home sweet home!

Here are some pictures of our new house.  As you can see, we have no pictures up on the walls yet, no paint, pretty much no decorations.  We are just VERY HAPPY to be all unpacked and settled in before baby comes!  

The laundry room, it's upstairs, has a sink and cupboards, and I love it!  Who knew you could be so excited about a laundry room?  

Boys Bathroom

Family Room
The front of our house.  Our kids had better learn their address, because they could get lost pretty easy around here and not know which house is theirs!  There is a whole lot of brown going on around these neighborhoods.
The kitchen/eating area.  Hopefully the next post will include a cute baby girl in it!  One week to go!

gifts for baby sister

We've been busy at our house getting ready for this baby.  We have washed new pink blankets, hung up cute little dresses, and packed the hospital bag.  Ryan picked out a new girl toy to bring to his baby sister in the hospital.  Andrew thought a good gift for his new little sister would be to pick up conjunctivitis (that's right, pink eye).  He has been as happy as ever, but his eyes were bright red and they are goopy and gross.  Hopefully the medicine will kick in and do it's magic before he has a chance to spread it to the baby!  

These pictures don't really show how his eyes really look, he looks to cute to have pink eye.  But you can kind of see all the eye goobers on his eyelashes. 

I guess pink eye is better than what Ryan had just weeks before Andrew was born.  Ryan caught hand, foot, and mouth disease.  Much worse.  

i'm not that talented

Thanks to some very crafty and talented mamas, we have one cute crib ready for a baby girl.  My mom made the crib skirt and bumper pad and my mother-in-law made the quilt.  I love the fabric and think it all looks great.  

A note to my future baby girl:  sorry little girl, you're out of luck.  I am not the seamstress that your Grandma's are, so if you have any hope of getting beautifully sewed handicrafts, you better hope your Grandmas stick around a long time!  :)

I think I'm going to have a baby

I have had some requests for some belly shots...so here they are.

I am appearently really bad at taking pregnancy shots, because I really had only 3 pictures that you could get a good view of the growing belly.  So here I am at probably 12 weeks or so.

This one was taken around Halloween, I am around 4 months.

And here I am in all my current day pregnancy glory.  Yikes.  I really am that big.  I am 35 1/2 weeks.  And after taking this picture I realized why I will not continue to take straight on shots of myself while pregnant.  

Here I am right before Ryan was born.  I don't think I even have a picture of me pregnant with Andrew!  whoops!

Andrew is also preparing for our baby.  Baby girl got a cabbage patch doll for Christmas, but she might have to fight Andrew for it when she is born because he loves it.  He is so sweet with the baby and I think he will be really excited when we bring a real one home.  Although, he might be disappointed to find out that we won't let him carry around a real baby like he does with a doll.

We're famous

In a previous post, Spencer was bragging about how famous he was.  Well, not to be outdone, Ryan and I dug up some publicity of our own.

Ryan has started his modeling career as featured in the Rio Rancho Spring Parks and Recreation catalog.

We actually had no idea he was in the catalog until people in our ward starting mentioning seeing him.  This picture doesn't really show a true reflection of how Ryan liked swimming...the photographer must have caught him after the usual tears at the beginning when he had to jump in.  I guess he's just that cute.

And you can read about me in the Wichita Eagle.

I bet most of you didn't know about my mission.  I was surprised to read about it as well.

Is christmas really over now???

Our trip to Vegas was great, nice and relaxing, and lots of good weather.  The drive was great both ways too...except for when we got stuck on the Hoover Dam for 2 hours on the way there!  Seriously, it took us 2 hours to get 5 miles.  AHHHH!

  

Ryan and Andrew built a birdhouse with Grandpa.  We were all impressed with Ryan's hammering skills.  The boys better start practicing if they want to be as good a craftsman as both of their Grandpas someday.  

We went downtown just once to check out the Bellagio Christmas displays.  I thought the man enjoying his spirits really captured the Vegas Christmas atmosphere.  The place was nuts and very crowded in preparation for the big New Years bash.

The boys received some more fun presents from Grandma and Grandpa Toolson.  Balls for Andrew and books for Ryan...some of their favorite things.
But now we're back from Vegas and the tree is finally down.  I guess that means no more Christmas :(  Next big thing....Baby Girl Grange!!!  2 more months (or less) left, hurray!

Christmas Morning

All done opening presents....notice that Ryan is playing with his new Jack-in-the-Box.  He has been talking about getting a jack-in-the-box for over a year now.  I have no idea where he got the idea, maybe a movie?  But it was the toy he told Santa he wanted and whenever anyone asked him what he wanted for Christmas, that is what he requested.  I wasn't really planning on buying one (they are hard to find and cost 20$!) but my sister said I had too.  He didn't give quite the reaction you would imagine after all that, but he probably would have mentioned it if he hadn't received one.  

The toys that created the most excitement were definitely Woody and Buzz.  

Ryan of course took some time out Christmas morning for some book reading.

Before we ripped into the presents.  They look so cute in their new p.j.'s and slippers.  Andrew received Cookie Monster slippers, but unfortunately they were too small, the kid has big feet!  (Like mother, like son I guess).  He was plenty happy with Ryan's old Elmo slippers though.

We had a great Christmas and it was so fun having Grammy and Gramps come and visit.  Tomorrow we head out to Las Vegas for the week and Christmas part II!