Our Tall Tale Life: 9 Weeks: Oh, What a Week...!

How many major life events can possibly be engaged simultaneously? Well, besides the fact that we were married 9 1/2 months ago, we are now pregnant, in escrow, I'm in the midst of job interviews, and yep, we've even stood guard to a major Forest Fire in Prescott this week. Oh, did I say, escrow???

YEP!!

We had a house offer accepted over the weekend (third try was a charm)! The house is our dream home, atop a hill with spanning mountain views, on a level half acre of kid-friendly play space, 1610 sq ft. + a basement (just like back east!), 3 beds, 2 baths, a spare den, stone-hearth fire place, a wrap-around porch, trees, one of which being a huge red-delicious apple tree :) It also has a 2 car garage under the house, with interior stairs connecting you to main level, and the driveway encircles the house on the main level in the front and to the garage in the back. All we would like to do to the place (pending a good inspection) is possibly put in some new flooring in certain rooms, strip some wall paper and paint, and eventually some new counter tops to upgrade the kitchen. As of now, close of escrow will be July 30th, but we may rent back to the couple for a month while they figure out their next step... that hasn't been confirmed yet. So we're looking at a August or early September move-in... hooooray! Fingers crossed on the inspection though first.

Did I also mention Forest Fire? Yes. Living IN the forest, is a little scary in terms of that. This was a human inflicted fire, but has spread to about 7000 acres last I've heard. Began just 2.5 miles north of us near one of our favorite hiking areas in Granite Mountain. We stood-by on possible evacuation notice for about 6 hours Tuesday (after it began around 11:30am), so I packed up as many of our important irreplaceable items as fast as possible in the event we needed to leave. Luckily, as the sun started to slip down, we had enough insight that the fire had only moved further northeast of us (along with all the smoke) and that we would be safe to sleep at home. Two days later, the fire continues on, still at 0% containment, however, I can't even see a trace of smoke in the air from our house, quite a change from Tuesday. Sounds like the Fire Teams are getting their hands on this and "holding their own". Luckily our new home will be on the opposite end of town and not IN the national forest!

So now, back to Baby updates :) My parents came up last weekend for Father's Day; my mom cleaned out her closet of clothes that she once found fashionable, but no longer does (you know, the "maternity" style loose/baggy clothing that was in style, or maybe still is? Well, she bought quite a few of those items in the past few years.... and now they are mine all mine!!) I'm wearing them already :) Loose stretchy clothes are my friend right now. We hung out at all the events with live music downtown, and I sent the boys golfing again for Papa's Day. Went back to visit my Dr. for the second time this morning- it was rather uneventful. He pretty much told me everything looks good from my lab work, to the ultrasound, my blood pressure, and weight (gained 3 pounds so far, but that's good because I was slightly underweight when I first weighed in). I've gone from 131 to 134 lbs. It was too early to try and hear the heartbeat using a Doppler, so I go back in 3 weeks, on my BIRTHDAY, July 8 (!!!) to hear the heartbeat again! I will be just about 12 weeks then, but have to go a few days early as we'll be leaving for New York. I'll be comfortable officially announcing after that appointment. As always, simply can't wait :)