Finale ultrasound

Well we were at the doctor's and waitting for him to show up into the room and my husband asked if we get a 3rd and finale ultra sound. I said, we can ask. at the end of the apppointment we asked about it and he said,"When you book your next appointment, ask for the last appointment of the day and we'll sneak into the ultrasound room and see what we can do.

So the two photos are done by the doc. I've got no clue as to what's going on, I guess that's why he's the doc and not the ultra sound tech. lol. but baby is head down and looking good.

So i need to work on my copying skills. but when in doubt, pinky out.

And This one... mark and the Doc were seeing it upside down of what i was seeing. They were seeing the bottom (cock your head to the right, chin to the left) with the kid covering his eye with his hand.

But i'm seeing it (cock your head to the left, chin to the right) I can see the brown full head of hair, with his thumb in his mouth with the fingers up into the cheek. nose closer to the wrist.

let me know if you can see it, or if I should re-copy.

Counting game?!?

So Mark and Baby Jared have officially bonded. Mark has started this counting game with the baby, Mark will start pushing (or poking) my tummy, He'll poke once and we will feel baby Jared kick back once, and Mark and Jared have that down. the end of last week Mark started to poke twice and Jared was still kicking only once. so through repetative pokings, (poor mom) Mark has officially made progress and just the beginning of this week Mark was studiously poking and counting to baby Jared, "one" "one, two" as he was repeating this Baby Jared i guess caught on to what Mark was wanting and Kicked back twice. "super!" well mark was so excited that "one, two, three." he jumps up to three pokes. well Jared only kicked back once at that point. "ha ha, and neener neener." I then told mark that he was at least Three years of age outside of the womb before he could probably start counting that high. Told him to give Jared a break and stick with 2 for right now. so it has happened that Jared is distinguishing between "one" and "one, two" at least on a more regular basis for right now.

Virtual tour of the House

So here is that Virtual tour of the house that I promised everyone. Well before the move in.

This is the Street that runs in front of our house. Our House is on the left (you can't see it.) Some nicer-upscale apartments are on the right, (once again, out of the shot.)

Front of house, still with the 'for sale' sign out front. but it's gone now. Mark pulled it up and out of the front yard the first FULL day we owned the house. Wed. Nov. 26, 2008!

The Back of the house. master bedroom is the first window on the left. The covered porch is on the far right, and inbetween the two smaller windows is the Fireplace chimmney.

The two side views. The left side has the carport and the right side is where the master bedroom is.

Noticably we don't have a gate to the backyard yet. lol. Also very glad we don't have any windows on the right side of the house. :D

Bathroom, Yes there are Fishies on the shower doors. We didn't put them there. There are also similar fishies on the bottom of the tub. and so much sink space, "What to do with it?" and that handle sticking outta the wall near the tub is a door into the Master Bedroom. Two Doors in the bathroom, Such a chore to go the bathroom now.

Kitchen. Nice cupboards and we get a dishwasher. We are also Upgrading in cupboard space as well. So very excited. You can see the Fireplace in the den area on the left of the photo.
Den, better shot of the Den area with the awesome fireplace, (that we'll use cause we live in Mesa). lol.

The Building Sketch of the floor plan layout. For all those who need visual map help.

Oops, i forgot to get shots of the bedrooms. oh well, you'll get to see the bedrooms with stuff in them later.

Braxton Hicks???

So This morning I do believe I had my first noticeable 'Braxton Hicks Contraction'. so I've officially deceided to hit braxton hicks with some sticks. GGRRRR! I woke up this morning about 6:30ish, With a lovely Charlie Horse in my left calf and just as the calf started to release. I heard Mark come home from his 12 hour shift at Intel. well then started to feel a cramping or tightening of my abdomen which started about my rib cage and traveled all the way down to my bellybutton (abt) and then kinda wrapped up and around to my low back. I don't know how long that happened for. but the charlie horse in my calf was still hurting and i was still focusing on the after pain of a charlie horse.

I also have reason to believe that this kid better come out walking and talking and ready for life, cause with all the crazy movement, I swear he is jumproping with the imbilicale cord or doing jumping jacks or some kind of arobics.

Moving on In!

So it's been a crazy week and two days, (not like I'm counting or anything.) we've been official homeowners for 9 days. It's been crazy and fun. so While we were moving in I still was making myself 'kind of" available for work, (cause we needed some kind of income cause mark only had to work one day on thanksgiving week. lol! well I've been packing and unpacking boxes like crazy this week. and haven't had a quiet time to sit down at the computer to check e-mail or blog or even do nessary things online, (like change our address for everything.)

So this is the mess outside the back door cause I haven't had time to break down boxes after the massive mayham of unpacking them. I'll get pic of inside the house later. so you'll have to forgive my decorating skills, (the husband was helping get rid of boxes inside the house by dumping them out on the floor and saying, "ok, one box down, it makes them easier to unpack." (he's so logical.)

It Finally happened!!!!

Sorry i have to do this in caps. " WE ARE OFFICIALLY HOMEOWNERS!!!" WE sLEPT IN THE HOUSE LAST NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME. AND (ON AN AIR MATTRESS). WE ARE SO VERY EXCITED. More later gotta help finish packing, as much as I can.

Not like we're counting down..... but.....

Well It's not like we are counting down the days, (which on Saturday will turn to hours, cause anything over 48 hours isn't worth counting in hours.) but tomorrow morning we will be getting the phone call which will contain the appointment time in which we will sign the Deed for the House, which will then start the process for the Recording of the Deed which will make the House officially ours. So we should be able to move in on Monday...sometime... So less than 4 days. We are SO EXCITED!!!

So Because I'm slightly distracted here is my Holiday Card to everyone. lol.

Anxiety

So, here we sit, Monday, NOV. 10. 14 days away from our closing date, leaving us 2 more mondays and exactly 2 weeks before we move into our house so we can have a family of 3 weeks. lol. (no pun intended, ok every pun intended).

Touch it, Lose it!!

So one of my co-workers gave me the best shirt today, and it fits. I love the saying on it. forgive the husband, he took the picture. it says..."Touch the belly, lose a hand." this goes out to all those pregnant woman, who are struggling with or have delt with the strangest people, (ones you don't even know) coming up to you and rubbing your tummy, like your budda and you are gonna grant them three wishes. Come on people.

So I haven't done any pics of the prego belly yet. I swear the camera really does put on 10 extra pounds. (or does it)? The husband was the amazing photographer for both of these pics. I'll try to get some better photos of the baby belly as it continues to expose itself.

Gymnastics

So lately I've really been feeling the tossing and turning of Baby Jared ____ Weeks. He is all over the place, and I'm starting to think if I start doing cartwheels maybe it'll settle things down. I'm still working and going strong, but the Husband isn't letting me over do it. with the moving that is coming up he is very particular about me getting help and not pitching in. (which totally goes against all standards of growing up on the farm.) and acording to my last check up weight gain is steady and not too much, we're sitting just under 5 pounds in gain. (going from what Mark and the doctor's assistant are telling me. I still don't know my weight, keeping my 6 year record.)

Home Inspections

Well here we are done with our Inspections. and for a house built in 1978 we didn't do to shabby.

Newer roof = still has flex to it (that is good), only two shingles pulled outta place by high winds

Water heater = 3-4 years old

NO TERMITES

NO VISIBLE MOLD

A/C unit = newer unit, so we don't have to use the Evap cooler (similar to swamp cooler)

those are the 5 main things. other than that just minor repairs here and there to bring her up to and above standards. So it's visited the doctor for it's checkup.

The story on how it happened

K, this is the story on how we got the house verbally and why we are in the process of getting it down on paper.

So on Sunday the 12th of Oct. 2008 my husband (the wonderful man of a calculator he is) dicided to tell me that we couldn't afford a home financially. Which bummed me just a tad, (i'm pregnant, I guess tad is an exauration). Then he did some more math and after I had started to accept the fact, he threw another curve ball at me saying his math was off the first time and apparently we could afford a house. At which time the spirits lifted and moments later became disheartened, cause he said he forgot a few expenses. (At which time I told him to shut the trap and quit doing math on Sunday and get ready for church) "I'm pregnant and I can't handle the flip-floping!" he did so and was forgiven. we went to church and after dinner at his mom's (who has willingly cooked Sunday dinner for the last 2.5 years. which makes my record a haven't cooked a Sunday dinner the entire time we've been married. Yeah for me!

So my husband was a little leary of looking at homes on Monday Oct. 13, but I told him lets at least look at what is out there at the lower prices. So we ran across about 5 that we liked and were willing to make low-ball offers on. The current one we are working on is the one we liked the most. we wrote and signed an offer for the home and offered them 70,000 asking for 3% down on closing and a home warrenty and closing on Nov. 24, due to holiday times.

Well on Oct. 14, tuesday our realtor called us and said that the listing agent (the person listing the house, working for the bank) called her and said that he would much rather see a family get the home than an investor and that he had submitted our offer that morning and had just recieved an offer from an investor and he was hoping that the bank would repond soon so he wouldn't have to submitt the investors offer, well the bank was slaking and he had to submitt the investors offer. so when we got the e-mail that said "Due to multiple offers recieved, Give us your highest and best offer." my husband and me started to think about it and he went into calculator mode. I told the realtor to go ahead and deal with one of her sellers (cause she had just received an offer on one of her listings.) While she was on the phone, she gottta call from the listing agent on our house and through a series of call backs she found out that the investor had probably said his original offer was his standing offer, and the bank was willing to counter us back at 74,900 and paying 3% for closing. we told her we would take it. She said she had already told the other agent that we would. (She knows us to well, plus we were discussing of offering 80,000 for it. we save 6k.). So verbally we had a home, at 5:00 pm on Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008.

On wed. Oct. 15, 2008, our steady and very patient realtor waited for the listing agents to send her the addendums (paperwork, to make it legal). The poor woman was told she would have them by noon, and didn't get them till 3-3:30 at which point she flew to our house and we signed and initaled more papers. To make the sale paperly legal.

Sorry about my long windedness I had to cover 4 days, I'll try to stay more updated.

I'm sure this is how our realtor feels after dealing with us. lol.

Starting the Process... to be ....

HOMEOWNERS!!!! Well technically Home-LOANERS. lol, We have found a house and have just signed the extra 'addendums' (paperwork, process started) to Legally Own a Home.

ok, so you are dieing to know what we got. here you go...

Square foot of House=1,114

Square foot of Lot=7,209

Year built=1978

How many levels=1

Pool=No

Parking=2 car carport

Kitchen appliances needed=stove/oven and fridge

bed/bath=2 bed/1 bath

oh yeah=walkin closet in master bedroom (oh yeah)

and the one you've all been waiting for, last year at this exact time 11/2007 original listing price = $197,500 Price we are getting it for on closing date of Nov. 24, 2008 = $74,900 with bank paying 3% of closing cost and us paying 3% (possibly more) down payment bringing total loan amount down to 70,406. making payments for a 2 bed/1 bath less than $700 a month (better than some/most apartments.

Located at Gilbert and Baseline. I'll give address out later. (so noone can steal it from us). muahahahaha. (evil laughter) and a lame pic of outside of it, i'll get a better one later. maybe get a virtual tour going later. lol. YEAH FOR US!!

Backgrounds

I've just figured out how to change my background. yeah. you you all enjoy the festive and futurly cute backgrounds I'll be using. LOL! :)

Baby's first name.

Well we have decided that with Mark's middle name being Jared that we are going to pass that down.

So the baby's first name is Jared. (we haven't decided on a middle name yet, and Mark is content with all three middle names, so I get to choose.) lol muahahah.

(sometimes the initals can get brutal)

#1 - Jared Xavier Weeks - JXW (not after anyone, unless you're thinking X-men)

#2 - Jared Eugene Weeks - Jew (after Julz's dad)

#3 - Jared Allen Weeks - JAW (after Mark's dad)

(I rest my case!) Well leave some comments and let me know what you guys think.

BABY'S GENDER REVEALED!!!!

Baby looking like it just barley getting up. not much movement, we have a sleepy baby. This shot was taken in 3D, you can see forehead and small facial features.

I don't know what the kid is doing with the arms in an X formation but maybe a karate specialist on our hands. Who Knows. this shot is in 3D, tender spots stillin skull, less 'alien-looking' a fuller skull.

Our little one is praying for good mommy and good daddy. top photo is a profile of baby's head and chest area. photo taken in regular ultrasound.

The top photo is baby's whites around the pupil (white circle in eye area) eyelid is closed (sealed) but as you can see, still very transparent. Bottom photo we decided on some black mail for later and we are looking up the nostils of the baby, with upper lip and chin in photo. (arrow pointing it out).

Baby's Foot, long toes it's gonna take after mark with 3 knuckles on each foot. :D just kidding.

We Have a Thumb sucking baby, at least that is what it looks like. any ideas for breaking bad habits early? lol.

I'm proably killing you with all these other features because you want just the one feature revealed, i'm stalling on purpose. So when we found out Mark said, "Boy OH Boy, OH BOY, OH Boy, OH Boy." and there is no mistaking it, spead eagle and you can see, IT'S A BOY!!!!

Names imput?

Do you wanna have a say or an imput or just help out? click the comments at the bottom of the post and leave a comment with a series of names that you think would go. I'll let you know more on MONDAY!! It's the big day. and I'll also be posting the date and time of our house warming party (when we get a house), so you will have the date and time and address of our new location. or maybe i'll leave an e-mail, that you can click on and e=-mail me if you wanna come and then you will get the address. I don't know leave a comment and let me know what would be the best.

~Julz & Mark & Baby~

Update on child's gender

We will find out the Gender of our new addition on Sept. 29, 2008. so keep yourself posted.

:)

Baby Clock

Houses for sale.

Hello again to all, we are totally excited. we have decided to take advantage of the housing market. we have officially signed papers to put an offer down on a house which we both like.

My current job - till febish

I currently work at a massage clinic in Mesa, AZ. if you click the link and then go to the "about us" section. I like the photos of the different therapists that work at this location. oh, I guess I should put up a link to their website since they put my blog on their website. :)
http://www.wellnesstherapyclinic.com/index.asp

Health and Welbeing of those involved.

Well I (Julz) have been very healthly and my only major craving.... SALSA! And still up and going. I've still had no morning sickness. Baby had been good and heart is still beating faster than ever (around 158 BPM = beats per minute). Mark is doing good and enjoying his work. We are both totally excited and mark is now talking to my stomach. Fun Times!

Baby's First Photo Shot!

Here is baby's first photo shot.

First row left side is close up of child's head and upper chest. First row right side is Baby chillin'.

Second row left side is 3D shot of child with almost 'batman' type mask on. brain is still exposed. Second row right side is top view of child the 'butterfly' shape is baby's brain.

Third row left side is closer view of baby kickin' it in the "hammock style." Third row right side is same view only zoomed out.

Here we go!

First Child on the way, Aug. 6, 2008 I was 12 Weeks Pregnant. Due on Feb. 18, 2009.