Pregnancy Update

Me at 29 weeks and 3 days pregnant. I feel so big! And am only going to get bigger :) But that's great, as long as Baby Girl is growing and doing well then I don't mind a bit!

Still feeling sick, mostly in the morning and the evening and anytime that I eat meat or take my prenatal vitamins. I've been craving lots of fruit. Blueberries mainly but also plums, nectarines, bananas, strawberries, and raspberries. Almost any fruit that I can get my hands on. I've also been craving refined sugars, aka candy. Mostly just pear flavored jelly bellies (yes, they must be the pear flavored ones and only the pear flavored ones) and peach rings. That's about it as far as the cravings go. As far as weight gain goes, I stepped on a friends scale on Saturday and I weighed 132 pounds which puts me at having gained exactly 20 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight.
I've still been having contractions. Had  quite a few on Saturday that were about four minutes apart. I made sure to call my doctor and let her know what was happening since she had told me at my last appointment that anything closer than 10 min apart could send me into "real" labor. She told me to just rest, put my feet up, and drink tons of water and to rest the next day as well. I did that and within a couple hours I was only having a contraction about every 16 min and within not too long after that I was only having one every 30 min or so. It was such a blessing that I was able to get them to slow down because I would have had to go to the hospital (per my doctors orders when I called her Sat night) if they were 5 min apart or less. I didn't go to church on Sunday, just took it easy and stayed off my feet because I didn't want to stress my body out and have the same thing happen again. Feeling good today though (Monday). Had a few contractions but I've been resting a lot and drinking lots of fluids to make sure that they don't get any worse.

That's all folks!! :)

Animals =)

We are renting our pasture to a farmer to keep his cows on. All the cows are female and pregnant. A couple weeks ago, a momma black cow gave birth to this cute little guy.

Then, yesterday a brown momma cow gave birth to not one but  two!! babies!
Baby One

 Baby Two

 Little Family :)

 Two new babies making friends through the fence with the black baby. They are just too cute!!!

We also found a cool frog in our sprinkler box a few mornings ago when we were turning on the sprinklers

House Pics

Here are some pics that Tyler took of our house a couple nights ago.

Updated Garden pic

 Front

 Silly kitty named Suzie

 Front

 Back

 Part of our pasture (we have 2 acres and are renting part of it to a farmer to keep his cows on). Our land goes to the fence you see right where the grass ends.

 Back, different side this time

 Kitchen. I was trying to run away when I saw Ty taking a pic of the kitchen.

 But then he told me to come back and that the kitchen looked cuter with me in it :)

 Current progress on the stairs. Part of a platform is built!

Shutterfly Coolness

5x7 Folded Card

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I made this card on Shutterfly.com. Have I ever mentioned how much I love Shutterfly?! I get free stuff from them all the time: free photobooks once a year, free address labels a couple times a year, 10 free cards every once in a while, free prints, and sometimes I even get a code for $10 off an order $10 or more! And you get 50 free prints just for signing up! If you don't have an account on Shutterfly.com then you should really consider getting one, I don't think you would regret it! ;)

Dressers and Bookshelves

We had been looking at yard sales for a dresser for our nursery, but what we found instead was a beautiful dresser four our room and an opportunity to re-finish our current dresser for Baby Girl.
This is the dresser that we found at a yard sale, it's in great condition, it was built in 1974 and made of oak! Came with a matching mirror and everything!



This gave me the opportunity to re-finish our old dresser, which I was able to do this morning.
Before:





(You can't really see from this pic, but the knobs don't all match. They're the same general shape and size but drastically different designs)


And after!!!


New knobs!!!



On Saturday, my mom came over and helped me with some painting. We painted two bookshelves and a few door frames.
Here is the finished product of one, all decorated and where it belongs in the house. It looks black but is really just dark brown. I haven't figured out what I want to do to decorate the top yet so it just has the necessities on it for now.



Here is the second one, this one had yet to be decorated and have books on it since it can't be where it belongs in the house until the stairs are finished and everything is where it should be.



I'm really enjoying doing what I can to make our house our beautiful home! :)


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Tyler's 30th birthday

Cake, chocolate with fudge frosting, all from scratch. 30 candles used to make the number 30 :)


Tyler's birthday dinner, fish and chips aka salmon and tater tots ;)


Candles all lit and ready to be blown out!!




Cutting the cake


Mmm, yummy!!!



Love my 30 year old husband!!!


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That one time when I was 7 months pregnant and tiled a floor myself

Okay, so I did it mostly myself. Tyler helped with three things. First, he cut a board and screwed it down so that we would have the proper sub-flooring for our tile. He then tucked our newly installed carpet down around the board that he just screwed in. The third thing that he helped with came a little later. Since the area we were tiling wasn't a square we had to cut some tiles. I probably could have done that myself but I didn't really want to so I asked Tyler to do it for me. 

Here's Tyler finishing up screwing in the board and tucking the carpet.  

All finished and ready for the next step. 

After Tyler finished with the board, I prepped the area for work and primed the board with a primer so that the tiles would sick better (per the instructions on the box ;)  )

I then laid the tiles using spacers, the tiles on the left are the ones that Tyler cut for me. 

Close up of a spacer between the tiles

 After I was done with laying the tiles I grouted the floor using a float (which you can see in the pic in the bottom right corner). And voila! I'm done!! 

Fun Things

We went for a walk in Kathryn Albertson Park in Boise and saw some cool wildlife. If you look closely you can see three turtles! Two above water and a third poking it's head out of the water :)

 Pretty lilly pads and flower

 Cool turtle guy that we found swimming around in the one of the ponds.

Mamma duck and babies

 Pretty sunset from our back yard

 Cool moon that we saw one night, it looked bigger than we had ever seen it before!

Me at 26 weeks and 3 days pregnant. I'll post another tummy pic this week, on Thursday I will be 29 weeks pregnant.

Fourth of July Fun

We had a nice Fourth of July, we worked on projects in our house for a little while and then had an early dinner bbq with my grandparents and my mom. I made an awesome seven layer, patriotic Jell-O dish. It was super sugary but oh so yummy! And not to mention, it took forever to make!

In the evening we watched firework shows from our back yard. From our back patio we can see a good portion of the Treasure Valley and we were able to (literally) see about a dozen different firework shows from the comfort of our own yard! It was super cool and a very fun way to celebrate our independence.