It's a...BOY!!!

Well, that’s what I get for listening to the internet! I was kind of…beyond shocked when we went to the ultrasound and the tech said that without a shadow of a doubt we were having a boy. We are BEYOND excited though! We're pretty much set on the name Weston, we're still playing around with middle names though. Thus far our top picks are Owen or John. We really like Kai as well, but that one will probably be saved for the time being. Here's a pic of little Weston!!!

My thought processes have completely changed from tutus and headbands to ties and fedoras :P I’m not sure I’ll be able to get a baby to keep a fedora on his head though…we’ll have to work on that. He’s pretty much going to be adorable though. Thanks to Pinterest I have this vision in my head of this ridiculously cute preppy kid :P Here’s the vision

 And then there’s the nursery!!! Oh my good heavens there are SO MANY options!  Right now I’m loving the idea of a pirate theme. NOT a sailor, blue and white theme… but PIRATES. The two nurseries I’ve found that I like are below. I think it would be kind of adorable. Rob’s wanting to do Calvin and Hobbes. Could that be the cutest thing ever? ...yes. Yes it could. So we’re torn for the moment because I really love both. Here are the ideas…

The house…is still slowly coming together. For the most part all the boxes are unpacked, and it actually looks livable now. I don’t want to put pictures up yet, because we still need to paint, but I am having the hardest time in the world coming up with colors for paint! We loved the tan/brown we had in the old house a lot, but do we want to do the exact same color in this house too? And I am still in love with the red we picked for the kitchen…but again, do we want this house to be the exact same??? I keep thinking about different shades of blues and greens…but I think I’m terrified to really try anything. Sigh…I’ll have to get some courage and just make up my mind! Here are some colors I have saved because I love…I just have to get the guts to actually do them!

REALLY love this color

LOVE THIS COLOR.... but i'm scared to death to actually do it

The one thing I need to remember about this house; if you don’t lock the windows closed, it is VERY easy to break in. My mother and I learned this when I thought I left my keys at her house. She basically lifted me through the back window. It worked pretty well…minus the fact that I got the giggles half way through and couldn’t move :P It was sure an adventure…especially when I realized my keys were with me…. Haha oops :)

More good news…. Our puppies love each other!!! They went in for surgery last Thursday. Thursday night we introduced them (we figured that would be a good plan since they were both still WAY out of it, and were too sore to move) and they were quite content to coexist around one another. Friday we let them play for about an hour, and on Sunday we through her in the backyard with him…and they have been having a ball! They love having someone there to play with all the time, and even though I can tell they still have their moments of annoyance, for the most part they are doing VERY well!

Here’s a few pics and videos. Some are from the drive home from Washington, the rest are just fun stuff around the house!

..we really have no idea how she managed to climb up there

They do love each other!!!!

Washington trip!!!

Our life is always an adventure! We move into our house on a Friday night, buy a puppy the next morning, that following Monday I finally start seriously unpacking, and then Tuesday morning I get a call from my dear husband that basically said I needed to start packing everything I could because he was on his way home and as soon as he got there we were leaving for Washington for two weeks. Umm…what?!?! Needless to say, because we JUST moved, I ended up having to pack a lot of dirty clothes, and seriously felt like I was just throwing random clothes in a bag praying that I got all the necessities. Then it hits me, we got a puppy like 3 days ago! What are we supposed to do with her?! I called a couple people to see if they could watch her, but nothing was panning out, which started a slight panic attack on my part. Could I really leave a 10 week old puppy locked in a bathroom all day with my mom dropping by 2 times a day to let her out for a little bit? That just seemed SO CRUEL…but I didn’t want to stay JUST because of the dog! Rob came home, and even though we were packed, I was still a wreck. We loaded all of our stuff up, and then all of a sudden he puts Athena in the back of the truck and I was going ‘…umm, what?’ he responded with ‘oh I didn’t tell you? My amazing sister Lanae is going to watch her.’ YAY!!! SO excited! So we hit the road after getting Nate to promise to watch over Bors while he house sits. The trip actually went REALLY well. Between me and Athena we had to stop like every two hours for potty breaks, but Rob was very patient with us, and we still managed to make the trip in around 10 hours. However, surprise to me, we ended up keeping Athena in the hotel with us for the rest of the week. With Rob’s work schedule he was just way too tired to make a 4 hour trip just to drop her off, so Athena and I got a LOT of bonding time VERY quickly. Although a puppy is definitely not meant to live in a hotel room, for the most part we had a lot of fun. The first night she slept in the Bathroom, but after that she ended up on our bed...every single night...right next to my head...cuddling with my hair. Needless to say, it got kind of really interesting a few times.

 By Saturday we were MORE than ready to take her to Lanae’s : ).  Rob managed to get off work on Saturday fairly early, and we were able to make the trip down to Enumclaw, drop the dog off, and then spend the weekend with Rob’s family, which was SO much fun. We got to go to church on Sunday (thanks to Twyla since she let me borrow church clothes :P)  and then had a really nice dinner with the family, grandparents, and an aunt and uncle : ). For Easter Rob got a remote controlled helicopter from the Easter Bunny, and he LOVES IT. His dad has one, and a few others in the family, so he really enjoyed getting to mess around with it while he was at his parents.

On Monday Rob left Enumclaw at the early hour of 3:30 to make it back in time for work at 6:30. I got to hang out with my dear mother-in-law for a few hours, and then Twyla swept me away to go shopping at the Super Mall.  I’ve been procrastinating going maternity shopping, but Twyla made it such a fun experience. I got a lot of stuff, and the best part is they really don’t look like maternity clothes. They can definitely be worn anytime, which I REALLY loved. And I FINALLY bought my first baby item!!! Twyla was talking about this amazing diaper bag she had when Ben was little, and how convenient it was…and then we found the exact same bag basically! It was a great deal, so I got it! The whole day was SO much fun, and I really enjoyed all the time I got to spend with everyone and hopefully we’ll be able to go back down this next weekend for a day or two as well, which would be SO perfect. The break has been a really nice distraction from all the craziness going on at home, needless to say I am not ecstatic about going back to a house still in boxes.

Oh, one more fun note, we find out what baby is in only a week and 3 days!!! Fingers crossed we get to find out the first time!

Here’s some pics of silly Athena, and the ride up to Washington :P

For the most part she just sprawled out and slept the whole way

But when she was awake, she didn't like feeling left out...

...so she kept licking dad hoping he'd let her in the front

haha she kind of loves him :P

Athenas silly sleeping position

She thought she was a parrot?

another cute Athena sleeping position on the ride

we bought her this dress thinking it would drive her nuts and it would be funny...she didn't mind it being on at all though

haha we know it's ridiculous...but she IS really kinda cute :P

Diaper Bag :)

So Many Changes, So Little Time

We are officially homeowners! We signed all the paperwork for our new home on March 27^th, and by the next afternoon we had the keys! I wasn’t really sure how the moving process would go, but my dad was willing to bring his trailer over and we did one big load and got EVERYTHING. It was so nice to do it this way, and would not have been possible without the amazing help of my poppi, Brady, and Mike. Thank you boys!  It probably took an hour to load up, and than an hour to unload, so not too bad over all…now I just have to UNPACK. Haha it is a lot more fun than packing was, so I can’t complain about it too much. We love the house and have NO real complaints about it yet! I can't figure out how to get the video I took on here, I think it's too long :/ So here are some pics I took before the house was completely covered in boxes...

Living Room

Second half of living room

Kitchen

Dining Room

Master Bedroom

Walk in closet :)

Soon to be nursery

Nates room

Future office/spare bedroom/storage room

The other office/spare bedroom/storage room

half the backyard

second half of back yard :)

Also…We got a puppy! First let me explain our thought process with this. We have both felt like Bors really needs a friend. He’s definitely an outdoor dog because of his sheer size and the fact that he loves to destroy…everything. Even though we make sure to play with him every day and spend time with him, he always has so much energy that we really thought anther dog would help him out. So once we woke up on Saturday, we decided to go look for a dog. Our original plan was to get an older dog, so that we could skip the puppy stage with a new dog and Bors would have someone his size to play with right off the bat. The plan was working, we found a few that we were interested in and talked about…and then we found a puppy. She was an ADORABLE ball of energy and she fell in love with us as fast as we fell for her. Even though I was a little leery about getting another puppy, there was no way we could walk away at that point. We adopted her, and Rob picked out the name Athena.

So we get this adorable dog, and I’m anxiously awaiting the meeting of our new family member to her big brother, thinking it will solve all of my Bors worries…and go figure, they don’t like each other at all. See, we REALLY didn’t think this through very well it turns out. Bors is a great dog, but first of all he’s HUGE, and second… he’s not fixed yet. We’ve been meaning to get this done, it just hasn’t happened yet. So we make the brilliant decision to get a GIRL dog…too young to have spaded yet. Yeah, bad plan. Bors is trying to make friends…and he’s just getting a bit too personal for her taste. So go figure, the dogs are now staying separated until I can get Bors into the vet. I am PRAYING once this happens he’ll mellow down a little bit, and they’ll warm up to each other some. So our plans didn’t really work out, Athena is, for the time being at least, an indoor dog, and Bors is still outside, by himself…in a new environment that he has no idea what to do with, and there is now a new puppy in the house with his mom and dad…something he was NEVER allowed to do. Poor Bors. He seems to love the new backyard, and is definitely enjoying having the freedom to run around, but he is a little more needy than before, so a lot more whiny. Sigh, I am really praying this works out well for both of them eventually.

Anyways…here are a few pics of Athena, any guesses on what type of dog she is??? They didn’t know when we adopted her, which means we have NO idea how big she’ll get (but I’m not sure it’s possible to get too much bigger than Bors, so I’m not too worried :P ). The top main guesses are; Blue Heeler, Akita, Chow, or Australian Shepherd. Rob even wondered about some Pomeranian? She has REALLY thick longer hair, and has little gray spots randomly on her coat. Lets here all your educated guesses!

Athena

Playing with Daddy :)

Ignore the conversation Brady and I were having, we were trying to remember what our neighbors dogs were names :P