Since I've been updating weekly pictures, I've found it difficult to remember to update about life outside of it. As always, the Hibbards have a lot going on!
First of all, we've been kind of in limbo not knowing what we were going to do with our living situation. Ryan is in the government contracting world and with that territory comes not knowing if a contract will get renewed or not. We've been renting a house in the middle of nowhere for the past year, and had decided to just wait it out (living situation wise) until we knew what was happening next year.
Not even a couple weeks after deciding to just stay put, there was a gang related drive by shooting in our neighborhood. Yes, you read that right. How did we find out about it? We were walking the dogs after work one day and a CBS 6 car pulled up next to us asking if we could talk to us about what our opinions were on what happened last night. Turns out, it happened at the house directly across the street from us (on the corner). After finding this out, we decided there's no way we're staying here...especially with Everleigh on the way.
What do we do next? Rent or buy? After seeing how much we've thrown away in rent this year, we decided we can't keep living our lives waiting on the next move. SO, we called our realtor who sold our house last year, started the search and about a week later, we put an offer in on a brand new house in Ashland. It was a long, painful, and stressful week of negotiation, but we finally came to agreement on Friday! We will be closing in 30 days (hopefully) and moving in right before Christmas.
I. am. so. anxious. to. get. this. nursery. together.
This isn't our first rodeo, and although we have 20384038 things to do now for the move, we're taking a leap of faith and hoping to not have to sell it or rent it out in about 10 months time.
On another note, our good friends Paige and Jason wanted to do family pictures and since I have a nice camera, we figured we would go to a park while it's so beautiful out and do family pictures for them and maternity pictures for us. I thought about doing professional maternity pictures, but for $150, I see these now as something like engagement pictures -- fun to do, exciting time, but who looks at engagement pictures once you have the wedding pictures? Would rather put that money towards newborn pictures once she arrives!
Here are a few of our favorites:
Not bad for amateurs, huh? I'll order one big canvas print and call it a day. I'm glad we did this earlier than lady because the rate my belly is growing now, I wouldn't feel the least bit picture worthy from here on out!
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