Waiting for baby

 Well my due date has come and gone, and baby still hasn't come. After my doctor's appointment last Friday, it was decided that I would be induced Tuesday, September 11, 2012 in the evening. It was nice to finally know when this was going to all end. So now we are just playing the waiting game. I can't wait to meet our little girl, and I hope that the dogs are excited too. Below are pictures of me and the dogs waiting for Lilybelle's arrival. Only a few more days to go.

Sunny waiting it out on the car cover

Sophie waiting it out on the couch

Me at 41 weeks and 1 day,waiting for baby

3 days and nothing

Today I had my latest doctor appointment and nothing. I'm three days from my due date and little miss still doesn't want to come out.  I'm ready to be done, but apparently Miss Lilybelle is determined to stay inside. I was hoping that I would be further along, but it was not to be. So to make me feel better, Tim went and got me some yummy, yummy ribs from the annual Nugget Rib Cook-Off. It's amazing how a few ribs can make the world of difference. Now I need some cookies. Cookies and ribs make the world all better. So I'll cross my fingers and hope that something happens within the next few days. I can only hope.

Yummy, yummy ribs

Cinnamon Rolls from Scratch

A month ago my parents gave us their bread maker.  I've let it sit in our kitchen still in the bag unused until a week ago.  I made some bread, and after that success I decided to try to make cinnamon rolls yesterday.  This is the first time that I've ever made them from scratch.  I've made them from a box and a can, but never from scratch. So yesterday early morning when I couldn't sleep, I loaded up the ingredients in the bread maker and let it make the dough. After that I kneaded the dough, made cinnamon rolls, and let them rise one more time before I baked them. I think they turned out pretty good.

Dough resting

Fresh from the oven

Ready to eat - yummy!

Yesterday was also one year ago that we brought Sophie home. She's been such an energy in our house ( a crazy one), and we've all enjoyed seeing her grow up. 

1 year ago - home for only  a few hours

Sophie July 2012 - posing on her chair

 On the baby front - she's still in there. I'm only six days away from my due date, and definitely feeling very pregnant. I could hope that she comes this week, but I have a feeling that she will be late. I just can't wait to meet her and hold her for the first time. Also I would like my feet back. I'm tired of swollen feet.

It's a girl, new floors, and a new car oh my!

The past few months have been really busy for us, which in part explains why I haven't written in a while...sorry. In April Tim and I found out that we are having a little girl...Lilybelle. It was a cool experience and comforting that everything came back normal on the ultrasound. I never thought I'd be so happy to hear the word normal. We kept it under wraps for about a week, (so long I know) and revealed it to Tim's family with a cake (as seen below). She also got a closet full of dresses courtesy of her Nana who kept all of my dresses from when I was a baby. Thanks Mom! All I can say is, it's a good thing that her closet is bigger than mine.

Pink Cake!

Not all her dresses...we ran out of hangers

Also in April, Tim decided to rip up our carpet in our living room/dining room to reveal the not so pretty hardwood floors underneath. That's what I get for working a Saturday. A few weeks later though I had very pretty hardwood floors. But it's not a process I recommend. The stuff you put on the floors to seal them stinks so bad, so I spent a week at my parents house. It was nice to be back home, and I had a good visit with my parents.

Old Floors

New Floors

In May my new car arrived. Yep we finally did it. I upgraded from my 1996 Saturn to a new 2012 Subaru. Such a difference! We had planned on getting a new car at the end of this year, but moved it up so that Lilybelle would come home in the new car, plus I didn't want to have to change out the car seat after a few months.

I'll try to keep everyone better updated in the summer, but for now here's a baby bump picture.

Almost 28 weeks here

I'm pregnant!!!

Well, it happened! I got pregnant! After the miscarriage and then the forced waiting period I finally got pregnant. Tim and I are very excited about it. I'm finished with my first trimester and my energy is starting to return and the morning sickness has passed (or I should say evening sickness since that's when I felt the worst). Our baby is due in September, and I'm starting to get a baby bump, Lame I know, but it makes me happy. Everything is going good so far. I love going to the doctor's office and hearing Thing 2's heartbeat, and in two weeks we get to find out if our little Thing 2 is going to be a boy or girl.

On another note, Sophie finished her latest class and learned how to sit on her hind legs. She knows that we find this adorable and whenever she wants a treat she assumes "stick them up." That's what we say when we want her to do it, only she does it without our prompting. She even does it to the table or Sunny if there is something that the table or Sunny has that she wants. We get a kick out of it everytime she does it. She's gotten quite good at it.

Happy Birthday Tim!

So for my combined birthday/Christmas present my mom got me a Cricut Cake. I was really excited about it, and played with it some on Christmas Day. But I haven't really had an occasion to make a cake and thus use my new toy. Well my dear husband finally obliged me by having a birthday. I decided that his birthday cake would be my guinea pig for testing out my Cricut Cake. I bought some rolled fondant and picked out what I wanted on his cake. I must say that I didn't realize that rolling out fondant was as hard as it was. In fact, Tim actually rolled it out for me. What a guy. I lined it up on my mat, and after a few tries I got it to where I wanted it to be on the mat. Next I chose to have the machine cut out "Happy Birthday." That did not go well at all. I couldn't get the letters to come out. I think that maybe my fondant was rolled a little too thick. But I decided to persevere. I next decided to cut out a 5" cupcake. That turned out really well, and I was encouraged to try the "Happy Birthday," after all practice makes perfect. In this case, it didn't. After three unsuccessful tries I gave up and decided to write "Happy Birthday" with frosting. Overall I'm happy with the cake for my first try, and I look forward to what I can do with my new machine. My cupcake isn't perfect, but perfection is rarely achieved on the first try (at least in my experience).

Tim's Birthday Cake, my guinea pig for my Cricut Cake

On another note, Sophie and Sunny have adjusted to each other very well. Sunny especially likes it when Sophie sleeps with him. I  see her sleeping much more in the future since she just started her Fun with Tricks Class. She had her first class on Saturday and she slept more that I have seen her sleep in a while.



Aren't they cute?!

Sophie Graduated!!!

Tonight Sophie completed and graduated from Puppy Kindergarten from Dog Training by PJ. We had a great past 6 weeks and we learned a lot. Sophie learned down, ring a bell to go potty, climb into a basket, get on a skateboard, and much  more. She starts her next puppy class next week. Tim, Sophie, and I all had a great time. Sophie also got the last of her puppy shots today. She can now go on morning walks with Sunny. Yay!

Our Sophie is growing up. To mark the two milestones of today she got a new pink color (pink is her color).

Isn't she cute!