Homeowners!

We successfully closed on our new home this morning- started signing papers promptly at 9am and we were in the car on our way to "our house" by 10:10! We took a quick look through the house with our painter and he was going to begin the cosmetic transformation that day! We can't wait to visit in a day or two when he's just about finished. We will officially move in, or sleep in, the house next weekend, Memorial Weekend 2010. We thought that would be a good way to remember when we moved in.
So Cheers to us! We have a long summer of project ahead of us to make this house our home. We'll post updates as we work. For now, here are some "before" photos. I realized when I posted these I literally left out an entire section of the home which includes the porch, family room, playroom and mudroom, so you'll just have to wait to see those at another time.

Front portion of home, to the left is the garage

Random lawn shot.
From the screened porch looking to part of the backyard.

Wanted to see the backsplash and counter tops.

Backyard.

Formal living room.

Lovely double garage....but wait, there's more....

....and a 3rd stall! STORAGE!

Future home of "John's Bar" after we get it built.

Basement, aka, Man Cave.

Basement guest room (Nana and Papa's Pad)

Our brand new water heater.

Madeline's new room. Soon to be purple paradise!

New baby's room...soon to be lovely shades of yellow. Girls' bathroom.

Master bedroom, sweet.

It's a girl!

Tuesday afternoon we had our 20 week ultrasound- a healthy baby girl is on her way! Like Madeline, she's measuring one week ahead, which basically means nothing. Brain, heart, spine...all looking beautiful! During the ultrasound I asked the tech if she could please try to get a good shot of the baby's feet. If you remember Madeline's toe story, you know why. And if you don't, click the links below to take a peek into the past....but don't read on until you've read these links....otherwise you'll be confused.



http://themaslows.blogspot.com/2009/05/story-of-madelines-toe.html
http://themaslows.blogspot.com/2009/06/cast-off.html



Low and behold, our new baby girl will also have the same unique situation but on her left foot. Some people might think this is horrible, maybe a defect, problematic, an issue, or think 'oh that poor baby'. Well, I think those thoughts crossed my mind the first time I saw Madeline's toe. But, after it's all said and done, the only inconvenience to the entire situation is waiting and finding parking at the hospital!


Clearly this is a genetics thing- somewhere in either John's or my blood line a history of this condition exsists and we simply make babies with an extra digit. It's believed that it's a sign of luck and intellegence. I'll take that :-)


The great part about doing this all over again is that we already have the name of a fabulous doctor and we'll just have to give him a call to take care of our new baby girl when the time comes. For now, we have about 20 more weeks of development until we meet our new princess.