Driving

 I've been going to SLC fairly often at this point for doctors appointments and other appointments. Cary has been staying home with the kids and I usually draft Janille or Kenneth to take me in.  I have to bring Cary's cell phone with me since we got rid of mine a long time ago. (they are useless out here) and I've been having a little too much fun with his Instagram account. ☺
Yesterday was Kenneth's lucky day and he drove me into SLC, and we were a little nervous since we'd heard that a major storm was supposed to hit later on in the day.

There is still a lot of snow everywhere from the last storm.

 

We saw clouds all day but we never actually did encounter snow, until...

on our way back home a few miles past Hinkley it was a full on blizzard almost all the way to EskDale. Jim, our Sheriff, was in his truck ahead of us and he blazed the trail. (It wasn't snowing in Snake Valley though, strange!)

Growth Chart Project

 

Another Pinterest inspired project.

I've been wanting to do this for a looooong time. I'm pretty sure we were still living at Petra when I had Cary pick up the board for me.

Yeah, it sat out in some weather and now it's all warped BUT I finally got it done. ☺

This is not it's final resting place, but I have it in the hall and I don't think I could get a picture of it in there since the hall is so small.

I still had an old growth chart that I used with Aidan and Ella a few years ago so I could transfer those over to my new one.

Siting in the john...

 

 

Yes, that's a toilet.

In my living room.

Cheese!

 

34 weeks

 My cold sore is having a hard time going away since it was so massive. =P

Aaaagh!

6 weeks-ish left.

Nesting is in full swing, complete with dreams about organzing closets and drawers. Too bad I don't have the energy to accomplish even 25% of the things I'd like to accomplish. ☺

Why is there the need to all of the sudden need to do all these things before the baby is born? I try and tell myself that if I've lived without them done for over a year now I think it will be okay if it doesn't get done for a few more months.

I'm not listening.

I'm going in for weekly-ish appointments and non-stress tests, making it feel like it's so close to the end now.

 

Projects

I really wanted to make good use of the time that Cary had off for the holidays, and painting dressers was on the top of that list.

 

I got this dresser from my mom over 5 years ago, right before Aidan was born and I've originally been wanting to stain the bottom part and paint the top white, but since I'm pregnant and shouldn't be inhaling those kind of fumes, and it's WAY too cold to be doing this outside or anywhere with ventilation, it all got painted white.

 

 

This is just a cheap RAST dresser from IKEA that we bought for Aidan when we first moved into this house. Aidan wanted me to paint it red last summer and I never got around to it. Well, he hasn't mentioned recently that he still wanted it red, and I had this little sample pot of Valspar Cobalt Cannon, so I went ahead and painted it that color.

I really like it.

Aidan does not.

He still wants it to be red.

 

The boys have another dresser in their room that I wanted to work on as well, but I ran out of steam and now I'm kind of wishing I would have stuck to painting the little dresser red, and painting the bigger one that blue because I really ended up liking the color. ☺

Happy New Years!

It's been a busy week, and last weekend we headed to SLC to hang out with the Fabers and have dinner together and go to the ZOO lights. It was too cold outside for Britton (who still wasn't feeling his perky self) and for me, so we went back to Josh and Kiera's. I don't have any pictures of that since I wasn't there, but I know that Aidan and Ella loved it. They really liked spending time with Jordy and Audrey too in our short stay.

Last night my little party animals stayed up until past midnight. We had a party here at EskDale with food, games, fireworks, and sparkling cider. (Britton and Cary stayed home, Britton is not a very good party animal yet, he just turns into a cranky animal.) ☺

Getting some bubbly. ;)