Good

Here's the kids opening Easter baskets. Beck in his new cowboy hat was just too cute.
It was a good day, good food, good relaxing with the family, good drive, and a wonderful conference experience. Always so good, I love conference. I wish I could feel that peaceful and resolved every moment.

Peep Hole

Here is a look into our windows.
And a little history and reason into our new house.
Since the price tag of a new house doesn't really leave room for my infamous expensive taste I have had to improvise. I tend to like things that are different and because of that-the most expensive. That's the great thing about sewing, you can make things that are you instead of having to shop around for exactly what you like which usually is the most expensive thing, in my case. So here is our house, as good as it's gonna get for awhile. There is still some bareness, empty walls, and uncurtained windows, but ya know.. what do you do.

Anyway.. here is the girls' room. We are ready for you baby. Doesn't that crib look more comfortable then my abdomen???????
That small chair was my grandma's when she was a little girl as well as Piper's bed. My mom used them as well.



I almost have Piper's semi matching quilt done for her bed. I have this theory that once I get both of their bed quilts done I can have the baby. It's the one thing that I "have" to have done before she comes. So.. I am going to quilt it and bind it tonight. And possibly stay up all night hand sewing it-just to test my theory.


Pictures I love and talked Piper into loving them. Love the skull on the girl's arm, you know me and skulls.



My first diaper cake!!! Made by Lexis. I love it.
Also note the knitted beanie and flower by Kim (who is having twins TOMORROW!)


Here's Beck's room. Empty picture frames waiting for great pictures to be found.


A wall waiting for some cool piece of furniture...
You can't see the curtains but they have road signs on them, and my mother in law is making a cute matching blanket with all these vintage looking cars, it's going to be cute.


Our bedroom is the least decorated.




My grandma's old dresser that matches the set :)





These are one of my favorite things to make, these rugs. So useful. This bench lived at my grandma's for my whole life. She would sit on it while she gave us baths and we'd use it to wash our hands and brush our teeth.






This mirror may or may not still have a savers tag on it. I'll go take it off now.


Another rug that Jake says looks like came from his grandma's house :)

Binkie Love

If one binkie is good, two is better! Love my peanut. Too bad he loves his binkie so much..

36 Weeks

So decided I better take a photo to document it before it's too late. I just got back from the grocery store and man, what is up with the older lady crazy stares that I just know are saying, "two little ones and pregnant AGAIN!" Like my grandma would say, and is probably saying. Also what is up with buying a crap load of groceries and having to bag them myself???? WTF Smith's? Do you know how hard it was for me to do this grocery shopping? And how hard it's going to be to put it all away? First you buy those ridiculous little kids carts that your kids just have to push around, and hit everything with, and now you make me bag my own groceries? Screw you. You are lucky you are the only grocery store around.

And screw you itchy stomach skin that I slather expensive body butter on and it still doesn't work.

And screw you puffy ankles. Maybe I like to wear socks, ok? That doesn't mean that when I take them off it should look like they are still on.

And dear belly button, I won't screw you because I really want you to love me and shrink back down to a somewhat normal size after this. PLLLEEEAAAASSSSEEEE. I will never ask you for anything again.


HEY! There my feet are!


This was the first picture I took. But it's not going to do for the blog.... I don't look very happy.


Ah, that's better! Everything is just honky dory!!!! See!

Misery Loves Company

We had a shin dig at my house the other night and we managed to get one last belly shot in before it's too late! I have to great benefit in having 75% of my closest friends pregnant as well. I love it. I love these pictures. Being pregnant is so much funner when you are with your gals! We have two girls and the rest boys in this group. Kim (the first one in the line) is the one who gets the twins!

I went to the doc yesterday, she said the baby is 5 1/2 pounds and if I go to 38 weeks (3 1/2 more weeks) then I will have my biggest baby ever at 7 1/2 pounds! So I asked her if that meant she would come even earlier than the last two or I'd just have a big baby (for me)... Vague answer of course.. WHO KNOWS?? So either way.. the thought of having a bigger baby than Beck is pretty intimidating and the though of having a baby 2-3 weeks is intimidating. I need at least 4 more weeks. Three kids scares the hell out of me.

And just a little disclosure because much concern has been expressed. I think my mother in law lost sleep over this! And we know I love her too much to do that to her. WE ARE NOT NAMING THE BABY MANGO. THAT IS JUST A NICKNAME THANKS TO AN IPHONE APP ON MY PHONE THAT COMPARES THE SIZE TO A PIECE OF FRUIT.

Oh, and one more thing-where I got my rug: It is an Anthropologie rug as you had suspected Candice, however I got it at this warehouse, NPS, in Salt Lake, that rarely has rugs from Anthropologie, but is worth checking regularly if you are obsessed with rugs from there, which, aren't we all???? I sort of only invite rugs from there into my house-which Jake loves. not.








Here is peanut sleeping. Sleep is a complete joke for me now. I literally laid in bed last night and thought why do I even try this??? Every time I roll or move it wakes me. Charlie horses snap me out of bed regularly and I have to get up and walk them off or roll on the ground out of pain. And not to mention the bathroom breaks and torn stomach muscles or rib pain or tumbling baby inside me. GRRRR. But at least I can admire other people doing it that makes it all worth it.




She liked it! This is a quilt I made for Kim's twins. I love the mushroom fabric, but wasn't sure if it was universally cute.

A Nesting Update

“Cleaning house while kids are growing is like shoveling snow while it’s still snowing.”

I read that quote this morning somewhere and thought it was so true.
Here are some current pictures of my house. There is very little hung and very little window coverings. Something to do with very pregnant girl not being able to stand on things up high and hold heavy objects.

But I have been telling people I will post pictures of the house, well, since we bought it. I apologize for the photos, point and shoots for ya. Just a few more weeks of nesting and then WHAAMMM baby comes! Nesting is cool though, I like it. But good thing we aren't like that all the time. We'd be basket cases. I do not recommend moving two months before having a baby, why have I done it with both houses????







A great place for my gift :)


The girls' room. Pictures in the process of being hung.


The material is for Piper's bedspread. Mango's is started and will hopefully be finished tomorrow. But that is what the weird hangy things from the crib are :)


A dress I made for Mango (the simple dress from lotta)


It's so odd having more than one bathroom it's hard to decide where to urinate. Oh.. the struggles with new houses... That's my favorite place in the whole house-the tub.



Another good place to pee..

Documentations And Lessons

This first picture is a pretty good documentation of the last while of this pregnancy spanning to the end. Eating and sewing, I mean, what else do super pregnant girls do? Eat and nest. The only thing that you don't know is there was a large shake from Jake's as well. I wish I could say these two burritos were the only two this week, and that that was the only shake...
Don't worry, I wave at all the runners on these west streets of Farmington that I pass on my way to Taco Maker.




Dear Piper,
See? Despite my impatience with you and all your sass I still love you and try to do nice things for you. One day, probably not soon, you will know about all the effort and love I put into things for you. To make you happy. One day it might work. One day my creations will be sufficient for you. But until that day I will document them and then when you are older in your attempts to be the opposite of me.. you will roll your eyes at them while you sit at your office as a CEO of a big company.



Piper made her own Valentine's day holder in preschool. Mine was wadded up in her backpack.

And.. she asked why she didn't get to give Hello Kitty card.

DOH!! Just goes to show kids don't need that much to make them happy, so save your breath. Lesson learned.



I do not come from a line of homemakers. I come from a line of working moms. Single, hard working independent women. In this history there is not baking on a platter after school, healthy home cooked meals, rides home from school, homemade Valentines and Valentines holder bags, fresh linens, or no dust. Did this hurt me in any way? Did I know any better? Not really. Nonetheless my pride swells in the efforts of these things that I exude. I have to work extra hard to know how to cook, bake, clean, and sew. (or I call my friends and ask them how they do stuff."Lex, do you use pillow protectors") I am nerdy, but whatever. I own it.