Summer Projects

I have been keeping myself busy through the summer getting the baby's room ready. We moved into this house in February and the spare room was an old school den. The challenge of this room was its walls were covered in old school wood paneling. We didn't want to spend much money on remodeling so we decided to go with paint. I wanted to have my glider reupholstered but I am happy with the final product. I also started another quilt from fat quarters my sister-in-law sent me last year. I just added a few fat quarters of pink and found a cute new pattern. I finally finished the quilt top and found my back fabric. It's being quilted right now so I don't have a picture of the final product but its pretty close.
We are getting excited for this little girl to come. I am being induced on Tuesday the 27Th, one week from today. I am so ready and done being prego. I lucked out and got to go in the day after my birthday so we wont have to share the same birthday.
We are getting excited to see all the family that is coming to town in a few weeks.

Hope everyone has a great week and hopefully the next post will be of our little girly!




This is the wood panel before we painted!



After!



Entire room before painted!



After!







This is my quilt top with the backing fabric. I am so excited to see the finished product!



A little bigger picture of what the quilt top looks like. I used 18 different fat quarter fabrics.

4th of July

It was nice to have such a long weekend for the 4Th of July. Saturday we just spent the day relaxing and getting things ready for the baby's arrival. Sunday we went over to the Radford's for a great lunch and then headed to the Linthorst's for dinner and a firework show. Dinner was great and every year my brother Frank goes all out for with the fireworks. Every neighbor comes to watch but this year we sat inside the house watching Toy Story. Our son is officially a wimp this year. He couldn't handle the noise either. Hopefully next year he has grown out of it. But other than that everything was great!
Coleman's sister Hailey left for her mission on Wednesday, she is serving in Tacoma, Washington. We miss her already but know she will be a great missionary!
We are getting closer to the arrival of our baby girl. I am scheduled to be induced around the 24Th of this month but will know for sure the day and time tomorrow. It may just end up we share the same birthday. I am just ready and done being prego. I can't grow anymore I swear!


Waiting for the fireworks to start but quickly having a meltdown once we got the "pop its" out!


Ike an Ethan playing around! Such cute boys!


Enjoying the sun at Cowabunga Bay.


Ike misses his Aunt Hailey!


And Ike loves to play Captain Hammer..its a character off a backyardigans show. He is such a nut!

Garden

I am so glad we decided to plant a vegetable garden. All the hard work and patience is starting to pay off. Everything is growing and some veggies we have already been able to enjoy. We can't wait for late summer/ early fall to see what else comes up.

Potty Training!

About a week and half ago I took on the challenge of potty training Isaac. People think I am crazy for not waiting till he is 3. They say boys are much harder to train do to the fact they don't pick up on things as quickly as girls. Yes I can say that is true but Isaac is such a clean freak that it didn't surprise me when he didn't like the feeling of peeing in his big boy pants. I read the book Toilet training in less than a day. I didn't stick to the guidelines but just took small tips from the book that worked well with Isaac. Everything went great the first 3 days then suddenly it went south. He decided he didn't like pooping in the toilet and held it for 2 days then letting go in his big boys. I seriously thought I was going to have a breakdown and give up right then and there. (REMEMBER; PREGNANCY= RAGING HORMONES) The issue continued for 2 days and I almost pulled out the hidden diaper stash. But soon I found that getting mad and frustrated in front of him was not going to change anything. I sat him down (on his potty) and told him about every Disney character I could think of that he likes and how they don't like making poops in their pants, he then decided at that moment it was OK and that he didn't want a dirty bum and went in the potty. Hallelujah!!! Things have been better since and no accidents (well minus a couple wet pull ups at night). Now I wont have to worry about double diaper duty come the end of next month! Oh just have to leave you with one of the many comments Isaac has come up with during this whole potty training experience! He was sitting on the potty trying to pee (since I literally was taking him every 15-20 mins the first day) and he couldn't get anything out. He turns to me and says, "mommy my pee pee needs new batteries, it's not working." My child has a solution for everything that goes wrong!

Catching up!

I know its been awhile since my last post. I usually feel like I'm on top of this blogging thing. Trust me every day the for the last two weeks I have sat down and said "today is the day i post," and some how I am distracted by everything else. So to update you its been a very fun month. We had a very nice Easter weekend and actually got our vegetable garden planted that week (pictures to come). The new place we are living in has a 60ft by 40 ft plot for a vegetable garden. I know you probably think we are crazy for going out there and planting as many vegetables as possible and me being 7 months pregnant but we are very excited! Things are sprouting and hopefully if there is NO MORE SNOW, we will have more.


The last week of April we had the chance to go down to San Diego, CA. We got lucky with the weather and only had overcast for one of the 5 days we were there. Coleman's mission companion got married over the weekend and what a better excuse for a vacation. We stayed in this great place called Paradise Point in the Mission Bay area. The beach was only a 5 minute drive. The best part of the vacation is my bff Beth came from Phoenix with her cute family. We got a lot of much needed bonding time in! I miss you guys already and Isaac is always asking where his Lisa is (Isaac insists that Beth's name is Lisa). While we were down there we got the San Diego Zoo in, toured the USS Midway (WWII aircraft carrier), beach time, great food, and Downtown Disney. I know you are probably thinking why just Downtown Disney? Well Ike is only 2 and its too expensive to go especially when I can't even ride anything. So maybe in 2 or 3 years we will go all out! Well enough blabbering for now, enjoy the pics!

Easter Weekend










USS MIDWAY TOUR

San Diego Bay..such a nice day!

BALBOA BEACH

There was a big storm a few days before we got

there and the waves were so big it cut a 6 ft deep

section out of the beach!

MISSION BEACH

Beth and prego me

Cute little Beck and his big gorgeous blue eyes!

PARADISE POINT RESORT

Just out enjoying the sun at our resort.

SAN DIEGO TEMPLE

We stopped on our way back to LA, such a gorgeous temple.

Ike couldn't resist the giant picture of Mickey!

It's a Girl!

We are so excited to announce we are having a little girl. We are so excited! Sorry it took me so long to post but my computer died last week and I just got it back, hurray!

We can't wait for this little girl to get here, which I shouldn't be getting too excited with my due date not being till August 5th. I am excited for all the girly shopping and getting to decorate a little girls room.

Have a great week!

Cravings

So far is this pregnancy, not that I'm that far into it yet, I have had some odd cravings. I remember with Ike I ate everything. It all tasted good, especially that fatty stuff. So far this pregnancy I had and still have the craving for steamed zucchini and yellow squash for almost every meal it seems like. I finish a cucumber each day and love my pickles. The funniest craving I had this week was for pintos and cheese from Taco Bell. OK I haven't eatin Taco Bell since middle school. So last night I went and finally got a pintos and cheese. Tasted alright, not as good as my mind made it to be and now that craving has passed. So weird, maybe my body was just wanting some protein.