I will definitely be stealing these creative ideas!!

I've seen so many cute ideas for home decorating and baby stuff lately. But some of my favorites are:

1. This wonderful wall hanging from Brassy Apple. I would love to do something like this to hang on the wall behind my bed. It is lined with fabric in the back. You can change out the wreath or hang anything you want from it.

2. Another idea by Brassy Apple is this great picture frame. She put fabric that she likes that compliments her room in some of the photo spaces. I love how it looks with the black and white photos and then the pop of color and patterns in the fabric.

3. I've been looking at a lot of blogs/sites with baby stuff to get ideas for my own little baby. I haven't made anything yet because I haven't found out the sex of the baby yet.

But.......tomorrow is the big day!!!!

I'm so excited to find out so I can start sewing and creating fun things for my baby.

Lately I have been seeing a lot of blogs/sites with these adorable decorated wipes containers. Here is one I found quite adorable. I love the choice of colors (won't work so well if we're having a boy, but LOVE the colors anyway!) AND.......there is a tutorial on how to make one for yourself. Check it out at Make it and Love it.

4. Another from Make it and Love it.

There is also a tutorial on how to make one of these. I love this concept. You take a large frame and take the inserts out. Cover them with fabric and put them back in. Then you write on the glass with dry erase markers and you have yourself a custom dry erase board that matches your home.

After months and months of potty training, we STILL haven't learned yet. BUT, Scotty did finally go poo poo in the potty for the first time last evening. He still says that it is scary but at least he did it. He finally got the Wall-E movie that we've had sitting on the "big boy" shelf since November. And he got to choose a toy from the prize box! He has watched Wall-E about 5 times since last night. So, after he went poo poo in the potty and then ate dinner, I bathed him and put his jammies on. He was playing in his room and Derrick went in to play with him. Derrick's nose soon learned that Scotty went poop in his pull up. So, much for all the excitement from earlier, huh? Is my little guy EVER going to make it into "big boy undies?" He wants cool undies so bad................but not bad enough to actually go in the potty. Aaaarrrrggghhhhhh!

The BIG update!!!

I'M PREGNANT!!!!

Yes, as some may have guessed from all the complaining I did in my previous posts about not feeling up to much the past few months. I am now feeling a lot better with the exception of daily acid indigestion that doesn't respond well to Tums, Rolaids, Pepcid, and others. Oh, and I STILL don't like getting out of bed before 8:00 in the morning!! I am currently at 15 weeks and the due date is August 1st. We are excited to find out if this baby is a boy or a girl. We have a little while to wait before we find out though. Derrick is, of course, all ready calling it a boy because "Palmers don't have girls!" I had an ultrasound on Friday and got to see it moving around. It's always reassuring to see all the movement and to hear the heartbeat.

New Years Eve

For New Years Eve/New Years, we went to Gilbert to spend time with the Palmer family. Derrick's mom had set up family pictures with a photographer on New Years Eve. I don't have any of those pictures but I do have some snapshots that were taken that day.

Here's a pic I took of Derrick and Scotty.

Derrick took this one of Scotty and I

These next pictures I had to steal from Derrick's brother Matt's blog. I just have to let you in on a little secret...............things turn a little goofy when Derrick's siblings all get together. There can never be a Palmer family get together without someone getting hit in the junk. Well, maybe not now but it used to be that way. This time, they settled for some funny pictures. Thanks Matt for your great photography skills!

Derrick and Nolan

Benny and Saleem

And even Scotty got in on the action.


And then One Grecian Urn. It's from the movie The Music Man (the old one.) Derrick and his brothers provided the urn while his sister Brianne flows out the top.

After family photos we all went and ate at Village Inn. That evening some of the boys were off doing their own thing so some of the girls went out to dinner at a yummy Italian restaurant. Of course, I have been terrible at taking pictures lately so I don't have any of our girls night. I also don't have any of the get together the next day at the Dababneh's (Derrick's sister's) house. The guys watched football and the girls talked, ate, and took the kids to the park. It was so good to see everyone.

Christmas #2

Christmas in Willcox.

We were able to enjoy spending time with family on Christmas. Gus' family was there, Jodi's family was there and of course, my parents were there. We had a fun time unwrapping gifts with them. Gus handed out the gifts and everyone had fun watching each other tear into them.

Here's Gus' family: Gus handing out gifts, Laurie unwrapping a gift and Gracie looking very pretty in her princess dress-ups!

Here's Jodi and her girls, Sydney and Susannah. I didn't take very many pictures and I somehow missed getting Martin in any of them.

Oh, and notice the awesome denim picnic blanket that Jodi has folded up on her lap. My mom made it and we received one as well! Can't wait until the weather is better and we can use it!

And here is Scotty in his Batman mask/cape. It's a little big right now so the eye holes don't quite match up with his eyes but he LOVED it!

And finally, here are my parents and my wonderful hubby.

We had a lot of fun the couple of days following Christmas as well. One night we had a fun and rowdy game of Apples to Apples that lasted over 3 hours. And Scotty got to spend fun time with 3 of his girl cousins. He also got to spend some time with Uncle Gus. Uncle Gus even showed him how to play guitar. Fun!!

Thanks mom and dad for having us! I love visiting my parents house and it's always a bonus when I get hang out with my siblings while I'm there. I love you guys!

About time for an update....Christmas morning

So, it's been over 2 months since I've posted. I haven't felt up to a lot lately and blogging just happened to be one of those things. I am over a month behind in posting Christmas pictures but figured I should just do it anyway.

Christmas morning we woke up early at our house in Rio Rico to open gifts together as our little family. Scotty was so excited for Christmas. He had been watching Polar Express, Mickey's Christmas, Elf, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and any other Christmas movie he could get. He watched them over and over and over. It was kinda nice though because like I said, I wasn't feeling up to doing much and it kept him occupied.

Scotty was excited about Santa coming too. Here's a picture of Scotty and Derrick at the beginning of gifts.

Here's our little family on Christmas morning. I know I look terrible, but getting up before 8:00 in the morning has been kinda hard for me lately.

The only thing that Scotty REALLY wanted Santa to bring him was a "Dark Mater sword." Oh, and he wanted Santa to bring Daddy a "Dark Mater sword" too AND he wanted mommy to get one as well. Good thing Santa didn't disappoint!

Here is Scotty and Derrick involved in the first fight with the light sabers.


That was our early Christmas morning. Then we were off to Willcox to spend the rest of Christmas with family.