Countdown time

It's been awhile since I've posted and I thought it was time for an update. We had a really fun Easter, Alex got a ton of toys and candy from the Easter Bunny and really enjoyed stuffing himself all day with tons of candy! He's definitely been helping me out a lot around the house lately to get ready for baby tater-tot to make his debut. It's cute to see Alex try to sweep and pick up his toys and his "attempt" to do laundry.


Alex likes to "cuddle with baby" as he tries to say. He just lifts my shirt up and plops down
Alex started daycare about 2 weeks ago, he goes 2-3 days a week for half days and is having so much fun. It's fun to see the things he is learning and how much more he has to say about things. I really like that he has some thing to keep him busy in between play dates and activities! He's always wanting to be busy and doing something just like the day he was born so this has been a great experience for him. And to be honest for me, since I have a lot to do before this baby comes.

It's starting to feel a bit surreal to know that I have less than 8 weeks until I have another baby at home!! Luckily, Nicholas' room is all set up except for a few things that need to be hung and getting the last few essentials. John got so much done in one week it was almost scary!! I was starting to get worried and he knocked almost everything off my "baby list" in one weekend!!

We painted the baby's room which was a task all on it's own, and I will say that I have no desire to ever take wallpaper off the wall again, paint or anything involving major hard labor while I'm pregnant!!

The office set up downstairs and it's nice to say I have my own working space that I'm not sharing with other stuff. (aka John's shoes/clothes/stuff) It's like my own little place to go down and get work done, and on top of it all it's right by the playroom so Alex can keep busy if I'm on a deadline.

We have this thing about keeping or collecting empty boxes around here and since I order a lot of things online the boxes pile up VERY quickly. It was nice to get rid of a ROOM full of them and have the extra space!!

Also we bought an entire year of food storage, so we had to set all the shelves up in or "cold room" because John is so worried about it flooding. It's nice to feel prepared since before that we had nothing at all.

John set all the furniture and was actually excited to do it. Not that there was much that needed to be done other than assembling the crib and putting a few bolts in the glider but it felt so real to know there is gonna be a baby in there soon! I will say John and I had a horrible time getting the screws for the glider in, and John has made me promise that if we ever buy furniture again we will have them deliver and assemble it. So much for me trying to be right about us doing it ourselves!

Oh^^ I promise to post pictures of Nick's room here soon. I went in to take photos and the weather is horrible and almost no light outside to get some nice photos in there. That and it's still a bit messy. :)

All I really have left is to do the garage and get the cars detailed.. I know sounds lame right? Because I know the baby is going to come home and say "Oh mom, the garage looks wonderful" or "I'm so not getting in a dirty car mom". But there is SO much junk that is ready to go get donated from the garage and I want more room to store Alex's outside toys in the garage! His jeep was in the house for 3 weeks and I just couldn't take it anymore! That and my cars are filthy.

We went and did a 3D/4D ultrasound of Nicholas and were surprised to hear this little guy has a good amount of hair! I don't expect much but something is definitely better than nothing! Oh how I would love to have a newborn to photograph with a full head of hair. We did the 3D/4D ultrasound with Alex and much to our surprise the two look very similar. I'd be so excited to see a little mini me of Alex!






I really loved seeing him smile and his big lips... gosh I can't believe I'll be a mommy to KIDS let alone BOYS! I'm so excited!!
I feel like I'm really in countdown mode now. The next 8 weeks are really busy for us with photography workshops, disneyland trip, a wonderful friend of mine throwing me a shower (I was so surprised when I found out!!), John's birthday and mine! We're also planning to go camping and do two different trips to see the Heber Creeper, and Thomas the train! I'm actually really glad we have so much going right now because I want this time to fly! I just can't wait to meet this little guy!


I've been having some girl's nights lately and a few bunko games and John and Alex have had their "special time" together which I think Alex really loves. This is the court side at the Jazz vs. Suns game
I feel really crazy considering camping and disneyland, but I don't think we'll be making any trips until the baby is a few months old and we really want some special bonding time with Alex before the baby shows up. With me busy trying to get some work done and John who works all the time, I don't want Alex to feel even a little bit left out.

The joys of being a boy.

Alex's party was a definite hit. It included "burgahs", "cahake", and an awesome bounce house which was the hit of the party! We were so happy to have so many friends and family show up! For some reason about 20 mins before the party started I thought no one would show!! But luckily they did and the presents....oh how there were so many awesome presents. My child was royally spoiled!


John Cena and well my John! It was funny to see they were the same size! John never believed me!!
John had actually been out of town all week and got the chance to fly home on the morning of Alex's birthday. On top of it all John got the best flight.. not only did his plane get delayed because of "failure issues" scary right? He also got to fly with the entire WWE RAW Wrestling team. Absolutely hilarious since I use to watch them as a teenager! But he did show up and made it early to surprise Alex who had missed him dearly. Alex absolutely adores his dad, and it's so cute to see how excited he gets when daddy comes home.


Alex playing with some friends in the bounce house
Alex really had a blast with all of his friends, and when cake time came around he was VERY excited. He'd been asking for his cake ALL DAY and was so thrilled to be able to have it. He blew his candles out with the help of his balloon and was then very ready for presents. He got so much stuff it's just way to much to list. All I can say is I don't want another toy entering my house anytime soon and I actually sent a ton over Libbie's for everyone to enjoy. (I just don't have enough room!) I sad;y don't have Alex's birthday on my laptop since my iMac has been taken apart in our "mini move".


Alex's favorite thing to do and play with his train.. I seem to catch him up there a lot
Now the "countdown" for baby Nicholas to arrive is on, I know that the next few weeks are going to fly by and I'm not looking forward to it as much as I am so excited to meet him. All the major big things and small have been purchased, I have completely cut myself off from buying any more clothes for this kid! Both boys are set for summer I just keep thinking it's going to show up here soon, I'm so use to Texas weather and April and May being nice. Nope.. not here in Utah.

I really have my focus on cleaning/making room/organizing. I was so ready for Alex to be here by the time I was 30 weeks pregnant and I'm so not ready for Nicholas! I haven't done much up until the last few weeks and now feel pressured to get it all done!

I feel like when I'm pregnant I'm OCD nesting on steroids. And with John working so much I feel like my list might never get done and am trying to find a way to stretch the weeks out! Why can't there be more than 24 hours in a day?!

So far on the list....
-I've packed our office and moved almost everything out. (except for desk and bookcase)
-Packed HALF yes half of my closet up to make room for John and moved his clothes from the office over (yes I had the whole master closet to myself.. what can I say I love clothes) I sacrificed for him... it was hard I will not lie.
-We recently bought a whole year of food storage and a few 72 hour packs and got that moved down stairs after 3 weeks
-Turned storage room into office AKA move storage to another empty now completely FULL room
-Ripping wall paper off.. I HATE WALLPAPER. It's just a middle strip but it's a pain to get off.. it's not a task I wish on anyone but I am almost halfway done.

Then we'll paint and set the furniture up! I'll unload all of Nicholas' stuff and I'll be done with that. I'm sure I'll go into full scrubbing mode then but hopefully I can find someone to do a large deep clean on our house because I just don't feel like I do a good enough job! That and I'm sure I will try to unload more junk we have around here, even with Alex I made John get rid of so much junk we acquired! I really hate clutter!!

Alex is getting excited for the baby, although I'm not quite sure he totally gets it yet. He loves seeing other babies and talking to them, and when I tell him we're doing something for his brother he always asks to help. He even comes and hugs and kisses my belly it's so sweet :) I'm sure he won't be 100% excited to lose some attention when the baby shows up but he sure likes the idea right now!


But before all this birthday craziness I was sick while John was out of town. I had a lovely kidney stone and I definitely had a bad few days. I ended up in L&D to check on baby and monitor contractions and everything ended up ok. I'm just grateful to have such great family to help and a wonderful little boy who understood!! John felt so bad he wasn't able to be there he sent me 3 dozen roses. It REALLY made my day, and I just had to share how great of a husband I have!

Other than that we're enjoying the bizarre weather here. One day it's beautiful and the next day it's snowing. I'm just ready for spring and playing outside!! Alex has so many fun outside toys and we've been locked up and not been able to use them!