New Years Eve

We had a wonderful New Years this year eating dinner and playing games with good friends. We usually go to the strip to watch the fireworks but I didn't really want to be the lady that was almost seven months pregnant walking around while my feet were swelling. We went to Chili's with Megan, Ricardo, Megan, Blake and Jenna and then we went to Megs new house to play a game and watch some fireworks. It was relaxing and a lot of fun. We even drank three bottles of apple cider before midnight! Here are a few pics from the night....


Megan and Ricardo at dinner


Megan and Blake at dinner


Me and Jenna at dinner


Blake laughing hysterically at the game we were playing


Megan K, Me, Megan T


Megan, Ashley, Me and Megan watching the fireworks and drinking apple cider


John cant even be serious for a New Years Kiss!

Kitchen Remodel

John has been doing amazing things around here and our latest project of a new kitchen is finally complete. Words cannot describe what it feels like to be able to have two people in the kitchen at one time and still be able to move around. It is more than I could have ever asked for and thanks to my dad who made it all possible. They both did a wonderful job....

This is the room before they got started

Removing the window to replace it with a door and a smaller window

Actual counter top to prepare dinner on



Eventually we will have a freezer in the other empty slot



I am very lucky and proud that my husband can do such amazing handy work!

28 weeks and counting

I have been horrible at blogging lately and as part of a new years resolution i am going to try and keep up with the little things like that. I cant believe that we are already in a New Year it seems like I was just having my birthday in July but time seems to be moving by pretty fast. I am so thankful for things that happened in 2009 along with a lot of things that I wish never would have but I guess the good always come with some bad. I am so thankful to be having this baby he is such a blessing in both of our lives and I cant wait to be a mother to him. I had a rough start with the miscarriage but God blessed me with a healthy pregnancy just two short months after. I can never explain how thankful I am for that. Although I have a pretty rough couple of months throughout the pregnancy it will all be worth it in the end. I try to explain to John that I have to complain about not being able to walk, or waking up in the middle of the night with leg cramps, or even being put on bed rest for a short while because if i didn't complain it wouldn't be me :) He thinks that I'm just looking for sympathy for him which maybe I am just a little! In the next two and a half months that we have to prepare for the little guys arrival I feel that there is a lot still left to learn on my end which is a little overwhelming but I'm sure it will all come naturally or at least that is what everyone says will happen.

I'M excited for the New Year to start and hope that it is filled with lots of great adventures for everyone!

28 weeks pregnant

Home Improvements

Ever since the announcememnt of the pregnancy my parents have been wanting to help us get our house in order so that when the baby arrives we are ready. They at first wanted to help us with the babies room so that he had his own room that didnt have weight equipment in it that he isnt quite ready for yet although his daddy may think so! John and my dad immediately started coming up with plans of things that needed to be done and althought we have yet to get to the babies room the house is really shaping up! First we did the guest bathroom which is something that we have needed to get to for a long time but never really had the money for it. Unfortunately I dont have a before picture because we forgot to take one when we started but we have some during the process and then the finished product. I cant belive how different it looks I am in absoulte amazment and the pictures just dont do it any justice at all! We ran into a few problems along the way but nothing to worry about so its on to the next project.....
This is the shower its all tile now before it was plastic
Here is one view of the counter And the view from the other angle!

Now they have decided to start on the kitchen which we are getting rid of one of the bedrooms for becuase our kitchen is so small! I will take pictrues of the old one soon but here are some pics of the remodling in progress.

We're having a boy!

We found out on Thursday that we are having a baby boy and we couldn't be more excited! Although neither of us cared what gender we were having i think John is especially excited. He told me that he always new we were going to have a boy first!

Colorado

This summer we got the chance to visit Colorado with Johns some of family becuase it was his great Uncles 75th wedding anniversary! Unfortunately we didnt get to go to the actual anniversary party because we had to get back to work but we did get to meet his 93 year old uncle for the first time. He is such a funny guy and reminds me so much of Johns dad. While we were there we were able to do a lot of neat things although i didnt get to enjoy them becuase it was at the very beginning of my pregnancy and I felt like crap which always puts me in a really good mood! The first place that we visited was Tiny Town which is a up in the mountains of colorado and has a bunch of little timy houses that resemble different things like that Adams Family, Or a Harley Davidson Shop etc. It was neat and we also got to ride on a little train which was a lot of fun for TJ and us also :) After tiny town we went to Buffalo Bills memorial where we found a tree that had hundreds and hundreds of lady bugs on it! It was the weirdest thing that any of us had ever seen. The next day we went to the Dinosaur Mountian where we took a tour bus and saw all different kind of fossils from dinosaurs and even some realy dinousaur tracks that were still in the mountain! That same day we went to a theme park and got to ride on this slide that you have to take a ski lift to get to the very top! It was so much fun we even had to ride on it twice, i just wish that people would go a little bit faster.
We even brought the dogs with us and although they had to stay in the hotel for the majority of the time I think they really enjoyed being in Colorado with us instead of having to stay home.