The New Apartment

I know I have been lagging in posting pictures of the new apartment. But i have been enjoying spending every moment I can with Benj, sleeping in, reading books and just getting ready for the babe to come.  We have been living here for about a month now, and we love it and are enjoying how much extra space we have compared to the old place. We do miss the old place though and the old ward. Its great to have more breathing air. Anyways here are pictures of the new house I am missing one picture of the living room but that's because I feel as though it is never clean enough.

Here is a little look at the babes room. We decorated it in green and brown. We have been very blessed with the amount of things we have received from family and friends. Everything in this room other than the original dresser and curtains I made, were given to us. I still plan on decorating it more when the little babe get here with pictures and others things but we will have to wait until then!

Here is the bathroom. We love it for a couple of reasons A) it has a bath and I love my baths we also didn't have this luxury in our old apartment B) it does not hit the front door like our old one did, in our old house if we left our bathroom door open it made it harder to open the front door. It was just in an awkward position C) our knees do not touch the other wall while we are sitting on the toilet T.M.I I know haha

This is the kitchen, a little small with counter space but we are used to it. But there are some highlights to this kitchen that we didn't have with our other kitchen 1) it has a dishwasher, yeah buddy i said it, a dishwasher! For the last year we have been having to wash dishes by hand, I have never really minded washing dishes until I have had to wash dishes everyday for the last year. 2) we have a garbage disposal I always hated digging out the gross food from the sink. These are things I took for granted until I got married, and now realize how much this is a huge blessing in our lives

this is also attached to the kitchen but separate dining area. We now officially can have guests over for dinner and parties. We recently had my parents over for Borsch.

This is our bedroom we love it and each have our own sides of the bed as you can see and Its big and spacious. WE love our new home!

A Pintrest project

Since I have a ton of time on my hands I have been working on a ton of different projects for the babies room. I have become quite the sewer in the last month or so. Some projects I have made are curtains for the baby room, bibs, two changing table cover, two blankets one quilted/tied, the other just something simple, and a nursing cover.I'm also currently working on crocheting a hat for him as well. My next project I wanted to start working on was something different. I love sewing but I wanted to do something more hands on. So I found thing cute little dresser type thing on pintrest, it looked pretty simple to make and since I have an amazing Grandpa who is really good with his hands and working with wood I thought this could be a good bonding experience for him, benj and I. He used to be an Engineer so he is very precise.
How I made this is I got a simple cheap dresser that has four drawers. I took the two top drawers out and took out the inside lining that holds the dresser up. We then took a piece of wood and put in on the bottom half to cover the third dresser so you couldnt see inside of it. and then cut more wood to hold a dowel so I could hang up baby's clothes the two bottom drawers are used for onsies he will wear under his outfits as well as pants and the other for pajamas and his hats he has. We also decided to paint it. I have decorated his room in brown and green stripes and polka dots, with monkeys. The dresser we bought had a shiny wood covering over top of it. We didnt realize how hard it would be for painting. So after covering it with two layers of white paint and figuring out how easy the white paint peeled off we had peeled the paint off and started over. This time sanding down the whole dresser before painting it this time. It worked soo much better. We covered then repainted it with not two but three coats of white and then polka doted it with green and brown polka dots. We did the polka dots by taking card stock and dye cutting out small and big circles and then spray painting inside the circles.

It turned out super cute so I thought I would share it all with you.

nothing too special

Things have changed a bit since the semester ended. We got a new apartment and moved in two day before christmas a little stressful but it turned out good we love our new place.We have two bedrooms which is pretty exciting because with all of this extra times i have on my hands I have been fixing it up to look like a baby room. Pictures of the apartment will come later. We also have a bathtub and a dishwasher which is heaven sent we didnt have either of these in our old apartment. We loved Christmas this year, it was a first offical Christmas alone. We went to Sacramento and celebrated it with Benj family last year which was fun he still has little sisters who get excited for the day. After Christmas Benj family drove up and stayed with us for about a week or so and my family came in from Las Vegas and Boise. Having so much family here was such a great experience. My sisters put together such a beautiful baby shower for me while they were here and Benj two sisters Sariah and Zipporah and his mom got to be there for it. We missed Petrina, who is serving a mission in Taiwan.

In other news I have stopped working at Gringos and surprising as it seems I really miss working. A LOT. I am nesting (according to Benj) really bad and have been non stop sewing and other projects our latest project is working on a dresser with my grandpa on Wednesdays (those pictures will come as well when the dresser is actually finished), and we only have three weeks till our little man is suppose to be here. We still cant agree on a name but have narrowed it down to two, with a third back up name just in case. These are the names we have:
                                          Dominick (which is my favorite)
                                           Asher (Benj favorite)
                                         Liam ( which is the back ups)
I will just be happy if he come out healthy to tell you the honest truth. We are already in love with this little man and just cant wait to meet him.

In other news, Benj and I switched majors. Benj is staying with a CIT major ( Computer Information Technology major)  and it happy with his switch. I want to still work with Children but not in a preschool setting as much as I thought I would. Dont get me wrong I loved it!! I loved the children and seeing them learn and understanding new things, but just wasn't satisfied with this major. After a lot of praying and researching and an AWESOME Child Development teacher/ Marriage and Family Studies teacher. I have finally decided to go into Marriage and Family Studies with a minor in Child Development. One really cool thing about this major is that starting this fall all of the classes are ONLINE meaning I can stay home with my babe!And still get the degree I want and strive for.

As for my New Years Resolutions, I know they are late but better late then never right??

1. Lose all of my extra baby weight after I have this babe.
2. Blog once a week. (this will be hard one for me)
3. Cook and try new meals on a budget.
4. Be a regular temple attender. ( I have been trying to work on this one for a long time)
5. Read scriptures and say prayers daily.

I hope everyone else's year has started as well as ours have and continue to get better.

Here is a quick 36 week photo for my own sake.

Cameron's going on a mission.

School is finished and I officially have way to much time on my hands. I am no longer working, and wont be, my full time job when it comes will be to take care of my baby boy. We just moved apartments, that post will come later. So I have started to organize and reorganize my home, and for the holiday season my family and Benj's family will be here as well. We recently took a trip to Boise to see my cousin give a last talk in church before leaving on his mission to Brazil for two years. Im very proud of him and all that he has done to get to this spot. Because of his mission all of our cousins except for my sister Kirsten got together. It was a full and eventful weekend. We sure are going to miss you Cam!!

Cameron in his mission clothes.

His brothers and father all together. (Left to right Ryan, Travis, Cameron, and Tristan)

Their whole family together!

This is Cameron's cute girl friend Kait.

Just Talking To Myself.

Life has changed a lot for me in the last couple of years. I never thought I would get out of the awkward high school phase but I did. Then I got into college and it was a whole new dating life and scene i liked it, I really did like it but I new I was missing something. Something was missing and he was right in front of my face. I have been the luckiest girl in the world to have the husband i have, and now we are blessed with a baby. A baby boy to be exact, and i can already say that i truly love him with all of my heart. We have been blessed with so many things but I just keep going back to my family. I have so much gratitude for my family. I would not be the person i am today without all of their support. I just keep going back to this beautiful miracle inside of me. As i sit here and type he kicks and moves inside of me. I get more and more eager each day to meet him to love him and to cuddle him. Sometimes i go through all of the clothes i have for him and imagine him in them. I know its silly but im just excited for him to be here already. We love him, we wish he was here already and he will always always be our baby boy. Until then I will wait and wait and wait, but we couldnt be more excited!

25 weeks, and a way long over due post about visiting Kiera.

I finally found my camera today, sitting in the car. The last place I would think to look for it. We are doing good around here, just lots of school, work, and a lot of homework. Nothing new. I'm twenty five weeks, closer to twenty six weeks and loving being pregnant... most days. I have gain a pretty substantial amount of weight through this pregnancy. Just in case people don't already know, I am having a boy and we seriously cannot wait till he gets here. We have been blessed by so many family members with help on clothes, cribs, car seats, and strollers. So we are pretty set and ready to go. The only problem is that we dont really have a name for him yet. My worry is that this kid will be stuck with this name forever, so picking out a name is kind of a big deal. Here some that we like: Malachi, Liam, Asher and secretly deep down inside I love Ryken and Knox I just cant get Benj to agree with me. Anyways here is my 25 weeks photo.

 Now for the Post about visiting Kiera. We love visiting family, and Benj loves Boise so we try and make trips often. Kirt we would make trips to Las Vegas because we love it there too, its just sooo far away. Last time we went we went in the middle of the week, which was hard and difficult for Kiera and Brian to get off of work for because they have jobs. But we didnt mind we playing with Kambri and Cohen during the day and hanging out with them during the night. I really cant wait to be a mother, so taking care of these two little munchkins were a blessing and fun for me! Some things we did with the kids while we were there was taking them to the Zoo. It was a blast! Here are some pictures of things we did with the kids.

These pictures were taken at the Zoo. They loved seeing the animals and climbing around. We did run into a funny situation at the zoo that scared little Cohen. We were sitting and looking  at the Snow Leopard, i had been carrying Cohen that day so I set him down so that he could get close to the glass window and see the animal better. But when I set him down the snow leopard saw him cornered him and got into a crouching position getting ready to pounce at him. At the time Cohen had been looking at something else through the glass so when the leopard pounced the first time Cohen didnt notice till the leopard did it a second time. Poo little boy got so scared all he wanted after that was to be held. Anyways here are some other funny pictures we got of Cohen being silly.

Lost the Camera Dangit.

Sorry this semester has been pretty stressful for me, Im taking 15 credits which is fine but when your homework is arts and crafts for basically all of your classes ( I know I shouldnt complain right arts and crafts are fun!) and a ton of reading, it gets old. Plus having to be at school at seven thirty every morning is exhausting. I just cannot seem to catch up on everything. My house is dirty all of the time, I never cook or bake for that fact anymore. All I want to do with my spare time is sleep and spend time with the husband. I know im coming up with this lame excuse of why I havent been blogging lately, but I promise they are legitimate excuses. If that isn't a good enough excuse then is I lost my camera a good one?? I know I set it somewhere in the house I just dont know where at yet. There are lots to update on as well. My belly is getting bigger everyday and we are having a boy. We are over joyed and excited for our little man to come in February. When I find that dang camera I promise I will update the blog!!