As stated in the last post, it has been a crazy summer. It's hard for me to believe that the 4th of July is already here. It seems like several large life events happened in June, and not just over the whole month, but within a 1 week time frame!
Kyle and I had found out that I was pregnant in middle April, but wanted to wait until I went to the MD before disclosing a lot of details about the pregnancy. You see, last fall we were surprised to find out that we were pregnant, only to lose the baby at approximately 6 weeks gestation. Unplanned or not it was difficult to go through a miscarriage. This time around, I waited awhile before calling my MD to set up an appointment, and was unable to get in for my initial nurse visit until June 11th. During my pregnancy with Micah, I saw a RN for the initial visit, but this time around I was placed with a CNP. After finishing a bunch of paperwork at our June 11th appointment, she offered to perform a doppler and I was able to hear a beautiful, strong 175 bpm heartbeat during my first visit. On June 14th, we got the first glimpses of our new baby during an ultrasound. I found our that I was well over 11 weeks pregnant and our babe's guess date is January 1st.
During the same week, we made an offer on a house. The house came on the market the weekend prior, and it truly is the floor plan, yard, and neighborhood that we've been looking for throughout this entire house search process. Even better, it was well below our price range. The only downfall - it's on the top of Garvin Heights which involves going up/down a big hill on a daily basis. The house was also built in 1998, so is need of some cosmetic updates. We first looked at the house on June 13th, and by June 15th we made an offer. Our offer was accepted, but we unfortunately were not able to have a contingency on the sale of the home. The current owners are anxious to move up the the cities. The house itself was too good of a deal to pass up, so we kept our current offer, knowing that we may be responsible for 2 mortgages for a hopefully only a short period of time. We close at the end of August.
328 went on the market on June 18th. It's only been 2 weeks, and we've already had about 7 showings. We are trying to be optimistic that it will sell quickly, but it will take the right buyer too. It's an old house, so it doesn't have huge closets, our main bathroom is on the main floor, and our laundry is in the basement. But, it has a lot of charm, it's in a great location, and we hope that someone will love it as much as we've loved it. Brutus has unfortunately been re-homed to my parent's house until our house sells. We miss him so much, but know that he is being well cared for and loved in our absence! Keeping the house clean and "show ready" has been easier than I anticipated.
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