maternity pics sneak peek.

This weekend we were out of town because we went to the twin cities for a maternity photo shoot with my girl friend Stephanie.  Things even the night before morning of were still being decided because there was dicey weather.  This morning she put up a few shots as a sneak peek.  I had to share them and can't wait to see how some of the other fun shots turned out.  Here they are...

A fun one with me my hubby on the max belly..

 Here is my girls looking cute..

 Me and the hubster.  (I am trying very hard to ignore my double chin in some of these and some puffiness lol I am 8 months preggo for gods sake I must cut myself a break)

 Here is me and my beautiful sis Melissa.

A great family shot..

 Another me and hubbys hands on the max belly 

And this one is one of my favs.  Since the weather was going to be dicey me and my sister in law checked out some bright umbrellas at target the night before pics she scored this awesome rainbow one and loaned it to me. 

I know there will be a ton of other great ones.  My girl friend Steph is the one who did our family photos two years ago and I adore those.  I hope you guys are having a great Monday I need to get my self going on laundry from the trip and get myself ready for the drs today.  

Heart 2 art nail review (animal print nails)

 Me and monkey butt ran to walmart for a few things a few weeks ago and like always I had to do the once over in the beauty department.  They had a whole new line of fun cheapy nail art.  We had to get a few fun things to try out.   There were tons we wanted to try but we only grabbed a few things.

One thing we got was a red nail art polish..not good at all.  The brush isn't small enough to do nail art it must just be meant for nail polish not art.   But we grabbed a few packs of nail decals (monkey butt took one set to her dads) but we kept these fun animal print ones here to try out.  There is zebra and leopard. 

 They are stickers not decals where you have to rub or anything.   You peel up what you want and place it where you want on the nail.  I trimmed some down to make them fit right and be what I wanted.  Monkey butt wanted to try zebra.  I peeled up the decals with tweezers and used them to place them.  Then put a top coat over the top. 

 I used the leopard on mine.  One wouldn't be quiet enough for my nails  So what I would do is peel them up with tweezers then use manicure scissors to trim them to the size I needed and save the extra for another nail. 

I put a top coat over them and they worked great much easier then painting them on your self.  They were cheap too.  They were 2.49 a pack!!  I have had them on for four days and I only put one top coat (normally I would touch up a few days in if I wanted mani to last longer but I was out of town).  They have tons of other great ones I can't wait to try stripes, fun nail overlays like lace and herringbone and full our nail covers (the girls want the glasses and mustaches and animals and stuff)  I got my niece a few different fun ones for her birthday I can't wait to see how she likes them.  If anyone has tried the other things let me know how you like them.  :) 

32w 1d update

I am one day late this week because I spent the whole day yesterday doing a factory restore on my laptop!!!  The virus's were just out of control so I decided screw it.  I backed up my stuff onto a thumb drive and took the plunge.  No more virus's but I still haven't figured out how to get my pictures, documents, and videos back where they were.  My laptop is running WAY better though. I don't know what sort of virus I had but I tried everything for over a month now to get rid of it.  There would be random noise playing in the back ground while I worked.  (like a news cast or a video of some sort that I wasn't watching) and when I would click on links when I did a search it wouldn't send me where I clicked but to where ever it wanted instead!  Over the weekend it got to where it was playing like 4-5 videos sound in the back ground and I decided to take matters into my own hands.  I am glad I did.  I will figure out how to put my info back that  is no biggy compared to what I was dealing with!

Anyway besides a day full of computer drama it was a busy week.  Family had the girls for half the week and we were up in the cities visiting and had our family baby shower this week too.  I went well and I did a blog post on that good time :)  I also have noticed my hands are starting to swell and even get numb at night.  I am shocked it took this long for that lovely symptom to kick in.  I have also had AWFUL allergies which is causing awful headaches.  Other then that still feeling good.  I have maternity pics with a incredibly talented friend of mine this weekend I am sooo excited for that!!  It will also be our last trip to the twin cities for quiet some time since starting in august I will be in no fly zone.  So we need to get in our twin cities fun while we can.  Well if the computer trouble wasn't a good enough time I am off to grocery shop!!  Have a good one guys. :)

late monday mani..

So this is a late monday mani.  I needed one yesterday but we spent the whole day down sizing and cleaning things out and reorganizing for baby time.  We took 3 bags of trash out of fire monsters bedroom and one out of monkey butts.  Fire monster  is my baby hoarder she is a keeper and keeps all kinds of junk all the time.  It was all like little pieces of things she doesn't have or MacDonalds toys that don't do anything all kinds of junk.  Anyway between that and rearranging things I didn't get around to a mani until I couldn't sleep at 5a.m.  This is what I went with.

I used MissJenFabulous tutorial.  These are some cute ones.  The girls are expecting mani's today, so I will practice on them.  

Have a great day guys. 

 

nursery update.

I wanted to do a update on the nursery progress.  We got our crib and the hubby got it put together.  I love it soo much.  It makes my heart leap every time I walk by .  

We went for the 4-1 convertible crib.   It will become a toddler bed, a daybed, and a double bed after this. 

I got the cute mobile hooked up and the chevron crib sheets I wanted.  I also hooked up the breathable bumper pad (that was a chore and a half It did not want to fit our crib for some reason.  But I think we will be okay.)

 Super cute huh.  We still have one more thing we need to work out in this room.  We are kicking around a few different ideas for clothes storage but haven't settled on anything yet.

I know another thing I am loving... My diaper bag my sister made me. She has been adding custom bags to her website craftylikeamonkey.com (here is a link to her etsy she has two shops)  for a while now and I told her I wanted something not super baby-ish, and in colors that matched the other things.  I love this. 

 It has the blue and cream chevron on the bottom grey on top, a navy inside with some more chevron pockets inside.  It has 3 pockets across each side and one on each edge.  Besides the chevron pockets sewn to the inside it has a large zipper pocket the size of one whole side of the bag.  She also included a detachable cross body strap.  I already moved my stuff from my purse over ...its okay to use the diaper bag before the baby is here right lol.  I love this!!  It is just like a big purse which is what I wanted.  Me and my sister have very different taste and she kept it a surprise I was nervous so I was very excited over this.  

She also made me a new mothers necklace seeing as I will be needing one

Isn't it cute.  I also love this it is different then the other ones she has made me.  I love it because she uses all nickle free food safe aluminum or stainless steel because my skin is sensitive and I will break out if it isn't.  If you need one for you or someone you know they are 15$  and available on either of her sites.

We are finally home.  My allergies have been awful and I have been getting horrible sleep.  Being in your last trimester is exhausting on its own.  I have nothing left after this weekend.  It is early bedtime in our house then up to clean and organize the girls bedrooms tomorrow.  Let the down sizing begin.  Hope you guys have a great weekend.

baby shower.

Yesterday we had a baby shower/ BBQ for a few close friends and family.  We wanted to do fun to celebrate since this is our third child and only boy and our last.  So we planned a easy going barbeque with no games and no expectations.  We had boys and girls, as well as kids (but I guess for some reason I didn't feel the need to force the boys into the picture lol) It was a blast and I am glad we got to get everyone together.

 

Here is everyone from top left clock wise: my sister Angela, my niece Megan (aka mean taylor), me, my soon to be already adopted and loved sister in law amber, holding my gf Missy's baby chance, hope my gf Missy's daughter (aka according to fire monster her cousin), my gf who I miss having as a neighbor and love to pieces Missy, my sister in law/gf/the reason I have my amazing hubby and kids Bernie, and the best big sis a girl could ask for (who puts up with us in her home and had all of us over) Melissa.

Here is a closer pic of Melissa, Bernie, Missy, and Hope.  We grilled burgers and dogs, ate a ton of other food, laughed joked the kids played the men hung out by the grill had a couple beers and joked around.  What more could you ask for?  Missy hadn't thought she could make it but wound up coming and I am soo glad we all really enjoyed seeing her and her family and spending some time with this little guy..

 

Chance..isn't he just the cutest little thing.  He was hilarious. Not only is he cute but he just has the most fun little personality ever.  We all had to take turns with the little cutie.  Amber was loving on the little cutie pie here.  Well I am up early struggling with allergies AGAIN and couldn't help documenting this fun little day we had.  Soon my big sis will be up and we are going to cook pioneer woman's migas for the family.  You know there is just something about being in the kitchen with the girls in my family that makes my heart smile and fills me up.  I can't explain it but it just makes the world right.  I love my family very much and was so glad to get some time with them for what might be one of my last trips up until our baby boy arrives.  :) Well I am off to dig in the fridge and start gathering the ingredients.  Have a great day guys and hug your amazing families for me :)

31 w update

Sorry this is late guys.  I have had a busy week.  I am exhausted but my allergies were killing me and I couldn't sleep so I decided what better time to sit myself down and get this done.  Okay what has happened between weeks 30 and 31.  Well Monkey butt had 4 performances of the play beauty and the beast.  She did great and we were super proud of her.  My sister, Calvin and her hubby all came for one performance and they took fire monster home with them Saturday night.  Then sunday Monkey butts family came to watch and took her home with them.  Sooo...I had 4 days with no kids.  No I didn't get a ton accomplished and yes the time flew by.  I missed my girls and shed some tears.  It is crazy how kids can drive you to the brink of insanity but with out them we are lost!

Any who with in a 24 hour period of fire monsters visit 2 of their pets died.  My sister had 3 cats one of which was a tiny not old enough to be away from its mom baby kitten they kept shut in her craft room and 3 dogs, a st Barnard a husky and a German Shepard and yes...she is crazy and no she doesn't live on a farm..lol.  Fire monster had checked on the kitten and thought she got the door shut she said she got to the second step to go down stairs and heard the door open. The German Shepard had tried to pick up the kitten and broke its neck!  (it was pretty sad and traumatic and Evea didn't tell anyone what the story really was for days.) But that same day over night my sisters husky passed away.  (he was older and had issues for a while).  So that was allot for a 5 year old and my now 9 year old nephew with autism to take in. 

Calvin was heart broken over the kitten, but I happened to know that the women who had given us whiskers had some new kittens to give away and one looked just like our little guy.  So we picked him up on the way to calvins birthday and now they own whiskers mini-me.  They will integrate him with the dogs and he is bigger then the tiny kitten and tougher.  If he is anything like his brother he will fend just fine so long as he doesn't have a heart attack when he sees Lola the st Bernard and think she is a bear.   This guy is even more feisty then whiskers if that is believable.  Whiskers was more sheltered because he was abandoned and bottle fed, where as this guy was outside with his brothers and sisters and was handled and is used to interaction with people but he spent most of his days tumbling around with 9 other kittens and being naughty.  For instance whiskers curled up on my chest and slept the whole way home when we got him, this guy wouldn't quit climbing me and I finally gave up and put him in the car carrier where he curled up and went to bed for the 3 hour ride.  My sis says he is doing great though and she sees lots of whiskers behaviors in him.

We are now up in the cities we have my Fire monster back which is soo nice.  We are going to be getting ready for a baby shower with family and a couple close friends tonight.  We will be here for the weekend enjoying time with the family and relaxing on what will be one of our last trips to the cities since I only have the month of july left to travel and will be in the no fly zone through august.  I hope everyone had a fabulous 4th of july.  I am off to find some food and my allergy meds.  :)