She's a Natural

Hey mommy, take my picture.

Ok Mady, make a funny face

now another one

now make another one

and again.

I'm beautiful, huh mommy?

Yes Mady, yes you are.

I think it's funny

I love finding pictures on my camera. They are always so random and good for a laugh. Here's a few that I found.

Isn't she just so sweet?? Looks can be deceiving.

So innocent

Then I saw this one and burst out laughing but not as hard as I did when I saw the next one. Those who really know Jared on a personal level will fully appreciate the next 2 pictures.

This is what I like to call "Jared's skeleton face"

The beginning of the pouty look. I have been trying for weeks to catch Jared in the act of his true crying/pouting face and haven't been able to do it but the picture above is a close second. Jared really is a true classic.

I call this "Jared's skeleton face" because when he cries/pouts, he looks like a skeleton on that old Mickey Mouse cartoon from like 1930 with the haunted house and all the skeletons dance around. Those who have seen the face, agree.

Here is a clip.

My 3rd Appendage

So today I got out of the shower. In our bathroom, there are 3 big mirrors so when you get out of the shower, you can see yourself in all your glory. Anyway, I looked at myself and thought "wow, my belly looks like a giant boob". This isn't the first time I have come to realize this. My belly tends to look like a boob every time I am pregnant. Why is this?? Why was I blessed with the "boob" belly and the long bum? (thats a whole different post). It probably doesn't help that I have an "outie" belly button and that I am nothing but baby. Still, its really not attractive. Good thing this is my last time I'll have to look like I have 3 boobs. James tells me he likes it and that I am beautiful, which is really sweet, but he only likes it cuz its 3 boobs, I know it!!

Here's a few pics of me I tried to take myself. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the flash so I covered it up and that is why one is red. I tried to get the belly button nipple in the pic, it didn't quite work. I'll have to have James take the pic next time. And let me all remind you, I'm only 6 1/2 months pregnant, people. Thats another thing, now that I think about it. What is with my gigantism that it my belly and the ginourmous babies I give birth too?? I just pray that it's not a repeat of my Mady belly but at the rate I'm going, it's highly likely it will happen anyway.

Today

It seems like nothing can get done today. Every time I think I'm done, I turn around and see something else and it all comes at once. It doesn't make things better either when your too sore from all you have done to move. Today has kinda just been one of those days and tonight, I think, is gonna be one of those nights where I'm going to watch all my tv shows, in peace, with a DQ blizzard. I think I will make it a large and defiantly full of chocolate.

Power Outage

What do we do when the power goes out??

Have a fire in the fireplace

We hang out and snuggle

Play battery operated toys until they die

and have slumber parties in the livingroom

and take pictures of the beautiful sunshine in the morning after power was restored

Yesterday really was a wonderful day. There was no TV, no computer, no phone (until we got out the one we had that only plugs into the phone line and runs on battery), Daddy came home from work and we snuggled by the fire (oh and I know there is no fire in the fireplace picture but if you look closely you can see the ashes so there is proof it was there), played games, took naps, made food together and had a really good time. Sometimes it's nice to not have anything to distract you and just have a good time with your family, even if it takes a snow storm and power outage to get there.

You'll Be So Glad You Read This

I couldn't find Jared this morning. After playing "marco/polo" for a few minutes, this is where I found him.

Yes, he is naked. He has to be in his birthday suit while doing his business. I'm sure there is a very logical reason.

I guess the DS is the new "bathroom read". Forget about magazines and newspaper, this is a whole new generation.

Loving It!!!!

Today I am blogging about my kitchen. I was gonna wait until it was all done before I did but I'm so excited about it that I just couldn't help myself. I'm kind of a nerd like that.

For 3 years, I have been on James' case about doing some updates to our house. I don't love my house, it's a nice house and it has defiantly grown on me but it looks like 1993 powder blue puked all over it and by all over I mean, ALL OVER. The carpet, the countertops, the backsplash, the linoleum, not only in the kitchen but also in the bathrooms and laundry room to match. I've had plans for almost 3 years of what I wanted to do. It was nothing major, just some upgrades but it never got done. At the time to, we weren't sure if we were staying here that long, with James' job, so I put it to the back of my mind until we knew what was going on. Well now that James got the new job and I know I am stuck here for a while, I was ready to move in full force. James?? Not so much. So one night I said to him "tomorrow I'm taking down the dropped ceiling in the kitchen." He didn't say much. Mostly "ok" with the tone of "I'll believe it when I see it". So my good friend Mishel came over and we went to it. It was fun.

Here are the before and after of the ceiling. I forgot to take a before pic of the whole kitchen which annoys me but there's nothing I can do about it now.

Well, opening up that ceiling opened a small can of worms. You see the wood above the cupboards in the picture just above?? Turns out, thats not the wall like I thought. It's just pieces of wood they nailed to the wall so they didn't have to put the dropped ceiling all the way over the cupboards. The bonus part is that the ceiling was finished under them so that wouldn't have to be fixed. Once we realized this, Mishel and I looked at each other and after a little hesitation (on my part) and a lot of convincing on hers, we got the hammer and crow bar, and took them down as well. Hence, the next picture. James came home half way through our ripping down of the wood. He look less then impressed, a little shocked and dumbfounded that his 6 month pregnant wife was up on the cupboards with a crowbar and hammer pulling nailed wood out of the wall. Oh well, he got over it and likes it now. Doesn't it look so much better and open??

Then after that, I wanted to take down the floating cupboards. If you scroll up to the picture above the above picture you can see which ones I am talking about. They are the ones you are looking right at, with the corner cupboard and "L" shape on the left of the sink. I've always wanted to take those down. Open up the kitchen to the rest of the house and there were so many cupboards that getting rid of 3 wouldn't hurt anything. So after some investigation, it was a lot easier than expected and down they came! This is where I just get all giggly inside. I know, I'm a dork. But I just love it so much and it's not even done yet. We had a friend come over and help James take them down and this is them mudding up holes on the wall after all is done.

Then I cleaned it all up and made it look pretty. I was so excited I wanted to make it look like it was done and pretend it was, when it wasn't. It's the inner dork. So here are my after pictures.

Doesn't it look AWESOME??!!!!!!?????

I can't wait for it to be done. The fluorescent lights are going and we are putting in 2 ceiling fans and above the table will be a new light. New hardware is going on the cabinets and then I am painting ( I want green but we will see), new countertop and new laminate floors a long with the little touchups. I am always itching to work on it but I have to buy stuff and the good stuff for a lesser price is all in Lethbridge so I have to make it worth my while. But I'm going Thursday and Home Depot, here I come. So excited. There will defiantly be more pictures when it is done and I've already got plans for my bedroom. New bedding has already been purchased. But that will wait until the kitchen is done and the new carpet is in. I've totally caught the reno bug! It is a dangerous thing!