A Mini Tour of our House :)

So first off, our camera isn't really working so I had to take some cell phone videos instead!! The bedrooms are still a work in progress, but we are going to be done with them SOON!! And then I will post videos and pictures of them. I will get the camera back here soon so you can see some pictures! 

I mightve said before, but our house is 3 beds, 2 baths, it's not super big but it's our first home and we are very proud of it!!

Here is walking in from the front door!

This is going in to the living/family room

Here is another view when you are IN the family room

This is one view of the kitchen!

This is a view of the kitchen from the dining room!

One last view...the hallway to the bedrooms and bathroom :)

More to come soon!!!!

Lately

So I thought I would write a quick blog about all we are up to lately! First things first..

• We are 27 weeks pregnant with Melody and everything is going well! I am little frightened at how big I will end up being, seeing as I still have like 13 weeks left, but I will be wearing the belly proudly :) Unfortunately, all the maternity shirts have me in despair, as my already big and growing knockers won't fit any of them :( Well, not any I have tried YET. If you know of any good brands let me know! I feel like I am still in the 'is she just fatter or pregnant' phase so hopefully in the next couple weeks it's gonna start being more obvious. I hope! I get asked a lot if I am feeling good, the answer is YES! I feel I have little to complain about. At 27 weeks I am 3 lbs below my start weight of being pregnant so I have not had swelling or much back pain. I DO have heartburn but it's cureable with a few TUMS. And I am sleeping better now that we are in the new house. I do pregnancy yoga daily and it is helping tremendously. I HIGHLY recommend it!!!
• We have our new house and we are all moved in! Organization, however, is a different story. Because of our circumstances we've had to live in 2 homes. Dustin's parents (to take care of it and their dogs) and ours. I have been sleeping in our new house and Dustin at his parents'. It is challenging and I often call him in tears because I want him with ME :) but it is worth it. I plan on finishing all my decorating and organizing this weekend and then we should have pictures up for you all to see.
• Life is great, we love it! We have great new neighbors at our new house, and it's been fun to sit on the front lawn and talk to our whole street as they come by. Our new ward is full of kids, which we are excited about!! Lots of new families just like us. My job is going very well, I have been able to take on 5 8's instead of 4 10's which has been very nice for me for right now. Dustin is doing so well at his job, and loves it. 

Overall we are doing awesome! I will try and be more consistent with everything and posting. The problem is, we are not big picture takers, so we don't update as much as we should.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Hello Fellow Blog Stalkers! :)

Well I know that this is not the kinds of pictures everyone wants to see, but while we are in the moving process I thought that this would be appropriate to post showing that we finally got our house and these were the pictures that we took by our "SOLD" sign.

More pictures to come!!!! Promise. Once things look good enough for Lyndsey to want to take pictures, and we find our camera, pictures will be up!

Saturday Smiles :)

First off, had a great birthday! Dustin and I spent the night at the Anniversary Inn, went to tablerock to watch the sunset, and had dinner at my favorite resturaunt, Asiago's (a local Italian place, soooooo good). The next day I had some quality time with my mom and when I got home Dustin had this cake for me: 

 It said, Happy Birthday Mom, love Dad and Melody :) It was my favorite, Brownie batter ice cream cake from Dairy Queen, mmmm :) 

Today we had a great day, spent a lot of wonderful time together. 

Duzzy played some hymns from the Children's songbook for us while Melody and I listened. We also sang for her and I pressed my belly against the piano so she could feel the vibrations of the instrument as well as hear the sounds. (She's been able to hear us for the last week or so!)

And the dogs just sat and enjoyed the music with us :) We hope Melody will have a love of music just like Dustin and I do, and we hope to begin her love of it early by singing for her and playing songs for her often! 

Hope everyone's having a great week!

23 :)

So, tomorrow I am going to be 23. It seems weird now to have birthdays when I am an adult. The year of being 22 was fabulous and one of the best of my life! I loved every minute! Now, being 23 will present a whole new life. It seems like a good age to be, a good age to have my first child, a good age to have my first home. I am happy. Though in other areas of my life, I have faced quite a bit of trials in the last year, I have still been extremely happy. 

Tonight we are headed to the Anniversary Inn!!! I love this place soo much! :) We are going to be staying in Sleeping Beauty's Castle room, which is one of the nicest rooms they have and is a two story room which is pretty awesome! If you've never been, I highly recommend this place!

www.anniversaryinn.com

You really get the royal treatment when you go, and every room we've stayed in is great! They have these hotels in Idaho and Utah, definitely go!!!

On another note, in 2 days I will be 20 weeks pregnant, half way done! My little girl is now as long as a banana, 10 inches from head to feet! She is not the most active (at least that I am able to feel yet) and usually requires a bit of prodding to get moving, but I can feel her little kicks now and Dustin too was able to feel her which was very cool! :) In her ultrasound Dustin said she kicks like a soccer player, I think he is having visions of his little girl being a soccer player like he is :) 

We will post pics soon! Found the camera, now just gotta charge it :)

My girly side coming out :)

Okay, so let me just say as a precursor that having a girl really has started to bring out the girly-ness in me :) I have made her bracelets from a little kit I bought about a year ago (you know, just in case) and my newest addiction, making headbands. The tricky cool part of these is that I will demonstrate how versatile they are! 

//Warning: These are all bad-quality cell phone pics!!! Sorry!!//

First, I bought a lot of silk flowers and took the tops off. I also purchased ribbon and got a crash course on making bows (you can see one or two below), which cost mucho mucho at the store or to buy already made but making them yourself is cheap! :) I also purchased alligator clips (you can get these from Sally's or even Walmart and they are also cheap). You can hot glue the flowers or bows you have made to these clips. 

Next, you can either make or buy lots of cute crochet headbands in various colors. I got mine off Ebay and got 20 of different colors for like 15 bucks. Not too shabby, but if you are good at crocheting I'm sure you can find out how to make them. I'm not good at crochet so I didn't tackle it. Also I want to add that these fit newborn to adult! They stretch but also bounce back to their original shape. So you can use them for a long time. 

Last, you can do hundreds of combinations of flower or bow plus headband (insert alligator clip in holes of headband) to match tons of different outfits. I have not yet had an outfit I couldn't match. Plus, you can save the flower clips and bows for when your little one has hair or for yourself. (I have been wearing the flower clips lately in my hair) I demonstrated the matching versatility with some outfits we received on Saturday..

Trickiest because of the gold emblem but I went with a white headband and pink flower

One of the bows I made (you can't tell but it matches some of the green threading in the shirt) and a pink headband to also compliment the colors in the shirt

This one worked really well, you just can't tell in the picture :) 

And who doesn't love purple with a cute white daisy?

Any way, so that's me on my soapbox for the day :) This girl is gonna be lookin' cute if I have anything to say about it!

Home Sweet Home

So I thought I'd post something exciting! We put an offer on our first home! We low-balled it so we expect a counter, but it's a buyer's market so you never know! So here's the scoop!

* 3 beds, 2 baths

* 1600 sq feet

* Cute front porch

* RIGHT across from community park and children's playground

* In Southwest Boise, off Lake Hazel

* BRAND NEW!! Never lived in! :)

So we are really excited!! We should know in the next couple weeks after all of our offering and counter-offering is complete, but we're really pulling for it because we love it and it's a great neighborhood, very family oriented. Oh, and the elementary school is just a couple blocks away through another neighborhood!! So yeah, exciting stuff!! :) We've already determined Melody's room, the guest room, and ofcourse our master is awesome with an oval tub and a walk in closet!! I never thought I'd live in a brand new home, but I am stoked!