Here is a picture of my mom with the girls, I love that my mom was willing to come out here to be with us and to help me, especially with Savannah. She has loved having so much attention from her grandma and I've loved watching them spend time together. I hope that I can be as good of a mom to my children as my mom was to me. I think I'm on my way though because people who know my mom say I'm just like her which is one of my favorite things to hear.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Grandma's
Don't you just love grandma's! My mom has been staying with us since the 30th of July and she'll be leaving this Saturday so I've been totally spoiled to have her here for 2 weeks. I've decided I just don't know what I'll do once she's gone as well because I've totally appreciated her help and needed it. I know I'm totally capable of handling 2 kids but I'll be honest its freakin awesome to have someone around to help all the time. My mom and I have pretty much always gotten along, of course there were the trying teenage years but I'll be honest in saying I don't ever remember having an "I hate my mom" period of my life. I think of my mom as one of my best friends, someone who I can always be myself around and who I know will always love me and have my best interest at heart. I mean after all she's my mom and I know she feels this way because that's how I feel towards my own daughters. I've loved having her here and whenever I think of her leaving I get teary eyed so I need to stop thinking about it. I love how life works, I mean the whole growing process. How we start out so helpless, how we are dependent on others to care for us. How we grow and learn more and more and become more self reliant. Then one day we become parents and we finally understand what our parents went through and how much they truly love us. I never fully understood that until I became a parent. Then one day we'll be grandparents and we'll watch our children as they gain that same understanding and have that same love for their children. I love the family unit and everything it teaches us. I love my family and everything they do for me and for the examples they are to me.
Here is a picture of my mom with the girls, I love that my mom was willing to come out here to be with us and to help me, especially with Savannah. She has loved having so much attention from her grandma and I've loved watching them spend time together. I hope that I can be as good of a mom to my children as my mom was to me. I think I'm on my way though because people who know my mom say I'm just like her which is one of my favorite things to hear.
Here is a picture of my mom with the girls, I love that my mom was willing to come out here to be with us and to help me, especially with Savannah. She has loved having so much attention from her grandma and I've loved watching them spend time together. I hope that I can be as good of a mom to my children as my mom was to me. I think I'm on my way though because people who know my mom say I'm just like her which is one of my favorite things to hear.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
...and then there were 4
I promise I'll put up more pictures soon where you can actually see Olivia, I just wanted to let you all know that she's here! Olivia Anne was born on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 11:30 am. We're all doing great and resting at home. I'll tell you more about her arrival when I put up more pictures, just know that all is well and so far so good.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Nesting Part II
Ok, here we are with the second round of my nesting activities which are all sewing projects. I kinda find this weird for me because I'm not a sewer at all which will probably also explain why all these projects are so easy to do as long as you can sew a straight line. I also seem to really like sewing when I'm pregnant because I did the same thing with Savannah. If you ask Jacob he'll tell you I never sew because he's always asking me to fix his jeans that need a patch put on or something of the sort and I never seem to get around to it.
Here is just a close up of the fabric I used. For the back side I just went to Walmart and bought a king sized white sheet and used that for the backing.
Here are 2 pillow covers I made. I love throw pillows we have like 6 pillows on our bed alone so I never have a shortage of pillows at my house. I seem to go through different phases when I'll love a pillow and then I'll find one even better that I like. So I decided to reuse some of our older pillows that I don't have out but have kept around to put in Savannah's room.
Here are the super easy and in my opinion super cute burp rags I made. I just bought these cloth diapers at walmart, they come in a pack of 12 and used the extra fabric from the previous projects.
Here is a close up of the green one, I'm actually taking one of these to the hospital to bring home with Olivia in case she's a spitter. Plus it'll match her cute outfit we're bringing her home in too.
Anyway here are curtins I made for Savannah's room. This project was finally decided on after first being a duvet cover then pillows and finally I decided to make curtains. I won't lie, I'm really happy with how they turned out. Its amazing how much light they help block out at night since its still light out when we put Savannah down for bed. Also I just think they're so freakin cute.
Here is just a close up of the fabric I used. For the back side I just went to Walmart and bought a king sized white sheet and used that for the backing.
Here are 2 pillow covers I made. I love throw pillows we have like 6 pillows on our bed alone so I never have a shortage of pillows at my house. I seem to go through different phases when I'll love a pillow and then I'll find one even better that I like. So I decided to reuse some of our older pillows that I don't have out but have kept around to put in Savannah's room.
Here are the super easy and in my opinion super cute burp rags I made. I just bought these cloth diapers at walmart, they come in a pack of 12 and used the extra fabric from the previous projects.
Here is a close up of the green one, I'm actually taking one of these to the hospital to bring home with Olivia in case she's a spitter. Plus it'll match her cute outfit we're bringing her home in too.
Ok, well those are the latest 3 projects I've done. I think I'm done for now except I've gotten the urge to make some freezer meals but we'll see if I have the time or energy. I seem to be obsessed lately with having everything in my house put in its correct place. I just have this urge to make sure that if I had to leave immediatley for the hospital that everything would be clean when I came back home. Its crazy how the obsessions your already have are just magnified when your about to have a baby. I just want my house to be spotless and everything put away which is impossible especially if you live with Savannah and Jacob for that matter.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Black Canyon
So my nephew Tyler just turned 13 so for his birthday he decided he wanted to go boating up at Black Canyon. I love that his birthday is in July because this is typically what we always do for his birthday and I love it. Now I don't actually do anything when I go boating but I still love it. This trip was also super fun because it was the first time Savannah has ever been on a boat. She also went tubing with Jacob which turned out to be a fun experience for her.
Here we are at the dock, Savannah was a bit hesitant about putting on the life jacket at first.
Here she is with Jacob when she first got in the tube and we were pulling away, this is right about where she started crying.
Here she is happier once she realized what she was going to get to do. Jacob said when they first started she kept calling for me. The ironic part is that if I had gone with her she would have been asking for Jacob. My brother in law Jason took it nice and slow for Savannah's first tubing trip and she really did end up enjoying it.
After our outing on the boat the next group got on (there were like 17 of us all together) and Sandi, Jared, and I took 2 of our nieces and Savannah down to the little beach they have. At first Savannah wanted nothing to do with it. She's become quite timid which I like but yet I've been so used to her outgoing personality that it kinda takes me by surprise when something freaks her out. After a bit she got used to the waves at the start of the beach and once we actually got in the water she couldn't wait to let go of my hand and walk around on her own.
I'm trying to get her to actually get in the water, you wouldn't think this would be so hard because she LOVES water. We really need to live closer to a real beach.
She loved walking around and waiting for her cousin Becca to swim up to us, she though this was the funnest game.
I also decided to throw in a picture of just me showing off my big belly, I'm 2 weeks from my due date and right now I'm measuring about a week ahead of where I'm at. Even though I've gained 15 less pounds then when I was pregnant with Savannah my stomach is so much bigger this time.
Overall it was a super fun day of eating yummy food, having fun on the boat, and wearing Savannah out. It was fun to experience a first with her and to have Jacob there for it as well. I hope Tyler just always decides to go boating for his birthday, I'm quite glad to accommodate.
Here we are at the dock, Savannah was a bit hesitant about putting on the life jacket at first.
Here she is with Jacob when she first got in the tube and we were pulling away, this is right about where she started crying.
Here she is happier once she realized what she was going to get to do. Jacob said when they first started she kept calling for me. The ironic part is that if I had gone with her she would have been asking for Jacob. My brother in law Jason took it nice and slow for Savannah's first tubing trip and she really did end up enjoying it.After our outing on the boat the next group got on (there were like 17 of us all together) and Sandi, Jared, and I took 2 of our nieces and Savannah down to the little beach they have. At first Savannah wanted nothing to do with it. She's become quite timid which I like but yet I've been so used to her outgoing personality that it kinda takes me by surprise when something freaks her out. After a bit she got used to the waves at the start of the beach and once we actually got in the water she couldn't wait to let go of my hand and walk around on her own.
I'm trying to get her to actually get in the water, you wouldn't think this would be so hard because she LOVES water. We really need to live closer to a real beach.
She loved walking around and waiting for her cousin Becca to swim up to us, she though this was the funnest game.
I also decided to throw in a picture of just me showing off my big belly, I'm 2 weeks from my due date and right now I'm measuring about a week ahead of where I'm at. Even though I've gained 15 less pounds then when I was pregnant with Savannah my stomach is so much bigger this time.Overall it was a super fun day of eating yummy food, having fun on the boat, and wearing Savannah out. It was fun to experience a first with her and to have Jacob there for it as well. I hope Tyler just always decides to go boating for his birthday, I'm quite glad to accommodate.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Nesting Part I
So nesting during this pregnancy has been quite different then with Savannah. When I was pregnant with Savannah I was working full time and pretty much started nesting for my last two trimesters. I've figured out that this was because I'm super anal and wanted everything to be perfect. Plus I was working all day so I only had nights and weekends to work on things, so it was going to take me the last two trimesters to actually get everything done that I wanted to. So what's the difference? Well I'm still anal and want everything to be perfect but now I don't work so I have all day everyday to work on whatever I want. Because of this I finally stared nesting a week and a half ago, which has meant that I've been even crazier and more obsessed then ever in trying to make everything perfect for the arrival of Olivia. Nesting is also different this time around because I already have everything I need to a girl since we obviously already have one of those. So with that checked off my list I've been focusing on household projects which I think has driven Jacob crazy. I've rearranged all 3 of our bedrooms, ours because the way it was made no room for the bassinet, Savannah's old room just because I was bored with it the way it was, and Savannah's new room which was our office/throw all our crap in here room because well we needed to put Savannah somewhere.
The bassinet is on the wall opposite our bed next to our dresser.
For Olivia's room I seriously just flip flopped the furniture and Jacob changed the crib back into a crib after being Savannah's toddler bed.
This room took a lot of work and is pretty much finished. Its still missing shelves above her bed and the lovesac, they'll frame her window. To get this room done we had to organize a ton of stuff and find new homes for quite a few things but in the end I love how it turned out. I'm also in the process of making curtains for her room too. Once there done you'll get to see a picture.
I also made Savannah a magnet board for her room, I was going to put some cork board up that I had but thought better about giving her push pins. This actually was used as a chore chart once upon a time so all I did was paint the wood frame orange and flip the aluminum around to hide the lines I'd drawn on the other side. I also made her abc magnets and we're of course already missing 2 letters. This is hanging underneath her window to the left of her bed. When I finished it and let her play with it she kept saying how pretty it was and was just so excited to move the magnets around. It made me pretty happy.
So here is my last project to share for now, remember this is only Part I. So I actually stole this idea from another web site but I don't care because I lOVe how it turned out. It is my fAVorITe project I've done so far, I mean its to the point where I sometimes stand in my laundry room door just to look at it, weird I know. The reason I'm so excited about this project is because it makes my laundry room look so much cleaner and nicer. So I "made" these curtains to cover up our storage shelves in the laundry room. These curtains were actually hanging up in Savannah's new room when it was our office and I just recycled them into a shorter version that would work in my laundry room. I like them so much because you can actually see through the fabric if you look really hard but at the same time there not transparent. It hides what's behind them without being too heavy and the cream color looks pretty with my wall colors too. I know some will find my obsession with this project funny, but if you know me and my love of things being organized and clean looking you will understand why these curtains make me so happy.
Alright readers here you go, the start of my nesting projects and I still have a few more to go so hopefully I get them all done and posted before Olivia arrives.
The bassinet is on the wall opposite our bed next to our dresser.
For Olivia's room I seriously just flip flopped the furniture and Jacob changed the crib back into a crib after being Savannah's toddler bed.
This room took a lot of work and is pretty much finished. Its still missing shelves above her bed and the lovesac, they'll frame her window. To get this room done we had to organize a ton of stuff and find new homes for quite a few things but in the end I love how it turned out. I'm also in the process of making curtains for her room too. Once there done you'll get to see a picture.
I also made Savannah a magnet board for her room, I was going to put some cork board up that I had but thought better about giving her push pins. This actually was used as a chore chart once upon a time so all I did was paint the wood frame orange and flip the aluminum around to hide the lines I'd drawn on the other side. I also made her abc magnets and we're of course already missing 2 letters. This is hanging underneath her window to the left of her bed. When I finished it and let her play with it she kept saying how pretty it was and was just so excited to move the magnets around. It made me pretty happy.
So here is my last project to share for now, remember this is only Part I. So I actually stole this idea from another web site but I don't care because I lOVe how it turned out. It is my fAVorITe project I've done so far, I mean its to the point where I sometimes stand in my laundry room door just to look at it, weird I know. The reason I'm so excited about this project is because it makes my laundry room look so much cleaner and nicer. So I "made" these curtains to cover up our storage shelves in the laundry room. These curtains were actually hanging up in Savannah's new room when it was our office and I just recycled them into a shorter version that would work in my laundry room. I like them so much because you can actually see through the fabric if you look really hard but at the same time there not transparent. It hides what's behind them without being too heavy and the cream color looks pretty with my wall colors too. I know some will find my obsession with this project funny, but if you know me and my love of things being organized and clean looking you will understand why these curtains make me so happy.Alright readers here you go, the start of my nesting projects and I still have a few more to go so hopefully I get them all done and posted before Olivia arrives.
My Buddy
Savannah is my buddy! I love having her to hang out with and I won't lie, I'm a bit sad for the day when it won't be just she and I. Now don't get me wrong I'm VERY excited for the arrival of Miss Olivia but I really do treasure the time I've had with just Savannah. Today we did two fun projects that were both firsts for us.
We painted! I bought this for Savannah a few months ago but never remembered to get it out for her. Plus she never really showed interest in coloring or painting before so I just put the paints away to wait for her to gain interest. A few days ago Savannah told me she wanted to color and that inspired me today to break out the paint set. Needless to say she loved it and made us 3 pictures which are of course hanging on our fridge right now.
Now our second new project was making a Gooey Butter Cake. My good friend Mary has a blog with 2 of her friends, they all live in St Louis and once a month travel to different fun places in their area and blog about it. I've actually debated starting up something like that for myself so I can see new places here. Anyway they decided to have a giveaway for a Gooey Butter Cake mix which is a well known treat in St Louis. Anyway I won the giveaway which I was super excited about and so today we made it. (If you haven't figured it out yet what makes this project new is I've never made a Gooey Butter Cake before.)
It was super easy to make and as you can tell Savannah thought it was quite enjoyed sampling it before it was actually ready. It turned out great and I'm trying to show some restraint and not eat the whole thing before Jacob actually gets some. Also don't worry Mary, I'm going to send you pictures like I promised so you can post them.
We painted! I bought this for Savannah a few months ago but never remembered to get it out for her. Plus she never really showed interest in coloring or painting before so I just put the paints away to wait for her to gain interest. A few days ago Savannah told me she wanted to color and that inspired me today to break out the paint set. Needless to say she loved it and made us 3 pictures which are of course hanging on our fridge right now.Now our second new project was making a Gooey Butter Cake. My good friend Mary has a blog with 2 of her friends, they all live in St Louis and once a month travel to different fun places in their area and blog about it. I've actually debated starting up something like that for myself so I can see new places here. Anyway they decided to have a giveaway for a Gooey Butter Cake mix which is a well known treat in St Louis. Anyway I won the giveaway which I was super excited about and so today we made it. (If you haven't figured it out yet what makes this project new is I've never made a Gooey Butter Cake before.)
It was super easy to make and as you can tell Savannah thought it was quite enjoyed sampling it before it was actually ready. It turned out great and I'm trying to show some restraint and not eat the whole thing before Jacob actually gets some. Also don't worry Mary, I'm going to send you pictures like I promised so you can post them.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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