I'm still here!

I feel like I'm living in the dark ages. I HATE not being able to get on the internet and blog or check friends' blogs whenever I want. We are still getting settled in at our new house. We LOVE our house and feel so blessed to have it. They are putting up our privacy fence this week. I'm so glad we went ahead and got that. The neighbors to either side of us are related and they cut through our backyard ALL the time. They let their little kid play in our yard and have no consideration that its our property and that we may not appreciate them doing what they are doing. I would NEVER walk through someones yard, unless I knew them. All this will end by the end of the week. We STILL don't have our refrigerator upstairs. Its a "special order" product and they told me that it would take 2 weeks to get in, that was over 2 weeks ago. Our front door was a "special order" and it was only suppose to take 2 wks too, but ended up taking a month to get in, hopefully, that won't be the case with the fridge. Its getting real old going up and down the stairs to get food.
I feel like my head has been spinning for the past few weeks, and don't know what I have written about lately. Adriana started school, the same week we moved, and she LOVES it! A lot of her friends from her old class, last year are in her class this year. She told me to today, that she loves her new teachers. She is talking more and more all the time and telling big stories. She remembers every detail to everything and she doesn't want to leave anything out while she's telling her stories. Its so cute and funny to watch her talk.
We went this last weekend to the Lake of the Ozarks, with my best friend, Susan and her husband, Jim. This is the fourth year we have done a trip with them and we look forward to it every year. Its a great break from kids and a relaxing time with a friend I don't get to see but a couple times a year. We didn't do much but relax and eat good food. Of course, we squeezed in some shopping. We ended up camping, which was a lot of fun. To be honest, I wasn't sure how being 30 weeks pregnant, I was going to enjoy camping, but it turned out to be a good time.
Speaking of being pregnant, I had another doctors appointment the Friday we left for our trip. I had only gained 1lbs, which made me so happy! I gained so much weight with Adriana, close to 60lbs, and never lost even half of that weight, so I'm excited that I'm doing better this go around. The baby is healthy and doing good. I have another appointment in 2 weeks.
I know none of this is very exciting, and I'm sorry that I don't have any pictures up. Its hard for me to download pictures onto some other computer. I hope to get something up soon. I'll try to post as much as I can, but don't know if its going to be more than once a week, for a while.
Hope everyone is doing good!

Plans for the weekend

We are leaving in 2 days for our annual trip with my best friend, Susan, and her husband. We are going to the Lake of the Ozarks for a couple of days and camping. I don't know how well I'll do camping being about 30 weeks pregnant, but I think its going to be fun. It will be a good break for us to get away for a couple of days.
The house is slowly but surely coming along. Just all the random junk laying around that needs a home. I'll try to get pictures up after our trip.
I still feel lost without internet. Its hard not to be able to stay "connected" to everyone, like I would like too.
Hope everyone is going good. Have a good rest of the week and weekend!

Updates!

Sorry no pictures today. We are still without Internet and the word is, that we may be without Internet for about 3 months. I don't know how we can have the Internet about 3 blocks away but at our new house we have nothing.
I will try to update my blog as much as I can, I miss writing in it, and feel like I'm going to miss out on telling some things, but I'll do the best I can.
We are still getting settled into our new house. We love it! We are about 80% done with unpacking. Its so hard to get anything done with a needy 2 year old, but we are getting there. We had a little bit of a stressful move and closing, but we are alive to tell about it. To sum it up, we didn't really have much help moving and it took over 9 hours to get the big stuff loaded and unloaded, just because of the lack of help. I'm so thankful to have a strong and hard working husband that was able to do so much. We had our new refrigerator delivered on Monday, but soon found out that it was way too big to fit in our kitchen. Unfortunately, our refrigerator goes as soon as you walk in the kitchen and it was just too deep and stuck out in the middle of the walk way into the kitchen. The poor guys from Lowes was probably ready to kill me after they lugged it up the staircase. It took the poor workers about 2 hours to get in the door and then dismantle it and get it back out the door. I had to go back that day and order another, smaller one. That refrigerator won't be in for another 2 weeks. Luckily, we have another refrigerator down in the garage. The only bad thing is when you want something from the fridge, you have to run downstairs. Makes you think twice about wanting some ice for your drink!
If that's the worse thing that happens in the move, I'll take it. God has been really good to us and has watched over us through this whole thing.
I will try to get some pictures up soon. I'm such a perfectionist, that I won't take any pictures until I get everything put away.
Adriana is loving her new house and new toy closet, however, she tells us everyday that she loves her old house and she wants to go back home. It doesn't help that we have to drive past that house everyday. Its sad when she says she misses her old house.
We all have adjusted well and Zoe is even doing good. We'll keep you posted as we can.

Moving!

I don't have a whole lot of time, but wanted to keep everyone posted. We got the okay from the builder that we could go ahead and move our stuff in this weekend instead of waiting until closing, which is scheduled for Tuesday, September 1. This is a good thing and a bad thing. I'm a HUGE procrastinator and was pushing it for me to be ready to move by Tuesday, well now, I have to be ready within 48 hours. Just pray that my body will allow me to work hard and everything will come together. God has truly blessed us with this new house and I know He will help us with this move, its just a little overwhelming right now! We'll keep you guys posted as we can!

New Decorations

Sorry I have been a little slack on blogging lately, we're trying to wrap up things around here for the big move. One of the most exciting things for me, is to get new space to decorate for. What makes me even more happy is when I get stuff at great prices. Anyone who knows me, knows I LOVE to bargain shop! We have a Goodwill literally less than a mile from our house, and its a real nice, clean store. I head up that way about once a week to see what's "new" up there. (To me, its kind of like a perpetual garage sale). Anyway, I went in there yesterday and walked out of there with some really good buys.

Here's a lamp I got there yesterday, that is like brand new, that works, and all it needs is a shade. Price: $9.00!

Here is a decorative vase to put on a bookshelf. Price: $8.00! (this item still had on the original price from World Market and was sold for over $25.00)

Here is a picture and decor I bought for the basement. My parents were so gracious to give us 2 leather recliners and a cream colored couch, so I wanted to get a picture that would help tie all that together. I got the picture at JCPenny's for less than $30.00, and I'm going to hang 2 sconces on either side of the painting (in picture to the right) got both of those at JCP for more than 50% off and then found this cool bowl with decorative balls,(on the floor to the left of the painting) which have a lot of the same colors that are in the painting at Goodwill yesterday too, for only $6.00! I was super excited!

The last picture, isn't the best, but I was going to show you the decor we picked out for the kids bathroom. No great bargains, but thought it was cute. We are going to paint the walls a light aqua color.

My parents and Ryan and I all took turns painting up at the new house this last weekend. I meant to take pictures but I keep forgetting my camera. Anyway, we got the basement done and Adriana's room. We had picked out a color for Adriana's room, but it ended up being so bright, that it practically burned your eye balls, so we went back and got a shade lighter. I like it a lot better now. I will try to post pictures of what is done, when I get them taken. Anyway, still don't know a closing date, probably next week sometime. Have lots to do before now and then, but thought I would share some of our new decorations with you!

Big Girl Underwear

I just have a few minutes, because today we are painting up at the new house and trying to pack, but I wanted to write something funny that Adriana was saying last night. I was in the kitchen cooking dinner and Ryan and Adriana was putting laundry in the washing machine. As we are potty training Adriana, she as gotten to pick out her own "big girl underwear" and has become aware of the fact that everyone wears underwear. Anyway, as Ryan was handing laundry to her to put in the machine, I would hear her say, "A's big girl underwear....Mommy's big girl underwear...Daddy's big girl underwear". I was cracking up at her calling Ryan's underwear "big girl underwear". Too funny!

Cat Fights and Giggles

I have been blessed this week. My parents have taken Adriana 2 days so I could pack/relax and get some errands run. The other day I was here packing and saw Zoe all fired up about something. Well, one of the cats that she as gotten in a fight with before, was on the deck and that cat and Zoe was having a stare down. I grabbed my camera to catch on tape how crazy Zoe sounds when she sees another cat, however as soon as I turned it on that cat pawed at Zoe through the door and Zoe sounds really crazy. Unfortunately, I ran out of room on my memory card, so its only about 3 seconds long. Anyway, when Adriana got home that evening, I showed the video to her and she thought it was the funniest thing. She kept playing it over and over again. She was laughing and then mimicking Zoe's sound that she made. It was pretty funny. Zoe doesn't find humor in her misfortune, but Adriana does.