So I am completely ashamed of myself. I have'nt blogged a single thing since our camping trip to The Pallisades. Before that, I had blogged that my brother and his wife had their new little addition, that Chris and I were (finally) expecting, and that we were getting our house prepared to go on the market. Well, I guess I have A LOT of updating to do. One step at a time, right? Ok. Here goes.
As you know, Chris and I found out Easter weekend that we were expecting again. We also found out-probably middle of July-that our new little bundle of joy was going to be another boy. Of course all of us are so excited about this. I have wanted a house full of boys ever since I can remember. And even though Clay really wanted a "jay-bug sister", I think he's getting more excited about the idea of a little brother. Now the real reason why I am so ashamed of myself is because with Clay's pregnancy I wrote in my journal, kept a scrapbook, and took pictures what seemed like every week, or every milestone. (milestones according to the "My Pregnancy Week by Week" book. Of course you couldn't see any milestones taking place except for my ever growing belly pertruding out from under almost all of my shirts) Everyone always says "it's the first child that you take all the precautions and take the most pictures and keep the most memorabilia." So I always thought "Nope not me. I'm gonna make sure that I do every thing for my second child that I did for my first". Well I can honestly tell you, that went straight out the window the day the house went on the market. I think I have taken a total of 3 pictures (of my belly) this whole pregnancy. Here I am, due in 4 weeks and I have merely browsed through my Pregnancy book, there is no scrapbook/ baby book even started, no journal entries, hardly any pics-only of my face, no birthing classes scheduled, nothing. I did however go through all of Clay's baby clothes that I saved. I washed and put them away. I also took on the project of refinishing a dresser especially for the nursery. I bought a horrible, old, warped, and paint covered dresser for $20 bucks off ksl.com. It took me about 2 months to strip the paint, sand, repair and replace some parts and when I was finished it looked awesome. I was originally going to stain it, but the wood had some imperfections that I didn't fancy so I decided to go with a wood paint. By the time I finished the dresser we had an offer on the house. Guess it was good for me. It kept my mind off the house, off the pregnancy, and out of trouble. Working with wood is a suppressed hobby of mine, only because it takes alot of time and attention-something I don't have a lot of right now. It did turn out pretty good but in the end it didn't match perfectly (and I'm a perfectionist) so we decided to use the dresser for my crafts and buy a brand new dresser for the baby. We also traded in the infamous "hornet", Chris's bright yellow Mazda, for a Pontiac G6. We needed something with more room for two car seats and a car that we weren't having to replace tires on what felt like every other month. Plus it was getting tough for me to climb up into the truck with my bulging belly, so I needed something to be able to drive to work that we could rely on. Thankfully around the same time that we bought our G6, my Aunt Patti received her mission call. Because she would be gone for 18 months, she needed to sell her car. Long story short, my sister bought my Aunts' car, and handed down the car that she was using (which is my brothers' car) It was a huge blessing and couldn't have come at a better time. I know, what a mess of a blog huh? I promise not to wait so long in between blogs next time. So moving on, after getting an offer on the house, it only took us two days (going back and forth with the buyer) to negotiate the final selling price. We got a fair amount, not quite as much as we wanted, but considering the market/economy we're in and the killer deal we got on our new house-we're pretty satisfied. We wanted a rambler style house-with everything on the main floor. We decided on a 4100 sq. ft. house in South Jordan. It has 6 bedrooms (7 if you count the theatre room) and four bathrooms. It has a mother in law apartment on one side of the house (with it's own seperate front door) which we are turning into my salon. We do need to do a little bit of tiling before it will be ready for me to take appointments, but we're hoping to have it done before the end of the year. Yes we realize that the house is way bigger than what we needed, but we couldn't pass up the location, the upgrades, or the price! Besides we comfortable with the fact that we can finally entertain guests when they come over, or even have out of town friends and family stay with us without it feeling so cramped and clostraphobic. The house was move in ready, except for blinds and a fence-so that was definately a plus! It has brand new wood flooring, carpet, and tile; granite countertops in the kitchen, bathrooms and laundry room. It has a large "great room" upstairs and down, along with a full second kitchen downstairs. It has tons of storage room, lots of closets and cabinet space, and a huge food storage/craft (aka junk room for right now). :) The backyard is a good size and it also has an rv pad-which was a big item on our "must haves" list. It took some major number crunching and some intense praying before we finally made a decision. We closed on our old house (officially) on the 18th of October then closed on our new house on the 20th. We moved out (of the old) and in (to the new) that weekend. How exhausting especially being 33 weeks pregnant! But I think it was perfect timing for everything and everyone. We moved just in time for Clay to enjoy the Halloween weekend, and a month before the baby is supposed to come (a month before his expected arrival-those babies, they come whenever they want. Went to the Dr. last Wednesday when I was 36 weeks along and 2 cm dialated-so he could be making plans to come sooner rather than later.)
Now a days, with the move being over and the baby so close to making his debut, things have started to quiet down for us (whew! thank goodness). I'm still working full time-will be for as long as I can physically do it. I've been trying to get my dear Clayton on a regular/normal day to day schedule so he knows what to expect when the baby comes. (the last few months, we've had NO schedule whatsoever.) And last but not least every spare second of my time has been spent Scrapbooking. Wish I could say that I've been spending it on my scrapbook, or even one for the baby-but I'd be lying. Every year I make a hand made scrap book calendar for my mom and mother in law. I got a really late start this year, so I've been having to bust it out like nobody's business. I would post pictures but both of them read this blog-so I can't...at least not until after christmas.
That's about all that I can think of right now. I have tons of pictures to post, but I will do that for my next post-all of them being so random. Honestly I will try so much harder to be more diligent in keeping this blog up to date.
Pictures soon to come-I PROMISE!!! :)
