Life Stuff…

This last week has been crazy and overwhelming, to say the least. I should probably be posting my weekly updates on here, so I will be doing that later. I didn’t even think about this until now.

So, I started my new job in Mustang on the 8th. This new job comes with a salary increase, which changes our lives pretty significantly. With a baby on the way, an hour drive is a little much. So we have been talking about moving to the Mustang/Yukon area. We have been concerned with our credit scores and being able to get approved. So we decided to give it a shot on Monday. This guy wasn’t able to qualify us. I was VERY disappointed and gave up on looking at houses. We ended up getting referred to another lender, and we found out Friday afternoon that we were pre-approved! We’ve been watching houses for several weeks, so we have seen that they are going VERY quickly. We found one we LOVED and decided to make an offer. We learned that offers are only being accepted well over asking price. Basically, people are coming to Oklahoma and paying cash for homes. So our lender, our contingent appeal (contingent upon us selling our current home), and our type of loan, we are the least appealing buyer right now. Offers are being accepted at $25k over asking price. So this totally changed our budget and the types of homes we were liking at.

We decided to put an offer in for a home, and upon doing so had a stressful conversation about budget, what we want to do, and max house price. Normally, these conversations are stressful for a bit and then we work it out. How I felt when this started getting stressful was scary. I could feel in my body the stress, which terrified me! So we stopped the conversation for a while, but finally got it worked out. Our offer was not accepted. Our realtor suggested we get our house on the market NOW and not look at houses to purchase until we have a lot of interest and/or an offer on our home. So that’s where the whole house buying situation is currently. That all was Friday night and a bit of Saturday.

We will be putting our house on the market, which means we need to clean it up and pack up a ton of stuff. Wonderful. Lol! But exciting. So that’s what we will be working on! Don’t worry, we will be hiring movers this time! It’s a lot…starting a new job, selling our house, buying a house, moving, baby on the way. It’s been a lot to process. Also, being an adult sucks! While my new salary is a big change, buying a house is still limited, budget-wise, and just looking forward. The realtor is coming by tomorrow to walk through and get our house on the market, so YAY!

We also probably will be changing our Gender Reveal party to a different day. I finally got called by the high risk OB to get scheduled—August 19th. Apparently they don’t see you until week 18, which would have been nice to know. Since it’s been so long (will be 9 weeks) since we’ve seen Baby A and we want to confirm gender earlier than that, we decided to schedule an ultrasound at one of the fancy “entertainment” places. We also really want one of those stuffed animals that has a recording of the heartbeat. So, we have our next OB appointment on the 29th (next week!) and we will be having this ultrasound on that day too! We will be at 15 weeks 1 day on that day. We are VERY excited. I cannot wait.

We have a LOT going on all at once! It’s crazy, but exciting. I am feeling REAL pregnant too—belly wise. In 2 days, there was a ton of growth. I felt it, so I made Austin take a pic and compare it to our weekly pic from Wednesday. I definitely have a bump and sitting/laying is getting uncomfortable. Very exciting. I guess we won’t be buying nursery stuff until we are in our new house! Which sucks, because I wanted it to be done around our gender reveal. But it’s fine! Having a new nursery will be even more exciting to decorate and plan!

Today we are 13 weeks 4 days! 12 sleeps until we get to see our baby again! SO EXCITED!