Come Out Baby....

So... we are still waiting for little one #2 to make thier grand apperence:) Nathan has done his part by telling the baby to "come out... boy" Its just tooo cute! He is determined that he is getting a 'boy baby' and there is no talking him out of it! He isn't getting a brother or sister just a boy baby. The good news is on Tues. I was dialiated to 2cm soo anyday we hope to meet this little one! Here are some (hopefully) last baby bump pics of me:)

Obviously these were taken during Nathan's bathtime- on seperate days:)

I like Nathan in the background going "What the heck is she doing?"

A new brand of fish food aka a strange flavoring for pie crust

Yesterday, I decided that I wanted a lemon meringue pie. I just didn't get around to it so I woke up today determined to make one. I was mixing the ingredients together for the crust when Nathan came over and said "help me" which translate "I want to help". So I was measuring in the sugar when I noticed that the sugar stuck to the measuring spoon so Nathan's hands had to be wet... now where did he play in water? My first thought of course was the toilet but then I watched Nathan grab a fruit snack off the table and take it to our fish tank and drop it in!!! Fish water pie crust!!! I quickly dumped my crust and started over:) With this boy life is always an adventure but I wouldn't have it anyother way!!

Oh, and today is my due date but no sign of baby yet. We have a doctors appointment this afternoon so we will see what he has to say!! I am hoping that something has changed from last week!!

Storytime and Angel Food Cake

Last week was a craft day at the library for the summer reading program. Nathan really enjoyed it! We made a cute oyster our of egg shell cartons complete with pearl:), Nathan painted a pet rock (he was really proud of it), made a frog out of a cork (sorry no pics-the frog has since gone the way of the craft graveyard) and finally we made an ocean in a bottle complete with REAL OCEAN SAND! It was fun and thanks to the wonderful librarians for all the hard work they put in to thier programs!

Nathan with his talking oyster

Painting his rock with upmost concentration. It was just too cute!

Last week, I really craved a angel food cake with the fresh strawberries we had in the fridge. So I bought a mix, followed the instructions to a T, and this is the end result....

I just kinda looked at it and said "gotta take a pic!"

And here is my baby bump at 39 weeks:)

New Rabbit Home

So we made a hutch for our new rabbits our of Nathans old, rickity, unsafe crib!! (For details click here) Nathan is still very happy to have his sweet pets around and I am sooo happy they are finally outside! (They were making such a mess every night!) Now they have room to hop around and fresh air. Unfortunaly, they may not be our guests for very long as our apt. complex is very unfair. They say they let in animals but ONLY if you have a Dr.'s note (something they didn't tell us until AFTER we got the rabbits) and the papers they want signed are ridiculous! They talk about disibilities and how the animial is needed for a person to enjoy the same life a regular person does, etc. things like that! I asked my Dr. yesterday if he would be willing to sign and he said no. I don't honestly see how two quiet, harmless rabbits harm anything but whatever. There are two apartments that I know of that have a St. Bernard (thats for medicinal purposes?) and a 20 lb cat (for a boy who is "lonely") so I don't know what we will do. We are still trying to figure something out and are stalling for time but in the long run the bunnies will probably go to my mom's to live. Any way here are some pics of our rabbits and thier new home:)

Fudge

Domino

Thier new home

Dangers of Strawberry Syrup

So since I haven't worn myself out enough (I did a yard sale on Fri and Sat) I decided to make and can strawberry syrup last night. I was really excited because strawberries were on sale ($1 lb!!) and I really wanted some strawberry syrup for pancakes, waffles, ice cream, etc. so I though why not can some? All was going well until I poured a jar of boiling water on my arm as I was draining it and then the ring and lid came off my second jar of syrup adding a bunch of hot water to the mix and taking away most of my strawberry chunks!! :( I drained some of the water and canned the jar anyway! So it may have a funny taste but we will see!

Oh, and for infomation purposes:) if this baby does not come in the next 10 days they are inducing me!

Baby #2 is close to being here!!!

My first hard scrapbook pages!

Yesterday, I went to a scrapbooking classed being taught by my friend Tessa Buys. She is a great and avid scrapbooker and I have never tried to make a hard copy page before so I decided to go and try my hand at it! It was lots of fun and frustrating for me. I have a hard time putting complementary colors together and having a boy limited the choices I could use (since I wanted to make it for Nathan- of course). But Tessa was soo patient and helped me A LOT!! I had to leave (Nathan was ready to go) before I could glue it all down and so I finished them this morning! Tell me what you think!

You can't see it well, (click to enlarge) but I used a "misting" technique on this one with a red:)

I used my leftovers and made this smaller complimentary page!

It was lots of fun and it was great to learn a new way to scrapbook!! Learning really promotes creativity and can be lots of fun!!

If you want to see the new digital pages I have uploaded click here

Dentist and Park

Nathan had his first dentist appointment yesterday and I think he did very well. We found out he has a cross-bite but there isn't anything they can do for it until he is six. We also learned he has inherieted his mothers teeth (sorry) and so we were told to make sure we always send him to bed with clean teeth.

For being such a good boy we went up to the Sinks since we were already in Lander, and Nathan had fun on the slides as you can see! Hope you all are having a fun summer!!!

Big boy can do it all by himself... time sure does fly...

Just too much fun!

Okay so we get home and it is nap time. Nathan refused and refused to go to sleep so I just left the room and waited to see what would happen. I found him like this half an hour later. He just didn't want to go to sleep:)

Bunnies and Fish

When I was growing up in California, we used to raise rabbits for fun:) I have soo many bunny stories and some are really cute like the one rabbit we had that was more of a watchdog and would guard our house and take walks around the neighborhood and then come back home! We didn't even cage him.. miss you Harry. Also a wonderful love story between Bugs and Pepper... have to tell you that one in person:) All in all I was the bunny fan in my family. LOVED THEM!! So sad whenever we moved and had to leave it all behind including my little dropper-fed dwarf Shasta. Anyway, I decided that I wanted to start looking into getting some rabbits of our own now that Nathan is really into animals and we have an apartment that lets us have pets. I went to look at the start up prices (cages, feeders, etc.) and I was appalled!! It was like $150 bucks before you even got your rabbit! So I backed off for a while and thought I would gradually get into this since there aren't many rabbit breeders in Wyoming (for pets anyways) and just see if I could get supplies at yard sales and then try next summer to get it all together. Besides we are having a baby in the next few weeks so.... backing off for a while sounded good. Then yesterday my mom texted me a number of someone giving away two rabbits for free. I called and lo and behold he was giving away the hutch he made, a really nice cage with bottom, feeders, heated feeders, his food can and everything you need for rabbits!!! I was way excited and Nathan has been estatic having "beees" in his house. We hope to pick up the hutch sometime soon and then they will be outside most of the time but they are perfect!! They are both female and one is a pure white New Zealand and then the other is one of her babys from a while ago and she is a mix with a Rex so they have very soft fur and are very tame. They are also very big which works to our advatage as Nathan can't just pick them up and try to haul them around or get scratched. They have run around our living room for a while and Nathan just loves to play with them!!

This is Fudge (white) and Dalmation- now Domino

Domino peeking around the cage (she really has black eyes)

Now to the fish. I also had a fish tank growing up- a real nice setup 50 gallon tank on a handmade stand, you get the picture. I bought a little beta tank last summer and the fish always died!!! I think there was some bad bacteria in the rock but whatever. So again I gradually thought I would ease into getting a tank and all the equipment since start up for a 20 gallon tank is at least $50 before you get the fish! (These prices are killing me!! ) So I again was just looking and scouting around. Yesterday, (it was definately a Delina's wish day!) my mom found me the whole start up kit for $10 at a yard sale!!!! I will post pics when we get the tank set up. Wal-Mart is our only source for fish and I looked today and they look pretty sick and I don't want fish to die on my again! So, check back!

I will just say that all this happened after I had a rough beginning of a week. I was just feeling a little low in my faith and just down.. I'm sure part of it was pregnancy hormones but I was just not myself. Then Tuesday night as I was going to bed and saying my prayers (half-heartedly) I got the thought "why won't you trust me?" It really struck me and I started trying a little better to be hopeful for my future and stop being so downer. Then Friday happened and WOW! I am not saying that everthing always turns around so fast but it was a nice reminder that unexpected blessings do come and we shouldn't lose faith when things are down. I hope you all are having a great summer!!

Poll Results

So my poll stopped working and I tried to fix it but alas no luck :( So if you didn't get a chance to vote leave a comment below and I will add your vote into the numbers!! SO this is the results:

Girl: 9

Boy: 7

Only a few more weeks until we know!!! :) Have fun!!

The Library presents Andy Mason!

Today we went to a summer reading program at the library. (Last week I performed with the enchanted entertainers and it was lots of fun!!!) This week, we had a performer from New Mexico who performed for all us. His name is Andy Mason and I think the kids really enjoyed it!! Here is a video that I took of "Everybody Likes Pizza". Nathan loves to read and just loves going to the library so I am glad that they try so hard to have fun programs for the kids!!

He has three cds out and you can buy his songs on iTunes!! He was selling them for $5 so I couldn't resist but buy the one most of his performance came from. We listened to it on the way home and I saw Nathan dancing in the back to it soo already worth its money!! Hope you all have a great week!!

4th of July Weekend

So we had a fun 4th of July weekend!! On Saturday, we had a backyard BBQ lunch with Michaels family and later that night we went to Lander where Dr. Bills (an orthodontist) puts on an elaborate fireworks show complete with narration and music!! There is a big hill you have to climb up to actually sit on the hill and have a front row view or you can just sit in your car, parked very carefully among the numerous vehicles that arrive. I originally thought staying in the car would be better because I wasn't sure I could handle the hill. However, when we arrived Nathan had been sooo good all day and he asked ever soo sweetly if we could get out so.... we got out his stroller and trekked up the hill. I was surprised to find it invigorating and not too tiring!!

We arrived in time to get some ice cream that the missionaries were dishing up (yearly tradition) and Nathan was great!! He didn't like the fireworks sooo he hid under the blanket and whimpered here and there. He DID NOT want to watch or see them at all! It was sort of funny! IT sprinkled a little on us but the rain didn't start until we were leaving! It was lots of fun and I am glad we went!!

Yummy Ice Cream

Mommy and cute boy

Daddy and the cute boy

On Sunday, my family had bought some fireworks so we headed out to their house for some more explosions and root beer floats (our family tradition). I had hoped maybe this time Nathan would be okay with the quieter, smaller fireworks but the same thing happened! He hid under the blanket and this time actually fell asleep because they weren't too loud! Again another fun filled evening and a great weekend!!!

Okay so I look extremely pregnant here (but come on, I am sitting cross legged on a TRAMPOLINE so of course the baby is in my ribs..) And of course Nathan's enthusiasm for fireworks just shines through:)

Here is just a random picture of took of Nathan the other day. He put on my hat and shoes and was ready to head out the door! :)

Hope you all had a good 4th!!

Uncle Bonding Time :)

Okay so Michaels car stopped running about 10 days ago and my brother Kyle has been working on it trying to get it fixed. We now know it needs a new fuel pump so Kyle came by to load up the car and take it out to my moms to fix in her shop. Michael had taken the keys to work (habit I suppose:)) so I left Nathan with Kyle while I went to pick up the keys. Before I left I found Nathan hand conjoled Kyle into reading him a book. I couldn't help but grab a quick video:)

I left and when I got home they were in Nathan's room reading yet another book!! Kyle said they had also "rode horses" together too! Too much fun!

Thanks Kyle sooo much for fixing our car!!!!

Just to remind you all 2 days left to vote on whether we are having a boy or girl!!