Painting is done, once and for all!

My dad finished painting the baby's room! We still need to go buy the molding and get it on the walls but that is pretty much the last of those "big" details. I have started moving the crib and changing table and such into the room and it's been a blast! I will be posting pictures of Step 2 soon. AND, best of all, only 1 1/2 weeks until we have our ultrasound!!!! Then I can really start decorating!

Decorating the Laundry Room

Our laundry room is also the entry way as you come in our back door. We hadn't really done anything with the area yet and it really needed something. We got to work hanging things and cleaning the room up and it looks so much more comforting when you walk into our house. It's funny how hanging two things on the wall can cozy a room up as much as these did. I feel much better about people coming in through that door.

This one here I ordered at an Uppercase Living party my friend Katie back in April or May. Once I saw it in the catalog I knew the perfect place in my house and I HAD to have it. Ha! It took us until this past weekend to get it up. How long is that? Five months?! But just like I thought, it's perfect in that spot right above the washer & dryer.

We hung this one right above the stairs and it's pretty much the first thing you see as you walk in the door. This was a gift from Brandon for Valentine's Day about three years ago. He is absolutely the best at picking out gifts! Here is a close up so you can see the pictures better.

It feels so cozy in there now! I love it!

The Room!

We got the walls in the baby's room painted. It looks AMAZING!! I am so happy with it; the color turned out exactly what I wanted. We just have to get the trim and the closet painted white. I'm going to be doing a step by step display as we get things done.

I can't wait until we find out what we are having so we can start getting things to decorate for either boy or girl. Our ultrasound is October 8th! We are so thrilled! I am able to bring two people with me so of course Brandon is coming but we have also invited my mom along. She is probably about as excited as we are, because you know, back in the day when she was pregnant with my sister and I they didn't do routine ultrasounds like they do now; they only did them if they knew something was wrong. We are counting down the days...three and a half weeks left!!

More to come...

I just wanted to put a quick thing on here to let you all know that I will be posting some pictures of the baby's room in a day or so. My dad came over this past weekend and painted for us and it looks fantastic! So stay tuned there is MUCH more to come!

My parents got me us a plant last year around Christmas time. It was beautiful! But it is one of those winter plants that is hard to keep going throughout the year and I just about lost it. It actually had three plants coming out of the one pot and two of the three died. I pulled those out of there to give the partially living one plenty of room and I started trimming so that it could exert all it's energy to the live stuff. I've been watching it struggle ever since just hoping it'd come out of it. Well I am proud to announce that it has grown buds and those buds have turned into beautiful flowers. Isn't it just gorgeous?! This is the first time I have brought a plant back to life. All the other times they sadly die. I'm so glad it is with us for another year!

Nothing New

I haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks because I haven't really done anything worthy of post material. I have enjoyed myself by avoiding house work and just relaxing doing absolutely nothing! Taking it easy as some might call it.

Actually last week my mom and I watched P.S. I Love You. We both were sitting there crying and crying throughout the whole movie! I don't watch chick flicks very often but I must say, I am ready to watch this one again! I loved it!

Speaking of my mom, she started a blog of her own this weekend! I'm so proud of her! She was a little nervous about it at first but she really enjoys playing around with things like this and she realized that it's a lot easier than it looks. I was a little intimidated when I first started too but I found out that they pretty much do all the work for you, the only thing left is finding things to blog about. Which can be a struggle for me sometimes but I think I've improved somewhat. As I mentioned in a previous post, I should be having more to write about with baby on the way. Right now, I feel pretty much like regular ol' Kayla, only difference at the moment is that I'm eating ALL day long! Seriously, I had eaten 4 meals before 10:00 this morning and I was still searching for food!

I need to go. I don't have any pictures to post and blogs without pictures just aren't nearly as interesting! Over and out.

Party!

I went to another scrapbooking party this past week at my friend Abigail's house. It was a blast! Here are the adorable cards we made.






I got a cute baby stamp set to do some scrapbooking with and I learned a new technique that I plan to use with it too; you guys will see that later once I actually start creating.

New House

I realized that I never did post anything about our house after we bought it; that may have something to do with the simple fact that we bought it before I ever started this blog. I suddenly feel the need to talk about it.

While Brandon was in Iraq we were saving up money with the intent to buy a house. We had been renting this fabulous duplex that really didn't even look like a duplex at all but rather a regular house. Our landlords lived on the other side of the house and were wonderful people. They took care of me and watched over me while Brandon was gone. It was such a blessing.

We were looking at houses on the internet when Brandon was still away and I would drive past them to check out the neighborhood and see what it really looked like (pictures can really be decieving sometimes). We had a realtor picked out and an appointment set up so that we could get started right away once he returned. We were looking at another house and had actually put in an offer but the realtor selling the house wasn't really working with us which really worked out great because as soon as we found the house pictured above we immediately knew this was the house. We pulled our offer on that house and placed one on this house. We knew that some other people were looking at the house right before us and were going to put in an offer so we raised the price higher than what they were asking in hopes that we would be the ones to get it and sure enough they accepted our offer by that afternoon! It was very exciting! Like I said, we just knew this was the house.

Let me give you a little history of the house: The family we bought it from were actually the ones who had the house built back in 1951. The father was a doctor here in town; a pediatrition if I know my facts correctly. My grandma knew him because back when they had elevator "attendants" she was one for a period of time and used to have to give him rides up and down the elevator each day. The family took such great care of everything when they lived here. All the appliances are original, meaning the kitchen has the fridge, stove/oven, sink from the 50's. The cupboards in the kitchen are still the original metal ones. They had all the original furniture when they were showing the house and it all looked brand new! It was truly like walking into a time warp!! The mother passed away two years ago and the father just passed last summer, so the children were selling the house.

The house had a carport attached but we recently turned it into an attached garage and it turned out wonderfully! We are working on getting a fence up; the fence they had around the backyard was also original but it was starting to lean and was about to fall over in some parts so we (hopefully by fall) will be installing a vinyl privacy fence. I think it'll look fantastic!

Exciting news to share

I have some news to share that makes me want to stand on the mountain top and yell to the whole world "I'm pregnant!!" I am so excited to be having a baby!! I am about 2 1/2 months along right now and our baby is due to arrive in February! This is our first child and we are ecstatic!

I am hoping too that with all the exciting things that will be going on with the pregnancy and baby that I will posting on here ALOT more often since our lives will become a bit more eventful although we could be too busy that I may not get a chance to get on here much even with all the news to share. Lets hope it's the former.

I really, really wish I knew what we are having so I can get to crafting away on a scrapbook, clothes, blankets, booties, burp cloths and more. I will post pictures of the progress of the nursery too as we get to it. I got the paint last week but it's a little darker than I planned once I got it home so I am going back to Home Depot to see if they can lighten it for me. It might be a month or two before we can actually get it painted but I will be sure to keep you posted.

I had been feeling pretty nauseous for a while and it was miserable! It's so hard to eat when everything makes you want to gag. The only thing I could ever bring myself to eat were cheese crisps from Taco Johns. I'm sure they are so healthy for the baby. Ha! I am thankful to say that beginning this past week I have been feeling MUCH better and I am able to eat more of a variety of foods again! Thank God! I must say that even though I felt horribly nauseous that I am pretty lucky because I wasn't throwing up like crazy. Actually I only "got sick" twice and both times were a result of me gagging myself with the toothbrush while brushing my teeth before bedtime. I try so hard to be careful but I can't not brush my tongue; I feel like my mouth isn't clean until my entire mouth, including tongue, is clean. Let's hope that's over though.
That's enough of all the throwing up talk! Yuck!

Going on a Picnik!!

I found this new program on the internet to edit photos! I have been playing around with it all morning and having a blast! I've always wanted Photoshop but it's not really a priority thing for us to purchase so we haven't, but in the meantime, this program will do! It's called Picnik and it's FREE!! Here is another picture that I played with too. This was just a sample photo they had on the site.

This may "enhance" my posts! Instead of boring just plain ol' pictures like I usually have I can get all fancy shmancy now! This is so much fun! I highly recommend it for those of you who don't have photoshop or any other photo editor program; this one is easy to use. And you can do more than those above. I was just liking this style for now.