It all comes tumbling down

Tearing down our shed was the first phase in our transition into our house! Check it out!

Big News

So this last week has been absolutely crazy... A week or so ago a coworker of mine accepted a position in Idaho and decided to move his family there and offhandedly remarked "Hey, Crystal, you want to buy my house?" and I offhandedly laughed, "sure, can you sell my trailer for me first?" We ended up talking a little about it, and I said I would drive past his house to check it out, but really nothing could happen until we sold our mobile home.

We drove past it, and just from the outside we really liked it. Dave (my coworker) said he was planning on listing it with a realtor in less than a week, on monday. On Wednesday we got an offer on our trailer, accepted it, and late at night went to look through Dave's house and loved it. It was beautifully taken care of and just the right size...everything we were looking for and right in the price range we were hoping for. So on Thursday we accepted the first part of payment on our trailer, got preapproved for a mortgage loan, and made an offer on the house. On Friday (yesterday) we worked out the rest of the details and started working on the purchase agreement...this is really going to happen! We plan on closing by the end of May. So this is an amazing double blessing. Things worked out perfectly for us with the selling of our trailer right on time, things worked out great for them in that they saved themselves having to list with a realtor and they can feel unhindered by their house when they moved to Idaho. We've both commented to each other that it just feels like this was supposed to happen. If we hadn't had one of our two previous offers on the trailer back out, we might be in a lease somewhere or have bought a house twice the price and half as nice. All this happened in three days! Wow!

I'll post pictures soon... but in the meantime, we have a lot of work to do!

P.S. I think it's time to make my blog private. Expect that beginning next week!

12 weeks

I found this cool picture that visualizes what my baby looks like right now. I just want to comment on how miraculous this whole process is. Three months ago, this little life didn't exist. And now it does! Wow. Heavenly Father really knows his stuff.

Word Games

So after reading Carolanne's blog, I realized how glad I am to have someone else exhibiting the same symptoms of ditziness associated with the onset of pregnancy! It seems the language portion of my brain (the most prized part of my thinker!) has been affected the most. The first incident happened when I was trying to say I was happily going home from work. I wanted to say I was going to "saunter" out of there or "sashay" out of there. Instead it came out, "Guys, I am going to sautee out of here." What?!? Sautee?

The second incident happened in the car, when I was driving home with Keaton and we were discussing how little energy I've had lately. I commented, "Its a good thing its me who is pregnant, because you would hate to be slown down." Wait a minute... Slown? Ack! It was supposed to be slowed! Am i making up stuff now? Keaton got a kick out of that one.

Lastly, I was taking some wedding pictures on Tuesday at the SLC temple, and I was trying to direct the couple to stand in front of the fountain, only I kept forgetting the word for it. I'd say "Okay, now let's head over to the...the...water...thing...that shoots water...out of it...you know? The... the..." Yeah. It was terrible. And they'd say "the fountain?" And then, ten seconds later I'd forget what it was called again.

That's it for this week. See you all... ah, crap. I forgot the word I was looking for. See you all...some....time...maybe...in the future...or something...

Baby Love

Here is the first picture of my little passenger! Last week I said it would look like a gummy bear, but now I'm thinking more along the lines of cocktail shrimp. I was pretty close on my due date estimation...this little sprout is set to make his/her appearance on the 22nd of October. Man, I never thought a little white blob could be so adorable! And the itsy bitsy heart was beating...it was so surreal. It was like "wow! There is something in there after all!"

On another note...I wish to talk a little about this thing called "pregnancy brain." I've now become fully versed in the realities of pregnancy folklore--the queasiness is no joke, the crazy awful smells are no joke. Now I wish to attest to the truth of pregnancy brain. My appointment was on Monday, and I was supposed to meet Keaton at the clinic. I got there first, and called him and gave him directions. I said "when you get off the freeway, take a LEFT. A LEFT." So when he didn't show up within a few minutes, I called him back and said "Whoops! A RIGHT. You should have taken a RIGHT." He was already pretty far in the wrong direction.

When he did get there we went inside the building and I was so confused...my doctors name wasn't on the directory list. We even went to the room that was supposed to be hers and it was something completely different. Luckily I had the phone number in my phone, and when I called I found out we were in the completely wrong building! (The right one was across the parking lot.) We did make it to the right place on time, but when we finally got put in the room, the nurse directed me to undress from the waist down. As soon as she left I started taking off my shirt and Keaton was like "What are you doing?!? She said waist down!" I said "oh! I thought she said waist up!" He just shook his head and said "Everything this appointment is about happens below the waist!!" I'm so glad I brought my hubby with me! I would have been so embarrassed to have been sitting there in all my waist-up glory when the doctor came in and told me I got it wrong. I would have had to switch doctors!

On the way home I told Keaton that I was so glad to have seen the baby and have proof that I really was pregnant and all this wasn't just some trick of my brain. He said "You better be pregnant or how do you explain the last two months of my life? My wife has gone CRAZY!"

Pregnancy brain is real. I used to have much more cognitive function. I just don't know anymore where I put it!

Gummy Bears

This week, my little person is about the size of a gummy bear! When I was looking online for pictures of gummy bears I found all kinds of fun stuff.

Gummy bear peeping toms:

Gummy bear chandelier:

Gummy bear rug:

and a couple of funny youtube videos:

Aren't gummy bears fun?

All Aboard!

The baby train has stopped at our house! We found out on the 11th of February that we are gonna be welcoming a little person to our family! I estimate I'm about seven weeks along, so I'll be due sometime mid to late October...just in time for the holiday season. The idea has taken some getting used to, but we're excited for the addition. I've been trying to keep track of the wee one's development online, and babycenter.com says that this week he/she is the size of a blueberry!

My first appointment is on the 17th, so we'll have more news (and hopefully an exact due date) then!

This is great for me...I've been coveting those baby tickers for a while now.