Part 1 of the update

Ok I am really behind on any updates and I apologize. I'll try to update a bit. My cousin BrieAnn and her daughter Cora came and spent a week with us a couple of weeks ago. We had a lot of fun. Cora is growing up so quick. She showed me all of the songs she has learned to sing and she is just a little character. BrieAnn is pregnant again and due this summer so it was a good way for her to see what a toddler and a newborn will be like. :-) It gave me the same experience and I don't think I'll be doing that anytime soon lol. We didn't get a whole lot done but just enjoyed being able to hang out.
One of the days we took Cora to the park in our neighborhood. She loved it and kept running up to go down the slide. >
She thought it was awesome. BrieAnn and I took turns running up there with her.Andrew slept through the whole experience.
I took them both to the best cupcake place. It is called Polkadots. And that is about the extent of our excitement for the week.
Some cute pics of the little man. He is getting his bath which he totally loves. We found out that Andrew has reflux and that was causing him some major pain so we have him on medicine now and he seems to be doing much better. But bath time is one of his happiest times.
And here is a cute pic of him sleeping. That is also pretty rare. He will go to sleep when you are holding him but staying asleep is what is really hard.

I have also made a bit more progress on the nursery. Here is the murals progress. It looks awesome. Thanks Kristin!!! You rock! She didn't want me to take any pics until it was done but I had to show you how it is looking so far.
And here are some pics of the rest of the room.

While mom was here i had her make me some curtains for the nursery and then also for my front window next to the door. So excited.


I have other stuff too but will post a bit later. Time to feed the little booger man now.

More pics for the sisters

My mom is in town this week getting to be Grandma to little Andrew. So he is getting spoiled rotten and loving every minute of it. And we are taking lots of pics of the little guy too.
This is the onesie that his Dad picked out for him. And this is at 2 1/2 weeks.

This is for his aunties. :-) We found this super cute onesie that we thought he had to have and knew his aunts would all appreciate it. Mom and I thought it was stinkin' adorable.


Here are James and I with our little man at 3 weeks.

And the 3 generations of my family. Me, mom and Andrew.

Here is James' favorite thing to do so far with Andrew. And it is no wonder why we can't get him to go to sleep on his own. Would you if you could cuddle?

Andrew Keenan is Here

Ok so I am really far behind. We had Andrew on the 27th of December. He was 2 weeks early and although I was hoping he would come early, I was totally unprepared. My water broke around 5:30 in the morning and I finally woke James up and told him we needed to go to the hospital around 8. We got there around 9 and I had Andrew at 3:46.
He decided to make things a bit difficult by coming out with his head sideways and his arm over his head. I was really glad to get him out of there as you can imagine. He was really worth all of the effort but I am glad to be done with that portion of this process.
Now I have the "easy" part of the process. We are trying to get him on a schedule but so far he has me on his schedule lol. James has spent the last 2 weeks home with me but goes back to work on Monday. So I'll be all on my own until my mom gets here next weekend. Hopefully I survive! I'll post more pics later but here are a few for now.

Baby Shower

I am obviously and not surprisinly behind on posting. I had my first baby shower almost 3 weeks ago and still haven't posted anything. Thanks to all the lovely ladies that helped with my shower. Keri for organizing it and hosting it at her house and coming up with the fun diner idea and food.
Betsy and Leslie (in the pic on the left) and Kristin and Alma and Betzi and Chontal (in the pic on the right) - I hope I didn't forget anyone - for helping with the food and decorations, etc. Laura for the cute sparkly table (You can kind of see it in the background here) . And if I left anyone out I plead pregnancy brain!
Keri turned her house into a "50's Diner" complete with oldies on the radio, records all over and red, black and white decor. The food was delicious - slider burgers (with homemade buns - Thanks Chontal), french fries and onion rings, root beer floats
and apple and cherry pie.

We didn't play any games but I think with as much talking as all of us like to do the games were not missed. I had a great time hanging out with the wonderful ladies from church and got some really great - and much needed items. I even got a gorgeous quilt in red, black and white that matches the room perfectly! Thanks Betsy, I love that you are so crafty and dang good at it too.
Thank you Marie for being my scribe because there is no way I would have remembered anything!
Thanks so much lovely ladies for coming and hanging out with me and being a great group of friends that I love to death!



Did I mention this will be the most well dressed little man ever!

I had another shower last weekend with the great ladies that I work with and completely forgot to take any pics of the whole thing. I suck with the camera thing. We had it after work last Friday and had a great time and great food again. Thanks Natalie and Stephanie and Becky for hosting my shower and to everyone who came to that too. I really enjoyed getting to hang out and think we should definitely do it again. :-) Sorry I have no pics to post of that and everyone who came to it.

Belly Pics and Nursery Beginnings

Ok for all of you wanting belly pics here you go. This is my belly at 31 weeks. I am feeling like a huge cow, but apparently if you aren't the prego one everyone else thinks it is cute.
Andrew is moving around all the time in there and keeping me uncomfortable! I rarely get more than 2 hours of sleep because he moves around so much and I always have to get up to pee. He really likes sitting under my ribcage with some unidentified part of his body jabbing out the right side of my belly. James thinks it is hilarious. And now Andrew is moving around enough that he can't hide from James anymore.

I also put James to work in the nursery helping with my vision of how the room should look. Here is the start of it. Hopefully I'll have it finished soon and will have those pics to post but here are the beginning stages.

Mhari's Brave Night

I have quite the reputation at church being that we have been married forever and have no kids...I'm quite the auntie and love to spoil my friends kids and play that role. So a couple of months ago while babysitting for the Scott children (all 5 of them) I had let the girls play in my makeup and told them we would do a girls night where they could come over and have a "late nighter" and play in makeup. That was in March and I figured I probably better make good on my promise since they kept reminding me about it and I'm getting closer to not being able to do as much of that.
So I had 5 girls under the age of 10 over to do makeup and nails on a Friday night. Their parents were in awe of me being brave enough (or I believe Del and Brent thought that I was dumb enough lol) to take them all on at once. They got over here around 6:30 and we had pizza and then started on the nails and makeup. McKinley and Sydnee got a quick start jumping right in. I barely got them to eat their food.

I put out all of my old Mary Kay samples and let them have a free for all putting on the colors they wanted and trying all 25 of them. :-) They were in hog heaven.
After the hair and makeup we made triple chocolate cookies, and then I let them raid my shoes and jewelry and we took pics. Here are some of their fun pics. I am no photographer nor did I have a great spot to take these so pardon the treadmill in the background and the pumpkin lights that the girls used to decorate the treadmill. :-)
This is Kylie - she is the youngest of the bunch that came over but she loved hanging out with the big girls and she is quite the little poser.


Then Rylee is our next youngest. She just had her 7th birthday.


Then Caitlyn. She got baptized this year so she is the big 8.

Sydnee is 9. She wanted to have Mattie (the dog) in all of her pics and all the other girls wanted to do the same. They love the dogs because their parents are not quite as animal friendly as me lol...sorry Leslie and Kristin.


And last but not least we have McKinley who is 10 going on 12. I have been the bad influence for her to get to wear makeup at 12 like I did. Sorry Brent. Ok not really lol.


And here is the group pic of all 5 of them.

We had a good time but boy was I tired when they went home at 10. I don't know how Kristin or Leslie or any of you handle 5. Yikes!! Glad you start with just one.