Update!

Almost October!! No way.. I'm already 22 weeks pregnant. Even though it's been a long 5 1/2 month.. It's seems like it went my fast now that's it's over. My kids have been so good. . I really have been trying to concentrate on the last few months I have with just my 2 boys and not worrying as much about how uncomfortable I'm getting. Huge changes are happening lately.. Gavin started ore school!!  I did get a little emotional after I dropped him off the first day, but it's only 2 days a week and being pregnant I do need the break right now. He loves it too.. He gets so excited to come home and show me what he made that day. (I'm always a proud momma :) ) deklin also loves the one on one time with mom. And I love it too! He is a different boy without big brother around.

Deklin has started going on the potty! We are on day 3 and he is doing awesome! He also got a hair cut! So I'm taking him out to take new pics with his short hair.. Coming soon :)

Brandon made a toy box for the kids! He did such a good job. Really really good! I gotta catch up on pictures.. But it's huge, and it's so nice to have Gavins closet back and toys put where they should be! :)

I have been going to the gym finally! It feels so good. I'm getting a little more energy, and feeling alot better! Even though I'm stuffing my face with Chips right now.. I have finally got my appetite back, and able to eat fruits and veggies again!!! Yay.

Baby number three is right around the corner! Name is picked but we won't say it till she gets here! I'm so excepted for this little girl to get here! Nursery is almost done and now I just have to get out the swing and carseat nExt week! I want to be really relaxed towas the end and concentrate on the holidays. I will be here before we know it.

Deklin's 2nd Birthday!!!

Deklin! Getting so big! 2 years old.. so crazy when your youngest is growing so fast. We made both the boys a sand box for their birthdays and they also got a trampoline, soccer net, toys etc. Such lucky boys!! Deklin Loved sharing his gifts with everyone. He is such a sweet heart. It was over 100 on his birthday so he was exhausted.. poor guy, you will see what i mean in his pictures! aw :)

                                        

Gavin's 4th Birthday!

Happy 4th Birthday Gavin!!! Party was so fun.. He had been talking about it for the past 8 months or so.. such a cutie. Was lots of work but well worth it for a little man who was so excited for his party!!! Ended up being 95 out!! Here are some pics of my sweet boy at his birthday party! Such a good turn out. :) Tried to get everyone in pics!! (Missed a few of his friends in here though) So Glad everyone came!

                           Love you bubba!! We love having you around! You make us so happy!

Pregnancy and Life

After the past few months of having morning sickness and laying on the couch.. i decided again.. Back to blogging.. :) Where to begin. Baby Number 3 on its way!! Nope not planned. We had actually decided to wait another year for the 3rd but my birth control didn't do its job in time. At first it was a shocker, for Brandon more than Me.. ha. But we are so excited now for another addition to are fast growing family :).

 I had some spotting the first month and called my OB. . Went in for an Ultra-sound a few weeks later and they found a blood clot on my placenta. It a medium size and they were hoping it would be gone my next app. I had another Ultra-sound last week and it was still there and same size. It can cause miscarriage, and you need to stay of your feet as much as possible, but have been lucky this far and i really think everything will be ok.

Today i got a call from My OB and I am every anemic and low on vitamin C.. those who know me know i am a vegetarian and meat is not something i want to eat!! no no yuck yuck lol But of course every mom knows we will do whatever it takes for our kids, so after a few years of no meat i will be trying to eat red meats along with iron pills. (Wish me luck) Along with this i have been so sick.. so so sick. I started out throwing up 4-5 times a day or more, now I'm down to 1 or 2 times. I am hoping within the next two weeks it would go away cuz i am 13 weeks on Thursday! :) It feels like the longest pregnancy ever but i know how fortunate i am to be having my 3rd kid and am so excited. With Gavin and Deklin i was never sick, not even one time.  This pregnancy has been 100% different for me.. so most of our friends and family are saying.. it  GIRL then!! ha I Hope there right but i am not counting on it.. not till i see the ultra sound and hear the word GIRL.

Gavin keeps saying he wants a baby sister, and i don't think Deklin quite understands there is a baby in mom's tummy. Deklin will be 2 on aug 16th! Time is flying, my baby is starting to feel like a toddler and Gavin will be 4 on aug 6th! So both my kids are growing so fast, obviously its true when they say, don't blink. So I'm trying to be the best mom i can with trying to take care of myself and baby in me. It has tested my patients a lot more, and i for sure need Brandon's help way more then normal but he has been so good. I do not know what i would do without him.

Other than that we are planning birthdays and getting Deklin moved into Gavins room, getting ready in advance for this next baby!

Thats it for now :)

Kids & Renovations!

Our life is Busy busy! Lately we have been so so busy doing stuff on our house. .. Tearing a wall down, painting the kids rooms.. doing molding and wood work in the kitchen, cleaning up the yard.. the list goes on. Sometimes i feel like we are only meant for two kids with our busy lifestyle! But no!.. i do want another, at least one more. We will see how it pans out but within the year im hoping to be pregnant with child #3! It sounds so crazy, 3 sounds like a lot when your used to 2 and busy with 2. But we are mentally, emotionally and financially preparing ourselves lol cuz now that we started to have kids i want them to be all close in age. Anyway thats just been on my mind lately. Babys babys! so cute :).

Gavin Had been the biggest helper with renovating the house. He gets so excited when we do stuff. "Thanks you mommy!" he said after i painted his room. aw (so sweet). We are still working on the potty training, well, the #2 part if u know what i meen. Pee is no problem, day and night he has it down and even wakes me up to go. But poo no way! Its a constant battle and i try everything.. Getting mad for a week, not getting mad for a week, time outs, prizes, bribes. ... etc etc. Im just hoping it will just click!!! Cross our fingers!! He is getting so smart though. Loves to read, loves to make dinasour and lion noises all day, torments his adorable brother and plays with him too. He has started to help him, and teach him stuff (really picking up on the big brother role :)) which i love! He gets up every night at least 3 times still! and Im the pushover mom who goes and lays with him every time. (i figure the time will pass and ill miss theses nights so.. ) He doesn't eat, lol. We really don't know how he survives on water and milk. I love watching all his phases the older he gets. I cant believe he will be 4 soon! He is my softy and mommas boy, i love him to pieces!!

Deklin Is the opposite most the time. So hilarious this one. Has so much energy and fire in him. Its so funny to watch, ill have to catch his attitude on video and post it. What a little rascal! He keeps me on my toes thats for sure. Right now he is hitting and pinching and throwing things. . Cries a lot for attention but gives kisses and hugs and blows kisses to me when we leave and runs and laughs when we get home. Such an age.. 18 months and so much personality. I really love it but it sure keeps me busy. He is saying so much.. momma, daddy, he even says Duke (our dog..) but its more like "dooo". :) He is my good eater.. loves meat (haha, for those of you who know I'm a vegetarian will understand why that funny. . most the time i just cook it and put it on the side for brandon.. so gavin never really wants it.. im happy deklin does though! He loves to play hide and seek, and take baths. He is picking up on every noise gavin makes so he likes to make loud noises too (i love that though ). He is sleeping through the night! Which is great cuz if i had both kids waking up all night i wouldn't survive the day without losing it. Such a cutie pie! I could squeeze him all day!

Stephanie's wedding is coming up!! Yay!!!! I don't think ive wrote about my baby sis!! She is marrying Brandon's cousin and living here!!! Freaking awesome!! lol I'm really excited and so happy to have my sista friend here with me. There is nothing like family. So we have been wedding planning and shopping while renovating the house! Its nice to stay busy, I don't think I'm the stay at home all week type of mom, Which is why the summer needs to come ASAP!! THEN i wont go out and spend money we can just hang outside and go to the park lol.

So here are some recent pics of my adorable munchkins and some random things we have been doing. Deklin is usually napping while we paint so Gav was the big helper with these projects and in most the pics. :) Ill keep you posted for more before and after pics!!! Brandon has been working so hard for me. love ya babe :)

I have the best husband.. I really wanted to do a half marathon this year before we had baby number 3! SO... we both are training for one that is on July 4th 6am... 13.1 miles. Ya i know.. me run a marathon.. haha But we are doing it and training as we speek. Im up to 2 1/2 miles on the tread mill and have alot of work to do.

oh and ps.. we traded in our excursion and got a jeep commander!! woo hoo! so glad to get rid of that money pit vehicle.

(Drinking their main snack before bed to fill them up.. packed with fruit spinach and flax seeds, they still love em too!)

Our New Front Door. (using paint ofcourse! )

This was one of the first things i wanted to change, it took a while but last week i did the final

touches! First i painted it all white, painting is so much cheaper than buying a brand new door!

So then took the screen door off, then didn't like the white so painted it black and fixed the

paint on the trim. After i added the beautiful wreath from Target (thank you Target for always

coming through for me :)) . I also got the flower pot by the door at a garage sale for $20! yay!

The ugly... yes ugly ugly door! Before......

AFTER! :) (BIG SMILE)

The START of Our Renovations! Room 1

The funnest part of buying a fixer upper (house) is showing the before and after pictures and that feeling of... success!! We knew when we got this house a year ago it would be alot of work to make it our realistic "dream home" but me and brandon really enojy DIY prjects. Its fun and it gives us something to do together (other than the regular day things). I know i get a little more excited than brandon, lol but he seems so love the process tooo. :) First things first was we moved in and all the wall were white... white! I had just hd a baby and i could feel the postpartum sinkin in , not feeling at home. So we started painting. Its been a year and i finally am blogging about all our renos!

The before.... (sexy brandon :)) he will probably kill me for showing u all this.

But he did all the work in this room sense i was recovering from delivering our adorable baby boy Deklin. . so it was only fair i give him credit. :)

Living room BEFORE...

AFTER!!

What a huge difference it was. This room really felt like home.

Its crazy what a little paint can do.

Fun with the kids!

My adorable boys.. such cuties, i just love them so much! Its hard to catch a gooder pic of these busy bodys.. but i did it.. kinda ha.

SOOO telll me, does anyone else have a hard time getting a pic of their kids together??? cuz we sure do!! Its so hard to get them to stand beside eachother at all and get somewhat of a picture! lol ugh! i dont have very many of them together, here is us trying to get something decent....

and.. obviously that didnt work.. haha, but we did manage to get there faces in a family picture and some of them seperate.... Here is a bike dad brought home for Gavin as a surprise!. So awesome! he loves it.
PUtting up the christmas tree early... i think it was mid november, ha.. but i love christmas so i made brandon haul it out of the shed and put it up. :) go me!!

(Deklin was asleep so he missed out on the end result)

We took the kids on The Polar Express!!! AWESOME! and i would totally recommend it to anyone with kids.

How awesome is this?? My boys love trains and they have a train ride at the mall. woo hoo! the highlight of our mall trip would have to be that!

And our santa pic! he.. like i said... rare to get a pic of them together, so im just so happy they are not freaking out in this photo.. soo.. success!!

WE leave to Canada to visit the Family for christmas. so excited, more pictures to take and memories to make. So you will be seeing more of that asap!