The Simple Life

i want to remember...

• that i am super uncomfortable right now!
• i can't sleep at night, which makes me wonder how many hours i actually do sleep?
• i switch sleeping on my sides every 10 minutes ..and when i do, the baby switches along with me.
• i go to the bathroom at least every 20-30 minutes during the night, no joke!
• this baby just started getting hiccups the other day, so funny! both gulianna & isa did too :)
• we actually have been calling her gabriella...uh...so help me if he's a boy!
• i will never NOT get an ultrasound...it's ridiculous to not know your estimated due date!
• still can't believe that i will actually have 3 kids?!
• i don't have 'cankles' like i did when i was pregnant with gulianna
• this is the first pregnancy that i have actually been home for and not working...i worked in the pharmacy up until the day before i had gulianna, and a worked at my store the day i had isabella!
• gulianna loves to feel the baby kick...isa is super jealous that there is another baby coming!
• i don't know if i can go swimming anymore...my swimsuit is super tight!
• so thankful for air conditioning...it's too hot outside!
• levi has 'cravings' i don't...lol!
• i have to have this baby soon, i can't take it anymore!

my friends...

i ♥ my two little girls!

 
they are my best {little} friends! i take them everywhere with me! i did leave them home with levi on saturday morning for 3 hours while i dropped off my quilt top and grabbed a jamba juice, ran into a couple stores...and that was enough...i thought i wanted a break, but i was wrong! i just wished they were right by my side to enjoy their little faces!

{pictures taken 5.23.2010}

 
 
 
this is where Gulianna starts to hug Isabella and say 'aww, two girls love each other' because i always say that!

and here is where Isabella always pushes her away!

that's our little girls! gulianna always wanting to give hugs and affection...and isa not wanting to be touched!

stuff...

i was just thinking today about things i have passed up on KSL because of not having money! lol! last November when we were getting ready to move down here i was browsing the ads...and found the best deal ever! had we not have had to spend all our money just to move down here...i would have instantly bought this: someone was selling their pink retro pottery barn stove, sink, fridge + a pink washer & dryer {that i've never seen before} and the big table with 6 chairs!!!

get this...it was for only $500 OBO! so i offered $350, but they said they had someone already picking it up for $450... i still would have paid $500 for it all!

and then a couple months ago when we were moving...yet again, i stumbled across another ad that was for a commercial playground for $1500!! and i'm talking huge...it was almost as big as this one...

that would have been awesome to have at our home in Rigby!

 

oh well...there is always a deal right?!

last week we got lucky and bought the girls a brand new pink princess fj cruiser for only $85! glad we didn't buy the one on clearance at walmart for $189! we are waiting to give it to them for Gulianna's birthday party...but the anticipation is killing us!

today...

should be better than yesterday! we didn't even take a shower or get ready, i started to clean, then i actually watched a couple of recorded shows, isabella actually took a nap...i let the girls watch 'mickey cubhouse' all day, then while i was sewing they dumped half a box of cocoa pebbles all over the living room, i should have known by all the screaming and dancing and running around, but i just stayed in my scrapbooking room!

i started a baby blanket, ran out of fabric! i was trying to make it out of 4 fat quarters...now i'm wishing the pattern went the other way, or maybe i should have bought some yardage instead. and it's a girly blanket, we are sure hoping we are having a girl?! going to Material Girls and Hobby Lobby for some more fabric. i think i am going to get this baby blanket quilted first before my bronco blanket...because my money has to go to my camera, it jumped off the kitchen table last friday...i think the devil pushed it off. very irritated and sick about it. but i hope to get it back tomorrow?

we've been busy this summer, but not by playing outside...it's too hot for the girls, especially since we have no trees in the backyard...so much for playing in a fenced backyard! we have to wait till at least after 7, but more like 8pm to go outside and play. we go swimming at least once a week, the girls love it! we go grocery shopping with Levi, usually he just goes, but Smith's has the cool little car in front of the carts that the girls love to ride in! this last time though, Gulianna pushed one of the little mini carts, she loved that! we've gone to jamba juice, {not enough though!} and the girls love to go to the South Towne Mall to ride on the carousel, isa likes to ride the zebra, and Gulianna likes 'the horse with the flowers on it's butt!' lol! i usually like to go a couple hours before the mall closes, because then i buy Mrs. Field's mini chocolate chip cookies for half off...and i buy them out! mmmm! but we haven't done that lately! i remember when they used to be $1.75 for a dozen...we've driven the bronco a couple times, the girls want to drive it every day, but i just can't when it's 100 degrees, even with the bikini top on, it's not fun to drive like a blow dryer is constantly on you, i'm sayin' it's HOT! in Idaho, it would be okay! we did that last week, when Levi had to take the Durango, and i about died of heat exhaustion!

really wish i just would have gotten an ultrasound, because now we can't make our trip to Idaho like we had planned, because i don't know when i'm going to have this baby! soon though, i hope, i am ready...i am super uncomfortable, i can't lay down, i can't sleep, i can't sit on the sofa for very long, i was never this uncomfortable before! going to get out the baby clothes today, and see what i'm missing! going to Carter's to get some newborn onsies, and a boy set just in case!

i've been missing cold Idaho summer nights...nothing better than going outside to cool/freeze off! i think of that every night when i open the front door, and it's still 80...90 degrees and i just shut the door and get mad. i will wake up in the middle of the night, just to turn down the air conditioner even more, and then i will step outside to see if it cooled off, nope still HOT! when we used to live in California, i used to put my sheets in the freezer for about 30 minutes and then go sleep with them! sometimes i would be too tired to wait for them to get cold, and would fall asleep, my mom would always wonder why there were sheets in the freezer...i think i finally told her it was me a couple years ago, lol! i also miss cold tap water. especially for brushing my teeth...i can't tell you how much i can't stand luke warm water, hello it's on cold it should come out COLD! and i love it when it's ice cold! Levi says i'm crazy!

anyway...off to clean the house and vacuum up some cocoa pebbles!

isabella's first birthday...

{only 6 months later :)...}

we had a cupcake birthday party for her! it was inspired by the cute cupcake dresses my mom bought for our girls for Gulianna's birthday last year!

 
and now to look back on her pictures when i thought she had a lot of hair back then...it has grown so much more! i was just remembering when her hair would always form a point, she looked like a little dracula! now it just hangs in front of her eyes, but i don't want to cut it, because then half her head would be bangs lol!

here we are the night before, getting ready for her birthday party! Gulianna feeling a bit jealous that it's not her party! we went to get all the food and pick up mini cupcakes from the Cocoa Bean, i was happy that Gloria just opened up another shop down here in Provo :)

the morning of her birthday i attempted to make cake pops...um yeah, i think i will not try that again! it was not easy for me! i think i gave up after making ten or so cake pops, and just made 'cake balls' instead!

 
candy treat bags for all the cousins...

 
 
 
we had 'beans and cabbage' for lunch, Levi's family grew up on this recipe! i have to admit, i thought it was really wierd at first, but it's really good!

my sister Annareigh made her cupcake birthday cake!

 

here is the little cake that i made...it was a back up, because i didn't know if Annareigh was going to have time to make it when they got here {they drove down here that morning} but she came prepared! and sadly enough...Isabella didn't even get a chance to dig into either one of them! We just got too busy trying to do everything!
 
    
  
mmmm! i guess we did let her stick her fingers in it!

trying to get a picture of both girls is nearly impossible! 

   
  

Isabella opening up her presents...or more like everyone else opening up her presents for her!

 
 
   

  
and just like that all the presents were opened! and isa was left alone!

she loves her little purple baby!

 
and then it was time for the pinata!

 
 
isa was more excited that dad was upstairs than wanting to hit her pinata!

 
 
 
we are so happy that we have isabella in our family! she has grown so much, she is a feisty little girl, and now the last month she has turned into a pouty girl, she knows that she won't be our little baby for much longer! she tries to soak up all the attention she can get! at nights when we try and get her ready for bed, she will lay there and pout, and then look up to see if we are still paying attention to her...and then hide her head, and make her pouty face! then if we even try to pick her up she throws a tantrum and won't let us hold her! what to do with her! she used to just go to bed and fall asleep just like that...not anymore!?

she has been getting a little bit better! we still love her dearly :)  and once again...i can't believe she is now 18 months old already!

has it already been another year?

i can't believe that in just 2 short weeks Gulianna will now be three?! she is still the same little girl, just a bit older and taller! she loves to be with me in my scrapbooking room and help me with whatever i'm working on, she likes to look at every little embellishment i have. she's a good 'helper girl'...she helps with the laundry, loading and unloading the washer/dryer, putting clothes away, helps with dishes, picking up her toys & organizing them, she does just about everything!  she always says 'mom what are we going to do today?' and i say 'i don't know, what do you want to do?' and she shrugs her shoulders and says 'i just want to have fun' ! that's my Gulianna! she loves to go shopping, we always go to the toy sections in every store to 'look' at the toys. i remember earlier this year, instead of wanting to go look at the baby dolls, she told me 'mom, i don't want to look at the babies, i want to look at barbie dolls, isa wants to look at the babies! Where did that come from! Her favorite shows are still Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Max & Ruby, Hannah Montana, Wizards, and Zach & Cody.

this was her 2nd birthday party last year...

i can't believe how small she looks, yet back then she was still such a big girl!

 
 

hitting her pinata that grandma & grandpa brought! 
 
 

 and look how small Isa looks! she was only 6.5 months!

 
 
Gulianna checking on her little sister!

 
opening birthday presents...

 
then we had to move her to the trampoline, because everyone was crowding around and couldn't see...

{uncle Anthony helping with her presents...we were happy he got to come home for a little while, in between his tours in Iraq & Afghanistan}

and those shoes that Grandma gave her no longer fit her growing feet!

 
but that didn't last long...everyone still joined in :)

 she got 'princess dishes' from uncle RJ! she plays with them everyday!

 
and we finally got to put this Hello Kitty toaster to use! i bought it for myself for Christmas 4 or 5 years ago? and then decided to wait until we had a little girl to use it! Levi despises it...because 'his toast is getting jipped on not being toasted where the Hello Kitty face imprints on his toast!' lol! 

 
And here is us attempting a family picture with our birthday girl, who just wanted to play! why is it so hard! i just want one good picture!

 We are now getting ready to plan her third birthday party! I hope that this baby won't come yet and spoil Gulianna's special day!
  

sewing my first quilt...

i am almost done! i can't wait to get it quilted too!

hopefully i will be dropping it off on Thursday!

{not the best picture...isa bumped me just as i was taking it!}

it's kind of an odd size...but remember, i have no idea what i am doing...it's really long :)

and don't mind the left side...i guess you should measure and cut before you just start sewing?

i get really impatient when it comes to this stuff!

i don't know why i procrastinated cutting and sewing the strips on the ends for so long...it only took me 30 minutes! now i am just trying to figure out exactly where i want the flowers and posies! tomorrow i am going to buy the minkee fabric for the back...making progress!

i wish i would have bought more of the pink fabric w/ the flowers...i love this fabric and want to make more stuff out of it!

 

our home in driggs...

i just opened a box of mini albums that i have created in the past...and we just hung our rustic metal easel thing in the hallway, so now i get to display some of my albums again. thinking about how many times we have hung this easel in all the homes that we lived in. brings back so many memories!

i always think of our first home in Driggs. i sure miss it! although, i have to say i miss our home and property outside of Rigby more, and the plans that we had for it...i want to move back!

i can't wait till we settle down and are able to own our own home again. this is the first time we have ever 'rented' a home together...{besides renting the house from my parents next door} and i can't tell you how much we hate it! wanting to change everything, and make it your own, but not wanting to invest money, because it's someone elses rental. it just drives us crazy.

but our family is what makes a house a home, and that is what's most important!

 

too bad we didn't get to enjoy the basement...we finished it just before moving out :( it would have been nice to have more rooms!

i am going to add more pictures in an album on the sidebar...you are welcome to peak inside! i still have some pictures to locate in the meantime...

i'm addicted...

to buying cute fat quarters!

since i took this picture{almost a month ago}, i have purchased a lot more, i can't help myself, it's become an addiction!

and i don't even know what i am going to make with them when i buy them...

this doesn't even include the yardage i have collected over the past 3 years either :) it's just waiting to be sewn!

 
 

i now have 4 fat quarters set aside for a baby blanket, and i need to buy 16 more to add to 2 of the fat quarters in a bowl to make another blanket with this pattern! plus i haven't even finished my bronco blanket...i guess i better get back to that, that is my goal for this weekend! and scrapbook a couple pages :) 

Fourth Decorations...

My decorations for this year! I made a fourth of july banner with the kit from House of 3.

 
All finished and hanging up...

 
 
 
 
 

feeling inspired...

 

just got back from a cute little quilt shop...i love looking at fun fabrics, and pairing color combos together...so fun!

this was my small purchase for today, and i got lucky when the lady at the counter was cutting my ric rac. i only had three whole dollars on me & some change, and i swear i can't save money for nothin', i will spend every last penny! so i told her to cut me 3 yards of ric rac...and as she was cutting there was a cute little box on the counter with 1/8 yds of fabric, so i started looking...and i found what i wanted! some polka.dots in turquoise & some star fabric! it was meant to be! then i started panicking, because i was going to be short on money...

luckily i ran out to the car to get more change...i now have 8 pennies in my wallet :) and i almost spent it all on penny candy! lol!

any guesses on what i might be making?