Sneak Peek

Ok ok I gave in.  Here is a little sneak peek of our nursery so far.  I have so much to do to it and fun little decorations.  Once I finish it completely I will post more pictures of the entire room.  What do you guys think?

WE HAVE A NURSERY!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I know Allen and I sure did. We ended our Christmas today by hitting the day after Christmas sales. Allen was able to get 2 new suits for Church and 3 XBOX 360 games. I am putting my money towards a video camera so I can take videos of my precious baby boy! We went to buy the camera today but they were out, so we will have to go get it tomorrow when the shipment comes in. We finished up the day by putting together our baby furniture in our other room! How fun!

Allen and I got some really neat gifts this Christmas. Allen's parents bought us a digital camera and I am so excited about it. Allen got this really neat wrench thing and some really nice dress shoes. They bought me a velour sweat suit and I sure love it. It is soooo comfy. I also got some new pajama's which I LOVE! I have to brag that I have the most amazing husband. Allen bought me a Kitchen Aid for Christmas, along with my purfume that I have been dying for and some nice slippers. He did soooo good and I just love him so much. Thanks so much honey, you are amazing. I got Allen some new church clothes and socks, a fun game, cologne, some XBOX stuff and a movie. So we had a wonderful Christmas this year and I am sad to see it end. On a happier note, next time Christmas rolls around, we will be celebrating it with a 9 month year old baby!

It took Allen and I about an hour and a half to put our crib together today. We quickly learned that this was one of those times you do NOT read the instructions, you look at the pictures. Luckily our combo table was all one piece, so no assembly needed, and our glider chair only needed a few screws. I have been enjoying sitting in my chair in my baby nursery. I even took a nap on the chair earlier. I am so excited to get some neat decorations for the room, and I have a few projects ahead of me. I wont be posting a picture of our nursery till I get more done to it, so sorry! I am just so excited that my furniture is up and just waiting for the baby! WOOHOO!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas Eve....crazy eh? Tonight we opened up the gifts from my parents. I got some more of my china and I got some disney movies. Allen got some fun church socks and stuff that he is excited about. We got tons of gift cards, and LOTS of baby clothes. I sure enjoyed looking at them. We have a wonderful collection of baby clothes now...YIPPEE! I sure love our baby. Anyways, we had a wonderful nights with the Bennett's and got some Christmas PJ's. We have to wake up so early for presents. They do presents at drum roll please............. 4 AM! I know, so early! So in a few hours we will be driving to his sisters to open presents with them and spend Christmas together. I sure love Christmas.

Our baby furniture came in last Thursday but they wouldn't unload the dang truck. So finally today we got the call that we could come get our furniture. It sure isn't fun waiting. So on Friday morning Allen and I will be spending the morning putting our baby nursery together. I am so excited I can't even explain! I want Friday to come quicker.

Today I hit my 26 week mark and am officially 6 months pregnant. I cannot believe that I am already that far ahead. Our son is now 14 inches long and loves to play in his mommy's tummy. He kicks, rolls, and stretches ALL day long. He is a very very very active little man. I guess he takes after his Daddy and Mommy. This afternoon he stretched his foot out and I could see my stomach push out really far and I touched it and could tell it was his foot. Oh it was sooooo fun. I just love being able to feel my baby. I just hope I can wait three more months. My email I got from baby center today said that the baby can hear Allen's and my voice. I just so badly want him to come out so I can hold him and kiss him....oh it's KILLING me. My stomach just grew a lot. He must be hitting another big growth spurt because I constantly feel my stomach just expanding and I swear my belly gets bigger every time I look in the mirror. Some days I just look HUGE! I will be posting another picture within the next couple days. I have just gained so much weight so I am dreading taking another picture. Of course I am getting fat because I have been eating WAY too much because of the holidays. Well anyways, there will be a ton of pictures to be posted soon of me and also our nursery....so stay tuned!

Merry Christmas everyone!

SNOW!

I love snow to look at, but I HATE it on the roads. I tend to wreck in snow and it scares me. I absolutely hate how in other states school is closed down, stores are closed...they just close things when it snows. Why does Utah not do any of this. Seeing that Utah has the WORST drivers, you would think they would close things down. I am dreading going to work tonight because I am scared to leave the house. This morning I had to drive something to Allen's work and I about crashed the car. I was just backing out of our driveway in our jeep and it started sliding and I got so close to hitting this light post at the bottom of the driveway. Then my car got stuck and I couldn't pull forward or back up for so long. What the heck? We have an off roading vehicle and our Jeep has huge tires. I shouldn't have that problem, but I did. I am just so scared to leave the house. If I wreck it could put me into labor and that freaks me out. Why can't Utah just close things like other states do. AHHHH! I like snow for the purpose of snowmen, sledding, snowball fights, etc...but when it comes to driving in it, I would rather die.

This morning I did something TERRIBLE that I will never ever do again. Our landlord shoveled the snow on his side of the drive way but it pushed a TONG of snow on our side down the whole drive way. I was scared enough to drive down the driveway, so I shoveled our side of the driveway. I started getting major pains because it was working me body too hard. When Allen found out I was shoveling the driveway he called me and told me to stop and that I was to never do that again. He was right, I should not have done that. I had to leave though and there was way to much snow. What else am I supposed to do. Oh how I hate the snow sometimes....

I am SOOO mean!

HAHAHA! So get this: I signed Allen and I up at the hospital for those prenatal classes. Our insurance covers it and I hear they are really important to go to for your first child. So I signed us up! It is every Tuesday night from 6:30-9:30 for 5 weeks starting February 3rd. I called Allen to inform him and he was not very happy. Oh it was so funny. I felt like I had a crying kid screaming that I was soooo mean. You know how we all used to tell our parents that? Allen wasn't screaming or telling me I was mean, but he sure doesn't want to go to them. Haha, this is all kinda funny to me. Sorry honey!

Christmas Time

I am getting so excited for Christmas. It will be sad that this will be my first Christmas away from my family, but I have Allen and his family, so it's okay. One of the great things this time of the year is all the work Christmas parties. Tonight was one of Allen's Christmas parties. Everyone in the business office at UVU was invited with their spouses to Tucano's for a free dinner. I love Tucano's, so I very much enjoyed myself. It was fun to get out together and have a free dinner at one of our favorite places!

Today I finally finished the nursery wall that I have been working on. I have spent at LEAST 8 hours on it, so it sure has been a major project. It looks great though, so it was worth it. I just got off the phone with Babies R Us to see what was up with our order. To my surprise they said my crib and combo table was already on the truck and it's coming from San Diego. I was hoping it would come in this week and I was right. So woohoo, we will get our furniture within a couple days. I have been working so hard at cleaning out this room. Let me tell you, it is very hard to clean this room spotless and find places for everything around the house. I have piles throughout the house of stuff to sell, stuff to throw away, and stuff to go to DI. My house is a wreck right now. If anyone came inside they would die seeing it all, but I feel great about the mess because I know it's our start of getting it all out.

We have been begging our landlord to get two chairs out of our apartment. They were here when we got here and we can't store them anymore. They are HUGE orange ugly chairs but dang are they comfortable! We have just had them in the other room collecting dust but we need them out. He keeps saying he'll get them out the next morning and he wont show up. It's been about a month now of him making excuses and we are getting very upset. Allen wont even go upstairs to talk to him anymore because he is so annoyed. I am about to open our door and throw them on the drive way. All I know is they better be out by the time our furniture comes in. So there is my venting on the chairs, I am just getting fed up!

The baby nursery...

I sure gave myself one HUGE project. You can't even imagine how big this project is. I can't paint my walls and I want color, so I came up with a solution. I have been working on my main wall of the nursery since early this morning and I am only HALF way done. It sure is a project and also so much fun. I bet you all want to see what I am doing with the nursery....but that will stay my little secret for a little bit longer. :) Well, a few people have seen it so far, but I am not posting a picture quite yet. You'll have to stay tuned!

WOOHOO!

So I have been stressing about our baby nursery! How dumb does that sound? HAHAHA! I just want it to be so dang cute and be such a good expression of how much I love our little boy. I want it to be PERFECT, just like him. I look online like EVERYDAY to find ideas on how to decorate. We can't paint our walls, and I don't want plain white walls, so I have to do something about it. Up until last night I was planning on cutting out polka dots out of vinyl in different sizes and putting them on the wall. Well I found something even better and is more boyish. I will save my polka dot idea for my girl when I have her...or as Allen would say, IF I have her. I am just so dang excited for the nursery to be DONE. I haven't even started it. I am cleaning it out and have stuff ordered for it but haven't yet started. I am really hoping that Monday and Tuesday I can tackle the walls and get my vinyl idea up and done. My in-laws are coming to Utah this year for Christmas and I think our crib and combo will be in by then. I would just LOVE to have the vinyl on the walls and have some of the furniture in so that they can see part of the nursery. Wouldn't that be just great to have it all done and out of the way so I don't have to stress about it anymore. I know its dumb for me to stress about this, but hey, nothing is too good for my little son! :)

Some people sure know how to make you feel awful!

Like I posted in the previous post, we are preparing our second room for the baby.  I posted our computer desk and my craft table on KSL.  I thought it would take awhile to sell like most things do, but I sold them both within a couple hours.  It sure is nice to be able to make room for this baby.  So here comes the story:

Our computer desk was wonderful.  I LOVED it.  Here is a picture of our old desk:

The desk was great. It is HUGE and was so spacious. The only problem with it was that it was a little wobbly. It wasn't terrible at all and besides that is was in great shape. I seriously had about 15 calls on the desk within the first couple hours. Allen and I posted on KSL that it was only $25. Who wouldn't want the desk for $25 right? So we had some people who came and looked at the desk and then we got this phone call. It was a man and he said that he wanted the desk. I asked him if he would like to come look at it and he said no. He said that he had a truck and would come pick it up and didn't care to look at it first. I had explained on the ad on KSL that it was a little wobbly, and I confirmed on the phone that he knew that. He said yes. Well the desk is HUGE and isn't brand new, so Allen and I spent awhile taking the desk apart and keeping all the pieces together. If we didn't take the desk apart it would have broken in his car seeing that it isn't new and perfect. So the guy comes to our house and I explain to him that we took the desk apart for him for easy travel and that we kept all the pieces together so it could easily get put back together. He handed me the $25 and I said thank you. Allen helped him load the pieces into his truck and off he went. This was yesterday. Well today I get this NASTY email from him:

"Your computer desk that you guys sold me was a piece of S***! I don't even know why you guys took it apart cause i told you i had a truck. The metal pieces that were suppose to go in the wooden holes were messed up! They were recently glued together which you guys already know and when i tried to put the desk together the metal pieces started to fall apart! What a waste of my time and money! I hope you guys have a great Christmas with that 25 bucks!"

I cleaned up the swear word for you but he actually said the real word in the email to me. I am soooo upset. The desk was great. It wasn't crappy and it wasn't falling apart. We had so many people who wanted the desk and we could have sold it to ANY of them. We sold it for such a great price. I just can't believe that this guy had the nerve to buy the desk, not even wanting to look at it first, and we help him out, and then I get this nasty email back. I wish we sold the desk to someone who would have appreciated it and not make me have a horrible night now. Thank you guy who was a JERK!

Last night...

Last night was so much fun.  Allen and I went to Babies R Us to order our crib.  He was so funny in the store.  I watch him sitting in the glider chairs, being a goof, running off with the strollers, cracking jokes.  Such a hoot!  The lady who was helping us was laughing so hard at him sometimes.  Well we were planning on just ordering our crib last night but we walked out with much more fun stuff as well.  We ended up picking out our crib mattress, and getting our bedding, and also buying our travel system.  She totally convinced us into getting this WAY nice Chicco system that is just so cool.  It has so many mor functions than the other stroller/carseats.  We ended up getting the one that is Brown with an Orange Trim.  It wasn't our favorite fabric choice, but with all the features, we fell in love!  It was so much fun going there together and buying stuff for our little baby boy.  You should have seen us in the car with all the stuff we bought last night.  We fit it all into our 2 door Honda, and Allen and I could barely breathe.  It was so funny driving home and being so cramped...but anything for our little baby!  I can't believe how much of our baby stuff we already have bought.  We still have another 3 1/2 months to go, but hey we will be prepared! :)  We still don't have any clothes for the little guy, so we need to get on that.  Actually we have two little clothes that my sister bought me, but besides that we have NOTHING.  I started posting our stuff in the second bedroom on sale.  We need to get this stuff out so that we can make room for baby.  Our crib and combo should be here by Christmas so I want to have this room cleaned out so we can start setting up and decorating.  I am having way too much fun with this and can hardly WAIT!  I can't stop dreaming about our son...I dream about him everynight.  He plays around in me a lot and it makes me smile and laugh.  I just can't even express enough the love I already have for this baby.  It is absolutely unbelievable!  

I'm obsessed....

...with my husband and my son!  I just wanted to let you all know.  I just can't get enough of them...

So So FUN!

This morning I went and ordered stuff for our baby nursery!  It was way to much fun to go and order the stuff.  I ordered the glider chair and a couple pieces of furniture because some of them can take up to 14 weeks to come in...so they needed to be ordered.  There isn't many of the combo tables left in the warehouse so I ordered that as well so we make sure to have it.  It will be coming in within the next couple weeks which means I need to start clearing out our second bedroom.  We were going to wait awhile longer to order our crib because we don't really have room for it yet, but it is on sale right now for $60 off.  And when I was paying for stuff today they gave me a 20% off coupon that is only good for tomorrow night, so Allen and I are going to buy it tomorrow.  We will save a grand total of $160 just off our CRIB.  How cool is that.  So the crib will be coming in within the next couple weeks too.  I am just so excited to start getting ready for our little baby boy.  I really had so much fun ordering stuff today for the nursery.  I really just want the glider chair right now so badly but that will take up to 8 weeks to come in, so I am going to have to be patient.  I think that chair will be a major life saver come the end of the pregnancy and I am so uncomfortable.  YAY FOR BABIES!

The feelings I feel...

Maybe I am just weird, I don't know if everyone feels this, but when you poke your belly button do you get this tingly feeling?  Well, I do.  I hope thats normal.  Well ever since the baby has become more active I keep feeling that same tingly feeling over and over again.  I swear my baby is playing jump rope with his umbilical cord all the time, or so it feels!  He is so funny!  Last night I was laying in bed on my side and he kept doing something that was tickling my inside.  He kept doing it over and over again and I just kept laughing!  Sometimes I sure love feeling him move, but other times I get annoyed because he tends to always want to play when mommy wants to sleep.  Cute little boy!

New Layouts

I've posted a few more backgrounds on my site so check them out.  I am hoping to get a few more Christmas ones on there within the next few days and then I am going to move to basic all year round backgrounds.  Check it out.  I hope you enjoy them!  

SpecialMadeDesigns.blogspot.com

Launching website!

So I have had a lot of emails about my few blog backgrounds I have made, so I decided to go on and open up a blog for my free backgrounds.  Allen is going to KILL me when he reads this because he says I have too many blogs, which I do.  But hey it's fun!  So if you want to check out my website it is SpecialMadeDesigns.blogspot.com

I have had a lot of fun making the website and I sure hope you enjoy it.  I have like 5 Christmas backgrounds on there and will start making many more, so stay tuned for more.  I have complete intructions on my site of how to add them as your backgrounds.  Tell me what you think!  And tell me if you use one of them! :)  

Brand New Layouts

This morning I have been making new Blogspot Backgrounds. Here is a few I made this morning. As I make more, I will post them. If you want to use any of them let me know and I will tell you how to get them. Tell me what you think!

OH PLEASE?!?!?!

I just got back from my doctor's appointment, and let me tell you...I AM NOT VERY HAPPY! I had an appointment 4 weeks ago and as of that appointment I had only gained 2 pounds. Well I stood on the scale today and I have gained 8 pounds since the previous appointment which puts me at 10 pounds so far. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! How does someone gain 8 pounds in 4 weeks? I guess by eating a ton...which I sure have done. I just don't get full anymore. I am always hungry. The doctor walked in the room and said, "Hello Whitney, how are you today?" and I replied, "I was great until I stood on that scale!" He laughed and brought over my chart. He said, "What are you talking about? You could not be any better than you are right now. Last appointment you were under your weight that you should be at and you are perfectly on track!" OH BROTHER! You can't tell a woman that it's good to gain 10 pounds. I know that I should have and that some of it is the weight of the baby and stuff but it still SUCKS! I want to lose weight, not gain weight. So I guess the next few weeks I am going to be really good at not eating so much. I don't want to gain more than 2 pounds at my next appointment. I am going to start exercising! :)

So this morning has been so great. For as long as I can remember my family has always made English Toffee at Christmas and then started making caramels too! The last few years I have made it by myself since I no longer live at home. With today being my day off and having NOTHING to do all day I decided to start my annual Christmas candy making.



Here I have one batch of English Toffee and one batch of Caramels! Oh they are so yummy. I only make these once a year, so it sure is a treat when I make them. So I have one batch of each down, and many more to go! Oh I just love this time of the year! :)

Christmas at the Bennett's

The day after Thanksgiving we went and bought our Christmas tree. We really, really, really struggled with that and I can't stress it enough. Allen and I both come from families who had LARGE Christmas trees, like 15 foot ones. It was hard enough to buy a small one, because it just seemed dinky! Well besides that obstacle, Allen and I have very different taste in trees. For him, the less branches the better, and my family we like it to be a little bit heavier. We don't like the extremely bushy ones, but we like it a little fuller. After a long time, we found one that was right in the middle and that we both agreed on. As you can see it fit PERFECTLY into our home. The top is about 1/4 inch from the ceiling! :) I think the tree ended up being 8 feet. As soon as we got it in our house, it didn't seem very dinky and small anymore! We had been collecting ornaments and stuff for our tree for about the past month so that we were ready to go the day after Thanksgiving. We will need to invest in a tree topper and tree skirt next year, as you can see, we don't have one this year. So for our tree topper we just tied a nice bow out of ribbon. I think it works great! It was so much fun putting up our tree together. Now my family has a little tradition...when we put up Christmas decorations, we listen to the Chipmunks CD. It has been something I have done since I was a little girl. Well Allen hates the Chipmunks with a PASSION, so I put on my Christmas music on shuffle on my iPod so that we could get a little bit of everything. I am sad to report that we did not get to listen to the Chipmunks because every time one of their songs came on, Allen would switch to the next song. So so so sad! Hopefully as our kids grow they can stand with me and vote that we keep the Chipmunks on. We'll see how that goes.

Another difference with Allen and I is that my family puts the presents out under the tree right away. It is so pretty to look at the tree for a few weeks with presents all wrapped under there. Allen says the presents don't go out until the night before. There is another thing that I am going to HAVE to win on! So as I am buying the presents I am wrapping them and putting them under the tree. He already has finished shopping for me and refuses to wrap them and put them under the tree. So I guess only the ones I buy him are going to go under there! :( Right now I only have two, as you can see in the picture. I very badly need to go get him more gifts. I am just waiting for us to get paid next and then Allen will have many more presents. YAY FOR CHRISTMAS!