Wow, it seems like forever since I last blogged. Since we just barely got our Internet up and going at home and can't find the thingy to upload the pics, you'll have to be content with a post, sorry! We are officially in! Not completely unpacked, but hey, that will come with time, right? In fact, although it's not due until September 1st, we just received our first mortgage payment statement. Hmmm.....I liked the house part, not the mortgage part! I LOVE being in a home finally. So much more room....we're not so on top of each other, kinda nice. Steven likes having his "bachelor pad" downstairs (but I think he secretly likes being able to still come upstairs and get something to eat or just talk). The best of both worlds! Plus, I GET A CRAFT ROOM! Can you tell I'm excited? I haven't even started working in it yet, but that will come with time. It will also be where the office is going, but it's a pretty big room. I think I'm in heaven! Now I'll actually have a place to PUT all my craft crap. While we were boxing up our old place we've found so much stuff we don't use anymore that I think we'll probably have a garage sale. Now that we're kinda settled, I need to start going through everything and putting the sale together. Anyone want to join us? I think a multi-family one would be great! Just let me know...maybe the end of August? Anyway, hopefully we'll be able to put some pics up soon. I'll have to take one of Alan mowing the lawn...he loves doing it because it's "our" lawn. Wonder how long that will last?
We also just found out (well, not just, I guess) that we're going to have another niece and/or nephew on my side. I love babies! Annisten (my newest niece) is doing great. They just found out she does have some heart problems and in fact is headed down to Primary Children's in SL today to see if surgery is needed. Fingers crossed and prayers being said things will go better than anticipated. She's such a cutie and so sweet. So, while life is hectic, it's also good, we just need to remember that in the hard times and good. Oh! Update in regards to the adoption plans....they are still on, but we probably won't start until January. After buying the house we are kinda wiped out savings wise, so we're going to work on that end and then start the paperwork in January. Yeah! It will be nice to be able to kind of settle in more before starting another exiting chapter in our lives. Plus, we have to have the nursery completely set up (which is going to be kinda weird) so we need to empty out the room first. So again, if you can think of any fundraisers, please let me know. Hope everyone enjoys their weekends!
Walking through your home for the first time and realizing it's completely yours, along with the mortgage payments! We were able to get the key's to the house tonight....yep, it's officially ours! We move on Saturday! Alan is even more excited than I am.....he's rented a 26 ft. U-Haul. Men!
Also, congratulations to Keri & Bryon who welcomed an adorable little girl on Wednesday. Happiness is also holding a new little one.....ahhh!
Ha....that got your attention, didn't it? Well, first I'm going to start off with the boring, up to date news. As of right now we still have not closed on the house and are hopefully (fingers crossed) going to do so on July 2nd. All of the underwriting companies are so far behind due to tons of re-fi's and new home purchases. We've come to a pretty quick realization that home buying in an extremely stressful thing, but I'm sure so worth it in the end. Now, on to the BIG NEWS.....nope, I'm not preggers. Had you going there for a minute, didn't I? Actually, I would have loved to announce that I am, but all in due time, my friends. So what is our big news, you ask? We have decided to adopt and I absolutely couldn't be happier. I've actually always wanted to adopt and even told Alan that somewhere along the line I wanted to start the process. Since starting fertility I've thought about it even more. We we're going to go a full year with fertility before even thinking about adoption, but I just feel that now is the time. We have some very special friends who have just started their adoption journey and after reading their experiences so far, I think it's given me the push I needed. I approached Alan about it last Saturday and surprisingly he was really open-minded about it. I thought he would want to wait until March (we started fertility in March of this year) but he thought it would be a good idea. We're not giving up yet on the fertility and having biological children (because I know my kidlets are up in heaven having just too much and aren't ready to come to earth quite yet) but we are going to start the paperwork process. Also, due to the costs of adoption, we most likely will be following our friends examples and holding fundraisers to help out. So, if you can thing of ANYTHING we can do for a fundraiser, please leave me a comment. Thanks to everyone for all the prayers and love vibes.....please keep them coming because I have a feeling we're going to need them!
Friday night my little brother and his fiancee came over to ask if we wanted to go to the Hogle Zoo with them on Saturday. We SHOULD have been packing, but the zoo sounded like a lot more fun, so off to Salt Lake we headed. We weren't there for too long before it started raining and later drove home in a flash flood! Crazy Utah weather! The past couple of weeks have been so cold and rainy it almost feel's like the beginning of Spring again. Oh well, we need the water!
Isin't she cute? She's currently pregnant and due at any time..... We went on the train ride which I SWEAR to you was a lot longer when I was younger. Oh well, it was still fun! After the sweet train ride we headed over to the gopher holes and the play area. Ya, the people probably thought we were crazy as we didn't have kids with us but were still playing around. We were actually looking to take different photo's for the wedding (at least, that's what we were telling ourselves!) I love Alan's turtle pic.....I was laughing so hard when he was trying to crawl inside the shell I was almost crying. You should have seen some of the kids faces as they watched him....priceless! We of course had to take the classic "how do you measure up?" pics.... After which he headed in to see the monkey's (sorry about the poor quality of the picture....Alan changed the setting and I forgot to change it back before taking the pic): (couldn't resist adding the last one!) Finally, before the heavens decided open to open and completely drench us, we went to see the penguins because hey, who can resist them? All in all it was a pretty fun day. Although we didn't get any packing or cleaning done, it was totally worth it. Thanks Steve & Kelley for inviting us!
Last night we headed out to USANA to see The Expendables, Ziggy Marley and 311 who was headlining the concert. It's been raining here for about the past week and a half and last night was no exception. It ended up raining during the second set (Ziggy Marley) and was a little cold, but towards the end of the set it stopped and the sun even came out for a while. All in all it was a pretty fun night and 311 was AWESOME! This is the second time we've gone to see them and they put on a pretty fantastic show. I also really liked The Expendables - it was my first time seeing them live.
The Expendables Ziggy Marley The rain - pretty cold but luckily it didn't last! 311 We actually didn't get ANY good shots of 311. We also didn't get any video footage as our camera died the first part of the set. Oh well! Maybe next time!
Two weddings in June a day apart? No big deal! Two weddings in June, one the day we're SUPPOSED to close, plus cleaning and packing up the house? Piece of cake. Two weddings in June, closing in June, packing & cleaning to be out of our townhome by June 30th with no settled closing date as our paperwork still hasn't gone to underwriting so therefore we might be homeless? I can handle that. Two weddings, closing, packing, cleaning, no paperwork to underwriting so no approximate closing date plus two baby showers in July one of which I'm hosting? Weeellll..... Two weddings, closing, packing, cleaning, no paperwork to underwriting so no approximate closing date, two baby showers in July PLUS two bridal showers, also in July, one of which I'm co-hosting? Crap! Two weddings, closing, packing, cleaning, no paperwork to underwriting so no approximate closing, two baby showers, two bridals showers and one wedding in August in which I'm trying to help as much as I can? Insanity! But you know what? I'm: Does life get any better? To tell you the truth I'm secretly happy about the showers....I LOVE hosting things and coming up with the ideas. I'll be even MORE excited if we close before the 30th!
What do you get when you add this: and a little of that: a pinch of this: a dash of that: and just a LITTLE smidgen of this? One very cute, newly engaged couple: Congratulations to my little brother and soon to be cute sister-in-law, Kelley! That was the surprise I had mentioned in my previous post but wasn't able to talk about until it was "official." My little brother came to me at the beginning of the week asking for a creative way to propose to his girlfriend by Saturday (today). Since it was kind of last minute I suggested a scavenger hunt with clues that included all of their firsts (first date, first kiss, first I love you, etc.) I didn't think too much of it until Wednesday night when he came over with a list of everywhere he'd like her to go on the hunt! Crap! So, with the help of my mom we made up some riddles and then I put everything together Friday. With the help of some friends we were able to get her from place to place with me riding along video taping the whole thing. We ended up at a restaurant her family owns (also where they will be having the reception) and he proposed with family and loved ones watching. Very cute and I think it turned out pretty good - considering it was kid of last minute! We're excited for them and wish them all the best!
On Friday night we headed over to South Weber for a farewell get together for a co-worker of Alan's. His name is Alan as well, so thus they dubbed him Double A and my Alan Triple A (not sure why?) Anyway, there was food, friends and of course, volleyball: After we had to run a couple of errands and this is what happens when you end up with a bored husband: I love my bubs!
I haven't really posted in a while, so I thought I would post a quick update of what's been going on with us. First off, because I've had several people ask, the last insemination did not work so I don't have any exciting news in that regards. The next step will be to flush my tubes out to make sure that a)they are open and b) they are clear. It's funny because when we were talking to the doctor about this he said he's had people say one of two things in regards to the procedure. It either wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be -OR- it was worse than they thought. Guess I'll have to let you know (because let's face, either way it doesn't really sound that lovely, does it?) However, we are taking June off BECAUSE we are buying a house. Hooray! We've been hunting and looked around EVERYWHERE in the Weber County area but didn't have luck. The Friday before Memorial Day we were headed up to Bear Lake with some friends, but our realtor suggested taking a look in Davis County just to see. We ended up putting an offer in on the second home we looked at. We LOVE it and are so excited to finally be settled in one place for a while. It was built in 2004 and has 5 bedrooms & 3 baths. Here's a picture, but it's not really the best as it's off of the MLS listing: We just had the inspection done on Friday and the appraisal is going to be this coming week. Hopefully the underwriting process will go quickly and then we can move in. We're scheduled to close on the 24th of June but I'm hoping it will go quicker. We were able to meet the current owners (well, just the wife) and she is wonderful. She was saying the ward is a younger ward (the current bishop is 33) so we'll fit right in. With all the stress of trying to close on the home we're going to take a break from the baby thing and then will start up again in July. I was on a fertility blog today (Beyond the Rain) and found the following which I think are great:
I actually LOVED this talk from the last General Conference because it seemed like it directed just at me. I'm sure everyone else felt that way as well, but it was just such perfect timing. Oh, and the younger gentlemen in the video was in my old ward - he was our home teacher. Megan, I saw on your blog that Will was in a church video, but this is the first time I've seen it. He's famous!
This one made my bawl like a baby (probably because I'm hormonal anyway!) but I loved it. However, I do have to make one disclaimer on it - throughout this whole process I've never been bitter towards my friends/family/loved ones that are able to have children. I'm genuinely happy for them and feel bad that sometimes they don't want to tell us about their pregnancy. I look at it this way...it's another baby for us to love and buy presents for (I'm all about buying baby stuff, love it!) I did have to laugh over the part with the comments people make. You wouldn't believe some of the "advice" I get in regards to fertility and having a child. I really should start writing some of it down, it's priceless.
Hope everyone has a great week and is enjoying this awesome weather. I also have some other exiting news to share, but it's not mine and I have to wait for permission! Darn it!
Oh, one more thing to make me do a happy dance - Alan FINALLY cut his hair. He's been growing it out since September or October of last year and it was getting pretty long. He'd been talking about cutting it once he found a style he liked, but I didn't really thing too much of it. Then, Thursday morning I woke up, rolled over to give him a good morning kiss and wondered who the crap had crawled in bed with me. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE having my handsome hubby back! Of course, in the last one, Alan kinda looks a little um, well....chesterish (or stoned, as my little sister said). When I asked him about it he said he was sad he had cut his hair! Guess I'll have to get a better pic of his new haircut where he's actually smiling!
I found this cartoon on another blog and absolutely loved it. After dealing with people all day yesterday at the marathon and then more today coming home from a missionary farewell, well, let's just say I was not in the best mood. So, when I saw this, I cracked up and had to post it! Thanks Dilbert!
