Bedroom Facelift

Our mattress finally came today! Huzzah! It has only taken a month for our bedroom to be completely finished. And, might I say, it is pretty much awesome. I don't know what my favorite part is... finally having a "real bed" with a headboard and everything, the fact that said "real bed" is a King size bed, the awesome stripes on the wall, the his-and-hers lamps, the all matching bedspread/pillowcase set, or the fancy mirror!

Yeah- just feast your eyes on this awesomeness.

Oh- and I forgot the fancy curtains- they just tie everything together. A big, big thanks to Steve for painting, assembling the bed, installing the curtains and shelves, and basically doing everything. I picked out the paint colors though. So I helped. Some.

For those who are dying to know...

For those of you who are dying to know- I had my "quickie" ultrasound today (they just squeezed me in between a couple appointments) and it is a Girl! Let the clothes-buying commence!

Birthday Boy

Josh turned 2 this week. I can't get over how big he seems- so grown up. We got him a Radio Flyer Tricycle and he was so excited to try it out this morning. Still having trouble grasping the "use the pedals" concept, but we are getting there!

Then we had a great party. The first present he opened was a set of Thomas the Train bath toys. After that, we couldn't get him interested in opening the other presents. Actually, we had a hard time getting him to even "open" the whole present. He pulled out the first piece of tissue paper and held it up like it was a treasure and showed everyone. We had to do some persuading to get him to keep looking in the bag.

He got lots of cute clothes and stuff, and of course, we didn't bother to take many pictures (at least not many that I will allow to be posted online due to what my hair looked like at the end of a long day).

Happy Birthday Josh! He makes our family what it is. He has so much energy and is such a sweetheart. I know it will be a hard transition when baby #2 joins the family, but I know he will be a great big brother.

(By the way, we should be finding out the gender of baby #2...hopefully... on Monday. Stay tuned.)

Hat

Recently we were cleaning out one of our closets and rearranging rooms, and Josh found the Mickey ears hat we had made at Disneyland on our honeymoon. He instantly fell in love with his new hat. He would wear it everywhere, any time of day.

Incredible Incredibles

My Spring Break was the week prior to Easter and General Conference. Since I had some time on my hands, I decided to do another portion of Josh's playroom wall. This room is fun--it has Disney characters on one wall and fun superhero characters on another. But since the room will be 100 percent floor-to-ceiling pictures when it is finally finished, I decided to transition the superhero wall to the Disney walls by painting the Incredibles. I free-handed these, and they turned out okay. I might go in later and fix some of the faces, but for right now it's fun to have them up. Here is a close-up picture so you can see the detail. Pictures don't do justice, but it shows a little bit. Learning to shade and highlight with house paint is an interesting process!

In other news, our mattress still hasn't been delivered, so we'll continue to wait to post pictures of our bedroom that we redid during the same spring break until it arrives.

It's A...

So, we had the ultrasound on March 31st. And here are the results: It's a... umbilical cord! Yeah- they couldn't clearly determine the sex because either umbilical cord or feet were in the way the whole time. Even after walking around, shifting positions, and many suggestions to baby that it cooperate, we still aren't sure what we are having. So... more waiting. I am aware that I am posting this on April Fool's day, but no- it is no joke.

In other news, Steve has been working on painting/ assembling furniture/ hanging shelves and curtains. We'll get pictures of that soon. I promise.