Nickerson News

We have never sold a house before and I can tell you from this experience it is really hard. We are trusting our Realtor’s advice and have been in the process of staging our home for the last week. (side note: when staging a home know that it will not be kid friendly and is close to impossible to keep spotless with kids.) We have done so much to this house…things we wanted to do long ago but it just never got done. I must say the house looks fantastic and I would buy it again. ha!

In the midst of this craziness, we found out our images from our photography business were being stolen by another photographer. I honestly was in so much shock. I just never thought someone would actually do this and use our images to try to promote themselves. Thankfully, someone caught her and alerted all the photographers who images she was stealing. We have since then talked to her and she made a public apology to us and her clients and her website (and hopefully her business) is gone. Sadly, she got away with it for over 6 months and made a lot of money showing off our images by deceiving many people.

Life is moving really fast right now and daily my baby boy #2 lets me know he is around. I feel like before I know it, he will be here. The kids were thrilled to know they are getting a baby brother. Abel really wanted a brother and when Sage saw his excitement she was overjoyed to have a baby brother.

Abel is starting to wonder “who is mommy & daddy’s favorite” and keeps saying “but I will always be your firstborn son, right?”. I found this great book called “You are all my favorites”. It’s perfect because there are 3 baby bears, 2 boys & a girl, so it was must read for our little family.

In other boy news, our 1st born will be 5 years old in just a few weeks. He couldn’t be more thrilled about it. (this photos is a few months old, since I don’t have an updated one.)

We found out today that baby #3 is a healthy BOY!

Meet our new guy!

The sono tech was great and we had told her how happy Abel would be to have a brother so she wrote a message for Abel.

8oz of pure muscle! ha!

The proof!

I’m 18 weeks and I realize you can’t see the belly too well in this dress but I wanted to take a picture on the day we found out what we were having.

If you haven’t heard, we are MOVING to Charlottesville, VA!

Seth got offered an great job opportunity at a company called Journey Group. We were not looking to move out of the area, but we have seen God’s hand through all of this and have such a peace about our new city and Seth’s new company.

We have spent the last 2 weekends there as a family and really have fallen in love with the charming town of Charlottesville. We have been house hunting and we are praying God shows us the perfect house. We hope to get our house on the market this weekend so if you are looking for a super cute 1960s brick townhome that has just had major renovations, you know were to find it.

I’ll admit when I first saw those 2 pink lines on that day in early Feb I about freaked out and panicked. No…wait…I did freak out and panic.

My heart was racing and I couldn’t think straight. Sage actually took off with the pregnancy test box and was running all over the house. Thankfully, Abel was at school because I don’t really remember how I got through the rest of day. I waited till the kids were in bed to tell Seth because I knew it would be hard for him to take in.

Fast forward to 16 weeks and I was lying in bed the other night wide awake at 3am and feeling a little swimming and kicking go around in my belly. I’ve been having a hard time sleeping. Guess it is the pregnancy. Lying there awake, I prayed for this little one that God would keep him/her safe and be a healthy baby. (I’m not going to lie, I pray daily that this one is a good sleeper. I’ve learned Abel was not your normal baby…so I pray hard.) I thanked God for blessing us with another one to love. My mind started racing and I went down that path of “what if something happens to the baby” and I lose the baby. Yes, I still have those thoughts but it was 3am. Then it hit me, I realized I am totally in love with this little one. Totally smitten and in love.

It’s amazing how God can change your heart. Something you thought you were so not ready or prepared for and yet weeks later I am so attached to my little baby growing inside me.

I’d thought it was time for another belly shot. Clearly, baby is growing!

Almost 17 weeks.

So, this is a typical day in our house. Around 4-5pm we can get a little crazy. If we aren’t outside we are usually inside dancing to music and being silly. Abel thought it would be a good idea to have a huge snake as a tail so he stuffed it in his undies. Sometimes he doesn’t wear pants. ha!

And now when I get out the camera, Sage gives me a huge smile. I love this girl. She is just plain awesome. We have so much fun together. She is my dancing buddy too and thinks my moves are really funny.