30 Days of Dissapointment

I haven't posted in a while so a quick update! April 15th is quickly approaching! My group at work even started a countdown for me to count down the days until we close on the house!!

Birthday Celebration!

This week has been a busy one! On Wednesday this little guy turned 1 years old.

I can't believe it's been a year since he was born! It was such an exciting time. The first little one in our family in 15 years. While I have loved having a nephew and getting to see this little guy grow and develop it has definitely reaffirmed Kevin and I that we are not ready for one of our own yet. 

I was really lucky to get to watch him every Tuesday for a month and a half. That was one thing that I was really sad about when I got my new job. 

They decided to throw his first birthday party today and so the past week my three sisters and I have been prepping. Man has it been a lot of work for a little one year old! I posted a pic of the sign we were trying to make and the final product didn't turn out too bad if I say so myself! The most difficult task was pomping tissue paper on a giant one!

It took us so long we decided that it will need to be at every kids 1st birthday in our family! Haha We will have the kids take a picture with it every first birthday and then the last kid we will fill it with candy and make it a pinata! Haha

My wonderful friend Katie with Ruby Kate Photography took pictures for us and I'll post a few when she gets them back to my sister. I know they will just be adorable!

I can't leave my post without an updated picture of the house! It's almost ready for shingles and brick!

From The Ground Up

It's crazy to see the house finally coming together. Now that the walls are going up it's starting to look like a building... Some place we can actually live in! It's becoming a reality.

I'm curious to see how long it really takes. These pictures were taken on Saturday, Jan 26th, and when I drove by today after work they were already working on framing the roof and putting the plywood around the frame! 

The weather has finally been cooperating! Today was gorgeous! It has been so nice that the last two days Roxy and I have gone on walks in the late afternoon. Today I think I wore her out!! She has been cuddling like this for over an hour.

Now she is cuddling with the hubby while we are watching House Hunters International... I'll admit we are a little house obsessed right now! Haha

2x4's and Dinosaurs

On Friday, January 25th, I drove by our lot and to my surprise there was a stack of wood out front.

I would like to point out that you can see my car window frame at the bottom of the picture. I'm sure all the workers and our new neighbors think I'm some psyco that keeps slowly driving by! I can't help it! I couldn't wait to call the hubby and fill him in! Every little thing has become more exciting than the last.

I spent almost all day Saturday with this little guy!

It started with a trip to the donut shop. He wanted to sit in the bench all on his own like a big kid. I can't believe he is going to be a year old on the 30th of this month. This year has just flown by. He used to need help with everything and now he wants to do everything on his own. He is walking and even has two teeth! His momma, my older sister RER, and my younger sister Rae were both there as well. We spent breakfast brain storming and all afternoon getting ready for his birthday party. It's going to be a Dinosaur Train theme. If you have never seen the show your not missing anything too exciting. Lol it is cute though.  It is his FAVORITE show! Who knew a kid his age could even have a  favorite show! These are two of the main characters and the plates my sister ordered for the party.

We decided to make a banner like the one below. It's not finished yet so I'll have to take a picture at the party. 

We also bought a couple of paper mache eggs too that we painted like dinosaur eggs. I think his party is going to be pretty cute! 

Later that afternoon, when the hubby got off work, the two of us decided to go drive by our house... It was in the process of being framed!! I'll attach some pics in a later post. 

Emotional Roller Coaster

Mid Janurary has been an emotional roller coaster! So much has happened exciting and kind of sad! 

On Thursday, January 17th, they FINALLY laid our foundation!! The weather has been kicking our houses butt and the builder has not been able to do anything. 

Kevin and I had plans to go to lunch that day because he was off and of course we had to go drive by just to see... And we were extatic to see it being worked on. It seriously made my week! The funny thing is that it looks so small when it's just the slab! All I could think of when I was standing there was "there is no way a bed will fit in that front bedroom". Haha 

On Saturday, January 19th, it was a little more depressing. My sisters, parents, and I spent the entire day packing up most of the house we lived in for a good portion of our childhood. My parents have been trying to sell their house and have receive positive feedback but no offers due to the work that needs to be done on the house. Fun things like scrapping a rediculous amount of that stupid popcorn stuff off the ceiling, updated floors, and new counter tops. They deciding they would rather move into an apartment for a couple of months and nock it all out at once instead of living in mass chaos for who knows how long.

It was really sad to find so many things that brought back so many memories and then see the house basically empty. You realize how much your home is really about who and what is in it than the building itself. I guess it's a perfect reminder for me right now with us building. The building might be perfect or end up nothing like we thought but in the end it's the love we bring into it that will make it our home.

 I spent all but the first 8 years of my life in that house... It was fun to find old pictures. My younger sister found this great pic of all four of us girls. It was from the day we moved out of our 1st house and into this one.

Aren't we a cute bunch of weirdos! Haha Sadly, she found it after we had left... It would have been a great one to recreate. Techniqually we haven't moved everything out yet upstairs... We may have to add it to our bucket list for the day we completely move everything out for good and the house is sold! 

2013 Already?!

I can't believe it's already 2013!! And not just that it's already the second week of January! Everything goes by so much faster as an adult. We received an email from our builder that they are supposed to lay the foundation on our house on Wednesday if the weather cooperates. That's the key word "IF"... They were supposed to have laid it last week but Oklahoma has a habit of surprising us with unpredictable weather. It can be 60 degrees one day and freezing the next.

We did finish out 2012 with everything going great though. We went to our first real Christmas Party with just out friends. We really are adults aren't we? lol Christmas was great. We got to spend lots of time with family. Isn't my nephew just the cutest!

The Hubby was overjoyed by the present he was able to get with his Christmas money. He finally got that iPad he has been wanting for so long...the iPad he has gone on and on and on about all the things he could do with it...the iPad I am currently using to write this blog. Haha yeah... I've kinda taken over it when I'm home. Isn't that how marriage works? What's mine is his and what's his is mine? Haha I don't think he minds.

For New Years we went to dinner with my 3 sisters and their significant others. Then we went to my older sisters to hang out and play games until we rang in the new year!

I can't wait for all 2013 will bring!!