....still waiting!

The nursery is complete, now we're just waiting on the baby! I forget how this last leg of the pregnancy drags out forever! We just can't wait to meet her!

We don't have a name yet, the B on the wall was just to tease Scott because that's the first letter of the name that I want.

The dresser was sooooo much work to refinish! I lost my "before" picture, but it was a light oak color. Aside from the sanding and prepping, each coat took me 4-5 hours to apply and there are 6 coats!!! I told Scott never to let me do that again.

Scott even helped me paint the room! In the past he's always said, "you can paint all you want as long as I have no part in it." So I always did it while he was gone. This time he came in the room when I was on the ladder painting the top of the wall. We have 10 ft. ceilings and I guess it looked a little dangerous because he told me to get down from there and that he would paint the top portion of the walls.

I need a new project to keep me busy until the baby comes. Any ideas???

Ok, so I haven't posted in a really long time! My computer crashed and we lost most of our pictures that we've taken since we moved here. I've been working on fixing the computer, getting it set up again, lots of Christmas shopping, and best of all...decorating the baby's room! It's all decorated and Scott's mom is bringing the crib to us on Wed. when she comes for Thanksgiving. As soon as the crib is set up, I'll take some pics for you all to see! I love to just sit in there and imagine my own little baby in there! It still doesn't seem real sometimes.

I usually have a rule of no pictures after 6 months because I get really puffy, but I was taking some family pictures for a friend yesterday, so I had her take some of us too, and here is the only one anyone is allowed to see.

Motion Project

In my photography class we've been learning how to use our cameras to show motion with blur instead of just capturing a still shot. The techniques are kind of hard and take a lot of practice, but I got a few of them to turn out.

Home Depot Workshop

Home Depot does free workshops every month for kids. The kids get a Home Depot apron with their name on it and they get to use hammers without their parents freaking out! The kids have so much fun doing it. Today the project was a fire truck with a removable whistle on top. I think this definitely topped the birdhouse they did before. Caden's getting pretty good with a hammer, he can usually get the nails in pretty strait without any help, which is a feat even I haven't mastered yet. This was Blake's first time because technically you're supposed to be 5, but there were lots of younger kids there, so we let him do it too. I had to hammer in the nails about halfway, and then he did the rest.
Here are the finished firetrucks! When the kids are finished, they get a pin with a picture of the project on it to put on their aprons.
Here is the link for the kids workshop if anyone would like to try it next month.

Voting Simplified

Scott and I were sitting in the living room this morning discussing last night's debate. The kids came in and were listening for a little while. Blake has actually heard Barack Obama's name a lot, and loves to chant it. I guess it's catchy for a 4 year old.

Anyway, Caden has been learning a little about the government in school, so I tried to expain in very simple terms that it's time for a new president and that we listen to what Obama and McCain have to say, and then we decide who we want to be president and we vote. Then, they count the votes and whoever has the most will win. So Caden's eyes lit up and he got really excited and said, "HEY!!! If all four of us vote for McCain, then he will be president because 4 is a lot!!!"

New Camera

So, Scott got a nice camera for intraoral photography, and I decided I wanted to learn how to use it. So, I've just been playing around, and here are some of my pictures.




Hopefully, they'll just keep getting better.

It's a Girl !!!

We had our ultrasound on Tuesday and it's a Girl!!!! We are sooooo excited! I'm so amazed that they can even tell what's on the screen. Here's a shot of the baby's face.And here's the shot where she can tell it's a girl. The boys' anatomy was a lot easier for me to see. I still don't reallly know what this picture is, but I'll take her word for it. It's a girl!!