I'm figuring it out

This is my favorite picture form our Houston trip, would like to enlarge and mount on the wall are these the cutest kids in the world or what. Have a real funny day Ole Dad

Nesting

I have a severe case of nesting syndrome.  This is a primitive act that soon to be Mothers go through, basically I am tearing apart my house and reorganizing everything!  I am coming up on 5 months this week and that is about when I had a severe burst of nesting with Violet.  Peter came home to find me rearranging our bedroom furniture ( this included moving a king size mattress around to just the right spot!)  Today my nesting instinct hit the closets.  I just couldn't handle having my shoe rack out in the entry way anymore but I couldn't fit it in the closet unless I did some major rearranging.  So here is a picture of my closet all organized and clean.  I am so proud.
The next closet was the storage closet.  Here is a picture of what it looked like before. It would make any non pregnant person crazy so you can imagine what it was doing to my temporarily insane mind. So everything had to come out! 

Here is everything out in the living room.  Violet had a great time helping me open everything and throwing things around.  I got a lot more done when she finally fell asleep and took a nap.

Here is the storage closet after.  All the baby clothes are organized by size and there is a box of Unisex items handy in case this baby turns out to be a boy. and I put things in there based on how soon I would need them so my High School yearbooks are in the back corner and the stroller is right in front.  Overall it was a day well spent.  Next on the nesting list is the Kitchen ( particularly my tupperware cupboard), the bathrooms, and my craft/office shelves.  I am strangely looking forward to this.  Pregnancy makes you truly insane.  Below is Violet's Video, she is whining for her Bink I Thought it was pretty funny.  She has been going without her Bink quite a bit except for the last two days she has been a little sick. 

General Conference Saturday

Emily and Jonathan don't know Peter took this Picture.  Note to Wesley and Sam: Your parents are exhausted, please sleep through the night more often!! :)

Violet and Wesley went swimming in our little splash pool in between conference sessions, Sam was napping but V and W had a great time! We didn't put a swim diaper on Violet and this is a pic of how we tested the absorbency.  It was one full diaper by the time she got out of the pool!
Well I guess it is conference weekend so a prayer in the pool is appropriate :)

Two Cute kids in the pool.
V and W splashing around, we had to refill the pool several times.

18 weeks etc etc.

Violet Kicking Back, probably watching a blues clues.  She has laid like this in bed since she was brand new.  I wonder if the new baby will do something like this too.

Violet really likes to play with the camera and this is a picture of what happens when you tell this 2 year old in training no!

We'll take a real family picture soon, but I just thought Violet's face was so cute in this one.
this is me at 18 weeks, by the time I get this up I'll be 19 weeks.  I'm feeling great and excited to be almost halfway done!

Bill and Michele are finally going to live in the same Country!!!

Just a quick note to say that Bill is home from Brazil, and Michele will be getting on a plane Thursday and should arrive Friday Morning!  I am so excited.  I wish I could be there.

Cow goes Moo, V sings Hey hey

Violet has been practicing her animal sounds for us, she usually has every animal go moo first but she is getting pretty good.  We also got her to sing her song from Blues Clues the Musical. So cute. 

 

I had an appointment with my midwife and everything is going great. They moved my Due date up this time!  the new Date is August 31st. I am very excited they moved it up, every day counts! 

I have an ultrasound scheduled in 2 weeks and we may see what color of clothes to buy it. I'm very excited about that, and Peter says at least once a day how badly he wants to know RIGHT NOW!

In other exciting family news, Bill is on a plane home from Brazil as I type this and his sweet little wife Michele will be on a plane and in WA before Easter! just in time for their one year anniversary.  Poor kids, it's been a long year, and now the interesting part begins!

Diana is coming to visit me in two weeks and I am so excited to see her, we plan to go shopping a lot! it's going to be a fun trip I'm hoping for some Sun so we can swim in the pool, we saw kids in the pool for the first time on Friday and I was hoping it would be warm again today but it was cold and windy ( well Texas' Version of cold).

John is heading over to WSU in a week or two to begin school, he is very excited to be getting out of Olympia and on with something new and hopefully more interesting.  He will be a Junior and wants to go to Dental school after he graduates.

My Parents just returned from a trip to Mexico and they are home now in cold WA, with three dogs ( Annie- who still rules like a queen, Betty- who is kind of a wimp but so sweet, and of course trigger who is more like a white cyclone than a dog!)

St Patrick's Day pictures

Violet and Wesley decorated green shamrock cookies, they had a lot of fun.  Wesley decorated his cookie and Violet just sat and ate the decorations and then at the cookie! 

It was a beautiful sunny day, we spent some time outside, but we had to come in cause it was too hot! ( I try to make a big deal out of how warm it is to further entice my Dad to come visit) But yeah it was too hot in St. Patrick's day for us to stay out for too long!  :) 

When these kids get together they just run around screaming for a while they are so excited to see each other.  They see each other probably at least once a week, it's always fun.