Happy Spring

I was not so happy this morning when i saw that it had snowed overnight but the snow has melted so I'll be thankful for that. It's still a little chilly but i can handle that. This is our cherry tree that we got and planted last week. We've been wanting to plant fruit trees since before we bought out house and when we saw cherry trees at Costco for $15 we couldn't pass it up. This cherry is a hybrid that has 4 different kinds of cherries that will grow on it. They grafted branches from different varieties of cherries onto one tree and voila we should be getting 4 kinds of cherries from this tree. We'll let you know how it goes in the next few years as it begins producing a bit.

We have some signs of spring. The tulips that i planted last fall are starting to poke out of the ground a bit. I love them because they'll be so pretty and because they're a little reminder that spring is really coming.

Spring also means that we're one season closer to getting this little boy here. When summer hits I'll be a couple weeks away from my due date so spring marks the "better get things put together before this little boy comes" season. We did a lot of cleaning and purging of unnecessary stuff yesterday. We broke down the futon that was in the baby's room and moved it downstairs along with a bunch of other stuff we were storing in the babies room. We're not done yet, obviously, but we're getting closer. This is the dresser and crib we have. The dresser was David's dad's growing up so it's kind of fun to keep it in the family (with some updated hardware:). The room is going to get some color in the coming weeks but we decided that less is more when it comes to paint and instead of painting the whole room we're going to paint a few bright stripes and call it done.

Awww, isn't it so cute? I keep peeking in everyday just to look at it. We're having a baby soon. David felt him for the first time this week and we saw him kick today at church. It definitely is getting more real by the day. And we're getting more excited.

I did not get his quilt finished because I'm having a tension issue with my sewing machine and i couldn't figure out what was wrong last Wednesday so i gave up for a few days. I suppose I should try to fix it again so I can work on projects again. I've played with the tension wheel thing and I've looked at the bobbin, which seemed a bit tangled so i unwound it and rewound it but it didn't help. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix tension?

Baby prep

We practiced diapering our little baby

Ray Ray.

I am in the process of making this cute baby boy a cute baby quilt. When i saw the train fabric i had to buy it. It's funny because i don't have a theme for his room or anything like that but i just loved this fabric. If all goes as planned this week I'll have a finished picture next week. I love my days off of work. I usually just sew all day. It's fun. Part time is the best :)

All the baby quilt.


And there is the finished product of my other quilt. This is the first time i machine quilted anything so it was a new experience. I learned a lot from it and I'm determined to get better at it. For this quilt i just did a really simple diagonal line pattern for the quilting and it kicked my butt. However I'm getting a bit more daring in what I'm planning for the baby quilt so hopefully it will turn out well. Time will tell.

So we're getting prepared for baby slowly but surely. We also bought baby wipes at Costco yesterday. Our house is slowly being overrun with baby stuff. Who knew a baby needed so many things?! We still have plenty of time to finish prepping though. In the next month i hope to show pictures of a painted put together baby's room. We'll see how that goes, maybe within the next 2 months :) But soon things will be together.

chopped

Here's hoping i can style it well. I really like it though. And killing two birds with one stone there's me and baby at week 23.

Hair change?

Could i pull this off? Be honest i don't want to chop inches off my hair and have it look horrible :)

Weekend feats

Made some burp rags today. Used a really simple pattern found here.

Also, we had our new oven delivered. The door on our old one, which was 20 years old and original to the house, broke during some Christmas baking. We held out as long as we could since the oven still functioned fine but we figured we should buy a new one since we'll have a little one around soon. Thanks severance from my old company!

This is from last weekend but I meant to blog it. These are a bunch of my friends from freshman year. We got together for breakfast last Saturday to reminisce and because Molly was in town from DC for her brother's wedding. So fun to get together every few years and see what's new.

20 etc

Stayed home several days this week. The puppy loved laying in the sun!

Finally finished the front of the quilt I've had cut out since July 2009. Thanks to my grandma for her awesome sewing machine that made this possible.

And we're halfway there. Yay! Although with how i feel now i think i may be in a wheelchair by the time we double this 20 weeks but that's the price I'll have to pay for a cute little boy.

Also, went kind of crazy at walmart yesterday when i was buying batting for my quilt. Found a bunch of flannel on clearance. And it was cute little boy stuff. I couldn't stop myself. I'll post pictures later mom :)

It's a boy!!!

We had our ultrasound today. Found out baby is a boy! We're so excited to have him. And he was wiggling, kicking and punching all over during the ultrasound. Apparently he likes his space! He's cute! Can't wait to meet him in several months.