I'll be 24 weeks pregnant tomorrow. Things are going great in the pregnancy world. The baby is kicking and cruising around like mad. Tony was finally able to feel the baby action the other morning. I'm to the point now it feels "normal." I've heard from many moms and pregnant women that are further along that the movement only gets more and more intense from here. Last Friday Tony and I went in for our ultrasound. It's the only one we're planning on having done. It was a truly amazing experience, so cool getting to see the baby! Our ultrasound technician was extremely knowledgeable and pleasant. I felt elated during and after the experience, a feeling of a large weight being lifted off my shoulders, finding out that all is groovy with our baby. I'm so excited to meet him/her (nope still didn't find out the sex). It's so crazy how much is going inside that belly of mine.
The date that the bank had set for the short sale we've been waiting on to close escrow was September 13th. Which means, we should have heard something by August 13th about them moving forward. Well, we still haven't heard anything. Two weeks ago Tony and I went to see a house in Rincon Valley, which for those of you that aren't familiar with neighborhoods in Santa Rosa, it's one of the nicer neighborhoods heading further east out toward Sonoma, really good school district. The house was listed a bit out of our price range, so I didn't really get my hopes up about it, thinking there's no way they'd accept any offer we'd be able to afford. The house was brand new on the market, so we waited about a week and put in an offer. They countered, we countered back...the countering back happened last Friday. We heard on Monday that they accepted our offer. Our agent came over on Monday night and we signed all kinds of official paperwork. They now have our official paperwork and the title company has our deposit check. The home inspection is scheduled for next Friday. We'll see where it goes, but things are looking promising on this one. At least it's not a short sale! Maybe we'll be having a house warming and welcome baby stumbaugh gathering at our new house...let's hope!
I've officially been laid off from my office manager job with the landscape architect in Sebastopol, which honestly, is a relief. It looks like I'll be able to pick up more hours with Yourdictionary.com, so I think I'll be fine. I've also filed for unemployment.
Tomorrow we're leaving for Plunge! Three and a half days at Camp and Sons, looking forward to seeing and spending a relaxing time with many of you there... Tony and I celebrate our six year anniversary this Saturday while at Plunge, I can't believe it's been six years. He's still my most favorite person!
Our Welcome Baby Stumbaugh Hootenanny and Country Potluck is coming up in less than two months, October 17th. Xochitl will be sending an evite soon, if you don't receive it and you're wanting to attend, please let me or Tony know.
More soon...until then, we hope you're all doing wonderfully!!!
love,
~melanie (and tony).
