Home stuff

Jonny and I are a *little* obsessed with an HGTV series called Sara's house. It's a show from Canada and in this season Sara bought a farm house, gutted it and redid it to suit her. We love pretty much every room she puts together.

We even bought the exact same dinning chairs that she uses in her dinning room. Look how awesome it is!

The chairs will be used with this table:

We went to home goods yesterday and picked out some bedding to go in our new room. Sara used a dark bed and a really light quilt but Jonny's in the middle of painting our bedroom furniture white so we went for a more colorful look.

Here's Sara's room:

And our bedding (horrible picture, I know..)

We also found the lamps at home goods but they are the wrong color so they will be painted as well :)

Oh and heres a picture of our bedroom set all dark an sad looking. It looks awesome so far but I'll save the pictures for when it's finished. :)

Girl

It's a GIRL!

A Sweet, little, beautiful, wonderful, perfect All-American girl!

I was feeling pretty light headed and called my mom to complain about it. She demanded I call the doctor because no matter how many times I told it was normal, she just didn't believe my googled information. I promised her I would call, and left a message with acute care. Interestingly enough they asked me to come in the next day to get a CBC (which I'm assuming stands for current blood count). They told me I would have to wait an hour for the results so I sat down in the waiting room with Jonny. They called our name and we were taken into one of the rooms with a ultrasound machine. I looked at the machine, I looked at Jonny, and I decided I was going to do my best to get them to let me see my baby. The doctor came in told me the results hadn't come back yet but she wanted to ask me what was going on. After we discussed my blood disorder she asked me if there was anything else... I told her I had a problem. I said "I don't know if i'm having a boy or girl yet..." she asked if I had scheduled my big ultrasound appointment and I said I had but it was a full month away. Lucky for me, the doctor was super sweet and said we could take a peek and see if the baby was in an easy position to find out.

The doctor repositioned the ultrasound wand about 10 different times and each time she saw 3 lines. nothing in between the legs. "Looks like a girl!" she said. She told us not to take tags off of anything we buy but when I asked her for a percentage of how sure she was that it was a girl she just smiled nodded her head and said "I'm pretty sure"

We'll be expecting Peyton Nicole :)

Here is the bedding we've already picked out:

Let me know what you think!

New stuff

A few days ago Jonny and I decided we were going to go antique shopping, or in our case it's really antique browsing.. lol. We planned a list of places to go and I added Pottery Barn to the list. Turns out it was the closest to our house so we headed there first. I walked in and sighed and Jonny fell in love with everything. I've been telling Jonny I'd like to do something different with our living room for a long time but it was never right time to get it done. Now that we have a move coming up and will have a new place to work with I think we're about ready for change. Here's a look at what our living room looked like when we FIRST got it done.

Now we'd like to lighten it up. We're planning on light light tan walls a blue accent wall. leather pieces and awesome rugs.

Here are some of the things we've bought for the new place:

Better look at the lamp

We got this rug in 6X9 for only $200 saving about $500 :)

and these three pillows:

We have a lot more to do. We're planning on keeping our couches and our dinning room table and just added more pieces like an ottoman, a couple chairs and a chaise lounge. We're going to splitting them up into two rooms, the living room and the great room.

What do you think so far?

dinner, cats and a moose

I promised myself that I was going to keep up with this blog no matter how boring things got. I haven't posted in a few days so I told myself I HAD to tonight.

It's hard to talk about nothing.

Yesterday, Jonny and I went out to dinner at On The Border. It's a yummy Mexican restaurant that another military wife introduced us to. The only problem is it's about a 30 min drive. by the time we got there my stomach hurt so bad that I was afraid to eat freely. lol. The rest of my meal is sitting in the fridge waiting for me, but I never eat restaurant leftovers.... I'm a little strange. My second job was in fast food and I had to take a food safety class. Ever since I'm manage to convince myself that by the time everyone is done eating at a restaurant, everything is boxed up, driven home, and put in the fridge my food has been in the "danger zone" for too long and has grow bacteria that can make me sick. Jonny never seems to mind, more food for him a suppose. :)

After dinner I conviced Jonny to take a stroll around Ikea (LOVE IT!!!) We walked around and I pointed out things I wanted and jonny kept telling me "I'm not buying new stuff for the cats to ruin". We've had our two fur babies for about 2 years, in that time, they have managed to tear up most of our furniture. The couches have claw marks, the tables have scratches, and the knick knacks jonny brought home from Africa have been chewed on. I can see where he's coming from but the cats are here to stay so I'm trying to do everything I can to get them to stop. I'm planning on buying bitter spray for Jinx (the chewer) and possibly the claw caps for both of them.

I got a new photo editing program. I have no idea what I'm doing with it but I took one of my friends pictues that they posted on facebook and messed with it a little bit and I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself. Check it out:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

What do you think?

Webcam

My mom bought me a webcam. Well, it's really a joint gift to Jonny and I for our birthdays. She wanted to be able to see and talk to us when she wanted. The webcam made it to my house today and I got to ding around on it a bit. It has some awesome extras... I should just let the pictures speak for themselves...

So much fun! Thanks Mom!

Very exciting day

Yesterday Jonny and I were offered a house on fort Belvoir! Our new house is a townhouse. It has 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, Private backyard and detached garage. Our move in date is July 8th! We're So excited!

Here's the layout:

And the outside of our house! (Jonny only took one picture because we were looking pretty creepy sitting in front of their house.. :) )

Nutella

I remember when I was in 6th grade, I went to a slumber party at my friend Kristine's house. Kristine, Camilla and I all stayed up, did make up, and took about a thousand pictures.

Once we woke up the next morning Kristine's parents called us to the table and gave us breakfast. I had a plate with two graham crackers on it and Kristine's parents were busy spreading this brown spread on them called Nutella. I was a little confused and even more nervous to try whatever it was they were setting in front of me. I didn't want to be rude so I took a small bite. That bite changed my graham cracker view forever!

Today I was sitting around the house craving a snack. Jonny and I haven't made it to the gocery store for a while so I had a very limited source of food to choose from. Lucky for me Jonny bought a box of graham crackers before his wrist surgery and hadn't finished off the last sleeve of them. I also found a jar of Nutella hiding in the back of my pantry.

YUM!!!!

Every time I get a taste of the hazelnut spread I get a flash back of middle school, and silently thank Kristine's parents for introducing me to one of my favorite snacks!

Jonny's 23!

Today, My love turns 23.

He Finally caught up to me! If you forgot I turned 23 exactly a week ago today. It's funny that we're so close in age. Jonny is, by far, the oldest if you want to gauge by maturity. He's a wonderful, wonderful man. I wish we could do more on his birthday but the camera we bought was the extent of our fun money for a little while. This morning we got up and made French toast and from then on Jonny had been happily glued to Battlefield Bad company 2. I've been doing my very best not to sigh or complain. The day he loses interest in this game is the day you'll see me dancing around my living room with a HUGE smile right in the middle of my face.

Now I'm off to fold laundry and occupy myself until Jonny Sets down the video game controller.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONNY! I LOVE YOU!

P.S This is a pretty old picture of Jonny I just didn't get a chance to take pictures today!

Completely obsessed

A while ago, and I'm sure I've already told a few of you about this before, I was introduced to a blog. It's called "enjoying the small things" and when I first learned of it it was because the woman who writes it had just given birth to her second child and was telling her birth story. Her daughter was born with down syndrome and her birth story just tugged at your heart strings and left you with tears in your eyes. After reading it I started following her blog. Now every couple of days Kelle posts about her day with her children. I've read of birthday parties, and trips to the beach, as well as making valentines cookies at home, and rearranging her furniture. Kelle also includes some of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen in her blog.

I guess what I'm getting at here is that you should all look at it.

It's the reason I bought a 6oo dollar camera and started my own blog. I keep reading about things and seeing her photos and thinking "I want my kids to have something like this to look back on" or "I should remember that for when the baby comes"

When you have a chance to talk a look you can find Kelle's blog here: http://www.kellehampton.com/

Enjoy!