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Thanks so much guys for your kind words and prayers for me yesterday. By all reports the class went very well. Whose reports you might ask. Well, mine, Lance's and some students. I absolutely loved teaching last night. I so enjoyed sharing some of my knowledge about art with the students (about 22 are taking the class). Art is so important to me and it was so fun to get to teach the students. We looked at lots of slides - which went well after Lance adjusted the projector to do the art works justice. Had lots of discussion. Lance said he just loved seeing me up there and that he was grinning the whole time watching me teach. He said it was because I was in my element. Wow. Who knew that it would go so well. I'm praising God for this. I'm also planning to get working on my next lecture very soon so I can be more relaxed heading into next class. Ahh.
Here's my most recent picture. This is me and the twins, today at 22 weeks. I'm still feeling really good. Though noticing that I'm not getting enough rest at night. I wake up often. Sometimes because I have to go to the bathroom, and other times I just wake up. I'm thinking that a solution to the hours of sleep not adding up to enough would be to go to bed earlier. That way, even if I wake up every couple hours at least I'll add a couple more hours of sleep on at the beginning of the night. I'm napping everyday so that helps me make it through. Still trying to eat a lot. Enjoying smoothies like crazy. And a special treat - brownies. Atkins has a sugar free brownie mix that I doctor up to taste really good. This time I added over a quarter cup cocao and a quarter cup applesauce - this helps mask the fake overly sweet taste that comes from the amount of artificial sweetner they use. Anyways, with strawberries and walnuts, what a treat! Grapefruits continue to be a hit, a nice breakfast with a piece of peanut butter toast.
We've got some big news that I haven't really mentioned yet. Lance and I have been house hunting. Those of you who read mom's blog will be aware of this. We're coming to the end of our three year living in the dorms committment, and we are ready to move on. Not desperate, just ready. So in late fall we began keeping our eye on the house market. We have learned a lot of things: first, you can't expect to find a nice house for the great price your friends paid when they bought theirs 4.5 years ago, second, when the bank says, "if you could just find some way to increase your income that would be good", you know you're going to need some help, third, winter isn't really a good time to look for houses -- there has been pretty much zero in our price range. After plenty of searching we can across a house that might work, but needed some renos, especially in the basement. The same day we viewed that house our realtor convinced us to take a look at a new condo development. We were both dead set against condos - no yard!!! Anyways, we walked in and breathed a sigh of relief, they're brand new and no work needs to be done. They're fresh and clean. A large living space with high ceilings and a lovely bright kitchen upstairs and three bedrooms downstairs, private entrance and a little deck. Anyways, it took me a long time to actually consider a condo as a possibility - but it was beginning to look like our only possibility other than renting. To shorten up this already long story, we came to the point where we prayed that God would direct us by bringing a suitable house on the market soon unless he wanted us to get the condo. The price on the condos was set to rise by $7000 on the first of March, and there were only a couple left so we were feeling the time pressure. On Friday Lance's dad discovered a house that had just come on the market. It was a great location, a short walk from CLBI, and from the outside was immaculate. We scheduled a viewing for Saturday - with the thought that we'd likely make an offer on the condo that day. We weren't very hopeful about the house...
Well we arrived at the house and walked around the yard first. Lovely. A raised garden for veggies in the back, a fruit (apple?) tree, a strawberry patch, fully fenced (chain link, no maintenance). The house has a brand new large deck/veranda overlooking the backyard. There's a brandnew insulated double garage (our Hyndai accent would take up a quarter of the space in there). Then we went inside. This house was owned by the hipest seniors ever. Every room is a unique yet beautiful colour. The kitchen is a sagey green with love bluish greeny tile work - a new fridge, stove and A DISHWASHER! The living/dining room is a warm pale yellow and very bright due to the large windows. The bathroom has lovely white, bright yellow and bright blue tile work - kind of a French provencial style. The bedroom has white wainscotting (a personal favorite) and bright blue walls. The basement is fully finished with a small bedroom and an office area, laundary area and rumpus room - which we were considering turning into a bedroom for us.
At this point I must mention Lance's folks. They've come with us to every showing and have been so helpful as we sorted through needs and wants. They are also making this whole thing possible by investing in this house with us (since we couldn't follow the banks advice and increase our income, in fact it's decreasing as I won't be working anymore come June, well, not working for money that is)
After taking a good look at everything Lance and I didn't even need to talk. We knew that God had answered our prayers and brought a beautiful house, in our price range, to us. We went to the real estate office and placed and offer. Not two hours later, just enough time to phone a couple people asking them to pray that our offer would be accepted if this was to be our home, we got a call from our realtor -- THEY ACCEPTED OUR OFFER!!! So now there are a few details to work out, but once those are done, we'll be moving into our new place in mid April!!!
Here's two photos of the house, I forgot to take photos of the inside, and the photo of the back isn't grate but if you try hard you can see the veranda.
For those of you who know Camrose the house is on 50th Ave, 4 blocks west of Grace Lutheran Church.
Here you can see the garden, garage, a bit of the veranda and back of the house. I'm fond of the white with green trim and the burgundy doors (which I actually wish were red, but I'm not going to be picky.
So there you have it, our most recent news. The plan is to still have Lance working at CLBI. We love being involved there. Exactly what his job will look like is yet to be determined. We are very excited about the future. Thanks for your prayers.
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exciting news on all counts. I'm glad the class went well! I can also imagine bursting with joy at the thought of house ownership and with so much of what you wanted!!
You look great too. mmmm brownies. Though if I am going to treat myself I want real sugar. The fake stuff is too scary when you look into how it is made.
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For people who can have real sugar I'm all for real over fake. As it stands for me I've been limiting artificial sweetner intake especially during pregnancy. I've been saving that brownie mix since September, knowing that at some point during this pregnancy I would "have" to have brownies. :)
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I'd like to register en communter (whatever the french is) to say we are so excited for you guys and your house purchase...thanks for the phone message to pray which we did. The house is so cute and like a house I imagine owning someday...not too big or overwhelming.
Aimee, you look very lovely...thanks for the growing pic. LOVE YOU GUYS.
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Hurray for your great class and your love of teaching it. I'm so happy for you. I love how your husband enjoys you so much.
You've grown bigger since I saw you last!
Love,
MOm
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Aimee, you look so beautiful!
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Hey Aimee...Yay! Congrats on the new house...it looks so cute and I can't wait to see the inside. How special that you two can move into your own place before your family doubles in size. Oh...and you look beautiful. =)
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Hi Aim
Ditto to what everyone else said.... you're beautiful, the house is soooo sweet, and I'm SOOOO excited for you guys. (you four)
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Hi Aimee,
Tanya here... finally. I rarely have the chance, of late, to get on-line and check out blogs, and I confess, I haven't been to yours in... ever?
I have seen/heard about you guys on your mom's blog though, and I am extremely jealous of (yet completely excited for) you guys having TWINS!! ... and a new house! Awesome! And teaching... you seem to both be living your dreams. That is wonderful! (Art: hence your comment on our blog regarding making time for art) Yup, hobbies are definately a "must MAKE time for" concept in the life of a busy mom. You'll do great!
Tanya
ps will you/have you found out the genders of the babies?
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Hello Aimee, I found your site off the Abarbablog and was interested to connect with you as I am having twins as well. I am presently 35.5 weeks and hanging in there. You're pregnancy pics are really beautiful-i'm assuming these are your first ones and what a double blessing!!
My email is rhondaloeppky@mts.net if you want to connect. I found I had lots of questions about what to expect because it's not like a basic pregnancy.
anyway, i'll be checking you out to see how you and your babies are doing. congrats again!!
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Wow Aimee - the house looks beautiful! I'm so happy for you - first children, now a house that you can afford WITH a yard and beautiful garden and no work needs to be done on it. Hooray for hip seniors:) I hope the move isn't too traumatic...
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exciting news on all counts. I'm glad the class went well! I can also imagine bursting with joy at the thought of house ownership and with so much of what you wanted!!
You look great too. mmmm brownies. Though if I am going to treat myself I want real sugar. The fake stuff is too scary when you look into how it is made.