The Sweet Life: July

July was our month to try to get settled in and acclimated to Oklahoma living. G and I arrived in Oklahoma on the 2nd and then we were able to spend the 4th of July weekend together as a family. We had closed on our house but our stuff wasn't being delivered until the 7th so we stayed in a hotel and then spent our days hanging out in a mostly empty house. We bought a few rugs because I knew I wanted to have them in place before the furniture arrived and then we picked up a few camping chairs to sit on. G loved having a big empty house to roam around and we enjoyed being back together as a family after our trip to Utah. We took a trip to Stillwater to look at some furniture because we needed to buy a formal dining table for our new house. We ended up finding not only our formal dining set but also a kitchen table that I fell in love with so we bought both tables.

On the 7th all of our furniture and stuff arrived. I was pretty concerned about what kind of shape everything would be in because I didn't really feel like the packers in California did a great job of padding things but everything made it here with only a few scratches so I was happy. Moving day was pretty rough with G around because they had to keep the doors open and he kept trying to escape but I needed to supervise and they needed me to check off every box that came in but we made it through without him escaping. We spent most of the next week just trying to get all of the boxes unpacked. It is amazing how much harder it is to get a house unpacked with a little guy around but I managed to get a lot done during naptime so by the end of the week all of the boxes were finished. We are still working on a few decor things but I'm very happy with how the house is looking so far!

We spent the rest of the month enjoying our new house and especially our backyard. Our yard here is much bigger than our last one and we are right next to a water feature on a golf course so we are enjoying the water view and G really likes to find golf balls in our yard. We had some pretty hot and humid weather that I didn't really enjoy but we liked the Oklahoma thunderstorms.

We made a few friends which I am very grateful for and we tried a few new churches. I think that we have found a church that will be a good fit for us which I am very grateful for! The hardest adjustment for me has been not having access to nearly as many stores as we did in California, especially Target. You can call it snobby but I just really enjoy shopping at Target and really don't enjoy Walmart but I am adjusting since that is the option I have here :) We will probably make the trip to "the city" at least once or twice a month so that I can enjoy Target and a real mall. Enid actually has a mall but it is lacking a lot of the stores that I like to shop at. There is a good Dillard's but not a whole lot else. I would say that we like it here but there are still a lot of things to adjust to!

After not having any teeth for over a year, G got his first tooth on July 2nd and then popped two more through the gums shortly after. He has three more that I can see that look ready to come through too so we have had a few rough, restless nights but hopefully we can get a lot of it out of the way before Baby Girl gets here. He is perfectly happy during the days but he just wakes up more than he was doing before. G has also started (sort-of) walking. He will toddle from one room to the next or one piece of furniture to another that is across a room but he definitely still prefers to crawl as his main mode to get around. I just want him to be a solid walker before the baby arrives so he still has three more months to get his confidence :) He has definitely started getting in to absolutely everything. He has also started climbing which is very nerve wracking for me. He has crawled from the back of our couch up on to the kitchen counter top on more than one occasion now. His little personality comes out more and more and it is so much fun to see him develop! He is a very happy, laid back kid and he is just a joy to be around.

Snapshots from July: