Our weekend

We had a very busy weekend this past weekend. Levi and I went to Circle S Farms on Friday morning with MOPS friends. Levi got to see some animals, go through a hay bale maze, play in the hay in the "fun barn", go on a hayride and pick out a pumpkin! It was a very fun morning! Here are some cute pictures from the day.

The rest of the weekend was spent at church working on the Help Build Hope House build project that our church participated in this weekend. I got to be the project coordinator for this project and it was really fun to use my project management and construction skills to help people. We framed all the interior and exterior walls for the house on our church parking lot on Saturday. Here is a picture of what the house looks like standing up. After church on Sunday, the entire congregation prayed over the house and then we dismantled it and sent it to it's final resting place in Delaware where it will be a Habitat for Humanity house. The woman who will receive the home was able to come for lunch on Saturday and see everyone who worked on her home. It was such a neat experience. Overall we had over 130 people who helped in some way during the weekend. We framed and stood a three bedroom home in 2.5 hours!!

Here is a cute picture from two weeks ago when Levi and I went to visit my family in Louisville. This is Levi and Aunt Annie jammin' on her new piano.

This picture is from about a month ago when MOPS went to Blendon Woods - this really neat park in Westerville. This is Levi and Hannah - they like to hold hands when they are walking together. It is too cute!

This video is from last weekend - Andy was teaching Levi how to cheer for his favorite sports teams - sorry Mom!

House for Sale!

So we put our house up for sale today!! Andy and I have been working like crazy for the last few weeks to get our house ready to put on the market and we are finally here! We have an open house scheduled for this Sunday. Check out our mls listing http://cbrmls.columbusrealtors.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=1920943713&s=CBR&t=CBR If you click on the picture of the house you can see 17 other pictures of the house - it's pretty cool! I'm not sure if it's live yet on realtor's websites but it should be no later than Friday.

We've also sold our green living room furniture and a dresser we had on craigslist so that's been a fun experience also. I put the ads up on Saturday and everything was gone today! It's been interesting trying to get everything ready but if we weren't crazy busy we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves! So if you know anyone who is looking for a really cute 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house in north Columbus let us know!!

Here's a cute picture of Levi that Rachel, our selling realtor and my friend, took when she was taking pictures for the listing. He kept standing in front of her camera and smiling.

Some pictures

I was uploading some pictures of some things that we are going to try and sell on Craigslist and found some cute pictures on the camera. This first one is a picture of the Levi in the Mexican soccer uniform that Aunt Christy and Uncle Bruce brought back from one of their trips to visit Bruce's family.

This is from one day last month when I was watching my friend's son Matthew. Levi got a kick out of playing ball with him!
This is one evening when Andy was calling to say he was on his way home from work. Levi likes to talk to him on the phone. This last one is from today. Our friend Srini was helping Andy with some quick projects to get our house ready to put on the market and they were taking some furniture out to the garage. Levi really wanted to help carry the loveseat up from the basement but we had to satisfy him by letting him carry the couch cushion around the house. It was really funny to see since the cushion was bigger than he was. He could lift if off the ground and carry it really well though. He's really strong!

This video is from about a month ago at this point but it's another talking one. He's talking even more now :)

Visit to Louisville/Words/Moving

Levi and I went to see my sisters in Louisville this week. Christy and Bruce bought a new house in July and did a TON of work to it so we went to check it out. All three of us will be going down again the end of the month to show Andy the house (he had to work when Levi and I went). There house is over 100 years old and has these awesome 10 and 12 foot ceilings. It's great!

Levi is really starting to talk and wants us to have conversations with him - not just talk to hear himself talk. Some of his most frequently used phrases/words:

Where Daddy go? (the answer he'll give is "to work")

I don't wanna (I don't want to)

Mup (milk)

Arf (his stuffed dog)

He's started counting recently also - "one, two, one, one, one". We can't seem to get "three" out.

He's also very good at praying - we pray before each meal and any time he goes to sleep so at least five times a day. He's been saying "Dear Jesus" to start for a while and when we say "in Jesus name we pray" he yells "amen!" most times. Last week I started getting him to help with the actual prayer so I say "thank you for..." and he fills in the blank. Normally we get a Jesus, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy :) Sometime if I prompt for Grandma then he will say Annie and Bruce. Can't seem to get a Christy or any of the Fouss's without prompting yet but we'll be working on that one!

The other big thing that is going on with us is that Andy and I are planning to sell our house. After much deliberation on whether to rent or sell our current house we've decided to sell so we are madly working on fixing little things with the house and packing up a ton of stuff to make our little house look bigger. There are probably already 20 boxes in the garage and I'm not done yet! I'm sure that once we actually sell it and have to pack up the rest of the stuff I will be just throwing things in boxes without much organization. So far it's been fun though to actually look at all the stuff we have.