Painting the house

Well, its official we are now home owners. We closed on the house back on Tuesday, but we had given the sellers a three day leaseback so we actually couldn't get into the house until Saturday.

The closing went fast. We had gotten the closing documents over the weekend so we had a chance to read them before getting to closing. When we got to the closing we were able to ask our few questions and then just sign away since we had already looked through the papers. We were out in 45 minutes, which I guess is pretty fast especially for the first time.

Since we were able to get into the house yesterday, we went up to paint and clean. Our plan was to paint the bedroom and office. We started at 7:30 cleaning and spakling and taking down blinds. Then we started painting in the master bedroom. The room has a white chair railing trim, so we had decided to paint the top portion of the room red and the bottom portion tan. Be prepared if you choose a deep color to paint, it takes several coats. The first layer of red looked pink and you could see every line where the paint overlapped or a stroke ended. We were unaware of the need for multiple layers so we were getting a little worried. But we decided to keep trying because where you could see the overlap areas it looked more like the color we wanted. So we did a second layer. This greatly improved the look of the room. It had now become a livable red color, but you could still see all the paint lines underneath. At the same time (as we had Crystal's parents with us) we painted the bottom of the room tan. It looked good and only one coat. We also painted the office tan. By the time we were all done for the day it was 7:00 pm. We had spent the whole day cleaning and painting.

To top it off, we are not finished. We still need to do another layer or two on the red to finish it up. So as a word of caution, if you decided to paint a deep color, be prepared to do two to five layers. We learned this from the lady at Home Depot when we asked while buying more paint for the second layer.

We are very happy with the house and are exited to move all of our stuff there on Tuesday. We will post pictures when the painting is done and more when everything is set up.

Not much happening (that's exciting)

There hasn't been much happening since the last post. We do close on our house this Tuesday. The first day we'll be able to move in will be this Saturday and we are just using that day to paint a couple rooms. We won't actually move in until Aug. 1. I'm sooooo excited. We'll post pictures within the first 3 weeks of August of our house. The excitement has been depleted a little because of the HUGE cashiers check I'll have to get tomorrow to give at the closing. I've never spent that much money and it's a little depressing. And looking at the closing documents and seeing the estimated cost of the house after interest and stuff for the 30 year mortage is deeply depressing. It makes me wonder, why buy a house. Oh well. I'm sure I'll feel better after we are in the house.

Pregnancy pictures

By popular demand, from Jennifer, here are some pictures of my growing belly. When I look at myself in regular shirts I just look fat. I like myself much better in pregnancy tops. The picture on the left is when we just found out I was pregnant. The picture on the right is me at 21 weeks in the same outfit. (I could only button the top button of the pants though.) The picture below is me in maternity clothes which is way more comfortable than prepregnancy clothes. I can breathe!!

"Boyness"

I tried posting this picture on the previous post but it would not take it. The picture is turned sideways because when it was the correct way I couldn't make out the picture. Travis had to turn the picture for me so I made him scan it that way.
This is a "diaper view" from underneath. The arrow is pointing to his "boyness" as the nurse called it. Imagine him lying on his back with his legs up. It's in between the back of his thighs. You can see his fingers touching his thigh. It's definitely a boy!

It's a ......

Have you ever heard of the Chinese pregnancy tracker? I didn't until my aunt showed me and she swears by it. So I checked it out and that's kind of what I've been thinking it was, even though I knew I had no real reason to think that. I want you to go to this website http://www.baby-talk.co.uk/chinese_calendar.htm and post a comment saying how many times that was true or untrue for you. I'm just curious and think its fun. Anyways it was right, we are having a beautiful boy!!! I couldn't stop smiling. I think the nurse woke him up because when she first started he was still but the more she went the more he moved. It's so amazing to see him stretch and kick and knowing that that's all happening inside of me. I haven't been able to feel him kick (or at least haven't recognized it). So, I told the nurse and asked if she could move my stomach or something to make him kick so I could see if I felt it. I think she thought I was nuts. He did kick and punch but I didn't feel it. Apparently I have an above normal amount of fluid in my placenta and that's probably why I haven't felt anything because he has lots of room. I asked what too much fluid meant and she said it could be associated with gestational diabetes. I go back for another ultrasound and the diabetes test in 6 weeks. I'm not worried about that. I'm just so happy that everything looked normal with the baby. As she was checking things and saying, "Looks normal", I just thanked Heavenly Father silently. I feel so blessed. Anyways, that's about it. I'm pretty happy right now!!!!


Here he his stretching his leg up top. His head is at the bottom and his arm is between his leg and head. Cutie!

Here's a profile of his head. The nurse drew a baseball cap on his head. I predict a hunk!

Sofa

After a weekend of sofa hunting we decided on a sofa and loveseat combination from Ashley furniture. We grabbed a picture of it from their website. It is an olive basketweave couch. We went with an olive color so that we could change the decorations in the room and make the couch match by adding new throw pillows that we would make. We are not masters at the sewing machine, but we have experience making pillows. We have made them for our couch we had in Utah, our bed, and Dean and Connie's couch. We were excited to buy our first couch and loveseat as we have always just used handme down couches ever since we first got married. However, we were very grateful for those donated couches as we have seen how expensive they can be and we have not had to worry about moving them from place to place.