Baby Update!

SO i am a little over 3 months now and im feeling pretty good. Im officially past the first trimester and I think ive been pretty lucky with my pregnancy so far because im not sick all the time..i get sick sometimes but not enough to slow me down....that much anyway ;0) However, I must admit that while pregnant, its harder to find the energy or motivation to tackle the home improvement projects that need to be done around here..i guess Matt will have to do all the work ;0) jk So the doc said that i will be able to find out if we are having a boy or girl in a couple of weeks...we are SUPER excited about that! Alot of people keep telling me that 'you should wait and let it be a surprise' but.....wheres the fun in that?! It would be more like torture! Patience is definitely not one of my virtues :0) What do YOU think i will have? ;0) Anywho, i know we dont know what we are having yet, but ive been dying to start on the nursrey!!! I have found quite a few cute ideas online but cant quite decide...i might just combine a bunch of these cute ideas into one room :0)








Tell me which ideas you liked the best! ♥

An Early Thanksgiving ♥

My family came up for a quick visit and it was a delight having them here! We did a few fun things while they were up here but most of our time was spent just relaxing and spending some quality time together :0) Here we are at the park down the street. This is my bro Andrew and his wife Yana..im glad they got to come up and see us too!

Here we are playin some B-ball! Skillz people..skillz ;0)

We gave them the tour de Paradise and went to Paradise Lake where we had an intense rock-skipping contest ;0) Heres my hubby and his wonderful parentals!

Since Matt will be working on Thanksgiving and we had family in town we decided to have Thanksgiving early this year! I didnt take a whole lot of pictures of the food prepping adventures but heres Matt with the bird (not cooked yet)..yummayyyy :0)

While we waited for dinner to cook, we taught the fam how to play Bocce ball in our front yard..because you are not cool until you learn how to play Bocce ;0)

Battle of the brothers :0)

After our game we had our Thanksgiving dinner together..and it was scrumptious!!

It was so fun to spend time with our family..i hope they had as good a time as we did! Thanks for coming up guys, we love you and miss you already! Come back soon :0) SO...my rule has always been to start decorating for Christmas after Thanksgiving...and since we had ours early............ ;0)

Halloween Fun!

So, i had to work on Halloween unfortunately however i didnt let it ruin my day and of course i dressed up! ;0)

..every good witch needs a cat sidekick ;0)

...it was easy and semi-comfortable costume for work. (The heels lasted for approximately two haircuts..good thing i brought some comfy shoes just in case ;0) My awesome husband brought me lunch at work and bought a good scary movie for us to watch that night...The Decent.

Dont be fooled by the nasty cover...this movie is by far the SCARIEST movie ive seen in a LONG time! I DARE anyone who is brave enough to rent this movie and watch it! I am 100% sure it would scare.you.to.death!

In fact...i double dare ya!

Another Kitchen Update!

So we installed a new backsplash a while ago and it looks great! i just havent posted about it because my kitchen has been too messy to take a picture of it...until today that is ;0) Here are some befores...This first one is how we inherited our kitchen...

After we painted the cabinets and installed new hardware...
..Check out that hideous tile backsplash...Scary!

and some new and improved afters!...(With our new DIY backsplash!)




I also made a chalkboard out of an antique mirror i bought at a thrift store for $2...heres the before pic of that..

...and after ♥

Here is our sink area (Matt installed a new faucet.)
My silly kitty...i ♥ her


Thats all folks!

Our latest outdoor excursions..

A few weeks ago, we went to a place called Black Rock. We heard it was a cool place and we wanted to see how the truck would do on a nice bumpy dirt road...and im glad to report that it did famously! ;0)

It was SO pretty there and we saw like 1,000 deer on the way! Well, it was more like 50 but thats alot!! On our way up we came across this indian shrine thingy on the edge of a cliff...(Ishi indians use to live up there..i heard that some still do!) I couldnt decide if it was cool or creepy..you be the judge!

Here are some pictures of the area..


and this is Black Rock...

its basically a ginormous.black.rock.

Mill Creek ran through the area so we decided to get our line wet and do a little hiking! However, we didnt stay long because it was getting dark (we got there kinda late) AND i was told by a reliable source that there was a large population of 'cats' up there a.k.a. mountain lions...so we hit the road ;0) It was fun though and we found a cool campground there so we will definitely be back! Now for our other outdoor outing... a couple days ago we were driving around the area and found a dirt road on my handy-dandy GPS that apparently crossed the river.. so we decided to explore. It was a steep windy road down the canyon. It was gorgeous outside and a great day for exploring :0) ...20 min down the road this is what we found!


I couldnt resist the urge to fish!


Matts photography skillz ;0)

We are glad we found a good spot to fish so close! We also found a fire lookout tower on the top of a super tall mountain which i am dying to go check out...maybe another day! Thats all folks!

Tradition!

i heart carving pumpkins...always have! SO,everytime Halloween rolls around Matt and i always make sure we carve pumpkins together!

My handsome hubby...

Yours truly...

..the Lu decided to come help...

..and i decided to give her KISSES!!! :0)

We picked out pumpkin patterns from this book that i had. It rated the difficulty of the patterns..1= easiest..5= hardest. I picked an easy one (a 2) and Matt picked the hardest one (a 5) I finished mine in no time and got to listen to Matt grumble and complain for an hour..heheh Love you Matt! ;0) Needless to say, his hard work paid off..his looked WAY better than mine! Here is the finished result!


Can you guess which one is mine? ;0)
Thats all folks!