Amundson Family Blog: Woohoo!

I did it! I did a year's worth of blogging in 14 days, around 130 posts. My goal was to catch up by Blake's birthday but had a couple day setback when my laptop charger sparked and started smoking. Feels so good!

We've had a lot going on lately....getting our house ready to go on the market, having showings/open houses, bought/sold a car, looking for a new house, Gabe has been traveling and working alot so we don't see him much...oh, and did I mention I'm prego?

Looking for houses has been interesting. There is barely anything for sale in the area we want to be in. Several of the houses we've looked at have sold the day they go on the market with multiple offers. Hopefully we'll have good luck selling our house too. We put an offer on a foreclosure that didn't work out about a month ago, and then just a couple weeks ago signed a purchase agreement on a place in the exact area we want to be in. The house was on the market for 2 days and we won the bid against 2 other parties. Even better, we beat a higher cash offer because they had a bunch of contingencies. We verified it's not worth remodeling, so we're going to tear it down. We've been meeting with a builder we liked from when we were looking at houses before (less than 2 years ago) and it looks like we're going to make it work. Pretty exciting stuff! We are doing a super fast close, but even so getting the house built and moved in before baby comes is going to be tight. Hoping it all goes smoothly. Will be good in the long term, but late summer/fall will be interesting!

Can't believe it, but I'm 20 weeks today - already! Half way! The first few months weren't much fun. Very nauseous and UBER tired. Don't remember feeling this bad with the other 2, but someone told me that symptoms are worse with each pregnancy so I'm going with that. Luckily the kids have been getting along and playing so well together, so I basically laid on the couch for a few months. Now I'm feeling great though. Back to working out and really enjoying prenatal yoga at my friend, J's new yoga studio.

Since Blake was a premie, they are watching me very carefully and along with some other stuff have to go in for an ultrasound every other week. Blake has started going to preschool longer for 2 days a week. He was mad when I'd bring him home at 11:30 because he wanted to stay for lunch. So now he gets to stay for lunch a couple days and the extra hours have been a life saver for me to get ready for house showings, go look at houses with Gabe over lunch and especially for all my doctor appointments. So awesome to not worry about finding someone to watch him while I drive to my ultrasounds which are not close, of course because everything is so far from here!

Everything is going well & things are looking good with baby and it's fun to see so much of him. It's amazing how much the little guy grows each time I see him. At the 16 week ultrasound, baby's legs were spread and it was very obvious he was a boy. I wasn't expecting to know gender so soon, but I love knowing, it makes it feel more real for some reason. A few times, they've done the 3D ultrasound. Never had one of those before. Simply amazing.

Need to tell this pregnancy test story...we'd been trying since the summer and I didn't think I was pregnant, but took a test anyway in January just to make sure. Looked at it quick & nothing, so I threw it away not thinking much of it. Asked Gabe to look at it just to make sure because I hadn't waited the full time and he told me no. For some reason later in the day, I looked in the garbage and there were 2 very obvious lines. I ask Gabe and he says, yeah, I saw 2, that means no right? We had a good laugh about that. It's not like this is the first time we've done this.

A few pictures from the many ultrasounds I've had.....