Update

We haven't been blogging at all because we have been spending all of our time at the house trying to get the things done that we need to before we move our stuff in. Tonight we are trying to move out of this house. I think we can do it as long as I can keep my energy up.

Here are some befores and afters, No furniture yet that will come in well at the end of the week.

Kitchen before


Kitchen after ( I am not loving the color I picked out but I am going to have cobalt blue accents so hopefully it will look less like a little boys room) I love my teapots not I need 7 more blue and white teapots. Who knows how long that will take to do.

Family room before

After. Sorry this was taken at night and now those floors are all gone I ripped out all the carpet.
Close up of the fireplace. It needs new tile but that is on the far away list (any suggestions on what to put in that pop in.


The family room wall

We couldn't have done all the painting without Ralphs know how. Thanks Opa. He even let Bubba help. Oh how we loved that.

We let Alexander paint the fence outside it was a bit of orange juice for color and water and he loved it.


The End.

P.S I had my official Ultra sound today. More to come later.

Today

Today seems like its been busy. Ralph got here yesterday and got right to work with painting. I am very excited about all the paint. I think I hate the kitchen color but we will see. Daniel ripped up all the carpet off the stairs and I am very happy about that. I bought a shop vac today and its the best ever. I'm tired so this is going to be very short in fact it is over. I will show you some pictures when I take some. The End.

Floor Plan

This is the floor plan on our house its a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath. You will see more pictures as we go and get things in better shape. All the bedrooms are upstairs and there is a loft thing that was the option of a loft or extra bedroom and the previous owner chose loft so who knows if that will be an office or a tv room thing or what? Who knows. I would love to make it an office and have a HUGE skinny dinning room table thing in there for all my stuff. But that might look super messy and thats just a secret dream I have :) Anyway I will probably be posting house progress more seeing as that is all we will be doing for the next few weeks (probably longer)

Eva is much better already but crying a lot.

WE are Homeowners

That is right we are officially homeowners. After months of searching we finally found the one and we got the keys on Monday (small super random note, getting a mortgage is WAY easier than getting a greencard!!! I am not saying mortgageness is not difficult it is but Green card is FAR WORSE). There is a lot of work to do before we move in (painting and cleaning, carpets floors gross animal smells think of the dump and you are close (previous renter of the house had 4 dogs 2 cats and a giant lizard iguana thing) and getting things how we want them) but its a great house and we are really happy with it. I have been going half days with the kids to the house for prep. I wish I had more energy to get things done but I must take the pace that my body allows.

Eva was awake all night crying and then this morning was complaining that her foot hurt. She said "OUCHIE" every time she tried to walk. I wasn't worried until I checked her foot the 3rd time and I bent it outward and she yelled ouchie so we had to go to the doctor and get x-rays. She hated it all and got super fussy. I have been pushing her around in the stroller because she cries and yells ouchie whenever she gets to her feet. Its swollen and no breaks or fractures so far. Carrying a 27lb baby around all day long is tough. She is so wiggly and stubborn too. Alexander is trying to be understanding but acting out. He kept telling me he was mad at the doctor for making Eva cry. Eva kept telling me her body hurt. I have been keeping an Ace bandage on her foot but she wants to wear both shoes and as I look at her right now she took the bandage off. Great. I must say its been a trying day for us all.

At the house we are currently trying to finish the kitchen to at least be able to move our current things in there so we can be there longer in the days. Here is all the taping we have done. It doesn't look like alot but it takes forever (plus I cleaned all the cabinets inside and out and the ceiling). Tomorrow is the first paint.(Alexander loves the open space, I am sure he will hate the furniture)

I will keep you posted.
P.S I hate the microwave thing in the kitchen picture. At some point I want to replace it with a Hood for the stove because there is grease stuff EVERYWHERE for the lack of a good hood. I was even cleaning the ceiling. Luckily it all came off.

This week

(The kids as I type,
this is them looking at the camera!)
We had a really great weekend! Leslie from Daniel's work babysat for us on Friday night so we got to go out to eat at a great New Mexican Restaurant. Even the ribs Daniel ordered were spicy. It was SOOO nice to go out alone. Alexander and Eva loved their night too. Then Saturday morning we got rid of junk out of the garage and we went to the movies. All four of us! We went to see How to Train Your Dragon and I must say it was really good. Alexander LOVED it! Its the first time we have gone together to the movies since Guam and it was really good. Eva fell asleep 30 minutes into the movie and just slept on Daniel and Alexander's eyes didn't wander the whole movie. We will probably be doing that more up until this little baby comes.

The only problem with this weekend was that I got pink eye. I haven't had pink eye since I was 10. It was weird because I didn't feel any different and I couldn't tell I had it until I woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror. I hoped it would go away but by Saturday night it was Red eye no longer pink eye. So I called the primary pres and a substitute. Daniel's eye started to get pink so we called a sub for him too. We all stayed home from church. Here is the weird part. Everyone and the MD website say's pink eye is very contagious and don't spread it but honestly what does it do? I didn't feel sick or anything that's why I called the primary president to ask if I should teach or not (she wasn't sure what it was either just that its contagious with kids). Anyways it sounds really dumb to me (the whole pink eye thing) but maybe there are worse cases than others who knows. I even had an Easter treat for my kids. Oh well.

I had my first doctors appointment a little while ago and it was fine. Typical first appointment where they say "yes you are pregnant" and yeah that's about it. My due date is September 2nd. I no longer feel like I am dying all day long!! WOhooo just at night now usually which is way better than all day and all night. After this Friday I can find out the sex of the baby. I am pretty sure its a girl but we will see. Oh and the doctor asked if I wanted to get all that screening for the diseases and down syndrome and such at first I said yes but then she told me what would happen if they came out positive she said pretty much its not exact and there is nothing they can do about it so then I said "I don't want those done anymore" I would just be stressed the whole time and maybe for nothing so I don't want to know until the baby comes why stress?

Here is a picture of the princess. The owner never came forward so we are going to keep him unless someone comes forward. We named him Dolce. He is a PRINCESS. He has started whining at night (the last 3 nights) we couldn't figure out why. I would take him out and give him water but nothing helped. I finally realized he doesn't like to be alone! What a PRINCESS. So last night we tried putting him in our room (in his inescapable box of course) and not a peep! he isn't scared of the dark just scared to be alone. We might stick him in with the kids but I am afraid of what they might do to him in the morning.
He has been confined to his box because he won't stop 'marking' everywhere. He doesn't go number two inside just the marking. I have been researching and it says I should get him neutered. I plan on getting that done in the up coming weeks and then training him really hard on the peeing outside only.

We might have some really good news by the end of the week. I'll let you know if we do.

Today

It is currently 55 degrees and we have the door open. Loving today more Spring cleaning here are some pictures of Alexander and Eva playing out side ALL day they love it and I love it because they are out of the house. I had to put Eva down for a nap because well she cries a lot if she doesn't get a nap so Alexander forced Dolce out the door to play with him. Happy Spring.

We are alive

With my lack of posts you would think we all disappeared but we are here. We haven't been doing much lately just surviving. We go to parks on Saturdays and play and Eva and Alexander like to play together each day and see who can get in the most trouble. Today we found a dog that was trying to get killed on a busy road. He is a Pomeranian and he needs a bath and a toothbrushing badly. Does anyone know how to wash a dog? I don't think I am a dog person but he needs a bath until we find his owner or his smell will kill me. We already posted a Found in the News Paper and on Craigslist hopefully someone will recognize him he doesn't bark and he just follows me around. The children love him and keep giving him advice "Dog you need water" "Dog you need food" "Dog you need to come watch a movie with me" "Dog you need to come play with me" Eva just yells doggie all day long now and is so sad the dog doesn't just follow her around. It doesn't mind the kids but seems to prefer adults, wants me to hold it. Sorry dog but you will have to settle with sitting at my feet.

Anyway here are some pictures of us lately.

Alexander loves playgrounds.
He would live there if we let him.


All three of them on the death slide.
Eva went by herself and came out upside down :(

Eva was yelling frantically "STUCK STUCK" so we ran to see this
Eva dancing with her daddy on the bridge
she is really becoming a daddy's girl
Her first ponytail she looks so old
She wears these heels at least once a day and just walks around.
A girl after my own heart
I am just shocked she can walk around in them so long.

This is one of my favorite pictures. There was a huge field at the park that they just ran around it. Alexander was running laps back and forth and Eva was just running and running trying to catch up. We were laughing pretty hard. She finally gave up and started running back to us.
On a side note next week is my first doctors appointment there were only two female OB's for my insurance in Rio Rancho. I have a female preference every baby so far has been by a female so I am going to stick with it. I am 4 months next Thursday no sign of the sickness leaving. Wish us luck and give some advice on how to bath a dog that is smaller than a standard basketball.