Getting there

I feel "getting there" is very suiting for this time in our life. I'm getting there with this pregnancy- both in preparing and popping, were getting there with siding, were getting to the holidays and to our 1 year mark with this house.

So I guess start off with the pregnancy, I'm 36 and a half weeks. Had an appointment on Monday and I know its not abnormal or that my doctor had never seen it before, rather felt it, but when she checked me she was honestly a little surprised at how low babies head is. I was 1.5 cm and next week we will start membrane taring. I have been having intermediate strength random contractions some lasting a few seconds some what feels like a couple minutes but probably only one. Ok the gross part, I think I have lost or am loosing my plug. All this along with the taring next week and that this is my second baby the thoughts of her coming around 38 weeks are looking promising, that means only 2 weeks left. I am glad to know that, didn't know how dilated I was until that appointment and now I know how long I have to get things in line. Between Keith's car getting moved to a friends shop, and therefore out of the garage, the rain and this new information, we finally got to clean up the crappy dresser I got for #2 earlier in the summer for $25 off of, yes Craigslist. It was one of those cheap wood and plywood made, tall 4 drawer dressers with the crappy kind of laminate-ish type top. I was just going to throw it up in the room since it will just be going in the closet but Keith insisted that I sand and paint it white. I didn't think it would look very good so I didn't take a before shot but it actually turned out really well and I saw some light blue spray paint we had and made Keith paint the drawers. All in all the dresser has 4 coats of white and the drawers have 2 plus the one coat of spray. I put it all together this morning and it looks great, I mean as good as the crappy dresser could look. Only problem is now I want to paint Naomi's dresser except reverse, blue dresser with the white drawers. Haha I think that one will have to wait... anyways here is the finished dresser:

The siding has been going, slowly but surely. We have also been hung up because the first rains have been coming and its too dark to work by 630... Although I guess we are going to have 4-5 days of no rain, including the weekend, so we are hopeful to find some helpers and get a going on the rest of the front. We did find some pretty awesome rot under the two windows, like so much so that you could punch, not even at full strength, and get through the T 1-11. Keith's plan is to now build a long flowerbed in to the frame under the 2 windows. Add a little class and pizzazz  I have some reserves, like watering but he insists it will all work out. Anyways here are a few more recent pictures. 

The entry way is totally done (for the exception of literally 2 pieces) Looks great though!

So the flower bed will span the 2 windows. 

Rot. Awesome.

With Halloween coming I think I should take advantage of all the "Caution" tape out there and perhaps leave it up? What do you think? 

Also today I got really excited about Christmas. I was in Costco and Naomi saw a play house thing, actually it was just a kitchen but she called it a house and started exclaiming "Mommy! Mommy house! Get house down! Mommy house peeeeease!!!! Mommy, mommy, mommy get house down peeeease! Mommy house!" I told her maybe Santa will get her one for Christmas. EEEEEEK!!! I can't wait!

However Halloween comes first and this Sunday we are hosting a pumpkin carving and pot luck dinner at our place with the Cali Gevas clans. Naomi loved carving so much last year so we plan on clearing out our front room, covering it with newspaper and going to town. I'm really excited for it and hope that over the next few years we can continue this and even have a little party on Halloween and be a meeting place for those living in apartments or not so trick or treat friendly neighborhoods and to just hang out since little kids don't usually go out for very long. 

Anyways. I'm sure I will post again next week after more siding get done (hopefully), my appointment and hopeful progress and Halloween. 

lots of little stuff

Oh man, so like the title says there are lots of little stuff to blog about! Take a look!

Yes I did post this on Facebook but I still love it. It's not every time she'll let me do it and I don't try every day but sometimes she doesn't mind and it's adorable! She looks so grown up with it. 

She has also been maturing SO much! She talks in decent sentences like here she's saying "Dios good cat, I like him too!" and she'll take toys or just random things and say they are friends or best friends and then they hug and kiss. She's getting so good about saying please and thanks which comes out as "anks" and actually the first time she said she also said another first... "mommy" I have always been "mama" and about 2 months ago I became "mom" and its been about 2 weeks now that I have officially been upgraded to "mommy" so you can only imagine when she looked up at me and said "anks mommy" for the first time I melted bad! So sweet. I try to write down all the cute things she says but I forget so much and then the ones I do remember are just cute because of how she says them haha. Her understanding has just increased so much along with her memory and it just blows me away so much! She has also sort of gotten the idea of her bike. She's still a little short for it but she can get it going. Only when she get distracted with turning or something that she gets all mixed up. Keith brought her outside even though I wasn't really down since shes still too small for it and our side walk is far from smooth! Well she went about 20 feet or so and then Keith was going to send her back and she caught a crack and ate it... Tears (mainly out of fright) came, scrapped her nose and knee but so slightly, no blood, no scab, just a little red and a small bruise. It took a while but I did get her back on the bike. I wasn't too stoked on the fall, I know she'll fall and get hurt but I didn't want it to happen her first time out when the bike is just a little too big for her anyways because I didn't want it to ruin her experience so I was really happy she got back on. She also can do a summer sault (is that how you spell it?) maybe 1 in 10 times but still for a 2 year old I feel that's pretty impressive. All the more reason I would love to get her in to gymnastics. And one more bragging right on her, I know I posted this on Facebook too but, Naomi is starting to take dirty dishes and silverware and put them in appropriate places in the dish washer! People say oh good job mom but really I don't ask her to do these things or have her help me load it but she just does it. She is just simply perfect! Such a helper!

Ok I am in love with Craigslist, I know out in Utah it's all about KSL and supposedly its even better than CL but its what I have and I'm in love hee hee. Recent example number one. Our old fridge was leaking and starting to mess up our new floor. Found this one, its a little on the small side but we got it for 50-70% off a new one in the store and its pretty new. Only a couple issues, which aren't really the worst things. We love it. it gives the kitchen a whole new vibe!

So then because the guys like to fish but we can't eat it fast enough and our new freezer is kinda small we desperately needed a garage one, we had wanted one for a long time now but with the new freezer and the increase in fish we were getting desperate. I called on a few around $70-85 but they were always gone. Then I found this one. $30!!! I couldn't believe it! AND the fact we got it! So nice to have. Now when there are deals on food I can stock up and put it in here. So great!

And then this is my last one. It was one of three. In this picture you can kind of see the castle in the back ground, another young mom went with me and got that one. These new would cost $400 +/- and we got them for $75. Yes they are used but in just fantastic shape, not even much sun bleaching! I have it being stored at my parents house and Christmas Eve after she goes to sleep were going to set it up in the living room with either one big bow (depending on how much the dang bow is) or a bunch of little ones. So when she comes down Christmas morning she will have a house! I can't wait to see her expression! I figure we have the room and it will help keep her busy during the rainy days and with me being a little distracted with #2. I'm so excited! 

Ah yes and siding continues!! 

It just looks amazing and when we can get a new light in there, of course that will be after we paint but it just looking so amazing! and yes more and more un level lines are being brought to light but Kyle is a master at hiding the fails the absolute best anyone could! We are so lucky to have him here helping us!

Still lots more to do for the entrance but its coming along and that is all we can hope for! 

Yes back to the construction site of a yard... 

So fall is here and its lovely. What are the best things about fall? Hot chocolate and or cider? Cozy blankets? Warm weather clothing and accessories? Holidays? The beautiful change of leaves? I agree with what ever you think! However all the trees around the neighborhood are green, yellow, red, and there are a lot of Japanese Maples that turn almost purple! So so so pretty! But what do we have in our front yard? This fugly bush tree monstrosity! It has those nasty spiky seed balls too, ouch! and yes its changing colors on the top, from green to brown! seriously? We all want to cut it down and get something else. I want something pretty. Something that changes pretty colors in the fall! Something that when you rake the leaves in to a pile to jump in you don't have to worry about getting gouged by a prickly seed ball! Besides we could use some fire wood haha ;)

See like this red to yellow to green and you can kind of see in the back to the let the dark red. Fall is so wonderful!

Ok on to the Crafty part of this blog, I warned you there was a lot of little stuff! I saw this idea from online (here is the how to blog: http://www.imperfecthomemaking.com/2012/03/simple-thrifty-diy-art.html ) What I really loved about it was this: "I like the idea of shopping for art.  But finding art for a specific spot in a home is hard, isn't it?  I want something that is the right size, incorporates the right colours and is affordable." Which is so true! And laying in bed and looking around it seems like we JUST moved in instead of being here for almost a year. I didn't get the exact foam as she did but same basic stuff. I got a 3/4" by 4' by 8' piece at Home Depot that after tax was just over $8. And the wonderfully sweet guy that helped me even cut it down a bit so it would fit in my car! I got the fabric at Joanns which came to about $22. So I was able to do this for less than $30 with insane extra! Its great!

Finally got it on the wall today. I didn't hang it like she did either, I just used the Hercules hooks we already had. If you don't know what those are google it and buy them! They are awesome! And cheap. And yes, its not centered over the bed, but that is because the bed isn't centered. I need to rearrange the room a bit and get some night shelves, I don't want night stands so were just going to make a shelf, big enough to have a phone charger, light and like a book on it. I'm excited for when it happens. 

Well Naomi loved it SO much but I didn't want to over do the idea that I thought I would try doing her name. 

It was a messy ordeal haha. 

So here's how it turned out. NOT NEARLY AS AWESOME AS THE ORIGINAL!!!! I'm not super crafty but it just didn't work as well but I figured she's still too young to care that much! I thought of another way to do it but still not sure if that would look good. I think hot glue might have helped... Naomi loves it though. When she saw the ones hung in our room she says "WHOOOOOA!!!" and then I brought her in to her room and she does the same thing and says "I like it!" And just now she climbed up next to me and goes "WOW!!! Wow! Its my room!" just from the pictures. I love it! She's adorable. 

Ok so another bump shot. I'm 34 weeks today. Thing's have been going ok. Last weekend I did have some serious sciatic nerve spasms from things widening and relaxing. It was crippling and bringing me nearly to tears... My doctor said I could take Tylenol but it didn't help. Thankfully it only lasted 2 days and since Sunday I have been ok. Knock on wood that it doesn't happen again. 

He's just too cute

Oh yeah ok so this is the new born beanie my most talented sister in law made for the little one. I had them for Naomi and I just loved them and got a bazillion complements on them. If you have a youngster, girl or boy, in your life this is a great gift! Here is one link to her store: http://www.etsy.com/listing/108328597/new-color-newborn-hat-in-navy you can customize the hats to a point as well. Like most of her flowers on the site are white but I asked for pink and well as you can see that was totally doable! 

Well I think that is about it. I know there will be more to post as the siding keeps going up and the pregnancy gets further and further along. Hope you enjoyed and didn't fall asleep!