Bookcase for the Nursery

Finally finished a bookcase I’ve been working on for a couple weeks. We are pretty pleased with the results. It’s going to work out perfect for the nursery.

Catching Up

April and May are two very busy months for our family. It starts off with Easter, then Matt's birthday (april 13th) then my birthday (april 24th) our anniversay (april 29th) mothers day (the second sunday in May) and finally heathers birthday (may 10th). This first pic is of our family on Easter.

Matt turned 2 this year and he has a bunch of his friends over for a party. My parents own a bounce house and so we borrowed that from them and luckily it fit perfectly in our basement (the idea was to do it outside but it was way too cold).

For my birthday Heather invited a ton of friends over to a park to have cake and play kick ball. It was a surprise and it was really fun. She always does such a good job at making my birthday special.

For our anniversay we dropped Matt off at my mom's house and headed up to Logan for a weeknd getaway. It wasn't anything fancy but it was so nice to spend two fulls days just the two of us. We had a lot of fun together. We saw a movie and went antique shopping (I bought a block plane which was awesome).

Mother's day was good. Matt got Heather a facial from some spa place and I made a picture frame for a painting Matt made a couple months ago that Heather has had hanging on our magnet board.

Heather's birthday was good. All our friends were burnt out from Matt's party and my party so we had a smaller get together with family. Heather got some flowers/plants to put in the yard and then clothes, a pedicure and manicure from another spa, and then a hammock chair swing for the backyard (that finally arrived this week).

So that's what's been going on. Heather is due in a month. Can't believe we're that close already. Heather has done a ton of stuff to get the nursery all ready and cute and what not. She's started to sew quite a bit these days. She finished a valance for the nursery last week and before that she made a cute little crib skirt a blanket for Matt’s big boy bed and a cover thing for the car seat.

Wood Carvings

If you've been following our blog at all you know that I've taken up woodworking as a hobbie over the last couple of months. Well, I have two new projects that are almost done, both are carvings. The first is a turtle that I carved out of a 6 inch long and about 4 inch round piece of aspen.

The second carving is of a seashell. The idea is that if I ever get good enough to make bookcases or desks or chairs I want to be able to do a relief carving in them to make them unique so with that in my I decided I needed to practice. This was carved out of a 5"X4" piece of pine that I had laying around. And just so you know I didn't smooth out the background on purpose. Heather and I both liked the 'rough' look of it so I left the chisel marks as they were.

Tubes

After not being able to get rid of an ear infection for over 6 weeks our doctor finally decided it was necessary for Matt to get tubes put into his ears. The surgery was on Wed March 10th at 6:30AM (ask me how excited I was to wake up that early). For the surgery Matt had to be put under anesthesia which was okay except for the part when we woke up. For about 4 hours the boy was not alright. I suppose it was just him feeling weird and not knowing how to deal with it but there was definitely a lot of crying after surgery. Thankfully by the end of the day he was back to normal.

Anyway, here a couple of pics of Matt in his hospital garb

A lot to catch up on!

So I haven't blogged in oh, a few months. Luckily, Josh has posted some to give you all something interesting to read. I will give you a quick summary of life since November. We celebrated Thanksgiving with my family in Virginia Beach. We had warmer weather than Utah :) and got to enjoy trips to the beach (just to watch the waves/birds and play in the sand). We had a lot of fun with everyone together.

December was busy with Christmas decorating, shopping, and all the functions and activities that seem to fill up the month. Matt loved the Christmas tree and lights. Everytime we turned them on he would say ," Wow!". So cute! He loved opening gifts and playing with all of the fun new toys.

January went by quickly. We had some family functions in preparation of sending off Josh's youngest brother, Joel, on his mission. It was awesome to go through the temple with all of the siblings and their spouses and parents! Just amazing! The sibs sang together during the "last talk" in sacrament for Joel. As did the cousins. So there were some practices for that. It was so sweet to see all the little guys (even Matt, although he just stood there) and gal singing "I Hope They Call me on a Mission". Joel is officially a missionary now and reported to the MTC just last week. He heads out to Ventura, CA in 2 more weeks. We are excited for him!

Matt has been playing with his friend Michael during some doctor visits.

Matt has had a double ear infection for 3 weeks now and had a bad allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics. POOR GUY!
The cake for Joel's open house. I love chocolate and peanut butter together!

Matt playing at Children's Musuem with Taylor Booth. We got to visit with our friends (the Booths) while they visited family around Christmas.

Josh is really enjoying his wood working hobby. This is the first stages of a movable work table for his saw and router.

Oh, by the way :) WE ARE PREGNANT! I've been postponing blogging lately mostly because of that fact. I like to nap during Matt's naps these days to get some extra rest in. I am 21 weeks along, so over halfway done already! I feel great, other than getting really hungry or really tired. We found out last week we are having a GIRL!!!! We are so dang excited for another little one. Matt doesn't quite understand yet, but he is really cute with little babies. He is going to be a great older brother! And, duh, guess you want to know when to expect this new arrival....

JUNE 20!

We have inherited an awesome fish tank from Dad Whitmer. It came complete with rocks, plants and a cute frog figure. We just had to supply water and fish! We have 3 platys right now. Matt (and I ) absolutely love it!!! It is so fun and relaxing to go over and watch them swim around. The first thing Matt says when we go see him in the morning is "FISH!" Matt even has their names memorized: Mickey Mouse, Lola and Prince. So fun to have a pet.

Sorry you had to read all that! I'll be better at posting more frequently from here on out :)

Videos and Pictures

We haven’t posted any videos or pictures for a while so I thought I ought to get something on here so you can see Matt and how things are going.

 

Wood #2

This is my second wood working project. We had a mirror in our master bath that was just a mirror, no frame nothing. It was something the previous owners of this house left behind. They had it hung on the wall by duct taping a metal hanger thing on the back. For christmas I wanted to make Heather a frame for the mirror so it looked a little nicer and was a little more sturdy. Here is the finished product.