Eye Patch, Neighbors, Planning Family Visit

On Monday Ryan's eye was bothering him quiet a bit. He kept rubbing it all day while at work. When he got home we seen a black speck on the color part of his eye. I tried to help him get it out but it wasn't budging. The more we touched his eye the dryer it gets, and it was really bothering him. We searched online for a 24hr quick care since it was already close to 9:30pm by the time he decided we should probably go get it taken care of. We couldn't see of one online so I called a friend in the ward. I asked her if she knew of one or if their was an optometrist in the ward. She was able to tell me a guy in the ward that is a more of like an eye surgeon. Which was probably even better. We ended up calling him and he was able to help us. It ended up being a piece of metal in his eye. He took Ryan down to his office in Nampa, extracted it, and wrote him a prescription for pain and to help it heal. It still was bothering him quiet a bit just because every time he blinked it scratched his eye lid more. By the next night (Tues) his eye already was about 70% healed up which is way nice.   I am tremendously grateful to be a part of the church in order to know that so many people are so willing to give of their services.  We ended up buying him a gift card because we wanted to show him that we really appreciated his help.

We also met one of our new neighbors on Saturday.  When we were walking through the house Ryan told me to go look out the window.  And I see two blue water containers.  Mormons, we teased.  later when we walked out to get in the car to go home we seen a guy in their driveway.  I teased hey we're your new neighbor.  But later we caught that he was actually the dad of a girl living there.  But yes they are LDS :-D  And she is actually expecting a little one (her 3rd) about a month after me so that will be way fun.  I asked her if our ward was a young ward and she said it was.  I'm way excited.

Family coming to visit.  I just got off the phone with mom and I'm kind of bummed.  I really was hoping that pretty much all the family will be coming to visit except Wendy's family.  But it's starting to look like it will be more like half or less might come.  I know we still have plenty of time for things to change but it still isn't quiet what I thought it might be.   I planned it for Labor Day weekend since I thought that's when most everyone would be able to come, since they have done many other trips on that same weekend in previous years.  We'll see what happens.

Framed

As we were pulling into the neighborhood it surprised me that our home looked like this only a week and two days after the footings were in. It was way fun to be able walk through it. Though for me it was a bit of an eye opener. For some reason when I was looking at the floor plans I envisioned the rooms being a little bit bigger. Though it will be a great first home for us. Even though the kitchen won't be huge it will have more pantry space :-D Also I have a linen closet up stairs in the hall and in the master bath. More places to put away stuff. Yay!

Oh also it was good that we stopped by. They accidently started framing in a half wall with an arch in between the living and family room. I asked for a full wall which is in the plans, they just overlooked it. We'll be telling them first thing Monday. I like to have nice room for when people stop by. Though after walking through our kitchen table is going to have to be small and will be in direct view of the front door. Funny, I'm just glad it's not my kitchen sink. :-D

As for the garden.... I think I might actually be able to still put it in the same spot on the South side of the home. Even though it is going to be smaller than I requested we looked at where the sun falls on the ground over there. I think I'll be able to get a couple rows of garden over there which will be the full length of the house. That should be plenty for now. Yay!

I have three main goals for this home. I really want to have most everything put away and out of sight no junk and cluter that I have been living with. Two I'd like to add to food storage and add recipes to my book for cycling it. Three try to spend a half and hour every day in the front room reading scriptures, Ensign, doing FHE, or something church realated with Ry.

The opps wall. It should be fully enclosed on the left side not an archway.

Footings are in!

I had no idea that they already put the footings in. I'm way excited! I'm kind of a little disapointed that my realitor didn't pass on the word about the location of the house because now my gardening spot is going to have to change. We'll figure out something. The contractor said that he believes it will only be two month until it's done. That puts us at the begining of July. Yay!

Though now I'm starting to think that these next two months are going to go by way fast. I need to hurry up and sew all of her baby bedding real quick. Also if I want to make her blessing dress I better get a move on it. When we do get moved in I know I must get the bed rooms, kitchen and photo stuff in place first. Once baby gets here I know I'm going to want to take her infant pictures fairly quickly after she is born.

Callings & Work

We both now have callings to be in presidencies. I in Relief Society (secretary) and Ryan in the Elders Quorum (Second Counselor). It's kind of funny cause I know Debbie kind of is opposed to him having a higher up more time consuming calling. She's not afraid to turn one down if she feels it's too much for her to handle. But for more me I actually kind of like it. While we were sitting there in the room with the man in the stake that was extending the calling to Ryan I got the feeling that this will be good for Ryan. He has been part of scouts at the old ward and now primary teacher. But this calling will help him to progress further spiritually because you have to pray a lot more as to who need what or which direction to take things.

Also I'm really excited that Ryan is getting a little bit of a raise. It's not a ton more but every little bit helps. It'll help support the idea of me staying home with baby by helping cover her insurance and diapers :-D. Also I can tell Ryan likes that I am able to make him lunches in the morning & dinners at night since I'm not working. Before we bought a lot of freezer lunches and dinners. I put more pride into it since I have more time and energy, and I can tell he likes it. It was funny because about a month ago Celestial asked on Facebook some ideas for lunches and Ryan told me to go give her some ideas. Shows that he must think that I'm doing a good job :-D

I'm kind of starting to think of not worrying too much about doing photography to earn extra money. I guess part of me has a little bit of a fear that I might focus on it too much that I might miss a lot of things going on in my kids lives as they grow. I kind of just want to slow down and enjoy the things that I like to do, sewing old projects I intended on doing, organizing so there is less clutter and stress (which I will need to do a lot of when we move), bake more bread, build up my food storage. I am really looking forward to getting into the new house.

This is also reason why I want to put photography on a back burner. Years from now I want to say that I had that interaction with Ryan and my kids. Physical possessions just aren't worth it.

Baby Kicks

I believe that I started to feel those little baby flicks since around weeks 14 or 15 but I'm not positive. I call them flicks because most people say it feels like popcorn popping but I like to describe it more as flicks from the inside. At first I dismissed them cause I thought they were higher then where she was suposed to be. Though since I feel them more now I know that they were kicks. I don't go a few hours with out feeling something now at 22 weeks.

Also another great thing it that not too long ago I had a job interview that I didn't feel to good about. Ryan was totally suportive of me not taking it. I have another interview today and he still is incredably suportive of me wanting to stay home once baby is born :-D I love him even more because of that. :-D

It's a girl

I'm kind of excited that we are going to have a little girl. I also kind of secretly hope that she ends up being a little towhead like I was. I can already see some resemblance in the ultrasound picture with her profile to mine when I was little. SO cute! I still am trying to do gender neutral colors for the bedroom colors etc. so I don't have to buy them again soon.  The nurse told me that right now she shows to be 14oz and her heartbeat is 143.

Bought a House!

We were looking at a house that fit our budget and but was only 1530 sq. ft. Debbie convinced us to keep looking and we seen a floor plan that we really loved for a house to be built. It was with a company that we already do the granite for. Mike told us to try and see if they would let us do it for a little less in exchange we do all of the surfaces (granite). We went in and were able to get the home in our budget but then the realtor told us about a program out there that would allow us to not need to pay mortgage insurance. We decided to get a few more upgrades to make the house a little more comfortable for the long run. We think that we will be able to stay there for a while since it's got more square footage and more storage then the other house had.

When I told Debbie I was glad that they pushed us to look a little more she said she didn't feel comfortable with the one house we were looking at but didn't want to be pushy. I love how both Mike and Debbie are good about that. They will share their opinion but then let us make our own decision.

Now I'm just hoping that it will be done before baby get's here. It will be nice to try to move most everything before he/she arrives. Also I'd love to be able to have family stay with me in my new house when they come for the baby blessing.

As for Mike and Debbie's house... They will probably close on selling the Cedarview house to Melanie by the end of this month. They have been looking for a house with a lot of sq. footage and horse property. They haven't had much luck yet. In about a year and a half's time they found 3 houses worth buying. The first one Debbie and I called "the perfect house" I had gorgeous curb appeal, great for entertaining floor plan, but it was a short sell I think with an offer (not worth the hassle). Second we found the house with the man cave which had more storage then the first one. They put in an offer and got excepted until the bank noticed they said it was going to be a second home which they needed to do to get the loan approval. We looked at many others that were just trashed or not quiet what they wanted. Lastly right now we found one that is a lot older but has the sq. footage, storage, shop, and horse property. They were excepted, but then when it came down to the inspection there are a lot of problems. So Mike is trying to see if the guy is willing to fix some of them before he buys it. Mike mentioned that he was pretty envious at how easy it was for us to get our house as opposed to them and they might have to go looking again.