House Updates

I changed my mind about a couple things in our house. :) Of course, after it took us a whole day to paint our kitchen red (when we moved in in January), I changed my mind a couple weeks ago and wanted to paint it purple. What inspired this thought was I wanted to antique our cabinets with gray and I thought purple would go better with gray than red would. It would also look better with our living room color since the red kitchen and blue living room made it look like 4th of July in our house. (Which is one of our favorite holidays, don't get me wrong.) Drew didn't mind at all and we started researching how to antique cabinets and what look we were really going for. So, we practiced "antiquing" a cabinet in Luke's bathroom upstairs because it's the same exact color/wood as the kitchen cabinets. It didn't go over so well. I really should post a pic of our first attempt because it's tragic. Like, really bad. So we decided maybe it would look better to just antique the cracks in the cabinets rather than the whole thing. Below is how they turned out. I think Drew did a really good job but haven't decided how I really feel yet. But everyone that has seen them, loves them. I think they will look really good once we get silver handles on the cabinets. But the purple is pretty. It looks BLUE in these pics and it looked blue no matter what I tried. So I tried to get a close up of the purple next to a white sign, and thats the real color.

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And here is a pic of our new guest bedroom. That bed is my old day bed I had growing up!


We also painted our bathroom brown.

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And Drew did some construction in our closet to make it fit our needs better.

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And heres my favorite update! We got a bed! It's from Ikea and the nightstands attach to the side of the bed so it's really convenient and cute. The lamps were from Ikea, and the lamp shades from Big Lots! $10 bucks each! Now all we have to do is finish our curtain/canopy idea. It will be really cool, and I'll post a pic when it's finished.

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I also made this wall art with scrapbook paper, modpodge, and canvas'. I like how it turned out! It matches our bedspread really well.

Sorry this one is blurry...

We still have the vinyl lettering that says "Goodnight my love, goodnight my everything" on the wall opposite the window. It's above our new dresser we got for $20 bucks that matches our bed. I LOVE yard sales!

I have to add some cute pics of Luke. He is growing and changing so much. I feel like this last week he has evolved to a toddler. He has an attitude! He is so fun right now, though. It's hard leaving him when I go to work but luckily we have a great baby sitter and her one year old and Luke have become best friends!

And last but not least...we are in the process of re-doing Luke's bedroom. He never really got a cute bedroom because we moved so much in the 1st year of his life. So now we have cute ideas we want to do. Here is what we have of the alphabet for the "ABC" wall we are doing in his room. (Mom...here is what we have, be on the look out for cheap letters!) Haha..I can't wait until we can finish his room finally!

The "B" Language

Luke is the biggest "talker". He seriously wants to talk so bad but just doesn't know the words! He is constantly jabbering, and gets louder and louder until he gets his "point across." He does know certain words, and he has learned to point to things or stand by something he wants, etc. It's the cutest. But, we have noticed more and more how much of his vocabulary are "words" that start with B. Here is a list of words he uses and their meanings. :) (Since you aren't hearing them say it I have to spell them so you will understand how they come out...it's kinda hard..haha)

Bah = Bath

Bah Bah = Yo Gabba Gabba

Baw = Ball

Baw Baw = Drink

Bop Bop = Beep Beep (Thats what he calls cars and his little tractor he rides.)

Bu Bu = Bubbles

It doesn't look like that many words but these B words are mainly the words he uses all day long! (He loves Yo Gabba Gabba, his sippy cup and his favorite toys are his "beep beep", bubbles, and balls...so yeah that's our day.)

His other "words" are:

La La = Elmo

Mmmm = Food (haha)

Ni Ni = Night Night

Ma Ma = Mama (duh)

Da Da = Dada (duh)

Uh-oh = Whenever he falls/something falls/his show ends/he does something bad.

I'm sure there are other little ones but nothing else I can think of right now. He is at such a fun stage! I miss him so much when I am gone at work but it is so fun coming home to his smiles and giggles. He does the funniest stuff. The other day at the grocery store he stood up in the cart (in the big basket part, not the kid seat part) and I told him to sit down while pointing down with my finger. He just smiled and pointed down to me with his finger. Drew and I couldn't help but laugh. He also has learned how to hit. Where do they learn that? SERIOUSLY? He knows its bad though. He starts crying immediately after he does it. But we have started giving him mini time-outs to try and teach him to stop. He is still the cutest thing ever. He goes down for bed without a "baw baw" now and doesn't even cry. We have a pretty set routine down and I think it has helped him adjust. He still cries at nap time but I think it's because he knows we are awake. I dunno. Hopefully that doesn't go on much longer. We do give him sippy cups with milk at nap time, so that helps. Anyway-he is changing so much every day and I love his little words. I just had to blog about them so I remember them in the future. He will probably start learning more and more words and then I will miss his baby talk! He understands a lot though. OH! And he also knows what a cow says (mmmm) a kitty cat (maaa) a doggy (ra ra) a snake (ssss) and a monkey (ah ah ah).

Drew read our blog a few days ago and said I never updated about my new job. I started last week at a company called Desert Perinatal Associates. There are 3 offices in the Las Vegas/Henderson areas and they are pretty well-known cause the perinatologists are awesome and they really work with you. (A Perinatology office is pretty much a "high risk" pregnancy doctor.) We see pregnant women who either have at-risk babies with some type of problem, or who have problems themselves. It ranges from IVF and twins/triplets to birth defects in the babies. And in the mothers it ranges from diabetes and hypertension to blood disorders or late prenatal care, etc. We seriously see SO many different cases. It is REALLY fun. I am a Part-Time Medical Assistant at one of the offices which happens to be 10 minutes from my house! Super lucky..I don't even have to take the freeway. :) But I pretty much just do patient vitals and intake (asking all the questions) and then set up the ultrasound rooms. There are lots more little things I do but thats the main job description. I love it and the days go by super fast. I want to go back to school to be an Ultrasound Tech eventually, so this job is right up my alley. Anyway, that was a LONG description. It's just a GREAT job! That's all!

My parents FINALLY closed on their house in Coral Canyon (outside of St. George) and we are so happy! We spent the weekend there getting them settled. Well, they got it settled and Drew and I just lounged around. But we can't wait to have a place to meet and spend mini-vacations there.

I seriously am slacking at taking pics of Luke and I need to be better! We always just snap quick pics with our phones and we've gotten out of the habit of taking real pics! I will try and be better because he changes every day. Sorry for the boring post with no pics! Maybe I will do an all pic post next week! :)

Serious Slacker

We are back from vacation, for good. This makes me sad but in a way, equally, happy. It's so fun traveling with my two boys and I seriously love road trips. Even with a baby. He has his days, but as long as we have cartoons and snacks, he is pretty good. (He seriously is an angel baby until it comes to cars...then his evil twin emerges.) We were able to do lots of fun things this summer, and it will probably be our last summer that both of us are "completely off work" for the whole summer. Now that I have a job, it won't be AS easy to make quick trips places. But I am sure we will still find a way. Drew is excited to get back to work in 2 weeks, and I start training this Wednesday. I am nervous, and excited...(so I will sing a song about being nervous but excited...has anyone seen that Zac Efron High School Musical skit on SNL? Go watch it. Now. I love it. HILARIOUS...then you will understand the nervous but excited thing..haha..) and I know it will be the best thing for our family, all of us. I just hope I don't miss TOO many cute things that Luke does. Hopefully he is just boring all day for everyone else because he is so funny and I seriously am dying thinking about the funny faces/noises/anythings he makes that I will be missing while at work. But like I said, it's the best thing for us. I am really hoping grown-up conversations and feeling accomplished and responsible for something will help me get more acclimated to life in Vegas. It's been a hard *VERY HARD* adjustment for me. Different than I expected. This time when we left Heber it was even harder because I was leaving behind my brother and his family (who just moved there from Henderson. They lived 10 minutes from us.) Although we didn't hang out TONS when they were here, we saw them enough and switched baby sitting enough that I've already seen the difference without them here. (And it's only been a couple days.) But they are in a place thats better for their family too. So I am happy for them. Anyway-this is turning into a rant that I wasn't planning on. I will hopefully get more organized/back on track with blogging once we get back into our normal daily grind. Until then, we are painting our whole house and I am making lots of home decor crafts that will keep me pretty busy. But the plus side is, then I will have something to blog about! :) I have been horrible about taking pics this summer. Here is a cute one of Luke at Drew's family reunion Luau party.

-Luke now has two molars. They were a party coming in, let me tell you. (ARRGGHH NIGHTMARE!)

-He walks/runs everywhere and hates holding our hands. He has his own agenda.

-He loves Elmo and Blue's Clues and Yo Gabba Gabba. The characters are his bff's!

-He is such a good eater and will eat almost anything.

-He is *for the most part* weaned off his bottle, and goes to sleep on his own after just a little crying. (I hate that part but he is getting better and better.)

-He loves to dance and sing the Elmo song, "La la la...la la la la..."

-He got his first (and it was NASTY) black eye last week.

-He still only says basic words, but his jabber talk gets more and more crazy, which I am hoping means he is closer to saying bigger words. We'll see. ;)