We're Pregnant!

Brad and I are pregnant! We found out September 22nd when the doctor confirmed it. We are about 7 weeks along which puts the baby at being about the size of a 1/2 inch blueberry. The due date is May 29th, which is 5 days after school gets out, we couldn't have planned it better! We had our first ultrasound today and we got to hear our blueberry's heart beat, a strong 156 beats per minute! It was so much fun and so exciting to hear and see the baby, I never thought it would be such a sweet sound!

As of right now, we're not planning on finding out the sex of the baby. I definitely want it to be a surprise and Brad hasn't fully made up his mind yet.

We'll be updating our blog as we know more so check back in!

Our New Home

Brad and I moved into our new home today. We closed yesterday and spent the night on an air mattress, it was super fun, ha ha.
We had some wonderful people that helped us today. Rick and Vicky, Brad's aunt and uncle came up from Colorado Springs; my parents came up from Lakewood; Carrie, a co-worker of mine came in from Eaton; Sarah and Jay came from Greeley and Brad's parents from Windsor. We got a lot done in pretty quick order I think. We had everything out of our 10 foot by 25 foot storage unit by noon and in the house. While the boys went back on the 2nd trip for the big bedroom furniture us girls started working in the kitchen. I must say us girls are more efficient than the boys. The ladies (with the exception of me) got that kitchen cleaned really quickly; then all of us girls got the kitchen boxes unloaded and put away in short order.
I am very grateful though to the men that did all the really heavy lifting. I did not want to have to move any of that stuff.
I do have to tell a cute little story though, Aiden (Sarah and Jay's son) and Quirt (Carrie's son) we helping us take things off of the moving truck and into the house. When we got to the part where we needed to get the boxes from the "attic" we needed someone to push them more to the front. I put Aiden and Quirt up there and they pushed the boxes forward so we could reach them. They were great little helpers. They also helped test out the house for kid friendliness.
I will post pictures as we get room settled so those of you that can't make it up here can see our new home.
Thank you to everyone that helped today. We really appreciate it.

1st move

We have officially moved out of the condo. We are now living with Brad's parents, Steve and Gail, for the next 3 weeks unless we can close early. The condo isn't completely empty but about 90-95% done. So for the next 3 days I'll be visiting Greeley to pack the kitchen, master bath and the other delicate stuff that we have to move. Brad will have to come and spackle the holes and then go back and paint them. That's our deal as of now any way.
Thank you to our parents and our friend Jay for helping us move all of our BIG furniture!

Our New House!!!!

Brad and I put an offer on a home in Windsor and it got accepted so now we are under contract!! It is a beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with a lovely kitchen, dining and living area. It also has a 3 car garage for our morotcycles!!! As of right now we are supposed to close on August 14th but we're hoping to move that up since we have to be out of the condo by July 31st.

We had our inspection today and it went pretty well. Our inspector, Jon from I.D. Inspectors, was great. He really took the time to talk us through everything which is nice since we're 1st time homeowners. The most significant thing he found was a small gas leak on the water heater.

Anyway, the inspection went well and we're moving forward with the purchase of our home!!

LIfe back in Colorado

So we've been back in Colorado for almost 4 weeks and it has been busy. We will officially be landlords as of August 1st. So, that means Brad and I have been house hunting and packing the house up so we can be out of the condo by July 31st while both working. Brad started his new job on June 22nd and I am working 6 hours a week in Eaton for the summer.

We have looked at a lot of different houses in Eaton, Severance and Windsor. We haven't written an offer yet but we are pretty sure we are ready to write on a home in Windsor. We are very excited to be starting yet another chapter of our lives together.

Final 3 nights in Thailand

For the last 3 nights in Thailand we stayed in Phuket at Indigo Pearl. When we pulled up it was wierd because there were guards that walked around the taxi with the mirrors that look under the car, like we were on a military base or something. Then we were taken to our room by golf cart while a 2nd cart was needed just for our luggage. The building the room was in wasn't all that impressive, I was beginning to wonder about where we were staying. But once we walked inside, we knew we were at a beautiful hotel. We had a private salt water pool and they even set it up for our honeymoon.

While we were on Nai Yang beach we ate dinner on the beach, got 3 massages (1 was 2 hours), and went scuba diving. While we were scuba diving Brad pointed out an octopus to me and I saw an eel swimming between 2 areas of coral so I got to watch him for longer than I've ever seen an eel out in the open. For our last meal in Thailand we ate at one of the hotel's restaurants, The Rivit. It had such a cool atmosphere. We were the only 2 people in the whole restaurant so the service was phenomenal. They filled our water constantly, used white gloves when they came to reset our utensils or switch out for different knives.

Nai Yang was nice and quiet and we could walk everywhere. There weren't any stores, but after all the shopping in Chiang Mai that is probably a good thing. This was a beautiful way to end our honeymoon.

From the time we left our last hotel, Indigo Pearl, until we arrived at our front door, travel time was 40 hours and 14 minutes. 40 hours included a 9 hour layover in Tokyo and a 6 hour lay over in L.A. Needless to say, Brad and I were spent and it was straight to sleep for us.

A wonderful honeymoon to start our lives together.

Wednesday in Chiang Mai

Tuesday night when Joe dropped us off he said again that we could wait to pay him until he dropped us off at the airport on Thursday. He was so trusting, so different than here in the States.

Wednesday morning Joe picked us up again and off we went to the factories in the area. We stopped at a silk factory, jade factory, teak factory, silver factory, and jewelry factory. The silk factory was the most informative. First they silk worms are in a tray where they eat as much as possible, then they make they're cacoons, and then the cacoons are boiled to get the fibers off the cacoons. While the cacoons are being boiled the fibers are wound together into silk thread then they use looms to make the fabric. The teak factory was the most dangerous for us, we ended up buying a bar that should be here in late July.

We visited multiple temples. They were very neat to see but Brad and I both felt awkward because we don't understand the Budhist religion and didn't know what the rules were.

We enjoyed our day but were ready for dinner on our way back into town, again we went with Joe's suggestion and it was wonderful. We headed back to the night market after dinner and a massage and finished up our shopping. For the little amount of shopping we did in all our other stops, we sure made up for that in Chiang Mai. We decided to take a tuk tuk back to the hotel because we just had too much to carry back by hand.

Thursday morning it was time to head to the airport with Joe. We got to the airport and headed back to Phuket with 4 suitcases when we arrived with only 2, plus we had shipped 2 boxes home. Like I said, we did a lot of shopping.