Cannon Beach

Gabe's looking over the list of potential houses I compiled on Saturday. I figured I should edit our picture from the weekend and throw some up here because it feels like it's been forever since I've posted any pictures!

We didn't get a very early start to the beach on Sunday. We had to "clean" the house so it was ready for the open house in the afternoon. Not that it wasn't already clean...but wood floor start looking yucky, and so does the carpet in the bedroom, after just a few days. Plus with extra people in and out of the house it needed a little sprucing up. Then we decided to drive around some of the neighborhoods we've been thinking about relocating to on the west side. Gabe isn't very familiar with the southwest part of Portland, and it's been years since I've spent any time over there. So, we took our own little tour. All that to say, we didn't make it to the coast until well after noon. And Cannon Beach was packed. I guess I really wasn't prepared for the amount of people that would be there on a beautiful holiday weekend. I should have known!

Well, the traffic in Cannon Beach made us decide quickly to get out of there, so we drove further south to hang out at Hug Point instead. I've always liked it there. Small beach but nice to explore when the tide is out. After soaking up the sun we decided to go check into our bed and breakfast to get settled in before attempting another go at Cannon Beach for dinner. We had much better success with dinner. Like all beach towns, there isn't much of a night life and things were getting nice and quite by 6:30.

Today we walked the beach some more and decided to make the drive back into town a little early. We were both afraid that the traffic would be crazy and sadly there are always accidents on these holiday weekends. Plus we had BBQs to get back to! First stop was my mom and dad's and then we headed over to Jen's. Overall, a great start to "summer". If only school were out already!
-h

We have an offer!

After almost a dozen showings, we got our first offer on the house last night.
It's a good offer. The buyer offered full price and requested we pay $2,000 toward closing. She also requested our new washer and dryer be included. We countered to keep the washer and dryer since it was spendy and is also brand new. We'll see what happens! I'm still trying not to get my hopes up because a lot can still go wrong. Will she accept our counter? Inspection? Appraisal? If she accepts the offer that opens up a whole new can of stress. Finding a new house! And FAST!

There may be 3 more showings tomorrow and then our Realtor is still holding the open house on Sunday afternoon. Of course, this is all just in case things don't work out with this first offer. I guess I'll have to find some way to make myself scarce tomorrow. Sounds like the papers I need to grade will be making their way to Starbucks instead of being done in the sunshine of the back yard. Gabe's going to be busy "playing" with the boys in his boss' garage so he'll be scarce as well!

I'm thrilled about the wonderful three day weekend ahead. The weather is going to be wonderful! We have a few fun things planned. TV on the Radio concert tomorrow night, some time at the coast, and a maybe even a BBQ or two. After all the weekends we've spent working on the house recently, we're both really excited about this weekend to play.

With the house consuming so much of my time, energy and mind...I suppose I should give a pregnancy up date as well. I had my 28 week appointment yesterday. The little guy's heart beat was in the 140's. I had to get the rhogam shot since I'm of the negative blood type. They took a bunch of blood which I got results for today. My glucose levels are normal but the doctor is worried about my iron levels. So I'll also be adding iron to the handful prenatals, omega-3 and calcium I have to take at different times during the day. Good thing pills have never bothered me. It's the remembering to take them that I'm concerned about.

I hope everyone enjoys their three day weekend as much as I hope to.
Only 3 more weeks!
-h

A relaxing finish

As stress filled as this weekend was, at least I got to end it well. (See previous post about all we had to get done this weekend.) Last week Gabe surprised me and scheduled me a prenatal massage for 4:15 this afternoon. So, I got to leave him with the last of the work we could accomplish today to go relax for an hour. It was amazing! Especially after all the work I did yesterday. I think I'll schedule myself another one for next month after school is out. Unfortunately, I don't think Gabe is nearly as relaxed. I've tried to talk him into getting a massage but he'll have nothing to do with it. Maybe it's because he's so dang ticklish! I have the best husband! And the best girl friends. They gave me a gift certificate for my birthday in September and I finally put it to good use.

Also, our house if officially on the market (as of tomorrow.) We spent about an hour and 1/2 doing paper work tonight with the realtor. She'll list it in the morning and then have the broker showing on Tuesday some time. I think she's going to have the first open house next week! We definitely aren't getting our hopes up. But, keep your fingers crossed!

Only 4 more weeks until summer. This weekend of beautiful weather sure made me wish it was already here.
-h

The List!

I've been feeling crazy overwhelmed this week just thinking about all the things we have to get done this weekend. Well, I got home last night and Gabe was already hard at work painting. He had to go rent a big ladder today in order to finish. We've been outside working for 7 hours today and this is the small dent we made in the list. (Finished things are in Red. UPDATE: Things finished Sunday are in Blue.)

Exterior
Finish painting
(trim & railings in front)
House numbers
Mail box and porch light
Pull weeds (front, back, and driveway)
Get bark dust
Lay bark dust
Power wash patio and garage
Set up yard furniture
Wash windows
Plant garden
Plant flowers in front
Mow lawn

Interior
Put up shelf in office
Organize back room
Paint master bed room
Patch in bathroom
Wash bathroom walls and ceiling
Kitchen baseboard
Pack up extra kitchen stuff
Put away baby stuff
Stage spare room
Hang picture in living room
CLEAN!!!!!!!

I was really hoping we'd get more accomplished but I don't think it would have been physically possible. I'm already sore from pulling weeds, unloading a yard and a half of bark dust, and spreading a yard and a half of bark dust. (ok...maybe it was only a yard. Gabe did unload the half yard.)
Now I think we're going over to Josh and Danelle's to relax for the evening. Josh is going to throw some salmon on the BBQ. (It's great having a fisherman as a friend.)
-h

Dancin' in the morning

This morning I was sitting at my desk before school started when a couple of girls from first period walked in. They were talking about the bright pink pants that one of the girls had on. She very matter-of-factly tells her friends that this will probably be the last time she's able to wear them. Her reason made me laugh. She says, "Since I had to dance my way into them this morning, I don't think I'll be wearing them anymore." What a great way to describe what all women have done at one time or another. We've certainly all been there at one point! Lucky for me, the whole baggy thing was popular when I was in high school and college. I'm not sure why the skinny jeans have come back into style. I guess it's so ladies can get their dancing done in the morning!
-h

Milestone

It's really hard to believe, but I'm entering the third trimester of pregnancy today! I can't believe how quickly the days, weeks, months are actually flying by! It doesn't really seem possible that in three months our little guy will be here. I actually get a little overwhelmed (and excited) when I think about it. Maybe it's because I really need to get over one hurdle at a time. The first hurdle I'm focused on right now is finishing the school year. Every day is getting a little harder at this point. I'm tired, they're tired. Not a great combination. Not to mention that I'm about a month behind in curriculum. We just finished our ancient Rome unit and I'm suppose to get us through the Middle Ages and Renaissance before the year is over. That's about 1500 years of history in 5 weeks! Not going to happen.
-h