Time is disappearing at a rapid rate!

I have been a major blog slacker lately. Things have been really busy this summer with the house FINALLY getting done with the remodel, starting to move back into our house, getting ready for this little one to come, and doing everyday tasks! Here is the update on what has been happening. I have been working diligently on getting our house put together (pictures to come). It was is my goal to go through everything in our house and organize it the way I really want it since we are going to be here for a while now! Not to mention the nesting instinct is going full throttle, and I want everything ready before the baby comes.

I have been working at ATK and have really enjoyed it. They hired me on through a engineering company making my position a temp position. It has worked out perfectly, and I couldn't have been happier with the circumstance. I now have a good relationship with the people at ATK (especially the ones in my department), and will have future prospects if I desire to work after the baby is born. I am completely enjoying the month off before the baby comes to finish up all of these projects that I have going, and prepare for our little one to make her arrival.

Nate has been really busy with work, and his extra curricular activities of late. He has been in and out of town on paintball tournaments, and playing softball twice a week. (I have been jealous of his activities since being pregnant has prohibited me from doing some of these). On the work front he is making huge progress with some major development opportunities, and is gain great experience throughout the process. Also last fall/winter he made some joint investments with his dad by purchasing a couple of homes to remodel and sell, and as of August all three have sold with profits to the family business! His paint ball team has been taking major leaps into competitive paintball league's. They have a few different sponsors the main one being Tippman. They were the 19th team world wide to be sponsored by Tippman! I am proud of my Husband and all of his many accomplishments!

On the baby front our little one is continuing to grow, and move all of the time! Since I have stayed pretty small you can find her anytime you want, and she'll put on quite the show for those around. I am growing more and more excited to meet this little one. The reality set in yesterday as I was putting her bottles in the dishwasher that she is going to be here soon!

I still have a lot to update on my blog including both of my baby showers, our house being finished (one room left to do), and belly updates. Hopefully I can get them done before this little one makes her appearance.

P.S. Here is a little Sneak Preview of our maternity pictures done

by Sydney Jan Photography

Have you ever Seen....

An Albino Squirrel???

I have now! Nate came in the other day from getting Diesel, and said I think I just saw an albino squirrel. I quickly asked him is he was sure, and he told me he was pretty sure. Still not quite sure I believed him I let it go. A week later he told me that he saw it again and was for sure now that it was indeed an albino squirrel. I have never been around to witness this so I continued to have my doubts, but I have now been proved wrong, and will gladly give Nate the credit. I quickly ran into get my camera to document this knowing that others would doubt the truth of this matter. So for all of you non believers or simply curious people here is the proof.

(Please click to enlarge so you can see it better)

P.S. I have lots of catch up to do, and will post updates soon of the house, and baby status!

Excitement!!

So yesterday was the first day we could cook in 5 weeks! It was one of the happiest moments. I had to snap a quick shot of the beginning of our kitchen. It is almost done with the remodel and then we get to completely settle back in!

My mom also asked me to post a belly photo since it has almost been a month since she has seen it so here are the belly updates......

I am 26 weeks along. The baby is measured to be at the most 7 lbs when she's born (which I was a little relieved to hear having a really big baby scares me...) We did the level one ultra sound where the spend about a half hour checking the baby for all sorts of things. It was really interesting to watch. All checked out perfectly 10 fingers, 10 toes, healthy heart, brain developing greatly, no sign of any troubles. (YEAH!)

Complete Chaos

After Nate graduated we sat down to make some decisions about our current and future house plans. Knowing that we had a little one on the way and that if we were going to stay where we are it had a lot of updating to be done. So after discussing our options and deciding that we love the area that we are in, and that this house has such a special place in Nate's heart due to the fact that there are so many precious memories here. It felt good to decided to start our family here.

For the past two weeks Nate and I a have been living in crazy conditions. I am excited for the end results, but I am getting very anxious for them. It all started and happened fast. I wanted to take before and after photo's I miss the before not realizing how fast they were moving. Here are some pictures of the start of demolition.

(here are just a few. I will do before and after we it gets done.)

I figured that I can deal with the craziness as long as it continues to move fast. I am really excited for this be completed so I can finally settle down and get ready for the baby, and make this house our home. Every room in our house is under construction except one... the spare bathroom.

I didn't realize how easy it is to take the daily routines for granted. I miss having a kitchen.... I dislike the fact that I can't cook or do dishes or even sit at my kitchen table. I miss the dvr.... I go crazy not being able to watch a show without commercials. As much as I love my bed and truly believe it is the most comfortable thing in the entire world..... I get tired of it being the only place I have to sit down. Little things like that start popping up....

Hopefully they will be done by the end of this week. They originally wanted to be done by now but it always takes longer than planned.

Rocking our World!

Nate was a little distraught at first (he really wanted a boy) worrying about all of the time he's going to have to spend protecting our baby girl, but he is coming around to the thought that he's going to be her Hero! And not to stress about the future. She is going to love her daddy soo much I can already see it now. I can't wait to meet her!

She is completely healthy! She was rubbing her head and wiggling around. It was so amazing to see. Some of our family got to join us for this ultra sound and it was such a fun experience! Here are a few shots of our little girl!

Here is a shot of my belly. I am finally starting to show. (I am just over 4 months)

Celebration!

To celebrate Nate Graduating I planned a trip for us to Mexico! It was soo much fun and a needed break from everything. We were accompanied by our friends Pat and Nichole our family, Bruce & Stacy; Doug & Shawna. The trip started out a little rough by being stuck at Mexican Customs for 3 1/2 hours! Getting to our villa and realizing the pictures were very deceiving, and then raining for the first two days.... But by Wednesday luckily the weather started to improve, and Shawna's smooth talking got us upgraded to Casa Agava where we stayed in December. We are so grateful for the upgrade THANK YOU Doug, Shawna, Bruce, & Stacy!

After finally getting settled in our new location we started to relax and enjoy our trip. We did a lot of relaxing, and laying out in the sun everyone at some point or another got sunburned (okay so maybe a little too much sun). We then decided to try our luck at deep sea fishing because every boat that came into the dock had quite the catch. It ended up being a nice boat ride.... No such luck for us not a single fish.

Our next adventure was to XPLOR! It was so much fun they had ton's of activities that adults enjoy. We started out with a ZipLine tour over the jungle with three water landings. It was SO much fun. Next we went for a ride through the jungle on these little ATV's. We were able to drive down into these caves, and some had water in them. After that we took a refreshing swim in the under ground cenote. It was a blast! If you are ever down in the Cancun area I would highly suggest making time for this excursion.

We were sad to come home, but it was such a nice trip relaxing. We of course made a new friend with the neighbors dog... She was the most unique and pretty thing we'd seen. She is an albino doberman pincher. She was the sweetest thing just wanted to be petted and be close to you.

Check out her eyes they were silver

The Going On's

Things here have been really busy, and time has gotten away from me. I am finally out of my first trimester and starting to feel better. YEA!! For a while there I thought I wasn't going to make it.... I give thanks to modern medicine! I have started to show, but just a little bit. I am anxiously waiting to feel this little one, and to find out what we are having. We will be finding out the sex of the baby on May 26th so if you'd like to cast a vote on what your guess is as to what were are having please feel free. To vote just put a post it in the comments. (I was having dificulties with the Poll)

Nate and I are going to start remodeling/updating our house before the baby comes which means I have started a MAJOR task list with getting ready for the make-over, and de-junking the house! I think I'm in over my head.... I am trying to focus on one project a night. It is going to be a busy, but good summer!