Kittens

We had a stray cat show up at our house almost 2 months ago. She started looking very pregnant and in the last couple days she had her kittens. Unfortunately only 1 of the 3 kittens was alive, but we are excited to have a new baby kitty in the house. Callen is very interested, she actually got to see this one born, it was really fun for her, and hopefully a good teaching experience for me to talk about our upcoming baby...now I hope she doesn't think mommy's having kittens though... :)

Pregnant Belly Pics!

5 more weeks to go, WooHoo!!!

 

Is it really a museum?

For Thanksgiving my younger brother Dusty came to visit. While he was here we went to St. Louis and went to the City Museum. It was so much fun! This is definitely a one of a kind museum. It was more like a 4 story playground. We had a blast climbing around and playing all day!

This was the part on the outside of the building

There is a door somewhere here, can you find it?

they had a fake cave, and it was amazingly realistic!

The swirly one on the far end is an 8 story slide you can go down!!

This is my brother dusty

Daddy and Callen

Dan bet me I couldn't fit through this hole....I won :)

Callen got cold outside and wanted her uncle dusty to warm her up

She didn't want him out of her sight all weekend!

Where did uncle Dusty go??

Uncle Dusty, Callen, and Dan. Behind them in the top left you can see a 3 story slide they had on the inside of the building.

If you ever come to St. Louis, i would definitely recommend a trip to the city museum. I woud wait until it is warm though because the outside part was so much fun. They even have more on the roof, as well as an aquarium that you can crawl under the tanks, we didn't pay extra to do those parts though. We didn't even get to all of the areas in the main museum and we spent 4 hrs. What a fun day!

Spouse Flight

In November i was able to get a spouse flight on the KC-135. It was AMAZING!!! We took off and met up with a B-2 to offload fuel. I was able to sit in the cockpit during takeoff and then along with the other spouses on the flight we all took turns laying down in the boom pod while the B-2 got refueled. It was an incredible thing to watch. I was literally 20 ft. from the other plane while flying 300 mph. Here are a couple of the pics I took.

Yes..it's true...........

We're Pregnant!!! So, I did throw in that little hint in my last post just to see if anyone noticed :) We are very excited to be expecting baby #2. I am about 14 weeks along right now and we are due towards the end of April. So far so good, everything is going normal and i'm feeling good (other than the flu I had the last couple of days..yuck!) I'm trying to get Callen used to the idea of a new baby, today she jabbed her elbow into my tummy and I said "OW" she moved away and said "baby in ner" so maybe she's catching on!

Anyway, i'm not so sure how i'm going to do at being a mom of 2, but I guess we'll find out!!

Home Sweet Home!!

I am FINALLY getting pictures posted of our House. We are definitely not done with everything but we're slowly getting there!! It is starting to feel like home and I absolutely LOVE it!! We have so much space and it is awesome to get to change things how we like them. We bought this house as a foreclosure which was actually in really good shape overall, it just needed a LOT of TLC.

The previous owners took all of the appliances and all of the light fixtures and the blinds...really random and annoying but I enjoyed getting to choose my own fixtures to put in. We got a VA loan and they wouldn't approve us until there were lights so we had to hire someone to put in some super cheap lights to get the loan and then we replaced them all when we got here.

The house was also a complete mess, they obviously had a dog and there was hair and yellow spots everywhere in the house, melted wax on the floors and scuffed walls everywhere. SO..when we moved in we started with cleaning carpets and then tackled painting. Dan's mom came out to help with the painting and she was a LIFESAVER!! We couldn't have done it all without her and it turned out great! Dan did alot the first few days and then he had to go back to work SO..I am proud to say thad I have now learned how to install a ceiling fan/light, and I changed all the locks! It was kinda fun actually to flip the switch and have it actually work!! haha

Anyway, here are the pictures that I have so far!

OUR HOME!!

we need some landscaping help but i'm thinking that might have to wait till spring.

I love the deck on the back!

Entrance

Stairway

Office before

Office After

Loft before (this is actually upstairs I just forgot it and can't figure out how to move it)

Loft after (the stairway and loft are the only places left to paint)

Dining Room Before

Dining Room After

Kitchen Before

Kitchen After

The oven we chose if one of my favorite parts of the kitchen, LOVE the double oven!

Eat In Kitchen

Living Room Before

Living Room After

hallway

Downstairs Half Bath

half bath after we replaced the mirror they took

Laundry Room

Garage

Guest Bath upstairs before

After..it's my ducky bathroom!

Callen's Room Before

After

we actually decided to leave it purple, it was easier!

Future Nursery Before

After

Ok, so technically all we did was add the ceiling fan, i'm waiting until Nov/Dec when we find out the sex of the baby to decide what to do with this room ;-)

Guest Room Before..I know..really really RED!

After...the red HAD to GO!

This room is ready for anyone who wants to come visit me!!! "hint, hint"

Master Bedroom Before

After

I love the green color we chose, very peaceful!

Master Bath before

After

Ugh..this room I honestly have no idea what to do, we added towel racks because there weren't any..but it still needs some serious help...any ideas are welcome!
Master Closet..I thought this was 10x more space than we needed, it's about as big as our bedroom was at BYU

But somehow we're managing to fill it up with all our extra storage "stuff"

So there it is!! We still are in the process of hanging things on the walls in various rooms but it's feeling more and more like home everyday!