Texture, Vinyl, and Doors

The texture on the walls and the vinyl on the outside is completed, the doors have arrived.

Spotlight

I am being spotlighted in the Relief Society newsletter and this is what I wrote to have put in it. I grew up in Las Vegas with five sisters and one brother. From these siblings I currently have 10 nieces and nephews. I love playing with them and my sisters tease me about being the baby lover in the family. So you know I’m definitely anxiously waiting to hold my little one. My parents taught me to be a hard worker and what is most valuable in this life. In growing up in a big family I learned to have patience. I would like to give my kids the same learning experiences that I had. When I was younger I went camping, repelling and four wheeling often which I really enjoyed. Though during a normal weekday you could often find me doing some sort of craft. I sewed my first project, a quilt, at the age of 13. In high school I took woods, fashion, and drafting class, all of which I thought were very fun. From the things that I learned in fashion and from my mom I was able to sew my wedding dress and now a baby blessing dress for my daughter when she arrives. Ryan and I have been married for almost four years and are looking forward to moving into our first house and the arrival of our daughter in August.

Time for Dry Wall

Getting more and more excited! The second floor is all dry walled up & most all of the windows are in place. They left one out just so they can bring things in through the window for the time being.

2nd floor

Family room looking towards the kitchen.

Master bath w/ Ryan being silly and pretending to sit at a toilet. The toilet is not in place yet but that is were it will be placed.

Before we stopped by the house we went to see how Ryan's eye was healing up. It is doing just fine. It still bothers him sometimes when he is driving but we kind of think it might be because he's outside in the sunlight.

28 weeks - Baby has been very active this last week. In the last two days I feel like I can feel her rolling to different sides. There has been many times where she has something jabbing out ward, and it's fun to poke back at her. Though a few times I've been pushing her back in cause it had been a little too much and kind of hurt. Right now my right side is her favorite side. I'm glad that it isn't down by my bladder anymore not that she is getting bigger.

Ryan has been very cute in not wanting to squish my tummy. Also when we help Mike move things at his house Ryan tells me nope you shouldn't move that box. It's too heavy for you. Then sometimes he teases "not good for baby" if it's something sweet and he wants more of it. Like he really likes flavored drinks and a lot of the time I take a sip or two when he pours it. I'm not usually pouring them for myself but once I see it in a glass he has temped me to the flavor. He's funny.

Eye Patch, Neighbors, Planning Family Visit

On Monday Ryan's eye was bothering him quiet a bit. He kept rubbing it all day while at work. When he got home we seen a black speck on the color part of his eye. I tried to help him get it out but it wasn't budging. The more we touched his eye the dryer it gets, and it was really bothering him. We searched online for a 24hr quick care since it was already close to 9:30pm by the time he decided we should probably go get it taken care of. We couldn't see of one online so I called a friend in the ward. I asked her if she knew of one or if their was an optometrist in the ward. She was able to tell me a guy in the ward that is a more of like an eye surgeon. Which was probably even better. We ended up calling him and he was able to help us. It ended up being a piece of metal in his eye. He took Ryan down to his office in Nampa, extracted it, and wrote him a prescription for pain and to help it heal. It still was bothering him quiet a bit just because every time he blinked it scratched his eye lid more. By the next night (Tues) his eye already was about 70% healed up which is way nice.   I am tremendously grateful to be a part of the church in order to know that so many people are so willing to give of their services.  We ended up buying him a gift card because we wanted to show him that we really appreciated his help.

We also met one of our new neighbors on Saturday.  When we were walking through the house Ryan told me to go look out the window.  And I see two blue water containers.  Mormons, we teased.  later when we walked out to get in the car to go home we seen a guy in their driveway.  I teased hey we're your new neighbor.  But later we caught that he was actually the dad of a girl living there.  But yes they are LDS :-D  And she is actually expecting a little one (her 3rd) about a month after me so that will be way fun.  I asked her if our ward was a young ward and she said it was.  I'm way excited.

Family coming to visit.  I just got off the phone with mom and I'm kind of bummed.  I really was hoping that pretty much all the family will be coming to visit except Wendy's family.  But it's starting to look like it will be more like half or less might come.  I know we still have plenty of time for things to change but it still isn't quiet what I thought it might be.   I planned it for Labor Day weekend since I thought that's when most everyone would be able to come, since they have done many other trips on that same weekend in previous years.  We'll see what happens.

Framed

As we were pulling into the neighborhood it surprised me that our home looked like this only a week and two days after the footings were in. It was way fun to be able walk through it. Though for me it was a bit of an eye opener. For some reason when I was looking at the floor plans I envisioned the rooms being a little bit bigger. Though it will be a great first home for us. Even though the kitchen won't be huge it will have more pantry space :-D Also I have a linen closet up stairs in the hall and in the master bath. More places to put away stuff. Yay!

Oh also it was good that we stopped by. They accidently started framing in a half wall with an arch in between the living and family room. I asked for a full wall which is in the plans, they just overlooked it. We'll be telling them first thing Monday. I like to have nice room for when people stop by. Though after walking through our kitchen table is going to have to be small and will be in direct view of the front door. Funny, I'm just glad it's not my kitchen sink. :-D

As for the garden.... I think I might actually be able to still put it in the same spot on the South side of the home. Even though it is going to be smaller than I requested we looked at where the sun falls on the ground over there. I think I'll be able to get a couple rows of garden over there which will be the full length of the house. That should be plenty for now. Yay!

I have three main goals for this home. I really want to have most everything put away and out of sight no junk and cluter that I have been living with. Two I'd like to add to food storage and add recipes to my book for cycling it. Three try to spend a half and hour every day in the front room reading scriptures, Ensign, doing FHE, or something church realated with Ry.

The opps wall. It should be fully enclosed on the left side not an archway.

Footings are in!

I had no idea that they already put the footings in. I'm way excited! I'm kind of a little disapointed that my realitor didn't pass on the word about the location of the house because now my gardening spot is going to have to change. We'll figure out something. The contractor said that he believes it will only be two month until it's done. That puts us at the begining of July. Yay!

Though now I'm starting to think that these next two months are going to go by way fast. I need to hurry up and sew all of her baby bedding real quick. Also if I want to make her blessing dress I better get a move on it. When we do get moved in I know I must get the bed rooms, kitchen and photo stuff in place first. Once baby gets here I know I'm going to want to take her infant pictures fairly quickly after she is born.

Callings & Work

We both now have callings to be in presidencies. I in Relief Society (secretary) and Ryan in the Elders Quorum (Second Counselor). It's kind of funny cause I know Debbie kind of is opposed to him having a higher up more time consuming calling. She's not afraid to turn one down if she feels it's too much for her to handle. But for more me I actually kind of like it. While we were sitting there in the room with the man in the stake that was extending the calling to Ryan I got the feeling that this will be good for Ryan. He has been part of scouts at the old ward and now primary teacher. But this calling will help him to progress further spiritually because you have to pray a lot more as to who need what or which direction to take things.

Also I'm really excited that Ryan is getting a little bit of a raise. It's not a ton more but every little bit helps. It'll help support the idea of me staying home with baby by helping cover her insurance and diapers :-D. Also I can tell Ryan likes that I am able to make him lunches in the morning & dinners at night since I'm not working. Before we bought a lot of freezer lunches and dinners. I put more pride into it since I have more time and energy, and I can tell he likes it. It was funny because about a month ago Celestial asked on Facebook some ideas for lunches and Ryan told me to go give her some ideas. Shows that he must think that I'm doing a good job :-D

I'm kind of starting to think of not worrying too much about doing photography to earn extra money. I guess part of me has a little bit of a fear that I might focus on it too much that I might miss a lot of things going on in my kids lives as they grow. I kind of just want to slow down and enjoy the things that I like to do, sewing old projects I intended on doing, organizing so there is less clutter and stress (which I will need to do a lot of when we move), bake more bread, build up my food storage. I am really looking forward to getting into the new house.

This is also reason why I want to put photography on a back burner. Years from now I want to say that I had that interaction with Ryan and my kids. Physical possessions just aren't worth it.