Our house?

Well I flew out to Utah on Wednesday and Rich and I have been looking at homes every day since. We are over it! I love the house we have the bid in on, we've been able to see it twice since being here. Believe it or not 23 people have actually been there and toured the house but the most amazing thing is that we are the only ones who have put a bid on it. The best part is the house is listed at 4 bedrooms and could easily be 6 but because an appraiser's demand for a room to be a bedroom is that it must have a window, source of heat and a closet, when the home gets appraised by the bank it will be appraised as a 2 bedroom home because a few of rooms don't have closets! That means it will be appraised a lot cheaper and our bid will look a lot better. Yeah. So now we are just waiting for the bank to get the stinking house appraised and then accept our bid which could be anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. I'm not good at being patient!!

Nurse

I only have 3 more days of clinicals until I am done working for free forever! I could hardly wait to be done until I found out Salt Lake Regional's shoe code for nurses. Look at these babies.

Apparently my official title is going to be that of Knotty Nurse. I've never heard of that kind of nursing but it sounds exciting and I'm sure I will learn a lot about medicine.

Homie

So we put a bid in on the house and we a just waiting to hear. Apparently the owners have accepted it but the bank is next. The owners owe about $70,000 more than we offered so we aren't really sure if the bank will accept our offer or demand more, thats the fun of a short sale I'm told. Now its just just a waiting game.

Holy House!

So a few weeks ago Rich and I started talking and we got on the subject of houses and how great it would be for us to have one when we moved back the SLC. Well we started looking and wouldn't you know it we find one that we really like. This was last Saturday. We decided that if we are going to be serious about this we need to get down on it so we flew Rich out there on Monday. Tuesday he went and looked a some homes, nothing too exciting. Wednesday he went looking and found the holy grail of homes. Today is Thursday and we already have a bid in on the house! How is that for fast. Whew. It seems like a pretty sweet home. It's located in Sandy about half a block from the dog park, two blocks from dipple dale recreation area and about a 5 minute drive from church. Oh we are really close to trax too which would take me downtown to work! How sweet is that. Here is a picture of it.

Needless to say the past few days have been a frenzy of discussion and excitment. The home is a short sale meaning its in the very first stages of forclosure which can be a good thing or a bad thing. The previous owners owe a lot of money to the bank. We made a pretty low offer which might be accepted out of desperation or rejected because the amount is so large. We are just going to have to wait and see and that is going to be the hard part. The best thing about this house is it already has dog door!

I like beans

These jelly beans look innocent enough but I swear they are laced with crack, or some other addictive substance because lately they are all I want to eat.

Pics!

Here are some more belly shots!

Childbirth

So we finally took a childbirth class last Sunday. Do you have any idea where babies come from? It looks like a terribly painful place.

We learned a little bit of Lamaze breathing and they had us play a really fun game, I think you all should try. Grab a bowl fill it half way with water and then as much ice as possible. Now have a friend or your partner set their watch for 90 seconds (this is the average length of a contraction during the transition stage of labor) and then plunge your hand into the ice cold water while using the Lamaze he he he hu breathing method. Its really not that bad for the first 10 seconds after that you feel like your hand is going to fall off and all you want to do is pull it out. Although 90 seconds doesn't seem like a long time in normal life when you're in pain it feels more like 90 minutes.
It was a great experience to understand the pain associated with birth even though the pain in my hand will probably be a 10th of the pain I will experience in my uterus.
We are still planning on natural birth but I am definitely keeping the options available and on hand if this he he he hu doesn't work.