Family pics

These were taken last Oct. Better late than never I guess =) My girls already look so different, but I love looking back on these. We really captured some fun moments. 

Happy "Month of May" to me!

All within a week of each other is our Anniversary- 7 yrs-, Mother's Day, and my bday- 27- yep I'm getting old now =) A few years ago I asked Tim to stop getting me little gifts and let me get one big gift. It's worked out great because those are the ones that you usually can't afford anyways. Normally I'm super thrifty and hardly spend any money on myself, but for this time of year I throw all of that caution to the wind. My present arrived today!!

A new lens, which I was in pretty desperate need of since the stock one that came w/ the camera when we bought it doesn't turn well anymore since it got accidentally dropped on Easter weekend. Plus this one has a higher zoom capability and I can't wait to start trying it out.

Roman Shades

I'm pretty proud about these. I worked on them over the past 3 days and they are finally complete! I'm probably going to have to add some backing to these because the light shines through pretty good during the day and you can see the slats- it looks a little tacky. But overall I'm very please with them and that I pulled through. So check- another project done before this babes comes- yay me!

I got the idea to do these from pinterest http://365days2simplicity.blogspot.com/2011/04/easy-no-sew-roman-shades.html

Once I get a few more projects done I think that I'm going to tackle these again for a few other rooms in my home

Amazing news!!

We got the best possible news that we could today. Baby girl decided to finally give us a plain as day view of her stomach on the ultrasound and she looks fantastic! Any worries or fears were instantly washed away. It was a bit strange though because that definitely wasn't what I was expecting to hear today at the appt so I almost didn't know how to react. Both of our girls were little turkeys and were both delivered in the operating room so we're hoping that this little ones joke on mommy and daddy is over now and won't follow in her sister's path and be a little stinker when she's trying to be born.

Silverwood fun

Managed to get Hannah on here with her love of airplanes. She started out loving it...

Hannah ended up playing with her stroller a lot that day

Once Hailey started moving the plane up and down Hannah started to freak out

Hannah attempted to get on this ride... and then screamed the minute she got on so we had to take her right off lol.

Hailey just loved this ride and was laughing the entire time.

I know I know... you're probably thinking why on earth are you going out to Silverwood?!! Lol!! Well we had our free tickets from Scarywood last fall that had to be used up this May so away we went. Actually it turned out a great weekend to go because moms got in free so we all got in for FREE!!! And... then we saved money by filling up the gas tank which was almost on empty out in good ol Idaho. Go figure we ended up saving about $40! Yippee which paid for our ice cream and our dinner =) Anyways we were able to ride a few of the easy rides together as a family. Other than that we just let Hailey go on whatever rides she wanted to- and she's pretty darn fearless just like her mama. Hannah was very scared to go on most of the rides and is definitely way different than Hailey was at that age.

Seven amazing years

On Monday the hubs and I celebrated 7 years of being married... seriously 7!!! It's crazy to think about where life has taken us since that day when 2 young kiddos ( I seriously feel like I was still a kid then lol) took a chance on their love with each other.

We went out last friday night and got a whole night away from the girlies- thank you in-laws for that glorious night. Though it's funny how the minute I'm away from them I miss them like crazy and keep thinking about them. We started out the evening with food at one of our very most favorite places. During happy hour at Clinkerdaggers you can get most of their appetizers for 1/2 off. Their food is just to die for- seriously amazing! It's a little on the spendy side for me, but we just order enough apps to make a meal and it was a piece of heaven. Then off to the bowling alley. I got a few weird looks being as pregnant as I am, but bowling was my idea. We then went and drove around and ended up getting ice cream at Coldstone too =) Then off to the movies to see Avengers which was awesome! I especially enjoy a movie where the sexuality and the bad language is kept to a minimum. Whew it was a super busy night and our house was WAY too quiet the next morning, lol.

Tim's schedule with work and church has been so busy lately that we rarely get to spend an evening together like that so we tried to squeeze in as much as we could. I just love him to pieces!

Finishing projects

I've decided that I really need to finish some of my projects lately. The weather is starting to get nicer, which means that I can finally resume my painting outside soon here- yay! That is when Tim can help, lol, since some of the furniture is a big heavy. So I really need to finish other unfinished things before I start the painting again.

 This is the before picture.

And ta-da the after picture

Anyways I fell in love with this rocking chair when I saw it last year and got it for a steal of $10! It was in need of some serious tlc, which I gladly gave it. I'm pretty proud of it because of all the work I did on it. Last year I sanded, primed, painted, and clear coated it and it's been sitting in my basement waiting for me to get the energy and inspiration to finish. The seat cushion was ICKY and when I tore it off it was even ickier inside. Once I got it cleaned up enough to recover it took some serious thinking on my part because I'd never done anything like that before. I ended up sticking a piece of foam and then a layer of batting over the springs and then covering with the fabric that I finally found. I've been going to the fabric stores off and on for the past 6 months looking for fabric for some of my various undone projects so I was super happy to finally find something I was ok with and liked enough. The seat cushion was the easy part in my opinion. This chair never came with a back cushion, but it desperately needed it because it was just plain uncomfortable. This was super tricky for me. I decided to use another piece of foam and cut it out into the shape I wanted. Then I had to attempt to make a pattern to sew a cover for it. I may have a sewing machine, but I'm not very talented in using it at all. So it's all covered now and done! The back cushion fabric doesn't fit quite right, it's not perfect, but it's something that I did all by myself and I'm proud of myself for seeing it through!

Praying

I haven't been sure of myself  on whether to talk about this, but I suppose if I'm to use this more and use it as an outlet I should. Even as I think about putting my jumbled thoughts onto this page my stomach is doing flip flops- and not the good kind.

Last Sunday I got a phone call... from my dr... on her cell phone. I had a 2nd midpoint ultrasound the week before to get better pics of the stomach... and they still weren't able to find it. Not good. My dr tried to reassure me that it could have been the baby's position, she could have just emptied her stomach, etc... but let's be honest here. I may sound like a bunch of sour grapes right now, but if they haven't found it in 2 ultrasounds I'm worried. I have another ultrasound scheduled in about 2 weeks to try once more. They wanted to wait a little longer to wait until she was a little bigger. If they can't find it then I get sent off to specialists and from there my mind just feels like it's being squeezed.

So in all reality I won't know anything for sure for a little bit still, but that doesn't keep my mind from thinking about what may be ahead of us. When I first got the news I really struggled to keep myself together. Not sure how well I managed that one. Of course I did the typical and searched the web about my possible situation. It's called not seeing the "stomach bubble" and from what I could find out each situation is different. Yes it could mean the baby doesn't have a stomach. What?!! That doesn't even make sense. Random things that I found were things like pre-term birth, surgeries, other birth defects associated with babies born with this, not being about to nurse her right away, bad reflux, etc. and of course modern medicine can only go so far and so we've thought about this baby not making it.

I don't know why but for some reason I thought that this pregnancy would be just fine since I miscarried 2 mo before getting pregnant. I guess we shouldn't assume these things. So we're worried and scared about what the future may hold for us. And Tim is definitely worried more this time too. With the miscarriage it was so early on that he didn't really feel the loss like I did, but this time I'm far enough along where he will be majorly involved with anything that happens. He asks me everyday how I'm feeling and to be honest I've ate more chocolate in the past few days than I have in a long time. No it hasn't made me feel any better yet about things. This little girl- who is still nameless- is still a feisty one and moving lots. So I guess we have to wait. The best news that we could have is that the stomach is found at our next appt. So that's what I'm praying for.