Bargain Baby Room

A while back one of my friends down here gave me this baby book. It is so cute and as you page through it there are all kinds of animals and trees. So I took my inspiration from that and created this wall hanging:
I took one large piece of background fabric(yellow) and cut out pieces for the trees, bird, etc. I then zig zag stitched them onto the yellow fabric. I used the trim pieces that I had used in our old house from the wall hanging I had in our living room to frame it.

I bought this "wish" sign at our Navy exchange on clearance for $1.97. It was dark blue so I painted it brown.
I have a very comfy chair in the babies room from Ikea that I plan to nurse in during the night. I needed a small lamp to provide a little light but I really didn't want to spend much. I was at Baby's R Us one day and found this lamp shade for $2.90 (regular $15.99). Just needed a lamp to go with it. I found the lamp at Target on clearance for $7.48 (regular $29.99!!) I took off the cowboy lampshade it came with and replaced it with my bargain one! Love it!

Another Baby's R Us clearance find. A changing table organizer for $4.98 (regular $15.99)!
And lastly I found this little valance on clearance for $1.90 (regular $19.99)! I have been so excited about finding these bargains! You can kind of see the paint color I painted one wall in the picture above. It is called April Mist. It's a bluish green color. I have Lane's old crib bedding on the crib for now. If we have a girl I will be getting a skirt and bumper that is brown with white polka dots on it. I think this is all I will do before the baby is born. I have plans to spell it's name on the wall using something (??) and I do want to make a pillow for the chair using the same fabric that I used on the wall hanging. Now all I need is a baby!!

Ultrasound Pictures!

Profile picture, it's arm was up by it's head if you can tell.

Picture of it's face.

Yesterday I had my 20 week ultrasound. It was very fun and.... I stayed strong and I didn't find out what it is! I am very excited to have that surprise at the end this time! The baby was very funny. It's arms were up by it's head most of the time. At one point I saw it yawn. They think it's about 13 oz, which is a little on the big side. There goes my hope that I would have a smaller baby! It is a very cute baby of course :) Looks a lot like the pictures of Lane I have. So there's my update on this little baby. We had a great weekend. I will share some pictures of Reese's graduation soon.

17 weeks

Well here it is. I finally got a picture of my belly! This past week I've "popped out" quite a bit. I had an appointment yesterday and everything is looking good. I've only gained a couple pounds (I'm sure I'll make up for that soon). I am also measuring just like a week behind which was a huge surprise to me because with Lane I always measured a week ahead. Maybe this one will be a little smaller??

First Appointment

I had my first appointment this morning. I was looking very forward to hearing that heartbeat...and there it was very loud and fast. Everything looks really good. I am measuring just a couple of days ahead of schedule, so I am sure this baby will be a good size just like Lane was. I had an ultrasound which was so fun! I love seeing that little body moving around! It was moving it's arms around alot, at one point it looked like it was waving at us. And...only one baby! Judging by my size twins wouldn't have surprised me, either that or I thought maybe they were off on my due date. Nope, just big. I really have only gained a pound or two though. My stomach has just gotten bigger and probably the rest of me has gotten smaller. I am going to spare you all from seeing my pregnant belly at this point until I can get a better picture of myself. Instead here is a picture that I took of the ultrasound picture I got.

Kind of hard to make much out but you can tell the head is at top. The little thing sticking out is it's arm. You can't tell from this picture but in person you can see little fingers on the arm. Just wanted to update everyone who was waiting to hear how it all went.

I'm Back!!

It's been a little while since I've posted! We are back from our Christmas vacation adventures, and let me say it was an adventure! Driving from Southern CA up to Northern WA is not such an easy trip when there is freak snow storms in CA and it continued to snow all the way up and while we were there. From frozen car doors, to bad motel rooms, broken car door handles as a result of the frozen doors, to a shattered windshield and busted up bumper from sheets of ice falling off a truck onto our car going 75 mph, yep and adventure to say the least, and a insurance claim too! Now that I got that out of my system....

We did have a fun time visiting friends and family up in WA. It was really great to see everyone. I can't say we'll drive again, but never say never I guess. Christmas was fun and great memories were made. And if you look toward the top of my blog you'll see that we are expecting a baby!!! We got to tell everyone in WA in person which was very fun. This is a much wanted, much anticipated pregnancy and I am so excited, despite all the yucky sickness and heartburn I am experiencing right now. And I do feel my belly expanding more than it should be at 8 weeks, but hey maybe it was all the Christmas goodies.

I probably won't be doing the menu of the week for a little while because.... well I can't eat much but fruit, cereal, jello, you get the picture. Poor Reese is left to fend for himself.

Thanks for all the sweet comments about the sugar cookies and my sweater. I will post the sugar cookie recipe soon.

Here are some pictures I took over our vacation. I didn't take to many, I wasn't feeling great and not to much in the picture taking mood.


Lane, Kai and Brielle

Christmas at Great Grandma Alma's

Lane and Kai playing in all the snow