Prego 34 wks

Prego facts, just so I can remember them. It's not easy to get up when prego and forget about laying on your back on the ground. It hurts (my tail bone) lying there and to move to try to get up. Though my back is my favorite sleep position, used to be my side. Cross your legs when you need to sneeze if you don't want a leak. When sitting it feels better to lean back slightly or with your knees not so close. Shaving legs and tying shoes are a bit of a task. Hold your tummy if you ate too much cause the stretch marks (just got them this week) hurt when you move.

The goods: It is fun feeling her move around. I like trying to guess if it is her head feet knees arms. I'm not sure if I'm ever correct or not. Though I did guess right on her head being upright at my last appointment. :-D She is sometimes most active or so it seems when I'm lying down for bed or in the morning right after a bathroom break.

I can't wait to see what she looks like and to hold her. I'm glad we are in the moving process because I think that I'd be super anxious to see/meet her, but since I want to get settled in the new house before she comes I'm content (waiting patiently). I want the photo stuff all in the extra room before she comes so that I can capture her sleepy tiny self.

Paint, Shelfing, Doors Hung, Vinyl Flooring

I LOVE my vinyl flooring.  The floor looks like real wood.  Which is a huge benifit because I like the look of wood floors but I've heard that there is more upkeep to them.

I also LOVE my doors! :-D

Another picture with the flooring.

My Pantry! :-D I'm so excited for the extra closets in this house so I can tuck more things away and do better at stocking up on stuff. I shot this picture so that you can see the edge of the pantry. I'm excited to be able to actually be able to store my cereal, bread and some of my food storage in here and not in another room's closet! :-D

This is my current pantry. As you can see it is packed, and is no fun to get to stuff in it.

Master bath and closet.

Cabinet have arrived and we were told that they will be installed on Monday or Tuesday. So Ryan will be going back down there to template for our granite countertops on Tuesday evening. It's so exciting seeing the progress.

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.