My Zen

My dear, dear friend Shawndra took some really amazing pregnancy photos today. It’s somthing I really wish I did when Caulen was in my belly. I wanted to share a few of my favorites she took. I feel massive, fat, huge..whatever you want to call it, so I am sure once she gets them on her photography website I will link over, but as for self confidence in posting a lot of my own pics, I cant do it. lol. I am thankful for them and to know in a few years when I look back on these I will just love every single pose and shot of our little girl! We tried to get Caulen in on a few photos but taking him away from his friends was not going to happen so the few we did get were good, just not what I know he can produce.  I will add one of my favorites from him later, but I have to pee bad and rest right now. lol

TWO WEEKS TO GO PEEPS!!!

Can you tell by the photo below I am just so in love with the boy?! lol

Still pregnant. -_-

I have not found any baby bedding that is just perfect for our little girl yet, but a few days ago I stumbled onto this gem. Isn’t is CUTE?! Now just gotta wait for payday and it’s possibly all hers! YAY! Just wanted to share the cuteness.

This challenge was to create a flower layout, only turn your stems into journaling instead of a basic graphic.

And…

my back hurts….REALLY BAD! lol

For this challenge I figured it would be fun to do a recap of the best moments of everyone’s month. We didn’t have to many crazy things going on, but it still made for a fun layout. I am hoping more people will do this one as I am so excited to see the results. So here was the description: Do a “Best Moments of January 2010″ 2 page layout. You can do this for just yourself, kids, husband, boyfriend, pets or all of them. I wanted to save this until the end of the month to do since we get a week to complete the challenges.

This is what I came up with. If you click on the image it will take you to a larger version.

This was fun to do. I had everyone create a circle frame to use in their layouts with the Title “It’s A ____” not necessarily meaning it has to be a boy or girl layout. I told them to get creative with the last part of the title and then post it somewhere online. I loved the way my layout came out. I am super hard on myself and don’t really like my end results but this time I did. YAY

I wish I had something more interesting to post about my personal life, but really its not that exciting right now. All I am doing daily is, eating, pooing (jk this is still an issue for me lol), sleeping ( kind of, well no not really) and taking care of my boys. Actually Shane is taking better care of me. I could talk about him! What an amazing guy! Now that 99.9% of our meals are all cooked and eaten at home, he has done most of the dishes daily for the past few months. It sucks being so pregnant, cooking dinner each night than tackling all the damn dishes that follow. Usually around that time all I can think about is sitting until bedtime.  Shane has been helping me doing the chores around the house that I USED to do daily, but have downsized to once, maybe twice a week. Regardless, he helps me a lot with all tedious tasks around the house that I normally don’t have a problem taking care of daily.  We even tackled getting 75% of our upstairs painted. It ALMOST looks as good as the basement now. lol. We still have the kids room to paint and I am hoping to get the hallway and maybe the guest bathroom done, but we shall see. So far stocking up has been going okay in regards to getting Genevieve all the baby crap that she needs. Laurey has helped us stock up on diapers and lotions among other things, but I can’t help but continue my stress of not getting enough in time. There is less than five weeks and I still need an ass load of item. I know it will work out but it still stresses me out a bit.

I will add how much fun I have had shopping for her clothes though. DARNIT!! I totally thought it would not be a big deal finding clothes for her. This is totally not the case. I am P-I-C-K-E-Y about the clothes I am about to dress her in. It’s so funny how much I care about that over the clothes we get for Caulen. People are right, it IS a big deal shopping for a girl and it is SO MUCH FUN!! I am also the hypocrite that was telling everyone that she was not going to have a bunch of pink crap, but that changed fast. There are only few clothing items I have been able to find that don’t have some shade of pink in them, and all the blankets I have gotten for her are pink too. I am trying to break the cycle, I AM, but its not like the big box companies, who offer these goods for cheaper than most, are giving me a whole lot of options.

I stepped into Babies R Us for the first time yesterday and was totally overwhelmed. Though I think most of their stuff is overpriced I did find some cute baby outfits and bottles that were on sale. So far the best deals we have gotten on baby clothes have been from carters up in Park City. Even Shane picked out a few new outfits for his daughter. It was cute.

So that’s where we are with baby. If you want to send diapers we will take them! haha.

Here is a challenge I had fun with this week. I actually enjoy all the challenges so far, but this page came out awesome. I really wanted to showcase Caulens photo and have all the elements there, but not taking away from how friggin cute he is! The challenge is to pick one of your favorite scrapbooking kits and create a smile layout out. If you want to participate you can read more about it here.

So todays Challenge was to create a page about any object using the 5 senses to describe the object your scrapbooking about. Describe how each sense makes you feel or react when your around this object. Flowers, favorite object in your house, your kids, pets, foods ect. I had a blast doing this one. I wanted to share because as I have said before, its my blog and I can do what I want! YAY lol

This photo is not mine, I took it from a recipe blog that I use oftenn since I have never taked a photo of my Spaghetti Sauce.  Next time I make it though ,its in my mind to snap a photo to replace the one on the page.  Though I dont think I could make my picture look super edible like the one I am borrowing!!

Our little family always has such a good time at the kids museum downtown. Even though there is not a whole lot for Shane and I to do, we have enjoyed all the different stages of learning Caulen has been able to play with in the museum over the years. We have taken him every year since he was born and each time there is something new and exciting that he never noticed before, to play with. Since it had been such a long time since we were there last, Caulen was off and running for the first hour straight. He didn’t want to miss a thing. I could barley get him to hold still in one area to take a photo. He had this intense focus on his face of what he was going to play with and for how long. After about an hour he started to mellow out and realize that we were not leaving asap and Mom and Dad were there to play as long as Caulen wanted to ( or as long as his behavior held good).  There was not one area that he didn’t stop and play at, except for the news area.

I also clustered and decorated some funny photos of Caulen and Shane in the jeep at the museum. Caulen would not let Dad sit up front and demanded he sit in the back seat.  So my awesome husband took the opportunity to make some seriously funny faces. I was cracking up so hard at these two.

We also FINALLY  made it into the helicopter. This is a first. Caulen has never been interested in setting foot in the helicopter until now. He was so happy with all the buttons to push and the fantastic sound effects of the helicopter taking off to seal the “awesome” deal in his book.

We stayed for about two and a half hours and started to notice Caulens interest running low and my back pain running HIGH! haha. Later on in the day he told us that he had fun at the museum and thanked us.

I am a day early, but if I don’t keep on top of my promised challenges, then I will fall behind and not deliver. Boy would that be a little embarassing!! lol

This weeks challenge was to scraplift someones family page. Find a page online, that someone has created about their immediate family, showing pictures of each family member. Follow the design and theme of that layout and be sure to give credit of where it came from and post the original along with your new page on the Digital Scrapbook Memories Forum and somewhere else one the web.

I chose my boss, Aprils, family layout. I have always love it and figured why not scraplift it for this challenge. I figured having everyone find the requirements for the layout is a challenge in itself. I am always excited to see the turn out of everyones pages!!

Here is my scraplifted version of her page, though never as good!