Update #1- We found out we're expecting another little boy. Provided we don't change our minds when he decides to be born, we're planning on naming him William David Brahm. Hopefully next time we have a baby, it'll be a girl, 'cause I don't know if we can agree on another boys name. *grin* So, Noah will have a little brother to harass. Although, he's so easy-going that it might be the other way around depending on William's personality.
Update #2- We've found a church that it looks like we're going to stay at. Since we've been married (4 1/2 years) we haven't really been very involved in a church. It's pretty pathetic... We started out going to a church after we got married and moved to Gwinnett, GA, but then a bunch of stuff happened there and we ended up planting a new church with some of the people from the messed up one. Josh was pretty involved in that, but I wasn't really. We were there for a year before we moved to Fresno. After moving to CA, Josh's job requires him to be speaking at Catholic churches for the first three months of so of the year, and we're not Catholic, so that limited our church hunting. Then after that, I got pregnant with Noah and was pretty sick for about 4 months. Then.....we hunted for a little while and found New Covenant. We've been there for about a year and a half, but we never really got involved in anything except for Josh is on the band sometimes. We just decided recently that neither one of us are really growing there, so it's time to find somewhere else. So, now it looks looks like we're joining a small church plant, called Free Grace Church. After visiting there one week we already "know" more people there than we ever did at New Cov after being there for well over a year. I think it's something we'll both be able to get involved in pretty quickly. So, it's gonna be a little strange being involved in a church again, but it'll be good.
Update #3- We plan on starting to look for our first house in the next couple weeks. Our apartment lease is up November 30th, so until today I thought that our goal would be to close on a house around mid-November so we could have a couple weeks to get things painted and move in. I also knew that we might end up finding the perfect house a couple months early and need to break our lease, or possibly not find anything until January or so and have to go month-to-month on our rent. Today when I took our rent check over to the office I asked them what would happen in each of those situations. Turns out, because of when we originally signed our lease, we wouldn't get any penalties at all for breaking our lease early, we just have to give a written 30 day notice, and if we have to go month-to-month on our rent, it stays the same amount as it is now. It couldn't have worked out any better! So, it looks like whenever we find a house we like, we can go ahead and make an offer and not have to wait until November. That will especially be nice because it would be a lot easier to move before I'm 8 months pregnant. I've done that once and I don't really want to have to do that again. I know I can do it, it just makes the whole moving process more miserable than it already is. We've already been approved for the loan we want, and we contacted a Realtor today. I'm expecting a call this afternoon to talk to her about what we're looking for. That worked out really well too....turns out we know a Realtor, and didn't even know that's what she did until recently. Then today I get online and find out that she specializes in being a Buyers Agent, and in doing short sales, both of which are a plus. It all seems a little more real now that it's not necessarily months away from happening.
So, that's all of our updates. Adios!
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