Holy Hannah it has been awhile...

Well, about a million things have happened since my last post.  Most importantly:

- We had baby #2 (Alyssa) last March.
- We are expecting baby #3 this October... :)

Oh yeah, and we have worked and worked and worked on the house.  We now have a brand new sprinkler system in our back yard, just need to hook up the timer and off we are to a yard full of grass!!!! (Well half full - the other half is composed of our two gardens and our massive storage shed. 

What can I say about Alyssa?... She was a smaller baby than Jessica, so a much easier delivery (5 minutes of pushing instead of an hour, literally).  She definitely has attitude, and knows how to scream at Jessica when Jess does something she doesn't like.  She just started walking two weeks ago, on Feb 21st (while I was at Relief Society and Jacob was at home with her and she also stood up in the middle of the room that night too... I was so happy that he got to see those major milestones!)  She can say mama, and just figured out the "d" sound today, so hopefully that will turn in to dada soon.  She signs a few words: all done, yes, thank you, please (only sometimes).  She loves to watch big sister signing, and tries to mimic anything we sign to her.

Jessica has progressed majorly in the past year and a half.  She now has well over 100, possibly 200 signs she knows.  I am not even going to try to name them all.  (anything on baby signing time, and several of the signing time videos she totally has down and then a few)  Jessica LOVES to sign, so I have been considering buying the Signing Time videos instead of just getting them from the library, but have you seen how much they cost?!!  I did find a MUCH cheaper set, but we have spent a lot of money recently (mostly with the new Van in preparation for #3)  We have been attempting to potty train since last Christmas, but not really seriously until this past Christmas.  She was doing really good for awhile, but then she decided to have accidents nearly every time, so I decided to stick her back in diapers because I was tired of having 5 pairs of dirty clothes in the bathtub that I was rinsing/drip drying each day. 

More to come later :)

So I'm an hour late...

What? You never cleaned your house last minute before taking pictures the whole world could possibly see?

Yeah I thought so.

First Off. Master Bath.

Old Vanity/Toilet/ non-existent flooring

Looking In New.

Old Medicine cupboard(s)

Mirror and Medicine Cabinet

Old Shower Handle

New Shower Handle

Had to keep the ugly silver bar :(

Old Shower Head

New  Shower Head

New Lights

New Towel Rack

New Toilet

New Toilet Paper Holder

New Window

Oh.. And I decided you guys have to wait for the rest of the rooms.  Maybe one a day so you don't get too overwhelmed? 

24 hours, I Promise!

So now that I have spent the past 5 months of my life fixing my house like crazy, moving in, getting settled and figuring out how to be the boss of the house for the first time in 3 years, I think it is time for an update.

Give me 24 hours, a camera with full batteries, and I will have post after post of before and after pictures of the house.

Can you wait that long?  Hopefully the dishes can :)

I got a call this morning....

Literally 15 minutes after Jacob left for work.  The title company called wanting to set up our signing appointment.  We could have signed our papers today, but alas we will have to wait...




Monday.


9:00 a.m.



Big Fat cashiers check for closing costs.




1 or 2 day wait.....





The house (and keys) are MINE!!!

Dear Stardust....

You have done the wonderful job of finding me new kitchen cupboards.  Instead of looking like this, as it does now, the walls will soon be graced with your new cupboards.  All for only 1400.

You're the best!!!

Picture of the House.

Just imagine these three pictures together in one.  I couldn't pull it off in Photoshop, so you will just have to work with me here.

 

And my pretty green backyard with a garden smack dab in the middle. (see pile of brown dirt)  I have lettuce growing, and I didn't have to do a thing!!!

First Tooth & Pictures from the Phone

Jessica got her first tooth last friday... the day before her 9 mo. birthday (just like crawling and 8th months).  It is still working its way out, but that was when we felt it first.

Not much else is going on except I am working on packing up all my things, trying to finish some projects that I know I will not be getting around to for a very long time if they are not finished before we close on the house.

Oh!! Almost forgot.  I chopped off my hair.  I had been thinking about getting a haircut for several months, so while I was in Snowflake I went to Showlow to the NPC cosmetology clinic and got my hair cut.  I was able to donate 10 inches to Lawks of Luhv (I know the spelling is off here but I don't want to be showing up on tons of search engines... already have had a couple visitors because of it...) (Yeah!! I was thinking about it already but just decided to cut my hair and didn't realize I could donate it there until one of the instructors asked if I wanted to since we were cutting off so much)

Here are some random photos that were on my phone.  Enjoy!!!

Sleepin on the job.  Seriously, how hard can eating be?

Hey Mom, what are these?

I want to go for a ride!!

Tryin' to reach the toy in the walker.

Cousin stare down.

Being held by Grandma H.

With Grandpa E.

The things Daddy and Grandma will do to make the baby happy.

Trying on Halloween Costumes.

Christmas tree cutting at Old Sunrise.

Who cares about the tree? Dot's gotta keep her nails clean... and Gertie has to take pics of the whole event.

And for the talented sisters (Christy made the "BE" blocks, and Gertie made the photo blocks)