Big Day!

So Matt and I started out the day waking up early to head to the bank. We had to set up a wire transfer for a down payment, we FINALLY signed for our first home! It has been a crazy long process and I am so grateful for Matt, he did a ton of leg work on this one. Daily phone calls with the banks and lenders and realtor then off to work for a 10-13 hour day, then back to sleep to do it all again the next day. We found a great one story home, 3 bed 2 bath, a huge back yard, and shutters on all the windows (haha I liked that part because it makes the house look cute). I'm proud to say we were able to put 20% down, and as of tomorrow at 4:30 we own a house!

I'm excited to move in and have our own space, it's going to be great and Lewis is going to love it, especially the yard. We worked really really hard to get here, it's so weird that's it's finally all coming together! 
After an hour of signing a million papers we got Chick-fil-A for lunch. Before we left I made a little restroom pit stop, then not even two minutes later I get a text, "Don't forget to come with a full bladder!" [Back story: I am super impatient and didn't want to wait another week and a half to know the gender so My lovely friend Ashley who is in ultrasound school said I could be a practice patient - yay!] So we are on our way to get an ultrasound and I'm downing a bottle of water and trying to finish my freshly refiled cup of lemonade from lunch. by the time we got there I thought I was going to puke, I drank SO much. (Turns out I drank too much! By the time Ashley's teacher came in she said my bladder was way too full and sent me to the restroom!)
Originally my friend Vanessa was going to come to the ultrasound and be the only one to know the gender and then Matt and I would find out in some fun way, but it ended up being just Matt and I there (and Ashley obviously) and I didn't want to wait so I watched. ...and watched ...and all I saw was weird blur haha. eventually I saw the spine and fingers and toes. After a little back in forth thinking it might be a boy, or maybe that was a girl, or maybe that was a boy part, Ashley's teacher came in and confirmed....

It was a pretty neat experience. I've had two other ultrasounds, but this time it actually looked like a baby in there! We haven't fully decided on his name yet but I'm sure we will soon (we better haha). Other than that news, my hair seems to be agreeing with pregnancy. It's thick and like never oily - two things I am not familiar with. I haven't felt a big kick yet, more just the occasional tickle.. like if a little fish was in there haha. I still love my sparkle drinks. My mom found me some coupons for 25 cent fountain drinks at am/pm, and I will be there getting my sprite on!