Idaho Visit

A few weeks ago I got to spend the weekend with a few thousand of these:

Some great family

These adorable nieces/nephew

And most importantly- this new arrival:

A few of us went up to Idaho to visit my sister Ali and her family. Baby Kate was born a couple months ago and they were blessing her in church. We drove up early on Saturday morning and then came home Sunday afternoon- so a quick trip! We got to play with Kennedy, Brooklyn and Trevor and snuggle with cute little Kate! We also got a tour of the feed lot (hence the cows) and just enjoyed visiting and spending time with the fam.

*The proud grandparents*

*The cute new mama*

*Enough pictures! Let's play!*

After the blessing we went back to the house and had a yummy lunch. Then it was back to Utah! Though short, it was fun to see everyone and get away for the weekend.

Beautiful Kenny

Russell will die when he sees this post- but I had to! This pic really says it all:

But it's not as great as I'm sure seeing two pregnant women watching the Kenny Chesney concert in 3-D is. Good thing the theater only had like 4 other people in it! My friend Krystal and I had a great time just singing our hearts out along to the music and drooling over Kenny's hotness. We decided this was as close as we may ever get to Kenny- and we enjoyed every second of it!

You really can't pass up sitting in an air-conditioned theater (wearing these super hot glasses).This is a great way to see a concert!

So even though Kenny isn't coming in concert this year- we got to see the next best thing. It's probably better that he isn't coming- can you imagine us hauling our 8 month pregnant bodies to a concert in the heat? Yeah not a fun idea.

Easter

Yes I know Easter was well over a month ago but I never got around to blogging about it- so here goes!

Easter seemed so early this year- and before I knew it, it had come and gone. We didn't do a whole lot for Easter- though on several occasions before Easter I did indulge in some fabulous Easter candy (i.e. Starburst Jelly Beans and Reese's Pieces pastel eggs)

Russell and I were fortunate enough to get tickets for General Conference for the afternoon session. We watched the morning session from home then got cleaned up and headed into town for the afternoon session. We thought we had left in plenty of time and ended up barely making it in! My mother told me a fabulous place to park that was close- but gave me the coordinates wrong and sent me to an address that didn't exist. We ended having to park by the capital and walking all the way to the conference center. (yes super fun when you're prego!) Conference was wonderful and thankfully my dear husband went and got the car so I didn't have to walk back up that huge hill!

After Conference we went to my parents house for dinner and an Easter Egg Hunt. I love that we still do a hunt even though most of us are older now. Before the hunt begins we assemble on the steps for a family picture:

We each had an egg with our name on it so off we went to find it!

It was a great Easter spent with family!

Productive Day

I'm pretty sure Russell and I (wasted) spent almost an entire day watching this:

Travel channel had it on all day and we got sucked in. We both find this stuff fascinating- but at the same time it freaks us out. I kept hearing noises all night as a result of watching like 6 episodes of this. So what did we accomplish on a lazy Sunday- not laundry! but we are now considering career changes (ghost hunting anyone?)

Harder than it looks

My mother has this fabulous talent- she can crochet cute edges on blankets and she is super fast at it. Well I thought that maybe she could teach me how to do this so that I could make a few blankets for our little one and who knows- a friend or two. I mean- how hard can it be right?? So Carlye and I went with our mother to pick out some fabric and she gave us both a little lesson. There are two parts to it- the basic stitch around the edge, and then you go around again and add the fancy scallops. We started with the basic stitch and Carlye had hers done in record time. I on the other hand- well see for yourself :

I have yet to finish the basic stitch around the edge of a simple little burp cloth! It's not super hard it's just learning how to hold your fingers just right- and well it's much harder than I thought it would be! My patience has only allowed me to do about 10 minutes a night (if that) so who knows if this thing will ever get done. I am thinking that I may not add the fancy stitch on the edge of this- after all it took 2 months just to do the basic one! Maybe a blanket will be easier? :)

My mother in the meantime has made about 8 blankets, 2 of which are for our little one. They are so cute!

I may just have to have her make the rest of mine if my kid wants them before he is 2.

New Floor

Well we finally did it! After having the material for a LONG time we finally replaced the floor in our master bathroom. We did our guest bath awhile back but for some reason never got around to doing the master. The project took a little longer than we had hoped (due to Russell being on-call at work) but it's finally done and I absolutely LOVE it. It makes such a huge difference!

When we bought the house the master bath was decked out in forest green. We replaced the lovely forest green counter top about a year ago but the floor remained a little longer. Here is what it looked like:

*Don't mind the mess on the counter or the edge of the tub!*

We did a little better on this floor since we had already practiced on the guest bath and I have to say- we did a pretty dang good job. Here is the new floor:

Thanks to my awesome hubby for all his hard work! I must say- home renovations definitely test your patience :) But we made it through and still like each other- so all is well.

New Wall Color

After quite a bit of persuasion on my part- I finally talked Russell into letting me paint just one wall in the baby's room. :) I was super excited and could hardly wait to pick out the color and get the paint onto the wall and Russell was nice enough to go along with it. He was very adamant about me not painting- which was nice but at the same time- I love to paint! So I was sad I couldn't help but he did a great job and I love it!


Here is the wall before:

Here is it after:

I love the contrast of the dark against the lighter tan and the white furniture. I can't wait to get all the bedding on the crib to see the full affect!

In other baby news we got a fun surprise in the mail about a week ago from Russell's parents in Washington. His mom sent us 3 boxes full of baby clothes/blankets! She is having so much fun shopping for the little one and opening the boxes was like Christmas all over again! I'll have to post some pics of some of the cute things she purchased. It's so fun to get presents for the baby. He is definitely already spoiled!

We hope to tackle another home renovation project this weekend- so if all goes well I'll post pics when it's done!

**another fun thing?! My baby counter is under 100 days! How fun to see double digits