving his new 15 minute (max) commute even more. As we sort through our boxes and start unpacking things and putting them away here, we have realized that the new house does in fact have significantly more space than our old house, which is super! I've been having a grand old time picking out several "small" items that were missing when we moved in (toilet paper holders, a light fixture, etc.) and making the house really feel like "our new house." Jeremy probably wishes I would stop spending money though!

Sarah, the babies, and I are having lots of fun exploring Acworth, too. We've been to Wal-Mart once and Target several times. SuperTarget, along with lots of other stores and way more yummy restaurants, is literally 3 minutes away, so I am probably going to have to work really, really hard to limit my trips there or else I will go broke and then have a heart attack from eating too much grease. I realized that Target has a buggy big enough for all three children and even some groceries, too, and that has perhaps been one of the most exciting things I've realized lately ;-) We've been to three different playgrounds and Sarah is trying to decide which one is her favorite. Today we found one with a spot in the shade, and we took a picnic blanket and spread out on the grass and had a nice little lunch time, babies and all. Too bad they slept the whole time and didn't really get to enjoy it!

I think we'll like living here and I am hopeful that Sarah especially will make lots of new friends in the neighborhood. We seem to have moved onto the "kid street" and there are LOTS of kids who play outside a lot just outside of our house, so I think she will have a great time. Maybe Jeremy and I will even make some new friends as well! We will surely miss living in Bethlehem and near all of our other friends and family, though! That's definitely going to be the hardest part of this move! We miss you already and come visit us soon!

Double Trouble=Double Blessings

Our twins are 2 weeks old today! Daniel Briggs Gulley and Lauren Elizabeth Gulley were born on August 31, 2010, and we are having SO much fun getting to know their little personalities. At two weeks, it is amazing to see how different they already are from each other. For example, Daniel is quite mellow and enjoys being left alone sometimes, while Lauren wishes NEVER to be alone or out of someone's arms. Lauren loves her paci, while Daniel usually can't stand it. The one thing they do seem to have in common is that they both have their days and nights confused :-) This makes for long, sleepless nights for Jeremy and me, but on the flip side, the daytime is pretty mellow if they happen to be sleeping at the same time (although that hasn't been happening too much this week). We are grateful to our huge family for being so helpful with sending food, holding babies, shuttling Sarah back and forth to daycare, and sharing in the sleepless nights. We couldn't do it without you!

Enjoy the pictures. I'll post more later, but we're about to have a busy busy end-of-the-week. Our house closings are on Thursday followed by moving day on Friday and then finishing up getting the last things out of our "old" house on Saturday. Then the unpacking process will begin at the new house, although I foresee that project taking months and months to complete :-)