Getting Close!!!

Oh Boy!! We went and walked through our house today (we've been renting it since we were so poor last year...) It was so nice to be in our house again. It was weird to see all of their stuff in it (and boy do they have a LOT of stuff!!) but I just imagined us being back there :) I can't wait.

There are some things that we'll have to work on --- kind of annoyed about:

1) The blinds on the front of the house got broken by one of their dogs and they "claim" it was like that when they got there --- NOT TRUE. Of course we don't have pictures and didn't do the whole "tell us what it wrong when you moved in" thing, so we can't really prove it. Oh well -- should only be like $50 to fix.

2) This is the weird one. Our front door has a regular handle with a lock plus a dead-bolt. The regular lock was taken out of the handle.... There is just a hole where the little lock should go. THAT they cannot possibly try to say is our fault. That, again, is just about $50 to fix. So if anyone has an extra door handle set laying around...

3) The yard... Not too bad at all, but the backyard will need to have some patchwork done - nothing we haven't had to do before. And there are lots of weeds - but we had to deal with that before too.

I'm really looking forward to getting in there and making it mine again. I took the whole first week of June off to get everything situated. Hopefully it only takes that long!! I have to make sure my office situation/set up will be ok. I'm sure it will, but still!

SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME HELPING ME OUT SINCE I'LL BE NICE AND PREGNANT AND WON'T BE ABLE TO LUG BOXES UPSTAIRS.... Any and all offers will be accepted and greatly appreciated :)

Our only worry now is the fact that we have no food. We never even thought about stocking our shelves... You know, so we can live and feed our baby!! I started making a list of absolute essentials so again, if anyone has like big garbage bags or extra dish detergent they don't care about --- I'M DEAD SERIOUS. I gladly accept charity :) And if anyone knows anything about canning at the cannery out here - please let me know. I may end up having to do that!

In other news...

Chloe is learning her colors now. She knows purple, blue, yellow, orange, red, green, white, pink... I think that's all. Hey that covers all the rainbow colors so she's good! She can count to 4 and can fill in the blanks when you sing the alphabet. She's still incredibly shy around new people or people she doesn't see very often. She loves my mom, but it takes her a while to warm up to my dad - unless he gives her food :)

Shane has been really busy with carpet lately and we are so grateful. We have one credit card to pay off then we are out of (small) debt! Just the house and cars.... He had one day off this week and I let him buy a used bike. He's so excited. It was just too bad that every day since has been stormy so he can't ride. Hopefully he'll have time this weekend. He's considering running a half marathon in August with his sisters and I am encouraging him. I know he can. He used to bike literally 100 miles every Saturday when he lived in St George. That's how he lost about 75 pounds -- seriously.

Me --- just working and getting fat :( Yeah, yeah, I'm pregnant. Whatever. I have seen plenty of pregnant women who were just hiding beach balls under their shirts. No other fat :( Not me! I'm only 17 1/2 weeks but I feel HIM move quite a bit. I'm just tired and lazy. No sickness (thank goodness). I get winded really easily now though.

I can't think of anything else super interesting going on right now though. I'm just so glad we're going to be busy this summer so time should fly by and I can have this baby!!!

Anyway, I'll say it again later, but if anyone is able to help us move, we so so so so so would appreciate it. Very little furniture. Seriously - just our couch, table, Monster Sac, and crib. Everything else was left at the house. 90% of our stuff is in our storage unit just down from our house so we're going to get a trailer and just load up! But I really can't haul a lot of boxes. I tried recently and I started getting minor cramps after just moving like 5 heavy boxes so Shane will need help :( I'm just putting this out there though. We'll start moving on Tuesday, June 1. That evening most likely since I'll be there disinfecting everything all day long!!! But I'm so excited to do it and just be back in my house!!!! AHHHHH!!! Here is a post with pictures of it to remind you

I also took this video while we were driving around today. It's just so cute to watch her sing :)