I missed a few events. I especially missed taking pictures of these events to post...lame.
First was Cade's 25th Birthday! Ok, so let's just get this out in the open. I'm not a great wife. Surprises, little romantic & thoughtful gestures....mmm, not what I'm good at. I kind of decided last minute that I wanted to do something special for # 25 and because he's just awesome and deserves a cool birthday! Now, I sound like I'm talking about a five year old..( a cool birthday, complete with Lightning McQueen and everything :)).
Anyways, so I thought about doing something with the number 25.
"Twenty-Five reasons I love you" - Check.
"Twenty-Five of your favorite things"- No go. I'm not so good at finding steal deals and creating things, so that $20 Kansas City Chiefs belt buckle at the fair would have been a pretty pricey one item on the list of twenty-five. And not only that, bad wife moment again....what are twenty-five of his favorite things? The guy is so content and happy with just about anything. That or seriously just too good to his wife that he lets her pick everything and just goes with it. Improvement area for me...
So I dropped the creative 25 favorite things and settled with just a few of his favorites. Picked up some of my favorite candy...(whose birthday is it anyways??) believing they were his favorite also..(I think I did alright). Met him for lunch. And then later that night we went to Red Robin for dinner, played mini golf and then got dessert at Wingers. I now plan to get better at planning special birthdays ahead of time, figuring out his favorites and being more creative about it. But, I think he had a pretty good day anyways! I tried!
Second was Baby Shower! Seriously appreciate my sister Kami for throwing it for me! I don't even know how to say thank you enough. The support was so nice from friends and family! Just the fact that certain people show up means a lot. SOOO grateful. Since the shower we have started on our "what's left?" list. I've never owned so much pink in my life. I'm getting SO excited for this little girl to come!
And third--Our Two Year Anniversary! We kept it actually pretty calm. But it was a good day! So happy about the past two years and even more excited about the future years together! I've got an amazing husband! I'm so lucky!
Today Cade is finishing the Month of August the same way he started it, in Logan. Boo. But I think those work trips will soon be over with fall and winter around the corner. Here's to hoping anyways! At least I can start on my reading. Seven weeks left and I am just cracking open What To Expect When You're Expecting. Thanks Jeanette! Hopefully it mentally prepares me well enough for what's ahead!
Friday, August 31, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
For The Lisonbees..
I added a button to my page. See to the right! That is a new trick I learned today. I stink at blogging and I can hardly do anything. But, I am pretty excited about this new button.
I have never met Julie's husband Landon, but I can bet he's probably a pretty good guy if he's married to Julie. You will never meet a sweeter person than Julie. She will make a GREAT Mom someday. They will make great parents someday.
Please....!
Check out their blog:
landonandjulieadopt.blogspot.com
Like their page on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Landon-Julie-Hoping-to-Adopt/337936162899733
And spread the word.
You might not know anybody who is looking to place their child for adoption...but you might know someone who knows someone. :)
Baby
Some people blow my mind with how gracious they are. It makes me want to be more like that. I wish they knew just how grateful and touched I am by their generosity. Thank you friends and family for being so awesome.
A second name has come to my mind and taken residency. It didn't help when Cade added my middle name to it. Shoot. Not ok for an indecisive person. I can't deal with two choices! But, I'm going to guess that we stick with the first pick. There just might happen to be a (name number two) down the road though. We'll see...
My beef with being sick and pregnant--Come on.
(Don't take this the wrong way, so grateful to be pregnant! But...)
Pregnancy has it's own little miseries.. Right now for me those miseries involve heartburn, stomach aches, lack of room in my ribs...sleep issues- like...numbing in my right arm (weird. maybe this is why they tell you to sleep on your left side?) Or bathroom trips 4-7 times a night. (Seriously, one night recently I'm pretty sure it was around seven. Good heck.) Swelling....
Anyways.
I think while pregnant, you should just be invincible to the flu.
Not the case though. I got it yesterday bad. Or maybe it just felt so bad because I haven't hardly been sick since leaving my job at a daycare a year and half ago.
And while pregnant, there isn't much you can do about it in the medicine department. One website told me to drink plenty of water and get a lot of rest. Anyone who is or has been pregnant knows...there is no way that those two things are possible together. As if my potty trips aren't frequent enough on a normal pregnant day....I'm suppose to drink even more and sleep a lot. I don't know where the potty breaks every 30 minutes fits in there. (Ok, I have a small bladder anyways, whatever guys...) But really, not quite possible. I managed though. Or, I chose water and potty breaks over sleep. I feel a lot better today though. And like I said, grateful for the little pregnancy miseries. I realize I am very blessed.
She is active. I haven't been pregnant before, so I can't really compare, but I would say she's really active. It took me a little longer than the other women due right about the same time as me to feel her. So I started thinking, hey, maybe this baby is just going to be really mellow. Yay. "It" (at the time) is going to be just like Cade. Totally calm, easy going, patient....and then I felt her around 19 weeks and she hasn't stopped moving since. I should have knocked on wood. She's going to be just like me. Antsy, impatient, hyper....Oh nooo. I wasn't a nice child. She's not going to sleep, she's going to cry a lot, and get really mad really quick. I'm so scared. And Cade should be too. Two of us? Ok, really, too soon to call that one. I can still hold onto a hope that she will be as nice and pleasant as her Dad. :)
A second name has come to my mind and taken residency. It didn't help when Cade added my middle name to it. Shoot. Not ok for an indecisive person. I can't deal with two choices! But, I'm going to guess that we stick with the first pick. There just might happen to be a (name number two) down the road though. We'll see...
My beef with being sick and pregnant--Come on.
(Don't take this the wrong way, so grateful to be pregnant! But...)
Pregnancy has it's own little miseries.. Right now for me those miseries involve heartburn, stomach aches, lack of room in my ribs...sleep issues- like...numbing in my right arm (weird. maybe this is why they tell you to sleep on your left side?) Or bathroom trips 4-7 times a night. (Seriously, one night recently I'm pretty sure it was around seven. Good heck.) Swelling....
Anyways.
I think while pregnant, you should just be invincible to the flu.
Not the case though. I got it yesterday bad. Or maybe it just felt so bad because I haven't hardly been sick since leaving my job at a daycare a year and half ago.
And while pregnant, there isn't much you can do about it in the medicine department. One website told me to drink plenty of water and get a lot of rest. Anyone who is or has been pregnant knows...there is no way that those two things are possible together. As if my potty trips aren't frequent enough on a normal pregnant day....I'm suppose to drink even more and sleep a lot. I don't know where the potty breaks every 30 minutes fits in there. (Ok, I have a small bladder anyways, whatever guys...) But really, not quite possible. I managed though. Or, I chose water and potty breaks over sleep. I feel a lot better today though. And like I said, grateful for the little pregnancy miseries. I realize I am very blessed.
She is active. I haven't been pregnant before, so I can't really compare, but I would say she's really active. It took me a little longer than the other women due right about the same time as me to feel her. So I started thinking, hey, maybe this baby is just going to be really mellow. Yay. "It" (at the time) is going to be just like Cade. Totally calm, easy going, patient....and then I felt her around 19 weeks and she hasn't stopped moving since. I should have knocked on wood. She's going to be just like me. Antsy, impatient, hyper....Oh nooo. I wasn't a nice child. She's not going to sleep, she's going to cry a lot, and get really mad really quick. I'm so scared. And Cade should be too. Two of us? Ok, really, too soon to call that one. I can still hold onto a hope that she will be as nice and pleasant as her Dad. :)
Monday, August 20, 2012
I'm EXCITED!...
About...Single digits! 8 1/2 weeks left till DUE DATE. Whoa. Feels so soon to me. But, each day I feel a little heavier and a little bit more swollen and then it feels like two months away is a long time. That's alright though. I have too much to do before this baby comes, so I need those two months.
About...My budget binder! Ha. This is nerdy. I've totally never been so excited about NOT spending money before. I found a good little pin on pinterest the other day that has totally worked for us. Or at least so far. What I really mean is, my binder and the "envelopes" (plastic pencil pouches, works awesome) just look so good and organized.
A few months ago I tried to google how people live under, I think a $30,000 a year salary...didn't find much. Then last week (I think it was) I found a pin about living on a $28,000 salary and it totally made sense to me. Of course, we're planning for a household of three...this was for a family of six. A few differences but it definitely set a good example for us. Now...for actually following it....
Here is that link if you are interested... http://thepeacefulmom.com/2012/02/20/new-series-living-on-less-than-28000-a-year-2/
About...We have an apartment and move in date! Not as exciting as a house. Our own house. But. Oh well! It feels so good to be so close to moving into our own place. Yay!
About...Single digits! 8 1/2 weeks left till DUE DATE. Whoa. Feels so soon to me. But, each day I feel a little heavier and a little bit more swollen and then it feels like two months away is a long time. That's alright though. I have too much to do before this baby comes, so I need those two months.
About...My budget binder! Ha. This is nerdy. I've totally never been so excited about NOT spending money before. I found a good little pin on pinterest the other day that has totally worked for us. Or at least so far. What I really mean is, my binder and the "envelopes" (plastic pencil pouches, works awesome) just look so good and organized.
A few months ago I tried to google how people live under, I think a $30,000 a year salary...didn't find much. Then last week (I think it was) I found a pin about living on a $28,000 salary and it totally made sense to me. Of course, we're planning for a household of three...this was for a family of six. A few differences but it definitely set a good example for us. Now...for actually following it....
Here is that link if you are interested... http://thepeacefulmom.com/2012/02/20/new-series-living-on-less-than-28000-a-year-2/
About...We have an apartment and move in date! Not as exciting as a house. Our own house. But. Oh well! It feels so good to be so close to moving into our own place. Yay!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Goodbye homeownership...for now.
Boo-hoo a lotta bit, but it's ok..
And P.S. new homeowners, sorry for posting a picture of your house on my blog.
AND NOW---we look for a rental. And I think that's the worst part of this situation. I didn't enjoy house hunting...but I really don't enjoy apartment hunting. It's def time though to get into our own place. So we are on the hunt and hope to be moving into our own place anytime really, like now is alright with us. Or like September 1st, but tomorrow is even better. :) Sooo hey, if you have recommendations on great areas, decent cost for rent, like 600-700..and pets (one chihuahua) are accepted. PLEASE let me know.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Our (RIGHT NOW) Dream Home
House hunting has not been fun. I don't enjoy it. I possibly could very much though...if our price range was up $20-40,000 more.. :) Yes, that would be fun!
Cade and I have driven past a lot of houses and through plenty of neighborhoods in Boise, Meridian, Kuna and Nampa. MOST have been quite sad neighborhoods, some have been "do-able", and a few have been just alright. We were getting quite excited about the alright neighborhoods. Neighborhood has been a huge deal for me. I don't know what I'll be doing in the future, if I'll be able to stay home with my kids, or if I'll have to work. At this point I want to stay home and will stick with that plan for as long as is possible. It would be nice to feel safe in my neighborhood, be able to take walks with the kids and not feel nervous or creeped out. In our price range though, it would seem that we aren't able to afford warm, fuzzy, safe neighborhoods. And really, some houses have been alright..but I haven't loved really any of them. Do we buy a house just because its "the right time to buy"?
Renting doesn't solve the problem though. It's possible renting could cost more than a mortgage, especially when you have a pet..
DEAR NEWLYWEDS-
Don't buy a pet until you have bought a house. Landlords no likey, resulting in your options becoming very limited. But not only that, if you are in an apartment with a dog, you have to take it out to go potty and that's just not fun. Even more not fun when you realize you have a baby on the way who could possibly be sleeping when the dog needs to go potty. Super.
If you decide to buy anyways, and then find a great place that finally accepts pets..enjoy a wonderful non-refundable pet deposit and/or possible monthly charge on your rent.
I would have probably held off on the cute puppy had I realized all of this....(oh well, we still like our dog).
Renting is kind of a bummer deal when you think about putting money into nothing instead of your own house. There are other cons to renting but at the same time, when you rent you aren't buying a crappy neighborhood and stuck there for 5-10 or more years. If it isn't a great place, you can move in a year or less. I like that fact. But either way, I just haven't felt confident.
There are decent houses right now near our price range but they are short sales and I don't feel confident about going through that process just yet. Maybe in the future. I've kind of given up on the idea of buying. Houses are going fast, investors are buying like crazy, and whats left is not what I want to be stuck in for 10 years.
Since I had no confidence in either direction we still went and looked Friday at a $59,000 two bed & one bath townhome for sale, mostly just out of curiosity, and hated it...but it lead to a conversation with our realitor where we decided to give a certain location another shot. Cade and I headed that way and drove through a couple of neighborhoods and thought maybe we'd like to look at a few of the houses that we saw. The just alright kind of houses and neighborhoods. After calling our realitor the next day one house was already pending and the other two I think ended up being short-sales.
A little while later our realitor gave us a few other houses we might want to look at out that way and one I immediately LOVED, and didn't care to even consider the others. So we drove to the house and felt so comfortable in the neighborhood. Loved the neighborhood really. She showed us the house later that day and I loved it even more. By a long shot the best of any of the houses we've looked at or driven by, and oddly, well in our price range.
Oh but the DOWNSIDE.....we have to bid on it and if we bid over the listed price, it has to come out of pocket. (Yes it's a HUD home, but a nice one). Sooo....realizing there are people out there who have more money than we do & shady investors who aren't suppose to bid on this house, but could still and get away with it...we still put our tiny sad little bid in yesterday. I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited still. It is exciting! And so sad because I haven't figured out how I'm going to deal when we hear we were outbid on Monday. I might already be attached, it's possible that in my head its already ours, and I may have already mentally moved my furniture and pictures in...I'm in so much trouble. Oh the long week I have ahead just thinking about this.
Cade and I have driven past a lot of houses and through plenty of neighborhoods in Boise, Meridian, Kuna and Nampa. MOST have been quite sad neighborhoods, some have been "do-able", and a few have been just alright. We were getting quite excited about the alright neighborhoods. Neighborhood has been a huge deal for me. I don't know what I'll be doing in the future, if I'll be able to stay home with my kids, or if I'll have to work. At this point I want to stay home and will stick with that plan for as long as is possible. It would be nice to feel safe in my neighborhood, be able to take walks with the kids and not feel nervous or creeped out. In our price range though, it would seem that we aren't able to afford warm, fuzzy, safe neighborhoods. And really, some houses have been alright..but I haven't loved really any of them. Do we buy a house just because its "the right time to buy"?
Renting doesn't solve the problem though. It's possible renting could cost more than a mortgage, especially when you have a pet..
DEAR NEWLYWEDS-
Don't buy a pet until you have bought a house. Landlords no likey, resulting in your options becoming very limited. But not only that, if you are in an apartment with a dog, you have to take it out to go potty and that's just not fun. Even more not fun when you realize you have a baby on the way who could possibly be sleeping when the dog needs to go potty. Super.
If you decide to buy anyways, and then find a great place that finally accepts pets..enjoy a wonderful non-refundable pet deposit and/or possible monthly charge on your rent.
I would have probably held off on the cute puppy had I realized all of this....(oh well, we still like our dog).
Renting is kind of a bummer deal when you think about putting money into nothing instead of your own house. There are other cons to renting but at the same time, when you rent you aren't buying a crappy neighborhood and stuck there for 5-10 or more years. If it isn't a great place, you can move in a year or less. I like that fact. But either way, I just haven't felt confident.
There are decent houses right now near our price range but they are short sales and I don't feel confident about going through that process just yet. Maybe in the future. I've kind of given up on the idea of buying. Houses are going fast, investors are buying like crazy, and whats left is not what I want to be stuck in for 10 years.
Since I had no confidence in either direction we still went and looked Friday at a $59,000 two bed & one bath townhome for sale, mostly just out of curiosity, and hated it...but it lead to a conversation with our realitor where we decided to give a certain location another shot. Cade and I headed that way and drove through a couple of neighborhoods and thought maybe we'd like to look at a few of the houses that we saw. The just alright kind of houses and neighborhoods. After calling our realitor the next day one house was already pending and the other two I think ended up being short-sales.
A little while later our realitor gave us a few other houses we might want to look at out that way and one I immediately LOVED, and didn't care to even consider the others. So we drove to the house and felt so comfortable in the neighborhood. Loved the neighborhood really. She showed us the house later that day and I loved it even more. By a long shot the best of any of the houses we've looked at or driven by, and oddly, well in our price range.
Oh but the DOWNSIDE.....we have to bid on it and if we bid over the listed price, it has to come out of pocket. (Yes it's a HUD home, but a nice one). Sooo....realizing there are people out there who have more money than we do & shady investors who aren't suppose to bid on this house, but could still and get away with it...we still put our tiny sad little bid in yesterday. I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited still. It is exciting! And so sad because I haven't figured out how I'm going to deal when we hear we were outbid on Monday. I might already be attached, it's possible that in my head its already ours, and I may have already mentally moved my furniture and pictures in...I'm in so much trouble. Oh the long week I have ahead just thinking about this.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Updates
Since blogging last....
-I'll be six months preggo this Friday. It's getting CLOSE!
-Doctor confirmed we're having a little girl. We're so excited!
-Name possibly picked.
-Getting HUGE and kind of freaked about it. (Notice there is not a recent, 25 weeks belly shot here). I need to invest more in maternity clothes, but the more I think about it the less I want to spend money on cute big clothes. I'd rather spend on cute skinny after pregnancy clothes. Can I hide out and avoid any cameras for the next 3 months? I'll be honest though, pregnancy shouldn't take the full blame for my weight gain. Bad food choices, traveling & bad food choices and lacking self control are mostly to blame. I'll have my own work cut out for me in a few months, hellooo medifast.
-Cade has been working in Logan a lot. More hours for him- really great for us but also really lonely for me. So I've made a few trips with him to Utah.
-We're just about a month and a half away now from getting our own place. Living with Cade's family hasn't been easy (in the sense of not being completely on your own as a couple and soon-to-be parents) but really words can't express how grateful I am that they have let us live with them. They've helped us SO much. We've saved up some money but we'll probably hold off on buying a house right immediately. Looking at short sales but hoping to find a good renting opportunity if a short sale takes up to 6 months.
AND some pictures of lately..
Just a little shopping with my Mom in Utah 4th of July weekend.. Found these two items and loved both, buuut I exercised SOME self control and put away one of the items. Bunny blanket won. I figure she'll like that one more and for longer.
-I'll be six months preggo this Friday. It's getting CLOSE!
-Doctor confirmed we're having a little girl. We're so excited!
-Name possibly picked.
-Getting HUGE and kind of freaked about it. (Notice there is not a recent, 25 weeks belly shot here). I need to invest more in maternity clothes, but the more I think about it the less I want to spend money on cute big clothes. I'd rather spend on cute skinny after pregnancy clothes. Can I hide out and avoid any cameras for the next 3 months? I'll be honest though, pregnancy shouldn't take the full blame for my weight gain. Bad food choices, traveling & bad food choices and lacking self control are mostly to blame. I'll have my own work cut out for me in a few months, hellooo medifast.
-Cade has been working in Logan a lot. More hours for him- really great for us but also really lonely for me. So I've made a few trips with him to Utah.
-We're just about a month and a half away now from getting our own place. Living with Cade's family hasn't been easy (in the sense of not being completely on your own as a couple and soon-to-be parents) but really words can't express how grateful I am that they have let us live with them. They've helped us SO much. We've saved up some money but we'll probably hold off on buying a house right immediately. Looking at short sales but hoping to find a good renting opportunity if a short sale takes up to 6 months.
AND some pictures of lately..
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| 17 weeks here but I looked bigger in my 15 weeks picture. |
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| Went to the park and played some basketball. I have to say, I wasn't shooting too bad. :) Ok, the hoops are shorter, but whatever. Memory lane..Cade and I went and played basketball at this park on our first date. Awww. :) |
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| Try One at Utah Air Show. Rained out. |
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| Try Two at Air Show. Much better. |
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| 19 Weeks |
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| 4D picture at 20 week appointment. (Peeking out from behind the placenta). After our appointment we brought this picture and others to Cade's parents and didn't say right away what the gender was. Cade's niece looked at the 4D pictures first and with disappointment said, "It's a boy." :)Haha, nooope. |
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| Cade wanted to go for a ride. I'm clumsy already, pregnant, clumsy & bike..didn't seem like a good match, sooo we pulled out my sister-in-laws bike! Three wheels AND a basket in the back (to hold the dog of course). I'm sure we gave a few neighbors a good laugh. :) |
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| Blanket/bunny? CUTE. Bought. |
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| PINK outfit. CUTE. Put away....sadly. |
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