Catch up

Jack enjoying some nice weather...we went to three parks that day.Jack and my GrandparentsJack enjoying some fruit in his p.j's

Jack and Mummy decorating eggs

Jack and Haylee playing with her fun toy car.

I haven’t blogged in forever! So, we have been looking at houses for about a month and a half now. We made an offer on one that we really liked in a town called Newberg and they counter-offered with a price that we were not at all willing to pay. I was a tad disappointed. I must mention at this point that we have looked at 3 houses on this particular street in Newberg….it almost felt like we were destined to live there. Then the very next week our realtor takes us to another house on this same street….in fact is actually faces the house we made an offer on! Crazy. We loved the house as it pretty much has the exact same floor plan, but this one has a bonus living room up just a few stairs. The rest of the house is one level. We were really excited at the thought of getting a bigger house at a much cheaper price. It was a short sale. We prepared ourselves for basically not hearing back from the bank for months on end. Then three days after making an offer we had heard back from both the seller and the bank that our offer had been accepted! We had the house inspection on Tuesday and it went pretty well. We have a couple of things to take care of, but on the whole we were really pleased with how it turned out. Our closing date is set for May 4^th. Hopefully everything else plays out smoothly from this point on. I am really excited at the thought of getting into a house before the baby is born. Jack ran around like a headless chicken each time we visited the house….so I’m pretty sure he likes it too.

I have 10 weeks left in my pregnancy now. I feel extremely uncomfortable at night and have been having Braxton hicks contractions, which I do not remember having with Jack. Anyway, Jack keeps me busy enough that I don’t focus too much on this pregnancy and the time has just flown in. I’m looking forward to seeing this new little one soon though. I can not believe how active he is.

My Grandparents were able to come and spend four days with us recently. It was a quick pit-stop before heading to Salt Lake City for General Conference and then onto Kansas City to start the church history tour. It was so nice for Jack to get to know his Great Grandparents a bit better. My gran’pa started playing football (soccer) with Jack the morning after they arrived and of course that won Jack over immediately. He loved all the attention and cried when they left…so did I. We are so glad they came to visit and hope they are enjoying the rest of their holiday.

With Easter this coming Sunday we went over to our friend’s house and painted some eggs. Jack and their little girl, Haylee, weren’t very interested in decorating the eggs as much as eating the Easter sweets and playing in Haylee’s toy car. Jack did have a lot of fun throwing the eggs on the floor though…wee devil!