Bif at 19 weeks

Yes….it’s true. We are expecting a little peanut around May 27th. We are extactic! Nothing like desiring something for what feels like forever and finally being blessed with it to really make you look back on how it all came about. God is GOOD. Even when you don’t feel like he is. I’ll post a little about that another time. I know I was blessed by many ramblings of bloggers I didn’t even know, about their struggles and pain with trying to conceive.

Anyway! This is our baby. No name but we adoringly call him/her Bif (hubby made that up for baby Fulton but you can’t say BF without the I sound). We will not be finding out the gender….right now it’s a bit torturous but I know in the end it’ll be a good thing. I’ll start posting up more weekly shots of me and things about the baby. Now that Christmas and New Years is over I feel like I can designate time to tracking my pregnancy.

Things have been good on the homestead. Soooo much to update on though. This will hopefully be a new year of blogging!! (I’m pretty sure that was a resolution for 2011 as well). This time it’ll be different. Now that we have our house and our adventures in remodeling and living I actually may have more to talk about.

Yep. I’m a stranger. I’m sorry. We are moving this week! I know….you probably are thinking “YOU’RE CRAZY!” because you think it still looks like it did. Did I keep you in suspense? Good….that was the point.

So I’m not a great blogger. I’ll admit that but hoping somehow I get bit by the blogging bug soon!

After this weekend I’ll get right on to filling you in and probably just posting a day of photos. Ugh. I’m already wishing I were better, again, because I know how it is to check blogs and go, “seriously?? you haven’t written another one yet??” Who am I kidding though…..I think you 1, 2 or 3 readers can deal.

We are officially adults……………Or maybe just HOMEOWNERS!

Today we finally closed on our house. It’s done. Now onto remodeling.

But first, a gift from our realtor. She’s awesome.

Simple Signs.

So it’s been a while since I last wrote something. I’m sorry.

This past week was hectic and stressful. We had so many ups and downs with the house process that I was ready to throw in the towel. Thankfully we will be signing at the Title company tomorrow morning at 8am! I can’t even begin to express how relieved I am for this to be done. I’m so thankful to our Lord for providing everything we needed for this blessing to happen. We are so happy and can’t wait to share the process of remodeling and decorating once that starts. I know it will be a long road but it will be worth it.

On other news, look what I found in the garden!

A baby WATERMELON! This is our biggest one but I think we found about 4 more little ones as well!

Saturday we were able to watch a dear friend of ours get married. Here’s a quick snapshot of them at the alter.

It was a small but wonderful wedding!

I have planned out my new Ikea kitchen though! Not that it’s a final project but if we can we will be fixing up the kitchen right away too. I’ve created 2 layouts for it so far. It’s hard when you don’t really know how the kitchen is going to feel to know how to put cabinets and such. But this kitchen is small and I kind of have to put them where they fit. I do like both ideas. It all really comes down to how I like the upper corner cabinet but we have to go to Ikea for me to find out. That’s another trek in itself but we’ll have to go to make sure we truly like what we choose.

I’m really hoping craigslist is nice to me in searching for appliances. There is an old gas oven in the house but that’s all we get. I’m hoping to replace that as well if I can find really good deals. I’d also love to find a sleeper sofa/sectional so when we need to get rid of a guest room (hopefully for a nursery sometime in our future), we still have a place for guests to stay.

I’m sorry this is slightly a lame post. I just really didn’t have anything going on this week beside the house frustrations but I don’t want to write all about it because, well I’m just tired of talking about it. It’s not very exciting anyway.

Saturday was a busy day. I was able to help my brother with his wedding invitations. I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into but it turned out to be fun but also a FULL day of work. Granted I didn’t get over there until about 10:45 (I slept in a bit) and we didn’t start actually working hard until about 11:15 or so but I didn’t leave until 5:30 (due to Brady having a photobooth emergency).

Here are a few pictures of our day and the final product.

The table and all the paper

Each layer was individually taped together.

The back pocket with the RSVP.

I love making things and this really helped get my crafty desires moving again. I sure hope they stick and I follow through with a few. Anyway, ya’ll better appreciate the hard work that went into these!

Here’s part of what I do at work. I was almost overtaken with checks at my desk a while back. I had the thought that it would be awesome if the amount of these were in gold coins and I could swim through it like Uncle Scrooge on Ducktales.

And this machine is my hero and my nemesis. When it works….it’s my hero. When it doesn’t…..it’s not.

Seriously. This machine saves me so much time (when it works) ripping apart usually the 200 checks I cut. Every Tuesday and Friday I spend a good 15 min with this lovely. It’s a great time when it’s not summer (it’s in the back corner of the warehouse and it’s HOT). I’ve also heard there was a snake found back here once. Lord help me if I find one. Literally, the Lord will need to help me.