Bitter Sweet...

Ethan and I have been doing things around the house for the past two weeks, we have not had a lot of us time, only fix the house time! Yesterday was finally the day, our realtor came over and put the For Sale sign in the yard. It is a bitter sweet feeling for me since I helped Ethan pick out this house five years ago, we have so many memories in this house we made a home. We got engaged, had parties, got married and conceived our first child (I know TMI). This home has a lot of memories that I know will be dear to my heart for a long time, and I know our next house will have even more memories. Maybe I am just being emotional because I am pregnant but I found myself a little saddened when I pulled up after work and the sign was there (not that it was not there when I left this morning). Our goal is to have the house sold and into a new house by Delivery Day... we can only hope this happens in this market!

Location, Location, Location, Price

So in order to get ready for Tinsley, we need to do a few things, not the least of which is to sell our house. We've disliked it for a while now (we don't like the 2-story aspect of it), but now we want to take advantage of historically low interest rates, but we don't want to refi since......we don't like the house. Also, we have quite a bit of room that we don't use (like around 800 sq. ft. of space) and Tinsley's arrival won't increase the usage by that much, so we need to downsize, which will help with the finances since Ashley's not gonna be working once Tinsley is in our lives.

Right now we're still finishing up a few things on the house to get it ready to sell. We plan to be on the market by next week. We'll likely stay in the same area since Keller has very good schools and we really like (and know) the area.

We hope to be sold and moved before Tinsley is born, but if not, we'll just wait until the new year.

Wish us luck!

Baby Girl

6:15 came very early for me since I am not a morning person, but since I knew I was going to find out the sex of our baby I woke up in a great mood! Ethan and I had breakfast and headed out to see Dr Moser. The apt was at 8 and by 8:30 we had our answer... we are going to be welcoming Tinsley Rose into the world mid December. After the appointment we headed to Shelley's office (Ethan's mom) in Bedford to let her "open her gift" and find out that she was going to have her first granddaughter! After she opened the box and discovered the onesie with "little princess" on it we called his sister and his grandmother. After I got to work I answered some emails and then updated my facebook status... shortly thereafter I was bombarded with emails and text messages. I am so grateful to all our friends and family for their support. We are super excited and I know as soon as Ethan lays his eyes on her he will be wrapped around her little finger!

We did get some pictures but they don't look that good. I will have to take pictures of our next few shopping extravaganzas!