Its a BOY!

I found out yesterday that we will be having a boy this coming August! I've been dieing to create something special for this baby, but I've been waiting to see what I'm having so it can be personalized accordingly. Thanks to pinterest I'll be stealing an idea for his blanket from thismamamakesstuff.com, she made an adorable minky blanket from large flannel shirts and some cream minky fabric. I ordered everything I need online from fabric.com, the minky material was the most costly but it was only $12 something a yard instead of $20, and they had a great selection of minky fabrics so if your looking for minky I would check them out. I ended up spending a little over $36 dollars so I wouldn't have to cough up shipping, but I also ordered some adorable fabric for a spring dress for Makayla. Its not super cheap, but it beats the $70 order for an infant blanket at a minky culture.

This is the fabric for Makaylas dress in case you weren't aware :)

Honey where are you?

At about tuesday in the week I look forward to the weekend when the parental demands get to be broken up between two adults. This weekend I feel like I'm running a marathon, Jared went to see a fight down in Orem yesterday right after work, which he doesn't get out much so I really don't feel to bad about not seeing him at all yesterday. But its an extended vacation away because at about 12:30 last night he called to say that the truck him and a buddy were riding in died in Draper, and they would have to wait till morning to see if they could figure out the problem when the auto stores are open. BUMMER! So last night the kids made sure i wasn't lonely and joined me in the early hours of the day for a sparce nights sleep in a queen bed. Someone needs to teach them that its illegal to wake up at 8 on saturday morning, nine would be nicer but ten makes for a better rested mom. Were all out of dish detergent and milk and I really don't want to take two kids to the grocery store for these things, Jared was suppost to be home so I wouldn't need to. If I'm lucky I'll get to see Jared around noon today. I need to get out, I miss my running and biking and swimming, its just so cotton picking hard with two kids to do these things, especially when Jared is never here. Gonna try not to loose it today, good luck to me.

My thoughts

My home is finally listed with pictures as of today! We've been working on the fence that was blown down and we'll have the east side of our fence finnished tomorrow because Jared doesn't have school tomorrow night with it being presidents day. I am so eager for the snow to go away again and for it all to warm up and green up, and I'm eager for pearwood (the condos next to us) to finally start on thier side of the fence that was totally trashed. I love fridays because its trash day and we have so much garbage were slowly getting rid of, it will make everything look so much better. There is a house I really want in N Ogden that needs a bunch of beautification but it has a two car garage and a huge yard with fruit trees (I really love my pear trees here) and enough room to grow for our growing family. Its currently under contract but the buyer is having a hard time getting financing so with a TON of luck it will fall thru and we can sell our place in time to snatch it up. If not I'll keep looking for something that is just right. Optimisum right? I really do love our home though and I don't mind living here until were able to get a sale. Ps, sorry if everything is spelled wrong I can't find the spell check with the new setting so you may have to sound out what I was trying to write :)

Darn Cute home in Ogden

Friday (Feb 10, 2012) is a much anticipated day, Jared will be getting his first paycheck and we will be putting our humble abode on the market! I've thought about selling our home for well over a year now and its kinda unreal, exciting and nerve wracking all at the same time. We all know the market isn't really awesome for sellers in fact I'm bummed that after 5.5 years of living here were really not going to see much of a return on the place as we had hoped for, but at least we shouldn't be going into the negative (crossing my fingers) and our home does appraise for more in this lousy market than we owe on it, although were listing it for less than what its appraising at too. I know you've seen some pictures but I wanted to put together a slide show of them all for this post..

I'm so drained

Came home tonight from watching the super bowl at my aunts house to find that our dog was missing and that her cord had "broken" again. Jared went out to look for her and it wasn't a minute later that she showed up at the house. Since the fence has been down she has "broken" two of her strong wire cords that we've put her on, the first one costing over $20 at pet co. Both times this has happened we haven't been home. So all my options include keeping a large dog in my tiny mudroom all day or putting her in her kennel so she can bark all day and dealing with my horrible jerk of a neighbor Robert Montgomery, who calls the dog catcher to ticket me. I'm so fed up. There was no tension in the cord on the ground it hadn't been pulled to its breaking point and my dog weighs all of 50lbs tops, someone has been cutting her cord so she will run off, leaving me with the problem of where to put her when she comes back and the repercussions of her being confined to a small space. So I was ticketed last week for a false claim that my dog was barking from 8-10 pm even though she is in before Jared gets home every night so at the very latest 7:30 and even then she isn't barking. I hate that people can trespass into my back yard and I hate that I have to fight this jerk off in court over a false claim. AGGHHH! STUPID PEOPLE!

The beginning of moving on

Thanks for all the congrats guys, my next Drs visit we should find out whether its a boy or girl so I'll try to keep you up to snuff.
Hey we can qualify! That means we could get a loan on a new place if and when we sell this place. Our Realtor walked through the place today and helped me get a healthy to-do list of things to make it more marketable and we could have the place up for sale as early as this coming Friday! Heres a couple more pics of the place that I labored to get :)

 The Master bedroom

 The bathroom

 Laundry room

 My display towels I purchased and put together tonight

 I used a twine type of ribbon to tie the two towels together (I know the picture isn't the best)

Formal living room