Life has stopped spinning momentarily

I would rather be busy then bored. That's what I've been telling myself these past few months.
It seems like our last year has flown by in a whirlwind hurricane and I've been waiting for it to sloooow down!!
Let me explain why: Last December 2010 we graduate college in Idaho. We pack up, move our stuff to UT where we store it in families home. Then we drive to CA where we live with family for 2 months while we are settling things with the job in UT. After apartment and job are settled in UT, we move there in January 2011, unpack and settle down with a new job and waiting for a new baby.
July 2011-baby born! That brought on a whole new world of learning and life spinning.
When Parker was 10 days old Brett went to New York for 10 days. That was hard.
August 2011- Brett interviews for Eli Lilly, pharmaceutical sales in the Bay Area. We fly out with our 7 week old for the interview.
Sept 2011- He is offered the job, we decide to take it.
October - Brett leaves fro Indiana for 3 weeks!!! He leaves telling me to do whatever I want with the apartment, paint, colors, he doesn't care. I'm in heaven. He returns to a new apartment and we are finally unpacked, moved in and loving it.
He's home for 3 days and now we are leaving for a week for a Thanksgiving vacation.
Do you see why my life has been spinning???
moving + baby + crazy post-partum hormones = a crazy year!

It has been the craziest of times, but it's also been some of the happiest.

And with this being Thanksgiving week- I am so thankful.
Thankful:

• Brett has a job
• Parker is my baby
• we are close to family
• we don't live in snow
• for donuts (I wanted to put this at the top of the list)
  

Here is a glimpse of our new place!

My mom helped me pick out the paint colors- we painted the one wall and the 2 archways-
I didn't put a picture in of the other archway- It's directly across from the one in the picture (that is our bedroom, but that's as far as you can see in right now because it may or may not be very messy at the moment:)

I love my new rug from Ikea. It was super cheap, which makes it even better. And that wicker ottoman opens up and we have blankets inside.

My sis in law gave us this tv stand. A little spray paint made in the perfect piece of furniture for our new place. (yes- we got a ginormous, over-sized, 'who would ever need anything that big, we must be blind' tv- more on that later)

I love my curtains- also from Ikea

see my awesome owl up there?? He's random, but so cool!

we put rope lights above our kitchen area, so at night it adds the perfect amount of lighting. It's so fun.