Nesting Much??

In case you haven't heard of nesting, here is the Wikipedia definition. And I will say this is exactly true for me.
 "In human females, the nesting instinct often occurs around the fifth month of pregnancy[1][4], but can occur as late as the eighth, or not at all[citation needed]. It may be strongest just before the onset of labor.[1][5][6] It is commonly characterized by a strong urge to clean and organize one's home and is one reason why couples who are expecting a baby often reorganize, arrange, and clean the house and surroundings." 
  And if you know me well you know that I like to clean, organize, and decorate normally so when I am pregnant it just gets a bit out of control. So here are some of the things that I have been busy with.

Here is Melanie's new room downstairs. There is a door to her room, but I wanted to separate the small hallway to the bathroom and her room with curtains.

We now have three cribs. Is that crazy or what? Luckily we have not paid for a single one. Which makes it better somehow.

I love this little book shelf/sling that I made. Mel loves it too. She is so good at picking out a book and putting it back so nice and neat. And I switch the selection out when I am tired of reading the same ones.

Here is the babies room. The picture frames will have their baby pictures in there.  I thought the room would be crammed, but it actually seems bigger to me somehow.

I painted this crib to match. It was a really nice white before, but I knew it would bug me if they didn't match.

The dresser got moved into the closet. Thank goodness it is a big closet, to store lots of different things.

This is the new office/craft area. And I actually kind of like it better. Maybe because now I can see everything  when I am working on something. Notice Sawyer's Kennel as a little table. Kind of weird I know.

Here is the other side of the room. Finally some organization with the toys. Thank you Ikea.

Here is the the reversible car seat I made. It doesn't match the other one, but I am ok with that. In fact I didn't want them to match. I have to be able to tell them apart somehow in those seats.

Here is the other side.

Baby Shower Weekend!

This weekend I was lucky enough to get two baby showers. Friday night I had a baby shower with my friends from church and Saturday morning I had a shower with family and friends. I chose a hard weekend for a lot of people, but it was still very fun, and I got a lot of great things! I was against ever dressing the babes the same, but everything that I got that was matching was so stinking cute, and I can't wait to see them in it and to take lots of pictures of course! Thanks everyone who came, I am now ready to get all the little things done, and get these babies here!

This is the first shower at Jandi's house. It was crazy cute

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This was the craft table where you could make the babies some bracelets of clips.

The finished products.

Fresh flowers form Olivia's garden!

Party Favors. So cute

The wonderful ladies who threw the shower. Left to right... (Tammy, Kim, Olivia, me. and Jandi)

This is the shower my friends Emily and Andrea threw for me. And somehow I forgot to take a picture with them. But this is a picture of my mom, my sister, and my niece Kyla.

They did the theme "She's ready to POP!" There was some delicious popcorn:)

Pink Lemonade popcorn! Isn't that crazy. Love it.

Party favors. "Thanks for poppin in!"

Family Reunion

This year for our family reunion we went to the same place as last year in Breckenridge. It is an amazing house that fits all of us perfect. Which is about 28 people. Each family has their own super nice room with their own bathroom and lofts where a lot of the kids slept. We had a great time. It was fun to relax, chat, play games, eat, go hot tubbin and do our traditional activities. Here are some pics I took.

Dance Party!

Drew and Adam throwing the girls around.

Hot tubbin.... kids time. Adults went later.

All the grandkids on hike. So far there are 14 grandchildren, but we will soon have 18!

Manliest Man competition. This is the heavy rock throw. Drew decided to throw it backwards.

The small rock throw. You got points for hitting certain trees.

This part of the competition was testing your wits.

This is called the "Primal Scream." There is an app that can measure the decibels. Oh man it was hilarious.

Here are some fans during the talent show.

Grant playing piano

ninja moves by Cal, Max, and Monica.

Monica playing piano.

Dance moves by Mel, Audrey, and Natalie.

Natalie singing.

Jeff and Angie singing. They are SOOO good.

Joy's karate skills

Liz playing piano

Matt rockin out

Ladies lunch downtown. So fun.