Nickerson News

I didn’t realize that when I was blogging last week about “Project Baby Hope” that more house “troubles” were looming. As if we didn’t have enough on our plate with our charming 1960’s humble abode.

My sister in law, her hubby and their adorable babe came to visit us for the weekend. Saturday morning started off early as our little wild child has been waking up WAY before the sun rises. (Hoping daylight savings time helps me out a little in that department.) While everyone was still sleeping (minus wild child by my side) I started to make homemade muffins and brewed some yummy DD coffee. As I went to place the muffins in the oven, to my surprise and dismay it was still cold (after I had preheated for about 15 minutes.) Broken oven. So much for the homemade muffins. Onto the coffee….which was another disappointment. If anything, I needed some good strong coffee that morning. Nope. The coffee pot was also having issues and decided it didn’t want to work either that morning. REALLY!!! Thankfully, I figured out the problem the next day, but all to say it didn’t make my morning any better.

From then on, Sat. was full of a discovery of house woes. (Thankfully, in the midst of it, we had a great time with our company and even got a signed wedding contract from a consultation we snuck off to during Abe’s nap time.) By Sunday morning Seth and I were so discouraged as our huge project list just turned MASSIVE. But God is oh so good to us! We get to church and by the time Sunday School was over, a guy at our church was asking how he could help us! He has already been here and fixed and diagnosed 2 of the problems we discovered this weekend. And we are exchanging services for services! Doesn’t get much than that!

I’m just so thankful for our dear friends and family who have been helping us out. My brother in law got on the roof on Sat. (hubby has a fear of heights. I reassure him all the time, it is ok. He has a TON of AMAZING qualities so who cares if he doesn’t like getting on the roof.) to check out another problem. Then our dear friend Jason has spent 2 nights after work at our house helping Seth fix a leak from our bathroom. He has saved us about $800. Jay-we owe you bigtime! (I’m seeing more photo sessions of his girls in my future.) Now our leak is fixed! Thank you JASON!

We will have a hole in our living room ceiling for another month (I’ve only been looking at it for 3 months now so what’s another month) to make sure the leak is fix, but I’m fine with that. Things are getting done and we have barely spent ANY money! How can I complain! Just when I was really getting discouraged, the Lord showed His faithfulness yet again and we are blessed!

:::And stay tune for more of this sweetness:::

Perri & Brian are such a sweet couple and will be amazing parents to their 3 babies!

She looks incredible for carrying triplets! Look how tiny she is.

I had so much fun photographing these too. Can’t wait for their babies to come.

This is Owen, Abel’s first best bud. They been buddies since Abel was 14 months old. They love each other most days, but definitely have their share of “brotherly fights.” On this particular day they were dancing to music and hugging each other all afternoon.

Can you believe this room is actually in a Professional Organizer’s home!

Well, it is true!

Our little home office is being demolished as we transition it into Baby Hope’s new room. We started the process during one of those many snowed in days and clearly we have a long way to go. I’ll calling the whole thing Project Baby Hope. Her room is not just “the project”. You see we have HUGE list of house projects that need to get finished before our little miss enters the Nickerson home. And we have less than 4 months, so some action needs to start asap!

Thankfully, my in-laws are taking our wild little man for ONE WEEK! I can’t believe I am sending my baby to Boston for a WHOLE week. We have never been apart that long. But having a wild, crazy, VERY ACTIVE toddler makes getting the smallest project next to impossible to start yet complete. So on March 22-27 we will be VERY BUSY tackling the massive house project list. Seth is taking the whole week off work and we plan to haul our little booties every hour of those 5 days little man is gone. I will miss him terribly, but I know he will have the time of his life with his Grandma and Papa. It will be good for everyone all around.

So, stay tune as we take on Project Baby Hope! (and for all those who are wondering Hope is not her name!) We are still deciding on a name for our daughter and honestly we wish now we kept her “possible” name a secret. Nothing is set in stone as of yet, but when we do share it, I don’t like how people think that means they can give advice/comments on the name. This name has been tucked away in our “girl names” for 4 years so Seth and I clearly like it. It was WAY better when we kept it a secret like we did with Abel (even though it got old when people would beg us to share the name). So, we have learned that if we make it to Baby #3, don’t even bother asking us about a name, we aren’t sharing it!