Those cheeks!

Evva's cheeks are getting so chubby! I just love them! Especially when she smiles!

thoughts

-growing my bangs out

-really liked Scarlet Pimpernel at HCT w/ Rob tonight

-really love Rob

-really love little miss Evva

-hate that cars break down

-thankful for family

-proud of my mom for being brave and painting

-love that my brother is so hilarious and positive

-love that my mom pronounces hilarious "hi-larious"

-grateful for my sister mackenzie and her amazing love for my baby

-grateful for such amazing in-laws

-i now how a dishwasher {happiness}

-we're adjusting to riverton, slowly, but hopefully surely

-we miss having big windows to see outside

-i don't show Rob enough appreciation

-i felt like i was going away to college when i pulled out of my mom's driveway the night we moved

-i like frogurt

-moving is expensive

-Rob is a good daddy, a good son-in-law and an even better husband

-Evva is the smartest little girl i know

-i just smiled when she talked to her cousin maggie jo the other day because i'm sure it was the start of a beautiful friendship

-roxaboxen is my favorite kids book

-in high school i thought by the time i was 25 i would have 2-3 kids {what was i thinking?}

-when i was pregnant i missed exercising more than i thought i would 

-i thought i was fat before i got pregnant {again, what was i thinking?}

-i miss brigham more than i thought i would

-snuggling with rob right before we fall to sleep is my favorite part of the day hands down

-seeing Evva smile when i get her out of bed in the morning is a close runner up

This little chica...

and her parents will be calling Riverton home at the end of this month.  Goodbye little Brigham, Hello big city!  Hope we survive.

Father's Day

So thankful Evva has a good Daddy!

Thankful I have a good Dad

Thankful Rob has a good Dad {and I have a wonderful Father-in-law}

A couple of Evva I loved

10 hours!

Evva slept for 10 hours last night!  So happy!  She's been sleeping for at least 6 the past 2 weeks, but today she just kept sleeping.  10 hours!  Yeah!

If you've been through middle school...

So for Mother's day I got a gift I totally wasn't expecting.  Not that I was expecting something in particular, but I'd never heard of these books before, however, I've totally LOVED them!  I highly recommend them.  It's an easy read and absolutely hilarious!  (See below)

Since Rob and I loved the 1st one so much, we picked this up at Costco today.  More laughs to come!

And for those of you who want to see more of baby Evva, here's something to get you by.  

She's doing so great and sleeping 5 hours during the night!  Yeah!  She's smiling more and she's trying to form her little mouth to "talk" to us.  We love love love having her and are so blessed with joy to have her in our life!

Evva

SHE'S Here!!!!

Well, baby Riley made it here last night at about 8:30pm and it turned out to be a GIRL.  We are loving her so much and are so grateful she made it here safe and sound, all be it a little late.   Rob is a little worried that this will be a habit of hers....only time will tell.  We love being mommy and daddy so far and just love her to death!

Just waiting

So here I am at 39.5 weeks. How is it still inside?

How does your belly go numb?

Ok, I do know how it gets numb, let me tell you. First off, you have to have a little baby in there, and it pushes up against the outside of your tummy, and it just keeps pushing, or stretching or SOMETHING, and so it makes your tummy so tight that it cuts off the blood circulation and it goes numb. And it really is annoying and it kind of hurts. It's been happening a lot.

What to do...

Since I'm no longer working until after our little bundle comes, I've been trying to find things to do. I've been spending a lot of time in front of this lovely (thanks mom!) and putting a few projects together.

Let's go fly a kite

Last Thursday was Rob's birthday!  Holy 27!  We're getting so old.  Since I'm in my current state and had to work on his b-day and he had to go down to Provo and wouldn't be home until 8-ish, we just had a simple little get-together with the fam.  

Rob got a airplane kite for his birthday and luckily we were able to use it this weekend with our nephew.  It was such a nice day on Sunday!  Love conference weekend, especially because I didn't have to sit through church...hopefully just 2 weeks left. 

Hope you had a fantastic birthday honey!  I kind of like you a lot!  Here's to the next year when you will be a daddy for the first time!

Drumroll please....

The winner is...none of the below.  You see, I went to Target the other day and found this set that I quite liked and even better, it was on SALE!  Hello, can't beat that!  So I snatched it up and have a few ideas of what I can do with it.  So thanks everyone for your input.  

Also, Carin, pictures of the shower on Friday will be up soon, you were deeply missed!

So much blogging today

I've been spending quite a bit of time messing around on the computer today {be sure to check out the baby bedding posts below 'cause I could really use some advice}.  Along with bedding, I found some killer photoshop elements actions that have made me so happy!  I've been playing around with them and this is what I've come up with so far.  

Before

After

Before

After-Vintage

After-Strawberry Glaze

Before

After

I'm still learning, but hopefully I'm getting closer.

#8 & 9

This is #8, I found this a little later, Really liking it.  It's a light blue, but has a fern print, which is more feminine.  

#9 I don't need to say much about this one, other than I'm in LOVE!  This was the type of black and white print I was looking for, now it's just mixed with some green, LOVE it!

Seriously?

So all we really need to get for the baby is bedding.  We have everything else, we just need to get the crib ready.  However, I have been searching high and low for bedding that I like and I just can't decide.  I haven't really found anything I love, wait, I take that back, I have but it's like $500 dollars for the set, and honestly, I didn't even spend that much on my bed, so that's a negative.  Anyhow, these are some of the ones that I'm contemplating:

#1 I really like this one, I'm thinking I could add a lot of yellow and brown in so it's not so boy-ish, in case we have a little lady.  I'm not so hot on tons of pink as it is, and this blue is a kind of aqua blue, so it's kind of girly.

#2  I'm not totally hot on the animal theme.  I know it's a unisex thing, but I just have a hard time with it {just like I'm having a hard time that my text is underlined and I can't seem to figure out why and how to fix it!}.  However, I do like the look of these little animals.  So this one's in the running...

#3 I really really like this one.   The colors are kind of boyish, as far as blue and green, but I think the print is quite feminine.  Truthfully, this is my top pick, but Rob doesn't like the paisley, but let's just be honest here, I really really like it.

#4 This is a top pick as well, I like it, but I don't love it, at least not as much as #3.  I like the elephants, how could you not, but I feel like it's a little plain, when compared to #3 because it doesn't have the blue, it's just brown and green, and there's no way to really tie any other colors in.
#5  I just had to throw this one in, if it wasn't for the price, this would already be on the crib.  I LOVE this one!  Love the red, the yellow and the blue and brown.  But alas, I just can't bring myself to spend that much on a crib set.  So needless to say, unless someone wants to give us some green paper, this one is out of the running.

#6. This one is my least favorite, and probably won't make it past here, but for a while I was thinking of doing black and white and then I could just match it with some pink or red.  Nice idea, however, I don't really like the print, it's a little to small and therefore, looks to busy to me.  Most of the black and white bedding I found is that way, so I think I've opted to get away from this idea.  Plus, if you know me, you know I'm a color girl.  I love to have bright colors, so I want something bright and bold, okay, not necessarily bold, but fun and happy.

#7 This goes along with the black and white as well.  They have this in brown also, and I think I may go for that.  I like that this set has a more simple lines rather than all the business of the set above.  However, I'm afraid that this will get dirty quickly and I'm not 100% sure what I could mix it with.  The more I type and think about it though, the more thoughts and options come to mind...it's a possibility.  It has more of a chance than #6.

So there you have it.  PLEASE leave a comment and let me know your vote, maybe why you say that, and if you have any ideas as to what I can do with it.  Time is ticking and this is one of the last things that NEEDS to be done, otherwise little baby won't have a place to lay his head.  BTW, 30 days left, I'm praying all go early! Seriously!

32.5 weeks

Here's for Carin, and anyone else who is NOT missing anything by seeing me in my current state.  While taking these Rob was like "if you hate it so bad, why do you want pictures to remember it?"  Oh Hon, how I love you!

New site?

Apparently there is a new site for inspiration on You Tube with clips from people who are members of the LDS church.  I added a link on my side bar "Mormon Messages"  Really loved the one titled "Create".

Ready or not...

Hopefully we will be ready in the next 8 weeks {maybe sooner if I'm lucky!} for this little baby that will be changing our lives forever more as we know it.  Rob and I have been busy trying to shop, set up and rearrange our apartment to be functional for this little kiddie.   So far we've got a crib

A car seat/carrier

And a super awesome running stroller that I'm so excited to use

It has a dock that you can hook your iPod up to and then it has a sound system built into the stroller!  Watch out baby!  We're going to be sweating to the music {well at least I will be, the kid not so much}.

I'm still trying to decide on crib bedding, but I've got my eye on a few.  

We finished our birthing class with flying colors {not that you wouldn't} and have been practicing our {my} relaxation techniques.  Due to the fact that I want to be able to get up and walk around and get back to my old self {ASAP!} I'm opting to try and do this birthing thing natural.  I know, some of you may think I'm a total nut case, I prefer not to think of myself as a "granola" and truthfully, it's nothing against the drugs in my body or the babies body, it's just that I want to be up and going as soon as I can.  Am I crazy to think I could walk the day I give birth?  Seriously, I'm tired of being so uncomfortable to bend over, and sleep, and feeling out of breath when I come up the stairs, and having to ask my friend to slow down when we go walking.  Walking, not running.  I can't even run, my belly goes up and down and I feel like I'm giving the kid shaken baby syndrome in utero.  HATE it!  So there you have it, that's why I want to do it natural, Oh, and I don't want a c-section, mostly because of all the previous stuff.   

This is mostly an update for my little friend in Cali w/ the twins on the way, but the class...interesting.  Truthfully though, if anyone wanted to take a natural child birth class, I'd recommend it hands now.  Just go in taking everything with a grain of salt, and know that there are some really really good things you will take from the class, and there are some things you can choose to leave behind.  But all in all, there was only one thing that Rob and I were like...Um, we're not doing that, actually two things. I'll spare the details. 

So besides shopping and our class, I've started nesting.  The odds of us moving in the summer are fairly high, whether it be to a new town or just into a house here, we are not sure, but I still feel like I want to get our little place in a state of which that I can feel ok about when the baby comes.  Since I've been prego my decorating desire has become almost null and it was somewhat reluctantly that I put Christmas up at all.  But once I took it down, I didn't put anything back up, so it's been a little sad and shambly in our little home.  

However, now that I'm nesting, I decided I needed to recover the couch pillows, redecorate the living room, deep clean the bathroom, kitchen, and extra room, dejunk and reorganize all our storage areas, such as the bookshelves, the garage, the laundry room and closets and get everything in a state that I feel comfortable with.  Whew, it's kind of exhausting, but I also hope it will make moving easier.  Seriously, how do we accumulate so much stuff in 3 years.  

Anyhow, Rob has been a trooper and been so good to me this week with cooking dinner.  Monday he asked if I wanted him to go grocery shopping, to which I asked "what are you going to get?"  He said he'd plan all the meals and do the cooking the week.  After wiping the huge grin off my face I said ok and was looking forward to it all day.  He's done a great job and the menu has consisted of Subway {on the way out from grocery shopping}, Chicken Enchilladas and Spaghetti.  In his defense, this week was a little crazy.  But he's done a great job at planning and making sure our meals are well balanced.  

Other than all this, we are just trying to pass the days by watching my belly kick and squirm.  I know I need to put a picture up, but we just keep forgetting.  I think I just look like a sick pregnant girl though.  That will be my assignment for the rest of the day.  I'll hopefully get it up soon. 

I was craving some of this...

Not necessarily these, but they were all I could find.  Seriously, does anyone know where I could get a good cupcake in Logan or Ogden, or how about Provo or SLC {we're heading down there this weekend} These did satisfy the craving, but I need something more!  So if you know of any yummy place, let me know.