Busy Busy Busy!!!

So it's been a while since the last post, mostly cause a lot has been going on. Tony finished up his 6 week classes about a week ago(and passed them!!!!) No sooner, did he have to pack his bags, and he was off to Kansas City(Missouri) for a training conference thingy, he left Tue evening(the 24th) and came home Thurs evening(the 26th). I spent that time at my parents house in clearfield. It was nice cause my mom was able to get off early on Wed, and for those of you who don't know, I wasn't able to find a crib bedding set I liked ANYWHERE!! So I took the picture I had in my mind and my mother tony and I went to the fabric store, and my mom graciously agreed to sew the quilt and crib bumper pads, and whatever else she can with leftover fabric, time and energy, Bless her heart!!! The quilt is done, and way better than I even imagined!! So on Wed we went to the basement and planned out the crib bumper pad, it took some deliberating, but I think it's going to turn out way cute also. While I was at my parents I also got 5 scrapbook pages done!! I'm so behind on that! Anyway I was so glad to have tony home thurs night, I just don't sleep right without him next to me(partially because I use him as a true body pillow right now) Fri this poor boy, who hasn't been in his office since tue, HAD to go golfing for work!;) His boss decided to take the day off, so he told tony to go in his place. So not only did he get to go out of town on business, in the same week he got to go up to park city and spend a day golfing, getting"wined and dined"! (what a hard week!!) then just to add the cherry on top, he won a $170 putter!! I'm no golfer, but even I can tell it's a nice putter, being stuck at home, i found myself watching the U.S. Open(we were talking about it with my grandpa, and watched a little on Father's Day) anyway all I know is it looks a lot like the putter Tiger Woods was using(although I will admit they all look about the same to me!) So overall he got a two day work week, a free game of golf, a free putter, and a nice tan. What a lucky boy. I think i was luckier though, cause Thurs night we picked up our niece Emily who spent the night, and we had so much fun together on Friday while everyone else in her family was gone doing different things. We made Jello, we had a picnic out on the lawn, we had a water fight, and both ended up soaked, then lie out basking in the sun, then came in and watched a movie, and had some of our masterpiece Jello! It was the highlight of my week! She is such a cute girl!! I love her to pieces!
Saturday we had a birthday brunch for my dad, then at 3 my cousin Sarah threw a baby shower for Elizabeth and I at her new cute home in Layton, she's due with her 2nd boy 2 weeks before me! It was so nice to see some old friends of mine from the neighborhood I grew up in Bountiful!! Elizabeth got lots of cute clothes(tony says she officially has more clothes than he does!) Mostly I just loved visiting and catching up with old friends, and girl scout leaders!

I have been asked several times by friends and ward members, how the nursery is coming along...well good but not in the way you think. See we have a 2 bedroom condo, and up til now the 2nd bedroom has been the office/craft/junk/storage room, and we're trying to turn all that into just mostly a nursery. It's not been an easy task especially since tony's been in school and I've been so restricted. It's a pretty big room, and the walk in closet as REALLY big(only a few feet smaller than my bedroom in my old Bountiful house!) Anyway such a big junk room holds lots and lots of junk, so we've slowly been working on cleaning it out, we've had two very big DI runs(and another on the way)and more than a dozen bags of garbage. We've turned our 2nd full bath into a storage closet temporarily, and are seriously downsizing the office to fit in the corner of our master bedroom. Yesterday we managed to empty out the walk in closet, so tony can at least start working in there(he's smoothing out the walls and ceiling and painting, then he's going to design and build a closet organizer) Our nice big L-shaped two person desk is now in my parents basement, they're going to put it to good use till we have a bigger house, we're giving the two white bookcases(that kinda just came with the condo) to Tony's sister, the wooden bookshelf that was in there in now in the master(thankfully that's a really big room too) all that's now left in the someday to be nursery, is tony's old desk I was using for scrapbooking, and boxes, and a few odds and ends. Which is good, since Tony and our brother in law Johnny and my dad are putting in a new window on Saturday. Which will just kick off all the work that needs to be done in that room.(when we bought the condo it was a rental unit, and the renters trashed it and let all their little dogs have free reign over the 2nd bedroom, it smelled sooooooooooo bad when we got it, we've shampooed it more than once, but it's shot.) So we are replacing the carpet upstairs, tony's going to smooth out the walls, put in a ceiling light, cover the cottage cheese ceiling with drywall, put in new baseboards, a new window, oh and the door to the 2nd bedroom is too small so there's an inch or so gap at the top, so he's going to replace all the doors, framing and all, then re-case all the doors, then while we're house sitting for my parents the end of July, he's going to do the two toned paint(since the smell of paint gives me a major headache) then my mom(the wallpaper expert) is going to help us put up the boarder. Then once that's all done we can start putting together the furniture in the room, and hopefully by September it will be a nursery! This pregnancy is going pretty fast because of the fact that as of now she'd be living in a pretty pink bouncer(as that's the only baby thing we have put together, my friend Rose's daughter used it when they came from Idaho to visit) we kinda feel like we're racing the clock now, we pray everyday she doesn't decide to come early. But the nursery at my mom's house is very nearly complete so, I guess that would do if needed ;) All I can say is that it's going to be a CRAZY next couple of months, with never a dull moment! This is definitely the way to make a pregnancy go by fast! No drawn out last trimester for us!!!