30 Weeks

I am now in my third trimester and I can't believe that I will have a baby in two months. I am getting so excited. Of course, before the baby, there is still Thanksgiving, moving, Christmas, sending Steven to San Jose, finishing up work, etc. Since we are moving, I am a little sad that I am missing out on the "nesting" phase of pregnancy.

I love to organize and so the fact that our "nursery" is a stack of boxes is probably a good learning experience for me. I'm definitely getting better at just going with the flow.

At my mother's request again, here I am at 30 weeks or about 7 months pregnant. Steven wasn't available to be my photographer, so I had to document the belly myself with the bathroom mirror.

I will admit that I feel pretty big, but I keep getting shocked looks when I tell people how far along I am. It bothered me at first, but I have gained exactly the right amount of weight, and I'm measuring right on track. So, I think our little girl is doing just fine. 

And.... speaking of our little girl, we had a 3D ultrasound this week that also confirmed that she is indeed a girl, and a pretty cute one at that. The 3D ultrasounds are kind of crazy (i.e. the picture only shows part of her head). I'm feeling pretty good, and I really just can't wait to meet her!

SketchUp

Even though Steven and I are both accountants, which I guess in some ways is the epitome of "nerds," I like to think that we are still social and normal. Hopefully, even fun.

However, sometimes I realize that we really are nerds. For example, I think that we make a Google Doc spreadsheet for everything. We track all of our finances in not one but two different accounting systems, and our spare time is often spent reading the Wall Street Journal (me) or tech articles (Steven).

With that being said, as we are getting ready to move, we are realizing how incredibly expensive it is to move long-distance. Steven's company is going to give us a moving reimbursement, but we don't want to spend any more than that, and it is going to be close.

The biggest expense is the moving truck. We found a good deal with a company that will drop off a 28 foot truck. We pack our stuff in the back of the truck and then they ship other goods in the rest of the truck. It should work out great but the initial quoted price that is still hundreds of dollars is for 8 feet of truck space. Which is not very much. Each additional foot is $50. So, Steven measured and sketched all of our furniture in Google SketchUp.....

and then we virtually "packed" our moving truck....

We don't think we can get it down to 8 feet, but it will be pretty close. 9 or 10 at the most. And you can bet we will have printed out copies for direction on moving day.  I guess there is no denying that we really are quite dorky. 

"What's a dishwasher for?"

The title of this post is what Steven said in jest yesterday as we were looking at all the great features of our new apartment! Having never had a dishwasher in our married life, that is one definite perk that we are looking forward to.

We are really excited that we finally have a place to live in San Jose in a couple of months. Well.... we haven't officially signed the contract yet, but the unit has been reserved and everything is in process. So, barring some disaster, our new digs will have a kitchen like this....

a bathroom with tons of counter space like this....

...and we are almost doubling our current square footage, so baby girl will have room to roam.

Of course.... it also comes with MORE than double the rent price, but I'm learning to just deal with that. Rent is just sooo expensive in California. Comparative to all the other rentals we looked at this one definitely was the best deal. It was in our budget, is across the street from a park, is behind an elementary school, and is in a nice area. Which was important to me since we are leaving "happy valley" behind. 

So, we are excited and I'm mostly just relieved that everything is starting to work out. There are still a lot of uncertainties but this was a big one I'm glad to have out of the way.