We bought a house :-)

I'm very pleased to report that we have bought our first home! I'd post a picture but they took it off MLS before I thought to save one. I guess we'll have to take our own pictures once we move in. We are staying in Airdrie and even get to stay in the same ward. We did consider moving back to Calgary but, for the price we paid, we would have had to settle for something at least 30 years old (needing lots of work) with huge condo fees and not in any neighborhoods we like. The one we found will be just perfect for us and we could happily fit two or three munchkins (when we DO decide to have more kids) without feeling imprisoned in our home. I love the fact that it's only 2 years old, has a nice big kitchen (to store tupperware in, of course) and backs onto a nice soccar field instead of a road. Plus we'll be SOOOOOOOOO excited to set up a room for the baby, whom my brother has named "Guillermo". I told him there's no way the baby will keep that name once he or she is born, especially if it's a girl, but for now it IS kind of cute.

Speaking of baby, I'm starting to have a little preggo tummy! Here's a picture Kevin took of me at the beginning of May:

I'm a bit bigger now, but you get the picture. I'm 17.5 weeks along now and I can hardly wait until we go for the ultrasound in mid June. Hopefully we'll be able to get some cute pictures from that one!

2nd Trimester, here we come!

Yesturday was Kevin's birthday. Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

I haven't been very good about updating this frequently but our computer has been acting up and these posts seem so uncolourful without a picture or two to go in them. Oh well, maybe I'll be able to add some later.

It's been a busy time for us lately. I just got back from a wonderful vacation with my cousin. We went down to Salt Lake to visit our Aunt and Uncle whom we don't get to see very often. It was lots of fun but I sure missed Kevin while I was away. It was a good opportunity to spend some quality girl time with my cousin and my aunt (we did a LOT of shopping) and I got some great deals on some maternity clothes down there. When we weren't shopping my uncle made sure we were entertained by taking us to some sporting events. We got to see the Jazz whip some butt in a playoff game, which was really cool.

Things with the baby seem to be going well, although he or she isn't saying much yet, so it's hard to ask ;-). I had the big pre-natal apointment just before I went on my trip and the dr. had no trouble finding the little heartbeat with the doppler. It was really neat to hear the swooshing sounds. Now I'm @ 14.5 weeks and looking forward to being sent for the big ultrasound in a month or so. Hopefully they will be able to tell us if I'll be using the floral quilt or the safari animal one. We'll be so excited either way but I want to know what kind of cute clothes I can squirrel away if I find them on sale! I'm going to be honest and say I won't be knitting any booties. I already have too many hobbies.

One last exciting morsel of news: We will be buying our own house! We were pre-approved for a mortgage and we will be looking at some places with the realator this week. Hopefully we can find a place we just love and everything will go smoothly so we can move in durring the summer and have everything all set up and ready before our little one arrives.