New House and a Baby on the Way!

Jalene and I bought a house in Covington, WA!

We closed on it on November 31st, a Friday, and got the keys.  We spent the next day cleaning the house and when we got home I immediately hopped on the computer.  I was there for about 10 minutes when Jalene came by and plopped a tee-shirt down in front of me and said, “Here, it’s an early Christmas present.”  My immediate thought was, great, I left one of my tee-shirts laying around and she wants me to put it away.  But I shook it out and it said, “Mariners - Number One Dad”.  I immediately started going, “Are you serious?  No way!  That is so cool!”  She showed me the test with the two lines.  So we bought our first house on a Friday and the next day we found out Jalene is pregnant!

 We thought we’d have to wait until the middle of January to move in, but the week between Christmas and New Year’s I got a call from Home Depot:  “You’re carpet is here.  And oh, by the way, we can install it tomorrow.”  So I left work and spent 13 hours painting that day, until 3:00 in the morning, and was then up at 7:30 the next day to watch them install the carpet.

About halfway through the carpet install I got a call, “Ted, this is Millie with US Bank, and your wife just got robbed.  She’s talking to the Police and FBI.  Can you stop by in a half hour to pick her up?”  I called a friend, Don Tilly, to come watch them finish installing the carpet, and then I called another friend, Pat Ellis, who is the Kent Police Chaplain.  Jalene is a merchant teller with US Bank, and the bank robber picked her window to pass the note to.  Jalene and Pat and I went out to lunch and Pat did a great job of explainign to Jalene the physical and mental stresses she was going through being robbed, and everything would be OK, etc.  Wow.

The next day we loaded most of what we own in boxes and the day after that I rented a U-Haul and we moved.  Just like that.  Three weeks later we’re still putting stuff away and recovering!