Finley is 1 month old!!

Our sweet miss Finley Sue Sue is 1 month old today! The last month has gone by so fast! We are so in love with our little girl...she makes us so happy! 

-She is reacting to us and smiling when we tickle her cheeks

-She has the cutest dimples when she smiles

-Her hair...in words...un-ruley, beautiful, spikey, soft like a kitten, fluffy!

-When she is awake she loves to be a part of what you are doing and facing forward so she can see what's going on

-She laughs in her sleep! Like real full on little girl giggles...they are so cute!

-Sometimes she will grab onto her binky and throw it

-She has the strongest little newborn neck. She can hold her head up for so long.

-When you are burping her she likes to give your cheeks kisses

We love you Finley Sue Sue!!

Our apt/Finley's room!

I've been meaning to do this post a long time ago, but since we had Finley it's been a little bit harder. This is our new apt that we moved into about 4 months ago. It's a four-plex right next to the park and we absolutely love it! It's a mansion compared to our last apt! We love living here, especially because they let us paint and decorate it however we please! 

We love when we can find cool bargains at the D.I. and make them look cool by just adding a bit of spray paint! Our entertainment center...$8 and absolutely ugly before! $4 for a can of white spray paint and...tada!! Looks like we paid $350 at Crate & Barrel for it!

Our table...my grandparents dinner table when they first got married. We snagged it from a closet at my house in Washington. Our chairs...from an antique craft store here in Rexburg. We were going to buy them and then one of our good friends decided to buy them for us for our wedding!

Now to my favorite piece of furniture in our house. Our hutch/buffet/dresser/or whatever you call it. When we lived in our old apt the owners took us down to the basement and said we could have it. It was just plain wood until about a month ago. We debated on painting it mustard yellow, mint green or red. We decided on the red and I'm so glad we did! 

The print in our frame is actually a piece of an old rug that we had. We were foolish and thought that we could wash it in the washer and the edges came out shredded...whoops! So we decided to cut it and put it into our big frame and I'm so happy with how it turned out.

We love our new apartment so much and are so glad that we found it. Hopefully we get to stay here until we leave Rexburg!

Now...Miss Finley Sue Sue's room!

We waited for this crib to get into stock for about 6 months because we loved it so much. We decided to do her room mostly white with little touches of champagne and sage.  

A couple more cans of spray paint and our frames are all white now and our stool that we found at a garage sale is sage.

Kevin got me this chair from Ikea for my birthday while we were in Washington visiting my parents.

We were so happy with how Finley's room turned out and we are so glad that she is here! We love her so so much!

And for your viewing pleasure...our sweet miss Finley

 

Happy Fathers Day!!

We almost had an "official" Fathers Day this year! Since Finley is almost born we decided to count it anyways. We started out the morning complete with a handmade card & breakfast in bed. Homemade whole wheat pancakes, scrambled eggs, fruit salad & green drink! It was delicious!! We tried to get a wide eyed picture, but it was just after he woke up. 

Kevin is oh so excited to be a dad! He is going to be an amazing father to the new miss Finley of our family. Every day he asks her when she is going to come out because he can't wait to meet her. I decided the other day that Finley is going to replace me and get lots more kisses and hugs. Thank you Kevin for all that you do!!

Trip to Washington!

Right after my parents got home from their mission in NYC Kevin and I headed down to Washington for a week. My family wanted to do a baby shower for me before miss Finley came so we hurried down to Enumclaw! It's a 13hr drive from Rexburg and being almost 8 months pregnant I was a little nervous for the drive. Shockingly it wasn't bad at all! We had so much fun while we were there seeing family!

We even passed a place in Washington named Finley!!

Paying for gas in Washington wasn't ver much fun though :(

The saturday after we got there we went and watched our nephews baseball tournament all day long. It was lots of fun watching them play! Mckay is the catcher on his team and Tanner pitches, they are awesome!! Everyone got nice sunburns from sitting out in the sun all day too.

We got to finally meet our nephew Ryan (Scott & Kelli's boy)!!! He is so so cute!!! He has the cutest hair that flies straight up and the biggest cheeks! He was a lot of fun to play with.

Kevin wanted to see some real forests up in Washington so my parents took us up to the mountains. Kevin said it was "good for his soul". He loved it. We also got to see a big giant tree that was 700 years old! It takes about 10 people to fit all the way around! Then we went to our favorite place and Wapiti Woolies and got huckleberry milkshakes!

We also went to Seattle for the day with my parents. We went to the Ballard Locks and got to see lots of fancy boats go through.

We also went to my favorite seafood restaurant The Crabpot!! Kevin had never experienced real seafood so my parents and I had to show him how it's really done!!! At the Crabpot they dump big buckets of seafood (crab, clams, muscles, shrimp) on your table and you just dive right in! It was so so yummy and Kevin loved it!!! 

We had so much fun while we were in Washington hanging out with family! Now we are back in Rexburg waiting for miss Finley to arrive! Only 4 1/2 more weeks!! We even got a stroller....weird!!!

Happy 23rd birthday Kevin!!!

May 10th was Kevin's 23rd birthday! He works all day long so I tried to plan the whole day out so whenever we were together we were doing something for his birthday.  The day before I was running around town gathering things for his birthday and after I had made my last stop at the store to get 3 balloons to be sitting out the morning of his birthday I opened the car and the 3 balloons that I had just bought flew right out the window and into space!!!! I was so mad!! Whoever saw that probably got a good laugh. It was probably even more funny to watch a 7 1/2 months pregnant woman running after them. I went inside and waited a few hours to go get new ones so the people at the store wouldn't be suspicious as to why I was coming to get 3 more balloons. (you better believe I had a death grip on those new balloons until they were safe in my house!!

So Kevin's birthday morning came with breakfast (he just wanted cereal), a new design magazine and a card I made just for him! He is always designing cards for people so I thought I would impress him!

I went and picked up Kevin for his lunch break his friend Zach came over and brought Taco Bus tacos (our favorite!).  Kevin has been wanting to play the Donkey Kong Wii game for a while so I borrowed it from a friend and we got to play that on his lunch break as well.

Kevin got home from work and we played some more Wii and got ready to make one of Kevin's favorite dinners, calzones! Our friends Zach and Hannah came over for dinner to celebrate with us. Kevin opened a couple of presents and then we watched a movie and had Kevin's requested cookie ice cream sandwiches. It was a very fun day!

Life is a little different since September :)

Lots has happened since the last post we had in September! Here is some of the things we have been up to.....

-Kevin has been going to school and studying graphic design. He loves creating new things. He is taking this summer semester off and working full time as a graphic designer up on campus and loves it.

-Thanksgiving we spent in Rexburg and got to share the holiday with my good friend Kelsey, her fiance Dirk and our good friend Ben. I successfully cooked my first turkey and it was so yummy! We got to go around the table and say all the things we were thankful for. Kevin and I are so blessed and we couldn't be happier!

-For Christmas we also got to spend the holiday in Rexburg. We wished we could have been with family but for our first Christmas together it couldn't have been more fun. We got a little tree and decorated it and our apartment. Watched all the Christmas movies we could find. Wrapped lots of presents. On Christmas Eve we went down below our apartment to a game place and got to play lots of fun arcade games. Then Christmas Eve night we watched Christmas movies, read a Christmas book from my mom and made a nativity out of play dough. We had lots of fun Christmas day and got to open fun presents and talk to all of our families...it was a very fun day!

-We moved into a new apartment a few weeks ago that is a lot bigger than our old one and we love it! Once we get everything finished and decorated I will take some pictures of it and show you. We finally don't have to walk up 5 million stairs to get to our apartment and park 2 blocks away. And we live right next to a big park which is fun to take walks around. We live in a normal neighborhood which is fun too (we almost feel like real adults! haha!). 

-And our most important news of our lives is the cute baby girl Finley Sue that is due the 4th of July!! We are so excited that she is coming and can't wait to meet her. My pregnancy hasn't been the most fun time of my life and I was really sick for about the first 5 months and still every now and then have a sick day. I'm so glad that I have Kevin to take care of me whenever I've been sick. I decided the other day that he gets the amazing husband award for the next....forever...because he does anything and everything for me. He's been a trooper. He's always is telling me he wants Finley to come now. He's going to be such a good dad. 

-So now I'm almost 31 weeks pregnant and I can't believe it! I can't believe how soon Finley will be here! I look like I'm smuggling a basketball. Getting off the couch and rolling over in bed has become quite the task! Miss Finley thinks it's so much fun to kick my ribs (not fun!). Maybe she'll be good at clogging?? I have a really short torso so she doesn't have much room to grow anymore. My stomach is going to keep poking farther and farther out.  Hopefully the next few weeks till Finley gets here go by fast!! 

-Hopefully that updates you a bit on what we've been up to! And hopefully I do MUCH better at keeping this blog updated!!

New hair cutzzzzz

We were feeling a little bored with our hair....so yesterday morning we went and got some new hairdos! I think Kevin's is quite handsom :)