16 weeks

Today is an exciting day we got out first two nursery items. Thanks to mom and dad we got our Pottery Barn cribs. I know it's a little early especially since we don't even have a nursery to put them in yet but I saw they were on sale and they are phasing out the white color so I couldn't risk waiting. :) Here is a picture:

Pottery Barn

I love the bead board on the side and the cuteness to the legs. So simple and perfect. I also love the other furniture in the Catalina collection. This is just the beginning. 

We had a doctors appointment two weeks ago and the babies were doing great. One of the babies had their legs out straight, they looked so long and cute. I'm feeling great and had gained just the right amount of weight. I was glad Richie was there to hear this because he has been nagging me that I need to eat more. :) So far so good though. We have our next appointment in two weeks. It's our big anatomy scan....60 minutes long for each baby...I wonder if I get a snack break in-between?! :) We will find out the sex of the other baby at this appointment and I CAN'T wait! I feel like we are at an in between point right now...I can't really start registering, I'm just barely showing etc. but after next week we will be able to start preparing for more. We will also start our 5 week (3 hours long) multiples class. We are looking forward to this. 

Other than that I sent out our valentine announcement, I ordered some maternity pants from Old Navy, and I have been trying to walk or go to the gym when the weathers bad to get some exercise. I did a pregnancy strength and stretch video that I ordered the other night and I only did a few push ups, squats, and lungs and my legs were so shaky I couldn't hardly walk up the stairs....so sad...it was so easy nothing compared to a normal workout I'd do....this tells me I need to keep doing this workout. :) It felt good to be active but of course not over do it. 

Valentine's Day

Yay it's February...sadly football is over (well maybe not so sad but YAY we won Superbowl....what a great season), the Olympics are on, I booked a fun romantic night at Suncadia for Valentine's day (we haven't been since our wedding) and our house is going up so fast....so many fun things happening. 

 

I put together this card on Tiny Prints....my favorite site to order cards from....they came in the mail and I sent them out on Saturday. Can't wait for our family and friends to get them...after seeing these pics on Facebook they are probably tired of seeing them but oh well. 

I also wanted to share a few fun things I have done the last few years for Valentine's day. A perfect holiday to get creative and have fun with with love and friendship. 

Scavenger hunt dinner * 2009

A friend of mine and I decided to do a scavenger hunt..we had our boyfriends at the the time, now husbands, meet at a restaurant where they would get the their first card. We had them go to a few different places around town and meet us back at Richie's house. This was all a surprise for them and fun for us...while they were hunting we were cooking dinner for them. We made bruschetta, heart shaped mini meatloafs, potatoes, and chocolate cake for dessert. 

Dinner at home * 2010
Richie and I love to make homemade pasta...Richie is one who is great at making the sheets and running it through the machine and I make the dough and cook it. I had a great idea to make pink pasta for heart raviolis....well little did I know that food coloring does not go well in pasta dough....it looked like human flesh and the texture was not edible. Soooo.....we threw it away got take out and well waited a few nights to try again with a basic dough. So this dinner didn't actually happen on Valentine's day...but it was the thought that counted. 

We had a tomato, sweet onion, Gorgonzola and balsamic dressing salad. Yum!  It's been a while since I've made this I think it's time to make it again. 

I made a homemade Alfredo sauce and the raviolis were filled with a delicious meat mixture, and you can't go wrong with Texas toast. We drank the wine from the Scavenger hunt the year before (and also reused some of the other decor from that night). 

Valentine mailboxes * 2011

I brought these mailboxes home and told Richie we were going to do a craft....we had been talking so much about wedding planning etc. that I thought this would be a fun break. Although Richie wasn't initially too excited he ended up totally getting into it. Richie painted his and I put paper on mine. We set these on the counter and randomly through the month put notes in them for each other. It was a lot of fun. 

(This is a picture from last year I couldn't find one from when we actually made them)

14 days to Valentine's day * 2013

This is by far the best most creative activity I've done for Valentines day. I told Richie this year that I was sorry I couldn't pull something like this off again for him but he got to go to the Super Bowl so I don't think he minded one bit. :) 

Each day starting on the 1st I left a note with either an activity, a small gift or maybe a not so small gift. The note had to do with the day and I always tried to make the saying rhyme. I tried to work the activities around the day that the date fell on like if it was a Saturday I knew we could go get pedicures or it could be a breakfast in bed type of treat. 

Yum! This was the 12th day. Breakfast in bed that ended up being eaten at the table. 

Sorry about this last one...on days 12, 13, and 14 I forgot to take creative photos and ended up doing them after the fact... and this card got a little wet some how. :)

Student Gifts * 2013

Last year I made this caramel like pink popcorn for my students...its turned out a little soft but I thought it looked so cute. I should know better that any baking project involving boiling something to a certain temperature just does not turn out for me....baking....not really my thing. 

And this year I'm not doing much of anything creative. My baby photo shoot was about as creative as I'm going to get. Maybe I will bring out the mailboxes...why not right? Or maybe we'll make homemade heart shaped pizzas like we did last year...

I'm really looking forward to our weekend get away though. 

Cheers...Happy Valentine's Day

We've been framed!

So exciting...after a few months of waiting to get our loan in place we are now framing and we really have a house. So get ready for the picture overload. 

This is the wine room, electrical and guest room area. Bottom floor. 

Bottom floor. I had thought when they poured the cement that we would be able to walk out onto this area but as you can see they build the floor up and we would have to bring in a LOT of dirt to walk out...so we will have decking instead which will be great. :)

This is looking into what will be under the garage....lots of crawl space room. Richie is excited but I think crawl spaces are creepy. 

Garage and front entry to the right of the garage. 

Bottom floor is done. You can see the decking material here. And look at those windows...we can't believe how big and beautiful the windows will be...no wonder we went over budget on windows. 

This is looking out of where the french doors will be in the bottom floor rec room. 

Bottom floor rec room. 

Bottom floor....bathroom and guest room to the left, hallway and under stair storage. 

Yay...all of the sudden while Richie was at the super bowl :) the main and upper floor were framed. 

It went up so fast. 

Stairs coming in from the garage and mud room on the main floor. 

Powder room. 

Entry way. 

Richie's office off the entry. 

My massive dining room. :)

Great room. 

Nook area off the kitchen....and don't mind some of me in this pic. :)

Living area. There is a large piece of plywood sitting over the fireplace build out. 

Stairs down to the bottom floor. 

Upstairs master....lots of windows and see through fireplace. 

Looking out from the master bedroom doorway. Open staircase, and two bedrooms to the left. The laundry  and master closet are to the right. 

This is where our master bath tub will be and the windows looking out. 

It's been so exciting to see all of these spaces come together and the flat drawings I've been staring at for a year come to life. The next step is the roof, and then the electrical rough in. The windows and front door have been ordered and should be here in another week or so. We went last week and got all of our appliances picked out....SO much fun. I got most everything I wanted....I love it when that happens...and we were even under budget....Richie loves it when that happens (I actually think that was the first under budget item). We have the electrical ready to go and we meet with the cabinet guy next week. 

Moving right along....gotta get in before the babies come. :)