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!