Baby Campbell, New Job, Moving (Again)!

This summer has been full of change!  In May, Ryan graduated.  In June, we moved back to Austin.  At the end of June, we took this!

 

Ryan photoshopped it with the due date, framed it and gave it to
his parents and sisters to announce the baby when we were at Disney World.
 

I took the test the morning we were actually headed out to the temple and we couldn't have been more excited and grateful!  Yes it was planned, but it was still a surprise to see the positive test! We had an early ultrasound at 6 weeks and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time.  I had a 13 week visit last week with my new nurse midwife and got to hear the heartbeat again!  So we officially made the big announcement.

 Back to our life changes...In August Ryan got a job offer in San Antonio and we decided to move!  We had about two weeks to find an apartment and move again.  Can I just say I NEVER EVER want to go through a move and new job change while being pregnant? 

We had a terrible time trying to find a place to live.  It started out with a guy trying to scam us with a house for rent on Craigslist, followed by looking at several ghetto apartments.  We had originally wanted a two bedroom apartment or even better a duplex with a yard.  Apparently with our budget that was totally unrealistic.  Moving from Fayetteville (population 75,000) to the 7th LARGEST city in the U.S. I guess was kind of a shock as far as rent costs went.  Just within the city, SA has a population of 1.3 million. The greater SA metropolitan area has a population of  around 2.2 million.   

We decided to head over to the neighborhoods near the temple because the church doesn't build temples in bad areas.  Well no one had one bedroom apartments available and the 2 bedrooms(which were unavailable too) were all over $1200.  If I pay $1200 on anything it will be on a mortgage.  

We finally found a one bedroom apartment in a decent part of town about 20 minutes from Ryan's firm.  They had one unit left, so we took it.  It's small, most of my appliances have one problem or another, the maintenance has yet to come look at anything after four phone calls over a week, the water tastes terrible, and we're on the third floor.  

Moving was a headache as usual.  We had crickets in most of our boxes and I could not deal with dumping them out of my pots and pans.  I have never seen so many dead crickets! Ew! At least it wasn't rodents or roaches.  

Going back to the moving while pregnant, everything seemed tons worse than it really was and I have been way more emotional than circumstances have merited.  Yes our apartment isn't nearly nice as our townhouse in Fayetteville and we pay over a hundred dollars more here.  But this is where we're going to bring our baby home and where we'll spend the first six months of his/her little life.  So it's home for now and I know that once all the unpacking and decorating is done, things will get better.  And San Antonio is a pretty cool city that we get to explore.  We have been incredibly blessed with Ryan getting a new job and having a baby on the way.  And I have an amazing husband who copes with my random, frequent pregnant meltdowns and supports me 100%.

I'll put up pictures of the new place when we get settled in.  I'll be having an ultrasound in another 5-6 weeks(end of September/first part of October) and we should be able to find out if we're having a boy or girl, so stay tuned!