House update!

The extent of the update is that, we made an offer and they accepted! We wrote up our contract Sunday afternoon and made the offer at that time, and by that evening they had come back and said they would like to sell it to us under our terms! Then I started thinking, man we should have asked for more! :) So the house is pretty much ours...except that they live in it. Very minor detail. We are supposed to get their written contract sometime this evening, so far we just have a verbal agreement. We offered them their asking price, have them pay the closing costs and leave the refrigerator, and they are all for it! So we are really excited. Once we get their contract we will meet with our lender and lock in an interest rate and get our loan going. We are probably going to close sometime in March. The closing date also ended up working out really well, because I was worried the sellers would want to close right away, and we would still be stuck in our lease until April 30....but they actually have not even started looking for a house, and love the idea of not closing until mid March! So that was a real blessing also.
Not going to lie...it has stressed me out the past couple of days...the idea that we pretty much just bought a house...are having a baby...and in 4 days I am leaving the country for 2 weeks. That seemed like a lot to take in all at once, but I think I am ok with it now :)
We can't wait to get into the house, and start making it our own...decorating the baby's nursery, specifically. Once we move in, we will only have a couple of months to do that! Can't wait to have everyone come and see it!! I wish that it was already vacant so people could start seeing it now, but we will have to wait a couple months. Another great highlight of this house is that it happens to be four houses down from my good friend Jessica's house. She works with me at Wesley, and we are going to the DR together. It is nice to have a neighbor that we already know!
All thats left is the inspection, and as long as that goes off pretty well we should probably start slowly getting stuff packed!

a house?

So Jeremy and I are really hoping that maybe we have found the house we are going to buy!! We have looked at about 20 houses so far, and only 2 had really stuck out....until today. This one, definitely out weighs all of the others, and pretty much seems perfect, as far as what we want and need. So I wanted to show some of the pictures. I am going to take my camera tomorrow to our second showing, and get some better ones, these are just the ones off the website.
This is a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath. With a new furnace, hot water heater, ac, and roof, all within the past 5 years. Which is something we really wanted. A 2 car attached garage, fenced in backyard, lots of storage. It is right on Maus street (behind Peterson elementary). If you remember where my parents used to live on Valleyview, it is actually in that neighborhood just further south. We love the neighborhood and the school district that it is in.
So I could name off a bunch of other reasons why we think this is the perfect house for us, but I will spare you :). The price is amazing!! If you all just wouldn't mind praying about it with us. We really like it, and hope that everything goes as planned. We are looking at it a second time, tomorrow with mom and dad, and we are going to be ready to fill out a contract at that time and put down earnest money. I love how this is all happening exactly one week before I leave the country for two weeks!! :) Our realtor is really excited about this opportunity for us. We have really loved working with him, so if anyone needs a recommendation we would definitely recommend him. Let us know what you think!

18 weeks and 4 days

Why does everything I want to post about happen at the same time? So be sure to look at the post below! So Jeremy and I had our official ultrasound yesterday. Everything went well! We are having a healthy baby.....oh yeah, we don't know what we are having because of Jeremy!! :) But the point is we are having a very healthy baby!! The sono tech said that we are able to rule out any major defects. She showed us the brain, the spine, the stomach, the abdomen, the heart and lots of other things. They all look normal and perfect! So that is a huge relief and blessing. Really the only problem is that the baby is measuring large, and that really is not a problem. It looks like this kiddo has a Thiessen head. I really am not looking forward to that! The head is measuring in the 98th percentile. The day of our sonogram we were 18 weeks and 3 days, and the head was measuring 20 weeks and 2 days! The abdomen and femur were both also measuring about a week ahead (in the 19th week). So I think overall we just have a very large baby, with an even larger head. The sono tech told us our baby weighs 10 oz (300 grams), when the average weight for an 18 week baby is 6.7 oz (190 grams). So there is the update! We are really excited. It was great to see the little guy or girl again. I am convinced it is a girl, but we will see soon enough! The sono tech said she knew what it was...which really made me want to know even more!! But Jeremy stood strong, and I was not happy with him at first, but I am getting over it :). These are the pictures from our ultrasound, and the one off to the side is a belly picture of me taken today.





There is the big kiddo!













That is the back of the head and on the
upper side is the ear.













The face. Not the best pic











This is a better one of the face. I think
babies faces look kind of creepy on ultrasound.
But it is still cool!











Ok the baby kind of looks like Spok in this
picture. It is once again the back of the head,
and you can see the ears on both sides.













Poor kid is destined to have big feet.













The arm and the hand!

our adorable cousins

I have a few videos to share with everyone! I went to Chloe and Mason's first basketball games on Saturday. They were both so adorable!! So I took some video of both of them playing ball. Then that evening Jeremy and I got to watch Sophie and Lilian. We LOVE doing that...they are the most precious babies. So I took a few videos of Sophie...Lilian is not quite as entertaining yet :)
I love watching the video of Mason playing ball. He just can't hold still! He is always jumping around in place...he definitely got more into playing in the 3rd and 4th quarters. Chloe is a really good ball handler, and you can tell she really enjoys the competition. She did great!
In the first video of Sophie she is riding a little zebra that Michele's mom gave her. I think part way into the video she is asking "this way, or this way?" As in which way we want her to spin it. She was pretty cute...as always. In the second video she was saying "I'm two!" And then right after that she tripped on the thing Lilian was laying in, and sat on her legs. That is why she says "Oh gosh!" And then the third video was just for me. Because Jeremy was reading her, her bedtime story and I thought it was so cute. He is going to be such a great dad!! I had so much fun watching him with those girls that night. He plays so well with them, and even took Lilian when she was fussy and tried to calm her down. Ok...enough of my rambling..I don't know why I feel the need to explain every video in detail that I post :)