News!

So it has been FOREVER since I have posted on here. Life has been hectic! We have a lot going on and lots of news to share - so hopefully this post doesn't get too long!

Well, the first piece of news is that I am pregnant! We are expecting our third child on March 6th. We have known for awhile and were not going to tell anyone til I was 12 weeks - but I'm too much of a ditz and I kept accidently mentioning things about it. So I am about 18 weeks along and we are having an ultrasound on Friday and will hopefully find out what we are having. Kaden is thrilled to be having a baby! He keeps asking questions all about it - one of his first questions was if the baby could sleep in his room so he could take care of her (he insists it is a girl). And just today he asked "Mom, how did the baby get into your belly?" As I was stumbling, trying to think of an appropriate 3-year old answer he asks "Did you eat it? Is that how it got in your belly?" And then he was onto another subject - so luckily I avoided that conversation. We are all very excited to add a baby to our family. I am more excited now that I am feeling better and am over the first trimester of feeling tired and sick.

So our next piece of news is that we bought a new house! Here's a view of the model:

Ours will look almost exactly like this, since it is the same elevation and color scheme. We just went to the design center a few days ago and here are some of our options:

We are very excited about the new house. It will be nice to have more room - but that's not really the main reason for buying it. We could fit in this house for awhile still, but the time just seemed to be right. Matt and I actually looked at this house probably 2 years ago and fell in love with it - but it was no where near our price range. We weren't really even shopping for a new house - Matt was just looking up floor plans online (something we do fairly often) and happened to see this one again. The price was about $130 thousand less than it was two years ago (in the middle of the "boom"). So long story short . . . we went and looked at it again . . . still loved the house . . . thought about it for a few days . . . and signed on the house! It should be done somewhere between March - May of next year. Which is good because it gives us time to sell our house - but also bad because that is right when the baby is due!

So that is the next issue - trying to sell our house. We have had it on the market for about 6 weeks now, and have had a few people come look (one that seemed fairly interested) but the market right now is awful! It's a great time to buy a house, but a lousy time to sell. It is a lot of work and stress trying to keep a house clean all the time, just in case. I'm just hoping that we are able to sell this house - because if not - we are really screwed! But we are trying to be optimistic and Matt insists that we will sell it - it's just a matter of how much we will make on it. We're keeping our fingers crossed!

Here is our floorplan:

http://www.sheahomes.com/cfm/miscellaneous/floorplan.cfm?planid=1546

Ours has the extended laundry room and the 4th bed / 3rd bath upstairs.

Here's a virtual tour:

http://www.sheahomes.com/cfm/miscellaneous/virtualtour_set.cfm?planid=1546

Hopefully I did the links right and they work!

Well, that's what we have been up to. Hopefully I will be a little better at updating this (although I'm not sure anyone reads it anyway). I enjoy reading all of my friends blogs and they are so good about updating theirs - I figured I was long overdue! Here's some more random pictures of the model: