28 Weeks!

Driveway!

October 8, 2011
Chris, Ben, and Tony worked all day Saturday.

NEW LAND!

Chris and I have been casually looking for land for over a year now.  We weren't able to find exactly what we wanted until some friends of ours mentioned that they had bought 10 acres on High Rock Road, which is only a mile from where we live now.  There were two additional lots for sale, but very little was posted about them.  Chris and I decided to walk both properties a few times in the late spring/early summer and loved the trees and the creeks on the middle property.  Although it had many challenges with getting a driveway cut in and we weren't sure of how well it would perc, we decided to make an contingent offer in July.  Our final offer was accepted on Thursday, August 4th.  Long story short, we had Alan Clapp do the perc test and found out that there was only one usable Type A perc site at the rear of the property and one Type B site where we wanted to build the house.  My uncle Ronnie walked the land with us and we decided to adjust our offer.  The final, FINAL offer was accepted mid-September and we closed on Thursday, September 22nd.

Chris began cutting in a driveway on Saturday, October 1st.  (Allie helped, too!) It was a great day to be outdoors.  We are trying our best to work around all the beautiful beech trees and do most of the work ourselves.  We are so excited!!    

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We had another doctor's appointment on Friday (9/9).  I measured/weighed and we heard the heartbeat again.  Everyone is healthy and growing.  I have gained between 6-10 pounds and the baby is now the size of a large mango (over a pound).  She is moving the most at night, but I feel her in the morning and throughout the day, as well.  I went to my first children's consignment sale at Mt. Pleasant this week/weekend.  I volunteered to help sort and hang clothes on Tuesday after work so I could attend the preview sale on Thursday evening.  Chris met me at 6pm and we bought some of her first items at a great price:
Pack-N-Play (for the lake) $12
Bumbo Seat ($2)
Pink, Foldable Toy Chest ($5)
Eddie Bauer Shopping Cart Cover ($6)
Bath Tub ($6)
Boppy Pillow ($7) and Slip Cover ($6)
Large Black/Pink poke-a-dotted Diaper Bag ($4)
We ate at my Grandma Overbey's afterward and were excited to tell everyone what we found.  I went back early on Saturday for the 1/2 price sale.  I bought about 20 nice outfits, 2 hooded towels/wash mitten, bottle holder, a car seat protector, 5 new receiving blankets and 1 brand new thermal blanket for only $33.  I can get into this!
Proudly, I went back home and showed Chris my selections.  We went to Chick-Fil-A in Burlington to have breakfast and then over to Target to register.  We ended up in Greensboro at Babies-R-Us and were completely overwhelmed with all that comes with a baby.  Exhausted and she is not even here yet!  

Allie Playing in the Pond

We decided to hang around the house for Labor Day this year.  We were able to clean out the nursery and pick out the paint color (green) that Saturday.  We also took Allie to the neighbor's pond on Saturday to see if she would get in and swim.  She did and loved it!  We didn't think we were going to be able to get her out and back home.  My mom and dad came over Sunday afternoon.  Mom and I painted, while Chris and my dad walked the land we are looking at buying.  Allie went missing for a little while on Sunday and Monday.  We discovered she had been back in the pond when she came back soaking wet!

These are some pictures from this next weekend.  We registered at Target and Babies-R-Us most of the day on Saturday, but promised Allie we would take her to the pond when we got back home.  At 7 months she still needs lots of training, but she is such a smart dog.