We have a new niece!!!

Welcome to the world Alice (???) Moore! 6 lbs and 13 oz. She was born yesterday to Carrie and David and big brothers George and Nolan. Congratulations Moore family, we can't wait to meet her! Just look at that sweet face!! My nephews will be great big brothers!

Dear neighborhood hoodlums,

Remember when you recently did this? Or how about 2 Christmases ago when you did this? Well guess what? You've now exceeded my expectations in stupidity and rudeness by unsuccessfully attempting to steal my husband's car by hot wiring it. You're rude for trying to steal it and stupid for not googling how to do it before you tried, thus failing in what seems to be a simple procedure according to the internet and my husband. Now you've robbed me of an evening with my hubby because he must rewire his car. I'm sure you don't realize that we only have 8 more weeks together without a child and if you had realized this you most certainly wouldn't have attempted such a silly crime, right?
Sincerely,
That lady whose mailbox you vandalized and front door you kicked it, whose husband has such an awesome vehicle every thug and drug dealer wants it

A glimpse

I'm still working on what to hang on the walls but until then here are a few of the things we've been working on in Olivia's room. Here is the quilt I made for her Craigslist crib. Don't worry, Charlie isn't afraid of it anymore. This is one of the valences we made while my parents were here, the rocker is Ryan's nasty Goodwill one from college that has been magically transformed by a surefit wingback slipcover, the shelves hold vintage toys from my grandmother and a dress that was mine and one that was my dad's. (yes my gma put him in a dress) Here is Ryan working on the awesome pillows we designed thanks to inspiration from Leslie! This was really fun and easy to do. Just make stencils with freezer paper, cut out, iron on, paint, peel off and voila! Here is a finished one. The other one is still drying. These will go on the trundle bed.Not sure if this stuff will stay here but we'll see what other treasures I find or get as presents! This is my grandmother's bassinet that had peeling paint chips inside but my mother in law helped me make a mattress and cover for it. I love it! Not sure where we're putting this but it's on wheels so it can go wherever.These cute pillows I made in high school in my Fashion class. They're so "fashionable" I think I will keep them in Olivia's room. :) And this is just random but the blocks were always at my grandmother's and I like them. That about sums it up for now! We have a few more crafty things to do and figure out what to hang on the walls and I'm thinking instead of a mobile I might hang these above the crib. I saw the idea here. Check back for the hilarious posts about our recent neighborhood shenanigans and zoo adventures with kids at church!

The rest of the story....

Before I show you a sneak peek into the almost finished nursery, here are some more of the fun times from last week at camp. These are all the girls we took with counselor Laura in my classroom. The theme was "Parable Street" and my class was titled Love Lane. We learned about the parables of the lost coin and the lost sheep.Chillin' in the forum at night trying not to get eaten by junebugsBowling + hundreds of 3rd thru 5th graders = crazy fun Girls with another counselor....sorry I don't remember your nameI think they could've swam (swum?) all day.Trying not to die out in the heat. Thankfully no one did :)All the girls in our kids' group. It was a lot of fun but I'm not sure if I will try to do this again while carrying a 31 week old gestating baby. It led to one tired mama still trying to recuperate from all the fun!

Happy Birthday America!

To celebrate our nation's birthday we spent most of the afternoon sleeping. Well by we, I mean me. I was exhausted...might've had something to do with camp (which I'll show the rest of those pics later) or the growing baby inside of me or a combo of the two. Either way I was pretty much worthless on Saturday. Ryan, however got the nesting bug and was cleaning the whole house and detailing my car!! It looks so clean I can't even believe it! Plus he got seat covers for it....anyway let's get back to the birthday girl. We went to Yukon to celebrate with friends who are moving in less than a month :( Charlie got to play with her sister one last time before they head to North Carolina. We will miss you Nate and Janine!! Their friends just so happen to live across the street from the park where they were shooting off the fireworks so we cooked out and then watched the show. It was great! And thanks to the POURING rain we got earlier in the evening it had cooled down a LOT. Janine, me (and Olivia), Allison, and Teresa waiting for the fireworks. The guys being patriotic...right before this picture they blew up a hot dog with firecrackers...then Nate ate it. Gross.

Whirlwind!

That is the only way to describe this weekend and the first day of camp!! I'm here and I'm alive and I've got a few minutes to rest before I need to assemble the craft for my Bible class that is arriving in a moment (that was supposed to be here Friday--boo on you Oriental Trading). On Saturday Ryan and I shopped for shelves and baskets and crafty things I need to do for Olivia's room, I got my ring inspected to keep up with the warranty--while there I noticed my drivers license AND debit card expired June 30--that's tomorrow people, then we went to see Away We Go (loved this movie!), we finished registering, bought some stuff for dinner, picked up Lucy the dog for the night, cleaned up the house, began packing, worked on Bible lesson for the next day, tried to watch a movie, got interrupted and had to take some banners up to OC that we had made.Sunday was church. I worked in the nursery, then had Bible time and it was Baby dedication Sunday (see above pic), gathered things I needed for my class at camp, came home, ate lunch, finished packing, caravanned to OC with our 8 campers, Ryan helped me get settled in my dorm room and set up my classroom, then camp activities until 10:00pm. Needless to say I slept AMAZINGLY well in my dorm bed last night.








Today I got up at 6am, helped with breakfast, got ready for my class, had 2 classes, ran to renew my drivers license and debit card, quick lunch, chaperoned crazy inflatables and water games outside for 2 hours, came back to my room to await the late package for Oriental Trading. After this is dinner, black light puppets, New Reign concert, and who knows what else. Olivia used to only move when I was still, but I've been moving so much she has learned to move while I move and this is an odd feeling. I will be surprised if I haven't lost weight after being on my feet so much this week. We will have to wait and see at the next Dr. appt I guess! It's tiring but it's a lot of fun too!

Whoa Baby!!

So the last time we took a belly shot was 3 weeks ago and sadly I should've taken some more in between then and now because I thought I was just feeling bigger but after seeing this pic, I don't think it's all in my head. This however does not give any of you permission to make rude comments. (I've been getting a few lately and it's NOT cool) You may however give nice comments but nothing along the lines of "you're huge!!" or like the KFC lady yesterday when I walked in she just looked at me and said "so one of everything?" I didn't laugh, I punched her in the face...ok maybe I didn't but I did give her a mean look.Here's a side by side look from 6 weeks to 30 weeks....will it ever be that flat again???? The bellybutton is thisclose to popping.





















I'm hoping the stretch marks don't start appearing. So far so good. And don't worry Amy there is still PLENTY of room in the bridesmaids dress for me to grow!

I'm not Super-stitious just a Little-stitious

I don't think I had heard that "Death comes in threes" until I worked at a church and let me tell you, it's something I'm starting to believe pretty firmly in. Ryan broke the news to me when he got home yesterday about Michael Jackson. I couldn't believe it. Yes he was a REALLY strange person and did some REALLY odd things, but when you realize how many people knew him and his music all over the world it's pretty crazy. I don't know why but it's really sad to me and I kind of can't believe it. I'm sure it will be all over the news...and it probably already is....and we will hear about it until we are all sick of it. It just seems so out of the blue. But now the "death triangle of 3" has been complete so we don't have to wonder who number 3 will be.









Anyway, sorry for the morbid post. Thanks soooo much for the HUNDREDS of comments you guys left me yesterday. They were so encouraging and I really needed encouragement this week! I'll try to keep upcoming posts more lighthearted and full of that sarcasm stuff and less about death. :)