A Home For Harlee!

After MUCH time and MUCH praying - I think we have FINALLY found the home for Harlee. We have had so many families fall through the past through months - but I have a really good feeling about this one. If everything works out like it should, Harlee will be leaving us on Wednesday, January 7 and moving to Jacksonville, Florida with a lady whose husband works out of town. Harlee will have a HUGE back yard to play in, a kitty cat sibling and a dog lover owner who will have lots of time to play with her and love on her :)

This is very bittersweet as Harlee will be much farther away than I had hoped, but I really feel as if this is the perfect fit for her! I cry every time I think about living without Harlee Jane, but I know this will be much better for her.

Yay for Answered Prayers!

Jac's animal noises and more family fun!

Jac has really mastered his animal noises! So cute! He does them all the time. He even does them when his mommy puts him in time out... he just sits in the corner and does all the animal noises he can think of!

ME AND JAC PLAYING WITH CARS ON SATURDAY :)

UNCLE CHRIS AND JAC PLAYING WITH PLANES AND CARS :) CHRIS IS GETTING LOTS OF PRACTICE!


The rest of this weekend couldn't have been better! Chris and I were able to catch up on much needed rest and we had a really nice time up at my sister's house every day just hanging out with family!

Saturday afternoon, we went back to our house to see what else had been done on Friday and it is amazing how much is getting done! They finished the roof base and all the crazy beams and nails that were everywhere on Thursday were all gone and you could actually tell that you were in a specific room! Very exciting!

DOUG AND JAC ON OUR WAY TO SEE AUNT HILLARY'S NEW HOME!

OUR FIREPLACE :)

STANDING IN OUR KITCHEN - LOOKING AT OUR 2 STORY FAMILY ROOM.

THE OUTSIDE - BACK OF THE HOUSE.

CHRIS AND I IN OUR FAMILY ROOM!

JAC LOVED TOUCHING ALL THE TOPS OF THE DOORS!

WHERE OUR STAIRCASE WILL BE - THE ROOM AT THE VERY TOP IS PARKER'S ROOM!

THIS IS OUR MASTER BEDROOM.

FRONT OF THE HOUSE.

DOUG AND JAC HAD A FABULOUS TIME PLAYING ON THE "TOT LOT" IN OUR NEW NEIGHBORHOOD :) I'M NOT SURE WHO HAD A BETTER TIME - UNCLE DOUG OR JAC.

Saturday - Chris went shopping with me (he's such a sweet hubby!) to return a few things that I got on Christmas but didn't fit. We met up with my mom and dad and we found some GREAT deals at Ann Taylor Loft Maternity. Momma got me a pair of cute corduroy pants that were originally $70 for $25 and a cute shirt that was originally $30 for $4.95! I was super excited. I have more than 2 pairs of pants to wear now! :) The size I bought will remain unknown - I'm even thinking of marking it out with a big black permanent marker!!

Saturday afternoon and Sunday was spent with family... hanging out. Chris, and his two brothers-in-law (Whit and Ash's husbands) went to the Falcons game and had a blast. The girls stayed at Whit's house and we met with the two nannies that will be co-nannying our two kids! We absolutely loved them and we are pretty sure they are the ones. WE'RE SO relieved to have that checked off our list! Also - on Sunday - I got a SECOND Christmas! I walk upstairs to Kayley's room to find a HUGE Tupperware bin full of maternity clothes! YAY! I am fully stocked up now and won't need to do any more shopping for clothes! Thank goodness - if I had to actually go into a store and try on a size "not to be named on a public blog" again... then I was going to cry! So - thanks to my awesome sisters for having babies before me so I could use all their stuff!

My sweet sister, Whit, went with me to register at Babies R Us yesterday, too. Geez - I had no idea what 75% of the stuff in that stuff was! She just walked down every aisle with me and pointed at her favorite brands and told me which stuff I should register for! I couldn't be more thankful! THANKS WHIT!

JAC AND UNCLE DOUG PLAYING "THROW ME AS HIGH AS YOU CAN!"

ME, CHRIS AND KAYLEY- I LOOK A BIT TIRED HERE HUH? THIS WAS PROBABLY TAKEN AFTER MY BEDTIME OF 7:30 :)

AUNT HILLARY GOT TO HELP MOMMY GIVE KAYLEY A BATH :)

WHITNEY WITH HER DAUGHTER KAYLEY AND NEPHEW JAC.

And the last exciting thing that happened to us was last night and you'll have to check my BABY BLOG for that :)

Maybe not so lazy...

I think Parker has heard me telling everyone that he's a little fatty and super lazy - because Christmas Day Evening, he decided to start doing some step aerobics in my tummy. I've been pretty sure I've been feeling him for for a few weeks now - but there is absolutely no mistake about it now. I feel it the most at night time - normally around 9:00 when I'm laying down on the couch. Well - I've been trying to get Chris to feel him the past few evenings and he just hasn't been able to. Last night, I was really feeling him move all around so I asked Chris to come over to the couch to feel him and Chris got all upset and said that he never can and he feels like a failure for not being able to feel him. Poor kid! :) I finally got him to come over and about 30 seconds after he sat down, I saw the absolute biggest smile come across his face and probably the happiest I've seen him since I broke the news to him back in August that I was pregnant. He wouldn't take his hand off my belly for a long time - until we were sure that Parker went back to sleep. It was very, VERY cute and it was really neat because he would point to the spot where he felt him and it would be exactly where I felt him. It's just really nice to be able to share the feeling. I am still getting used to the whole work out video going on inside my tummy but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Chris and I have been meaning to take another "belly shot" for me to post on here and we keep forgetting. Hopefully we'll get one on here this week. It's definitely getting out there.... it's a definite goodbye to all my cute tailored pants and HELLO to elastic... my new best friend!

Til my next post - wish me happy kicking! XO - Hill and Parker

This is NOT a picture of my belly, but I just googled images of baby kicking and found this and thought it perfectly described how I feel right now. So weird... I think I posted this picture in one of my very first posts on my baby blog.

Christmas Day!

So I am quickly learning that after babies are in your family - Christmas is pretty much all about them! Baby Jac is no longer a little baby so I have to stop calling him that... so - Jac - my big boy nephew was absolutely darling yesterday. He is so much fun right now - into everything - doing everything you tell him to do - and just randomly running around the house and screaming at the top of his lungs. It's very cute!

During one of his random Run Arounds the house while screaming, he stopped and pointed at the mistletoe... we told him that you were supposed to kiss underneath it - well he took it literally and decided to give it a kiss :) This kid will do anything you tell him to!

Christmas Eve started out with lots of fun by my dad dressing up as Santa - he was possibly the skinniest Santa ever! Jac was absolutely terrified and didn't move a muscle. He didn't cry - but you could tell he was absolutely scared out of his mind. Poor kid. Chris and I weren't there since I had to work Christmas Eve - but we got to see the action on video the next day! I'm sure someone in my family has pictures - I'll have to get them later.

After I got home Christmas Eve, we decided to stay up and go to the Methodist Church 11 PM service. So, we played a few games of cards together (something I am ALWAYS wanting to do but Chris never wants to! So - he gave in finally and I beat him 4 out of 5 games of Rumy... I think that was the end of our card playing nights) Anyway, 11 PM rolls around and we sleepily head over to the Methodist Church right by our house in Smyrna for the Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. It was interesting - we had never been to a Methodist church before so it was definitely different than the services we are used to -but all the same - it was a nice way to celebrate Christmas Eve with just me and my hubby - and Parker of course. Afterwards - we went to Waffle House for a Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning meal! It was DELISH!

Christmas morning started out with us being welcomed into my sister's house by a Santa Tanner and a Reindeer Ranger!

After eating a giant breakfast - we began to open gifts. Jac had already opened several of his gifts before we got there - every time he got bored with one gift - he opened another :) He didn't really understand what was going on - but it was still cute to watch him open all his gifts! Here is Jac playing with his tool set that Whit and I got him for Christmas... he loved it! And I actually had a really fun time putting it all together!

I thought I had received all my gifts when an "extra" one was found under the tree - for me! Chris had already gotten me the sweetest gift ever - see the post a few below this one - and so I wasn't expecting anything more. Well - I open up a sweetly wrapped bag to find a super cute Maternity shirt for me to wear to work... except for that that he got me a small and I could barely put it on - it's the thought the counts! But I was flattered to think that he thought I could still wear a size Small... yeah right. Maybe 25 pounds ago I could! BUT - that wasn't it! I kept digging in the bag to find a SPA SYDELL gift certificate for a 90 minute Pre Natal massage. YAY! I was SO excited! This Christmas season has been especially hard on me being more than halfway through my pregnancy and working 6 days a week and really long hours. This is the most perfect gift ever... but Chris - if you think that this will get you out of giving me massages yourself then your wrong :) Love you!

When Jac went down for his morning nap, Chris and I took my sister Ashley and her husband Joey to see our home! See the post below for pictures - it was incredible how far along they came since this past Sunday! We actually had a house!

Christmas Day was resumed after all the babies were napped and fed and we ate a giant Christmas meal then spent the rest of the afternoon watching everyone play Wii. I laid on the couch and was asleep within a few minutes. After my nap, dad and I had to run to my house to let all the dogs out and feed them dinner. When we got back to my sister's house, all the kids left Nana and Hoppy at my sister's house with all the babies and we went to go see Four Christmases - just to wait in line for 15 minutes to get nearly to the front and it was sold out! Of course! So Ashley HAD to have some pop corn so she waited in a 30 minutes line for that while we all waited in the car. We went back to Whit and Doug's and watched Love Actually - it was Whit and Doug's favorite Christmas movie I guess. It was good - but probably not the best movie to watch with your parents on Christmas Day Night... You could say it had some nice language to go along with all the fun body parts that were shown throughout the movie.

Overall - it was a fabulous Christmas. I can't believe it's already over. I guess now that my crazy busy time of work and life is over for the next 11 months, I can start thinking more about things we need to get done before our house is done and before Parker comes!

Here is the Appenfelder Family! Whit, Kayley and Doug.

Chris and I :) I think this picture has enticed Chris to go on a diet. Starting Today. While I have been having a BALL gaining nearly 25 pounds so far in my 5 months of pregnancy - Chris has also gained some weight! Guess we both need to be a little more conscious of what we eat! Oh yeah - and I had my hair darkened the other day - I guess highlighting isn't really in our new budget coming up! SOOOOO we had to go a little closer to my natural color, dark blonde.

Jac and baby Kayley had matching PJs from Santa the night before!

Jac got a hard hat to go along with his Home Depot apron!

The hat was a little big!

Ashley and Jac with his very first book bag!

Uncle Doug and Jac had SUCH a good time riding around the house on Jac's very first trike! His feet don't QUITE reach the pedals.

MORE PIX TO COME! Family is all here until Sunday evening! Yay!

Our Home!

Okay - so we had a great Christmas day hanging out with my family all day.... but before I make a giant long post about that - I had to post some pix of our HOUSE! So exciting! We went yesterday (Christmas Day) and it actually looks like a home! Very exciting!

Christmas Gifts!

So, last night, I am wrapping up the last of our gifts and Chris points out a new gift underneath the tree! And it was for me! Yay! I was so excited... we weren't really planning on getting each other gifts but I was of course happy to get one! (I had actually gotten him a gift as well - kind of a last minute thing I decide he should have.)

I was actually wrapping his gift too and when I finished I told him it was for him... well he picked it up and guessed EXACTLY what it was after one shake. "Oh, it's the Tiger Woods golf game for Wii," he said. I was SO upset that he knew what it was so I made him open it right then. There was no point for it to go under the tree. So, then he let me open mine! Yay!

It was the most special gift he's ever gotten me. Beautiful. I collect a lot of the Willow Tree figurines and I love them - they all have a really special meaning to me. And I was even more surprised cause I hadn't even seen this one before! I absolutely love it and the fact that he thought of it - found the exact one he wanted online then called around to all the Willow Tree stores in the area to find it makes it even more special :)



Thank you so much, Chris. I love you!

Spoiled Rotten

Our little Parkster isn't even born yet and he is spoiled rotten. He's stashed up more stuff than Chris and I combined in the past year! I have had everything he's gotten in a big bag in my room and last night I decided to lay it all out to see everything - well - it took up our entire queen size guest bed.


Christy got me these blue spoons on the day I found out it was a boy! The bib is from my sweet Testani family - it was before we knew if it was a boy or girl but she chose GREAT blue and brown colors! And H stands for a "Happy Hull".

Aunt Phie gave this to Chris in Indiana this past weekend! Very funny!

Grandma Hull (Chris' mom) got Park this little MOOSE when she was in Park City a few weeks ago! She got it the day we found out we were having a boy! Who knew that Park(er) would have a city named after him!

OHHHHH - my diaper bag! My sweet, sweet friend, Jessica gave me this and I love it! It's Kate Spade and VERY beautiful! And since it's black and white - Chris can carry it, too and we don't have to have 2 different diaper bags all the time!