More House!!

Well, the work on our house is finally finished!!!! We still have a few little things left but the major stuff is done!! Yay!!!! We had to put in new kitchen cabinets because there weren't any in the house (see pictures of it below) and so we just decided to redo the bathroom ones too so they would match. We also had to put new light fixtures in every room because there weren't any and there were a lot of missing doornobs so we put in new ones of those too. We also redid the carpet and tile so as you can see, pretty much everything in it is brand new!! It all looks really nice and we love it!!! Now we just have to paint but that is not going to happen right now and when it does, it will happen very slowly room by room.

Here is the family room before

After- We put some tile in the main walkway around it, before it was all carpet

The cabinets in the master bathroom before

After- We had them done the same as they were, but they are just newer and better cabinetsThe upstairs hall bathroom before After- New cabinets and tile

The living room before

After- We put in fans and extended the tile to make a walkway into the familyroom and kitchen
The downstairs bathroom before

After- We put in new tile, cabinets, granite countertop and new oil rubbed bronze sink, towel holders and toilet paper holders. (The shower fixtures will eventually be oil rubbed bronze too as well as all the fixtures in the entire house. That is another thing that will happen slowly because they cost a lot.)

Now we just need to get the loan completely finished and closed so we can start to work on getting furniture and stuff to fill up this big empty house!! (Something else that will be done slowly and bit by bit.)

Oh and for some other news, our baby boy is coming on Tuesday the 23rd!! That's only five days away!!! We can't wait!!

Memorial Weekend Campout

For memorial weekend we went camping in Greer with Clar's family. It was a lot of fun but it rained or hailed every day, multiple times each day so we spent a lot of time sitting under tarps so we wouldn't get wet. It was fun and relaxing to be able to get away for a couple of days especially since we haven't gone out of town in a long time. With me being eight months pregnant at the time camping wasn't exactly what I would have preffered but I was comfortable enough. We were planning to stay in a tent but when we got there someone had brought a camper trailer and it was all set up ready for us to use so that was very nice and that definately made the weekend a lot better I'm sure.

Nena & daddy

Nena with her cousins Heather & Stratford. She loved this stroller and would just ride in it all day long and did not want to get out.

It was my niece London's birthday & she was turning three so we celebrated with a pinata.

Clar and his family

Our family

Nena and her cousins that are all just a year or two older than her. Nena is starting to play with them really good its fun.

The whole gang

Nena & some of her cousins on the hammock

Nena holding her cousin Stratford on her lap. She loves him so much & is so cute with him. Hopefully she acts the same way to her little brother as she does to him!

One of my sister-in-law's mom came for a little bit and she took all these kids on a long walk. They had a lot of fun and it was nice to not have to watch Nena for a bit.

It was a fun weekend and we look forward to going again next year!

Moved!!

Sorry for my lack of posting lately, the main reason for that is because we moved!! Last Saturday was the big day and so I have been busy packing and getting everything ready to move, moving and now am slowly unpacking and trying to put everything in place of where I want it to be. We are in the middle of doing some work on the house and are still not quite finished but the main things are done and the house is livable so we moved in and hopefully the rest of the work will be finished soon.

The house

The kitchen before

The kitchen after

This is the only room that is completely finished right now (besides painting) and as more rooms get completed, I will post pictures of them too. We love our new house and all the room we now have!!

Easter!!!

We had a very fun, busy Easter weekend! This year Nena was old enough to understand the concept of finding eggs. Or maybe she just knew they were all filled with candy and that's why she wanted them! On Saturday morning we had a big Easter breakfast with the LeSueur's. It was a yummy breakfast and was the first of three egg hunts! That afternoon, we went out to Queen Creek for our niece's baptism and right after that we had an Easter lunch and egg hunt with Clar's family and just hung out at a park for a while. It was cold and windy but it was fun to be able to sit and relax, or just chase Nena around the park. On Sunday we went to church and then went to Clar's parent's house to eat dinner and then went to my Grandma Riding's house for another dinner and egg hunt with the Riding's. It was a lot of fun!!Nena and Daddy at the park
Finding eggs on the playground

More eggs

Finding eggs at my Grandma Riding's house

Nena didn't want to put the eggs in the bag, she would get a big handful and then take off running away from me. She also kept opening the eggs and eating the candy right in the middle of the egg hunt.Swinging with Aunt AngelaWhat a cutie! This is her Easter dress.

Shoes, Hats, Cameras and Phones

These are some of Nena's favorite things. She always gets her shoes from her room and wants me to put them on her and she loves to bring my shoes and try to put them on me and says "side" to go outside. It's cute it reminds me of a dog when they want to go on a walk or something. She loves to put mine and Clar's shoes on and walk around the house in them. Clar has so many hats and Nena loves to put them on and wear them around the house but it seems like whenever I pull my camera out to take a picture, she immediately takes the hat off and won't put it back on. She is always getting into my purse and getting my camera out so I always have to put it up high so she can't get to it and then whenever I go places I forget to grab it so I can never take pictures when I go anywhere. We have a play camera for her that she loves to play with, she will hold it up by her face and point it at someone and say "cheese" and pretend to take a picture! Of course Nena loves phones, what little girl doesn't? She will put one of her play phones up next to her ear and just talk and talk and talk. Sometimes she will have one on each ear!! It's so much fun to see her learning and understanding more and becoming more and more of a little person instead of just a baby!!

Big Jake

A little while ago, we got Nena a puppy!! Clar named him Big Jake after the John Wayne movie. Right now though he is more "Little Jake" until he grows. We wanted an easy name that Nena could say and she says Jake so cute! We are keeping him at my parent's house for a little while until we move into our house. My parents have a dog named Lucy and her and Jake just play and play all the time. Hopefully he's not too lonely when we take him away to a different backyard all by himself. My parents live just a few miles down the road from us and so it is easy to go there often so Nena can play with her puppy. She is so cute, she pats her knees to try to get Jake to come to her and he chases her around the backyard. She loves him so much!!

SURPRISE!!!

Well, we went to the doctor today and our little girl is definitely not a little girl like we were originally thinking.

IT'S A BOY!!

So for four weeks we thought our little boy was a little girl and we were wrong. At our last doctor's appointment the baby wasn't moving around a whole lot and the doctor said that he couldn't see any sign that the baby was a boy so he just assumed it was a girl and said he was going to write down that it was a girl ? so that he would be sure to check next time. Good thing he checked because he found the boy parts this time. It was kind of a shock because I had gotten so used to the idea of having another little girl but now will have to get used to the idea of having a boy!! We are so excited and can't wait!!