Big belly

So I decided that I finally have a "preggo" belly and not the "fat" belly anymore so I can now post pictures :) This is me at 22 weeks, I am starting to get a little uncomfortable at nighttime and its getting harder for me to sit up and move around, its only going to get worse :) Bring it on! I had an appt last Thursday and heard the heart beat again and he sounds great! We could also hear him moving around in there, he is a VERY active boy! My Dr. said thats great and means he is healthy! We went to church today and had 2 people ask when I was due so I've finally made it to "preggo" belly! Anyways hope everybody is having a fabulous Sabbath day!

New house

We finally moved into our new house this last weekend! My mom, brothers and sister came down to Vegas last Friday night. We went out to a fantastic Mexican restaurant and took them on a tour of our HUGE casita :) Saturday morning we woke up early and started loading the truck. Luckily Vegas was going through a cold spell and it was only about 89 degrees at 7:00 am. Funny story...I had to use the ladies room (imagine that) so I drove my car down to the storage office and parked right outside the gate, well they were closed until about 9:00 so I go back to get into the gate and it LOCKED! Our storage unit was at the very end and so of course nobody could hear me! I kept turning the panic alarm on and still nothing. So I knew I either had to wait til the office opened or til somebody went through the gate. I think I was out there for about 20 minutes...while all these scary people were walking by (this was in North Las Vegas by the way) Finally somebody pulled up on the other entrance, so I ran over there :) HAHA can you all see that? classic! I started explaining my story to him and then he all of a sudden said "uh Spanish?" So I just said sorry and ran inside :) I wasnt too happy!

Anyways we got everything packed and started on our way to Prescott Valley. Mikey decided to take off a little before us because he knew the truck only went 70 mph and about 35 mph up hills. He also had to go around the Hoover dam, so anyways Mikey got here like an hour and a half before us so he decided to start unloading...such a man :) We got there around the same time David got there with our new washer and dryer!! YAY!! They are so awesome! We got things all unloaded and here came the fun part! UNPACKING! AAHH!! I forgot how much crap we had.
We took my family to the Diamondbacks game down in Phoenix and had a great time! I had an ultrasound today and got to see our little guy again, I'll post pics once I get them scanned onto the computer.

He really is a part of our family!!

So last night we ate Little Caesars pizza and within 5 minutes of finishing my yummy pizza and breadsticks our little boy was jumping all over my belly!! It was the funniest thing in the world! It was the first time Mikey had felt him move!
My last day of work is this Friday! I'm so excited! I'm going ot miss all my friends there and a couple patients :) But I'm way excited to finally get our house!
I changed our blog to private so hopefully I did it right and everybody is able to view it.
Have a great week!

Last chance

I'm going to set our blog to private so whoever wants to look at it please let me know (none of Mikey's stalkers please)
You have til the 24th

Hope everybody is having a great week!

FINALLY!

Its only taken us almost two years and looking at about 100+ homes making offers on probably 25 of those and we have finally found a home and had an offer accepted!

So we can finally put some pictures up on the blog. We didn't want to first thing and jinx it. We have finally found a house. On top of that it is basically everything we have ever wanted in an area that is right for us. Vegas just wasn't right for Lindsey and I. Houses right on top of eachother, little tiny lots, every house looks the same and just not where we would want to raise kids took us a little while for us to figure out Vegas wasn't right for us.

So after several weeks straight of fasting for Me (Michael) and Lindsey eating infront of me to help me remember I was fasting and she wasn't because she can't now that she's prego. We both felt good about looking into a little town in Arizona called Prescott. Years ago I remember John saying how much he loved Prescott while he was on his mission and how much he would love to over there. I also remember thinking I would love to move there while I was in college when we had a missionary from there come to dinner at my parents. He said that it is a great area basically Portland weather without the rain. Can you say perfect?

I made a trip to Phoenix for work and thought maybe I should just make a trip up and take a look at a couple homes. I was talking to Lindsey as I drove into the town of Prescott Valley and the second I came up and over the hill I said "yep this is it". It was an awesome feeling to know this was where we should be. We made an offer on a house that I thought we would really like after looking at a ton of homes that day in all different areas. We didn't get it :(

Two weeks later Lindsey and I woke up at 5am and drove to Prescott on a saturday to look at homes for the day. It was a good thing we didn't get the house I put an offer in because Lindsey didn't really like it that well. We looked at a ton of homes and decided on one. It was actually one I looked at a couple weeks earlier and after seeing it again Lindsey and I both fell in love with it. We made an offer and a couple days later we were able to come to an agreement with the builder. The house is a custom built home. It was finished almost a year ago and the builder has been trying to sell it since then. We were able to get it for a great price and feel great about it. We will close August 4th and make the move August 7th or 8th.

One last thing sorry I keep talking. When I called mom and dad the first time I made the trip mom answered and I said "As Brigham Young once said This is the place". Ok now on to the pictures.


I tried to put these on in the opposite order but I'm an idiot so lets act like I did it on purpose and start at the back of the house. This is our view out the back of the house and to the right. We have a small (10X15 foot) covered patio out the back.



Here is our view out and to the right. The house you see is about 300 feet away. Our lot is just over 2 acres. All the houses in the development are custom built homes on 2 acres. Our lot is about 350feet deep and around 250 feet wide. Leaves us a very large back yard for our dog to run around on.

Ok now back into the house or I guess into the house. This is standing in the great room looking back to the kitchen. You can see Lindsey she is out on the patio coming back inside. The kitchen has really nice cabinets and a nice breakfast bar as you can see.

Here is in the breakfast nook just off to the side of the kitchen looking back into the greatroom. We have some built-ins that will be nice for the bigscreen and a gas fireplace. You can see the front door from here and off to the left is a hallway with two bedrooms and an extra full bathroom. Now that you can see the front door how bout we go outside and see the front of the house?

Here is the front of the house and Michael's favorite feature other then the fact its on two acres and our neighbors aren't right on top of us. The three car garage! It will be nice to finally be able to wake up and jump in the car without having to scrape windows, or have to worry about if its raining etc.

Some of Our Favorites

Lindsey's favorite profile picture. She thinks it looks like it is trying to do the Dr. Evil "One million dollars" thing.


Sarah this one is for you and whoever else remembers how I (Michael) used to "show us your muscles" when I was younger? I don't remember doing it but that must have been where the exhibitionist in me started. If this one is starting this young we are in trouble.