all is fair in love and house hunting?

The new digs...

A few days after we got the paperwork from DR Horton officially terminating our contract we were able to meet up with our Realtor, John. He got us in to see five of the seven houses we wanted although one already had a contract in on it. The two we originally thought we were going to love, we hated, yet we couldn't stop gushing over one. You guessed it. The one that already had a contract. Turns out the sellers were in the processing of countering an offer thy had received. As the title suggests, we pulled a little Swiper action and snuck our offer on the table in the middle of their negotiations. Later that night we found out that the sellers would be meeting at 11am the next day to make a decision. So we waited. And waited. At 12:30pm we were sure that they went with the other offer.... it had just been too long. But, SURPRISE (insert sarcasm), our real estate agent called around 12:45pm and WE GOT IT!!

There are few more steps like the home inspection and appraisal before closing. Since we know all too well how wrong things can go we are trying not to get too excited before the keys are in our hands... but its hard ya'll! This one just feels right.

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Speaking of our real estate agent(s) if anyone is looking for a house in the Northern Virginia we HIGHLY recommend Century 21 New Millennium specifically John Queeney and Bob Scherbarth. Bob showed us over forty house and wrote 5+ offers in two months. John fought for us throughout the whole DR Horton debacle for over six months and got us this pad. If you want more info about our experiences with Century 21 New Millennium, John, or Bob feel free to message me!

Countdown Catch-up

When I was looking for a cute way to keep track of the bump progress I stumbled upon this Maternity Calendar inspiration by Miranda at One Little Minute and ran with it. I loved the idea but had NO energy to make a stencil and paint so I made my own slacker version. I found a similar T-shirt on Amazon, bought some flocked iron on numbers, and a roll of red duct tape from Michael's. I just eye-balled the layout and then broke out the iron. Each week I just add a little strip of duct tape to mark our progress.

Feeling like major poop

No real changes yet

Obviously trying to suck it in a little lot

First time seeing the little guy where he actually looked like a baby

Starting to feel a little better

Bump in its wee stages. Found out we're having a BOY!

I "popped"

Other people really started to notice the bump

Feeling like belly is doubling each night

Half-way there.

It's crazy to see how much my belly has grown in just a few short weeks. Here's hoping the next 20 weeks go by just as fast because I'm very impatiently waiting to have this little guy in our arms instead of stomach.

Life is about to get CUH-RAZY....

Since our last update about the house we have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more for permits.

We were starting to sweat bullets as we have other pressing deadlines that the house greatly effects. I know our builder had little control over the permit process but we needed a housing solution and couldn't afford to wait much longer. It got so bad that we told them if permits were not approved by July 1st we would have to walk away. Yeah, bad. But no sooner than the words were out of our mouth did our permits get APPROVED!

And for the best update of all, the reason we were sweating bullets, is this guy....

bowtie in utero.

We can't wait for this little squish to come. I know all moms say this but he is the cutest darn thing ever. At every ultrasound we've had he always has his hands up by his head or in his mouth at some point. He even had hiccups at this last ultrasound.

kicking away

sweetest profile

sitting, and wishing, and hoping, and praying

We are still patiently VERY IMPATIENTLY waiting on permits (and a yard).