What a week!

Well in one week we have had some pretty big changes... We got under contract with a town home and that same day Garrett was layed off from his job and a week later, re-hired with a raise!

It's amazing we survived so well and relaxed like now that I look back on it! So I guess I'll start from the beginning... We found a town home in West Valley that we love! It is over twice as big as our apt (we've realized now that a baby is on the way how little space our apt has, mostly because there is NO storage whatsoever) and very comparable monthly payments to how much we pay rent. It doesn't seem like its real yet (even though I already have the whole place designed in my head ;) ). Garrett got layed off from his job the same day. It wasn't a huge shock since the company has been down sizing for a long time but it still shocked us because they love Garrett so much there and I guess we just weren't expecting it unless the company was going down for sure. The company has probably gone from a hundred or two hundred employees to 19 after Garrett left. They cut everyones pay 10% months ago and cut all the supervisors pay more after Garrett got layed off. We had a hard time with accepting it at first because of the town home (especially since they like to have 2 years experience at one job...) and the baby coming and everything but after a while we were able to look at the good from it and were excited for a fresh start for him (even though the economy is horrible for looking for a new job right now!). Everyone at Gs work who had already been layed off called Garrett when they found out he was layed off (he had soo many buddies and everyone looooved him there, his supervisor was all teary eyed telling him) and told him they had cut everyones insurance so we were extremely grateful we could still pay our premium and get it since he was layed off. We have since found out there is maybe more to that story that we don't know and they do still have insurance there. Anyways so the past week Garrett has been unemployed and looking for a job. It's been nice having him home taking care of things a little while I brought in the bacon, I'm going to miss that... ;) So today his work called him and left a message and even called me and were trying to get ahold of him as quick as possible. They told me it was to offer him a position again, I wasn't too excited and figured if they weren't offering insurance we might be better off not accepting it. However, when Garrett spoke with the owner, they told him they wanted him to drive both the transport trucks. The medium load he was doing before and also the heavy load and that since he is part time (with school) it works out well for them even though they aren't as busy as they once were. Also, since he is doing the heavy load truck, he asked if he got paid more and so he got a raise too! Once we found out all of that and that we'd still have insurance, we still debated it but figured why not, if the company goes down and he gets layed off again, at least things will work out with our town home and it can't be any worse than when he was just barely layed off. At least now we know we can handle it! So there's the long story for ya'all. Some of you knew most or parts of it and this is probably news to many of you, we aren't always good at keeping people updated... Sorry for the long post!! As for everything else, we're doing great! Carson is kicking my guts out, even though they aren't super strong yet and I guess pretty soon here we'll be getting ready to pack up our things and move into more space! It's funny that the town home isn't huge at all but will seem like a mansion to us! Oh and one of these days I'll take a good belly shot and post it....