The husband and I moved to NC and into our beautiful new house at the end of August and took our sweet time making our house a home. By that I mean, we waited until the last possible minute to finish putting the downstairs together, and only got it done because we had friends over for Thanksgiving.
A lot has happened since the last time I caught you all up! I survived the beast known as state testing, I finished my 3rd year of teaching (and hopefully my last year of teaching 4th grade- I loved my kids, but give me the little ones), I visited MO, the husband finally winged, and SURPRISE! We are going to have a baby! I won’t go into detail about the first few things that happened (or the fact that we are having a baby, because let’s be real, there will be more on the baby in months to come), instead, I’ll focus on the husband’s winging.
Last week was the husband’s birthday, so the weekend kind of turned in to his birthday weekend (even though he’s not in to that sort of thing). On Friday, we had two of his friends over for a dinner party of sorts, and by that I mean I cooked lasagna (the most delicious lasagna I’ve ever cooked) and a cake (definitely NOT the most delicious cake I’ve ever baked…). It was a pretty relaxed night and I think it was exactly how the husband wanted to celebrate his birthday.
We officially have a 1st Lieutenant in this household! That’s right y’all, the husband promoted to 1st Lieutenant last week and I couldn’t be more proud! I know the guys don’t think it’s that big of a deal, but to me (and every other wife I know), it is! The husband didn’t think it was necessary to have a promotion ceremony, but after insisting that he should, he was able to pull one together (yeah- I talked him into asking and he got put in charge of putting it together- whoops!). I think once it was over though, he was thankful I was so insistent.
Where has time even gone? I had every intention of blogging about my amazing trip to Orlando over Thanksgiving break, and then I turned around and it was the middle of December. Disney World was every bit as amazing as I’d hoped it would be! The best friend and I got to explore all of the parks in Disney and also got to spend a day at Universal (mostly exploring The Wizarding World of Harry Potter). By far my favorite park (not including Universal) was Magic Kingdom. The atmosphere was indescribable and we had a blast checking everything out. I think my favorite part was the firework show in front of the castle- there’s only one word to describe it and that’s “magical”.
Speaking of magic, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter exceeded my expectations tenfold! They seriously thought of every little detail, including Moaning Myrtle in the bathroom! We got to go inside Hogwarts, take a stop in the wand shop, travel on the Hogwarts Express, and explore Diagon Alley. When we first arrived on that part of the theme park, we were so confused because it was set up to be like London. It wasn’t until we saw people “walking into the wall” that it hit us that Diagon Alley was BEHIND the wall. Again, they left no detail out! If you ever get the chance to go, I seriously can’t recommend it enough!!