Been here a whole month!

WOW!! We have been in the house for over a month and it Feels so good!! No worrying about the neighbors waking Rian up because of all of their crap. It feels good to be in a bright home. It just seemed like a dark dungeon in the apartment. We made our first mortgage payment and we also had to pay the last part of the rent of the apartment. BOY am I glad to be done with them. They were going to be raising the rent on all of the apartments and our discount with the military discount was still going to be about 900 a month. That's only a 200 dollar difference between the apartment and the house and the house is TWICE the size of the apartment.

We Love our new home and can't wait have our little Rian grow up in the home.

Painting is DONE!

The painting has been completed in the house. It looks beautiful!! and now we can start moving stuff in!!! I am so happy with the colors that we went with and at the last minute we did a quick change, instead of having Misty Surf in our family room we decided to go with that in our bedroom and we used Winter Flannel in the family room. The formal living and dining room have an awesome color called London Coach. It's like a brown/mauve color. Our projected time to be in the house is May 15th, but we will still have our apartment until June 21st. So...we will take our sweet time with getting all of the not so important stuff out of the house.

Totally excited!

Tomorrow we officially close on our new home!!! It has been such a tiring search. We found a lot of houses that we just fell in love with and just wanted "THAT" house. So many that we were outbid on and some that were just not our type.

For the same amount of money of these short sales and Foreclosures, we have found an awesome home. That is brand NEW!!!

We get our keys tomorrow and we are going to start moving things in tomorrow!!

Can't wait....I hope that I will be able to sleep.

It's almost time!!

We gave the apartment complex our notice that we are not renewing our lease and that we will be leaving soon!! They gave us 3 options.... 1. To pay 2 months of rent 2. To pay rent on the apartment until it is rented and 3 is to just pay the prorated amount from June 1st until June 21st. Which will run us about 500.00. So, needless to say we are going to go with the prorated amount. We are just so ready to get out of this apartment and be in our own home!! Can't wait for Tuesday to get here.

Walk through today!!

Today was our walk through of the house....One more step and we are going to be HOME OWNERS!!! We are so excited and can not wait for TUESDAY aka CLOSING TIME!!! to get here. Well....There were only a few minor things that we are wanting to be repaired and Brian says that they are mainly in the bedroom closets.

We have decided that we are going to take our sweet time moving from the apartment into the house, not because there is anything is wrong with the house, but because we are going to have to pay May's rent. So.....why not take our time?

Moving here we come!!!

What else could happen?

On Saturday we had the whole day planned. My mom was going to come over and keep Rian while Brian and I were going to catch a movie and have a nice sushi dinner. We decided that we would go over and take a look inside the house and to show Mom and Adra the house too. So...we all load up into our Vue and head over. We get there and look around and fall in love with the house. We get into the car to take the keys back to the office and the car is running but so hard to turn. We make it to the intersection of Noroad and Old Middleburg and the car really not wanting to go. I told Brian to pull over and that we needed to call Geico to get a tow. Only 2 people are able to be in the tow truck, so we had to call a cab. The cab gets there and they only send a car. The cabbie has his wife or girlfriend in the car with him, so that meant that we could not put Rian's carseat in the car. We finally make it to the house and I decided that we need to get a rental car. We go to pick the car up at the airport, we get our rental and the seat will not go back, so that means we have to head back into the airport. We get our next one and head on.

I have to say that it was just a tiring day and we were thinking. What else could happen?

This is it!!!

Over the past 7 months we have been searching for a home. We were really wanting to be in a home, before Rian was born. Well..that did not work out. We have placed offers on houses and to be either outbid by someone else, or there is something really wrong with the house.

Back in Jan, I told Brian that I was tired of searching for Foreclosures and Short sales, because you never know what's going to happen. I started searching around the local home builders and I found a home over on the Northside, but never really looked into it. About 4 weeks ago Uncle Bernard sent us a listing of houses and I found this house that I thought was awesome. I put it off, because Rian was almost here. Last Sunday we drove over just to look at the neighborhood and we saw the house and fell in love with just the outside. We messaged uncle Bernard and told him that we liked the house and he and Brian went and did a tour of the house on Saturday(3/13/10) he did all of the paperwork. We should close before the end of the month, but the paperwork has an estimated closing date is April 20th, 2010.

We are super excited. 2010 is only into March and we have had a great year so far.

Should have done this a while ago.

This blog should have been done on Feb 20th. The day that I was released from the hospital.

But here it goes for the Birth Blog.

I went into the hospital to be induced on Wednesday, Feb 17th. The nurse takes me and my group of folks into one of the delivery rooms. They give me my gowns and tell me to get undressed and onto the bed. Once that was done a nurse came in and asked how far was I dilated at my last appointment. I let her know that my Dr. told me that I was at 2 cm. They then tell me that they are going to have to move me to one of the smaller rooms, because there could be people that are further along than me that may come in. So, we pack up and move to the smaller room. So...Brian, my mom and sister are in there with me in this tiny room. Maybe 20 minutes later my Dr. comes in and says that he is going to let me go home, because they really don't see a reason to induce me and I am not dilating. He brought another Dr in with him to let me know this information. But this OB says that she is going to check my cervix before letting me go home. When she checks she says "OH WOW" you are at 4 cm. Then she has my Dr recheck me and he says "Oh yeah, you are at about 4 or 4.5 cm" So with that great news...they set me up to go back to the big room. But, they tell me that I needed to walk around the ward for about an hour. We did that and while on our walk we run into Leslie. So, we go back to the room and hang out. At this point I am at 5cm. After that it was just slow slow slow.

Around 2 pm, I was so ready for an epidural, I was so worried because the Dr told me that if I was in active labor at 5cm, I would not be able to have one and I was at 6 at the point where I wanted the epidural, but since it wasn't active labor. I was ok with getting the epidural and oh how much I LOVED IT! I didn't reach 10 until about 10. It was showtime then. I was pushing and pushing for almost 2 hours and Rian just was not coming. On top of that she was face up so they said that was going to make labor a little harder. After not being able to push her out and I was just tired and aggravated. The Dr's left the room and I told Brian, Mom and Leslie that I just wanted them to give me a C=Section. The Dr's came back and said that they were going to do a C-Section. I told them that at that point that's what I wanted too. My only concern was the recovery, I really didn't want to have a c-section, but I didn't want anything to happen to my little one. So, I would rather have our little girl safe and ok.

They take me into the OR and get started, I wasn't in there that long. I layed there waiting and waiting and then I started to worry when I didn't hear anything. All of a sudden I hear the Dr's call Brian over to where they were and then I heard the sounds of our sweet little baby. She was screaming her lungs off. So...Instead of her being born on Wednesday Feb 17th, she was born on Thursday, Feb 18th @ 1:59am

I am so Thankful to Dr. Duda! She was an AMAZING OB!

I have to say that I am so in Love with this little girl and these past 16 days have been the most awesome days ever. I am tired and I feel so worn out, but it is so worth it to look at our little girl and she how beautiful she is.