It's a...

... big day for the Hartshorns!

Today we closed on our home in Houston, Texas so we are officially home owners! This is the first place that we know we are going to be staying a while so we could actually buy a house... No more renting yay!! I LOVE our house! It's 2710 sq. foot 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, with an awesome game room upstairs (SO excited not to be stepping on toys all day anymore!), a downstairs study where Rob will be locked away for the next 3 years, and an amazing kitchen! My must haves for this house were tall ceilings and lots of storage. Check and check!

It was built in 2009 and only lived in for 9 months by an old lady who never went upstairs. The place is immaculate! Most of the cupboards smell like they have never been opened before. As clean as it is, I will of course be flying out a few days before our stuff gets there to disinfect the house :)

Unfortunately my camera died so I only have a few pics that I stole off of the MLS.

It's a 2 story but looks like a really grand one story from the outside. I really like it :)

The front door. The room at the bottom of the stairs is the study. It has a floor to ceiling window I love!!

This is what you see when you walk in the front door a.k.a. our death drop. Those arches upstairs will have to baby-proofed someway. Rob and I have a few ideas to do it so that it can remain open without closing them up or barring them. Oh and one day we WILL put in a spiral slide from the upstairs to the downstairs through the arch on the right. We had put in a order for one but when you buy a house you find yourself quickly running out of moola so we put that on hold :)

Here's the living room downstairs. Through the hallway to the left is a half bath, a huge closet that goes under the stairs, and the master. I wasn't a fan of having all the bedrooms upstairs except the master but that's how they do it in Texas. I like being close to my babies at night. It's growing on me though :)

Living room again. The sink will have to go..

And at last my favorite part of the house.. the kitchen!! I can barely touch the top shelf of the cabinets (they are the extra tall ones) There is a whole other wall of the cabinets that you can't see to the right and a HUGE walk in pantry!! So much storage.. I love it!! The countertops are granite. Our fridge I adore. The lady bought it when she moved out so it has NEVER been used! It's a $3000 fridge! Our negotiations lasted forever because we wanted it and she didn't want to get rid of it. We won in the end without having to go up in price at all for it :)

So, that's all the pics I have of the house until we move in.

Here we are with the initial submitted offer. Our house was the 6th one that we saw and we fell in love instantly. We were so nervous were weren't going to get it. Flying out there I was dying because we only had 5 days to find and buy a house. We bought a house within the first 48 hours of being there! It would have been quicker had we not had to go back and forth on price and the fridge so much :)

And here we are right after our real estate agent called to let us know the lady accepted our offer after going back and forth a million times. We were in line at Carl's BBQ.. best dang BBQ in the world!!

So as great and fun and wonderful as that is, today is even more awesome because we found out what we're having!!!

We took Boss with us which was fun :) I love how excited and aware he is about this baby! Had we got pregnant a year ago like our plan, he wouldn't have been old enough to really get it.. i LOVE that we get to experience all this fun stuff with him instead of him being there and not understanding it.

Here come the pics..

18 week belly

Boston had so much fun watching the ultrasound.

After the ultrasound

Since Boston told ya I'm pregnant it's only fitting he tell ya what he's gonna be a big brother to.. Take it away buddy!

Rob and I are super excited! Both of us were secretly hoping for a boy.. we admitted it to each other after we found out :) But poor Boston is now in denial. He only admitted it was a boy that one time. Now he keeps saying it's a girl. When the lady told us it was a boy he said.. "But i said gwirl!!!" He'll come around :)

And the tech told us the femur was one of the longest ones she's ever seen.. looks like it's gonna be another tall Hartshorn boy!!