Today was LONG Overdue!

This morning Makenzie and I hopped in the car for the hour drive back to our old neighborhood to visit with our daycare friends!!  (Something we should have done multiple times over the past year!)  Not all the same kiddies were there but the ones that were have grown SOOOOO MUCH!!!  And we were SO excited to see Mrs Julie and Miss Chelsea!  We have missed them so much, they are just the greatest people and after bringing Makenzie to them I don't think that there is another daycare on this earth that could compare. 

Makenzie was quiet at first but soon warmed up and had Chelsea busy putting together puzzle after puzzle after puzzle with her.   Then helped her make a painted apple.  The girls were loud giggling and making silly noises while Harry (the solo boy) sat quietly staring at the girls.  Haha!  Oh how we miss our Friday's with them!!

Before we left Chelsea, Makenzie and I headed out into the yard to snap a few Pre Baby pictures!  Let me tell you... they turned out GREAT!!!  (I will post my favs later!)  She did such a good job and I am so stinkin' excited!

We said goodbye to our friends and headed to do a drive-by our old house.  As we drove by we noticed that our neighbor Jackie was outside with her grandkids!  So we stopped and visited with her for awhile which was SOOOOO good since we haven't seen her or the grandkids in a year and a half!  TOO LONG! Makenzie played great with her 2 great grandkiddies while we quickly played catch up. 

Again I rounded Makenzie up, buckled her up and on the road we were again... headed home!  Fun day had by all!

Someone getting sleepy!

And she's out!

Now she's really out!

(P.S. I was lucky to get these shots of her!  I grabbed my camera and faced the camera towards her and pushed the button.  I looked at the screen and I got the picture!  Pretty good if you ask me for not turning around and focusing on her!) 

Last Nights Boom!

Unfortunately not the "boom" of thunder but the kind of boom that you hear during the night followed by a child crying.  That's what we had last night...

I had a REALLY busy day yesterday, I didn't mean for it to be, but it just ended up that way!  I didn't quite realize it until I was laying down while my mom was getting Makenzie ready for bed that I had hardly sat down all day!

We started the day down at the Farmer's Market where Makenzie was almost instantly given a doughnut from a farmer friend of ours.  (Yes, that is my favorite food... and I was slightly disappointed I didn't get one too or even a bite!)  Then we headed on down to the kids side of the market where they have all sorts of activities and bubbles to play with.  Yesterday they even had animals to see!  Makenzie got to see 2 lizards, 2 turtles and a snake.  She was so brave and petted each one and even got to hold one of the lizards (who happened to push it to the limits by crawling up her arm and "hugging" her)!  I was so bummed I didn't bring my camera... no pics sorry.

Short on time we nixed our playtime at the Library and headed to the grocery store, then went birthday shopping for Matt, went and got gas (since it was going from $4.10 to $4.29).  We didn't get home until about 1:00, I quick thru lunch together and put Makenzie down for nap/ quite time.  I worked on some chores while she didn't sleep, then headed out in the rain to play/garden!  One thing got crossed off my list... our 2013 garden and landscaping projects are DONE.

After we played out side Nina (my mom) came over and the three of us made 3 dozen rhubarb muffins! 

Wasn't so fond of the spoonful of flour she put into her mouth!

Trying to get rid of the pasty floury mouthful!

 My kitchen got small and flour covered really quick but the 3 of us had a great time!  After chopping 9 cups of rhubarb, baking 3 dozen muffins, making strawberry/rhubarb sauce and waffles... my day was done.

Then during the night we hear the BOOM!  Followed by Makenzie crying.  I was so tired Matt was to her in a flash and I was slowly following behind.  Her railing broke!  It was plastic and she must have been leaning against it and the plastic cracked and down she went.  Dang.  So here I was pretty much still sleeping wandering around the house looking for plan B.  I came up with nothing.... Matt to the rescue!  He surrounded her with blankets and off to sleep the three of us went.

Why would you make a railing out of plastic??  Plastic breaks!!  Dumb buy I guess... glad I only spent $2 on it from a garage sale :0)

Tulip Time 2013

The first week of May was Tulip Time! 

 We went down town to enjoy the festivities a couple of times and had a great time.  Last year I dutch danced and Makenzie LOVED watching and would even "dance" along.  

                                                                               

This year she wasn't so into the dances and content to sit right by Daddy.

We started Tulip Time with an evening picnic in the park with the family.  While we waited for the rest of the family Makenzie kept Daddy busy chasing squirrels up the trees!   

After dinner we headed over to watch the little kids dance, the high school and alumni dancers and of course we had to snap a few pictures with the tulips!  

This was the cutest little dance I have ever seen!!

                          
Makenzie's first Elephant Ear!  She wasn't so sure what to think of the "elephant" ear.

Photo Op with cousins Zachary, Natalie & Caleb!

 

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!

This too!!

Later in the week my cousin Kristi from the other side of the state came out!  So of course, we headed down town to watch the dancers again and walk around the park checking out more tulips. 

 The weather was great.  The tulips were blooming.  You couldn't ask for a better time.  Being in Michigan there are plenty of years were the tulips haven't bloomed yet or have bloomed and are long gone.  This year everything was right on schedule.

27 Weeks!!

27 weeks was like 4 weeks ago, so I'll do a more current belly/baby post soon!

(FYI: You can click on the pic to make it larger)

27 Weeks:

Weight Gain: 35 lbs.  :-)  I look back on my 23 week post and I guess the salads didn't help!  The Dr laughed when he saw my weight and told me I was going to be well over the 50 lbs I gained with Makenzie.  Great.  I swear I keep flying thru maternity clothes!  Thankfully a friend had some I could borrow because I outgrew the new clothes I had bought AND outgrew what I wore with Makenzie.

Cravings: Ice cream, brownies, cookies, sweets, sweets, sweets!  I had my glucose screening test at 27 weeks and I haven't heard any results... no news is good news??  I DO pick a few days each week to go without.... sometimes I can do it sometimes I can't.  What-cha-gonna-do?

Energy: Good!  Not my normal non prego self energy.  But I think a lot for being pregnant!

Sleeping: I am definitely getting use to getting myself comfortable with a big baby belly.  Rolling over and moving positions is hard work!!  Thankfully Matt sleeps thru me pushing myself off of him to move :0)

Feeling Baby: Oh yes... there are nights when this baby keeps mama up!  If I do a lot during the day the baby is up a lot during the night not giving me much sleep.

Baby & Makenzie: Makenzie keeps asking when the baby is going to come out!!  Not yet!

Braxton Hicks: I have slowed down what I do each day and don't rush the first part of the week to get ALL my chores done.  I do a little bit each day AND I haven't been lifting Makenzie as much and that seems to be helping.  Bummer is that before my Thursday and Friday's would be pretty relaxed mellow days since housework would be done.... but now I've got housework EVERY day that I do.  Boo.

There's the scoop!!  I'll leave ya with a belly picture of me with Makenzie and then with baby #2!

I don't know that I can really see a difference?  Can any of you?

April's Sunny Spring Days

Alright!  We are back in action!!  Took awhile to get the problem fixed, but a big THANK YOU to whoever did fix it. (Maybe next time fix it faster!)  So get ready for some big posts as I lump everything together!

One of my last post was about how rainy it was and how we were stuck inside and getting bored!  Well, Michigan has had a change of attitude and we have had beautiful sunny spring days. 

Cousin Natalie chasing Miss Makenzie!

Caleb and Nat have her cornered!!

Starting the day out right!  Butterfly pancake with OJ!

Mommy got a pedi while Nana and Pop took Makenzie on a picnic!

Pop and Makenzie feeding fish and a few ducks!

Isn't she SO cute!?!?

Unless we have the doors locked (which even then doesn't help all the time) Miss Makenzie will sneak out!  Matt was outside so she was going to find him but I told her she couldn't go because she wasn't wearing shoes.  SO.... she finds some boots and heads outside...QUIETLY!  I go to take a peak on what she was doing and I see her outside!  Next time I'll have to be a bit more specific as to what she is missing!  God only knows what our neighbors must think of us!!  LOL!

First corn on the cob of the year!!  Yum Yum!

Bike riding season has begun!! 

Holding the flowers we picked at Poppa's house!  We did lose one out the window :-(

Beautiful hot spring day!

We had an airplane fly really low, Makenzie yells "plane mama plane!" picks up the rain gauge and there ya go!  Silly girl!

Loving running thru the laundry!

A Month of No Blogging :-(

It's been almost a month since my last post and it has been DRIVING ME CRAZY.  I have a lot to say and a lot of pictures to show off.  Post are really boring when they don't have pictures :-)  They help tell the story.  Anywho, something is wrong with my blog/ computer... something!  I see/ hear that other bloggers are having issues too.  For some reason I can't upload pictures to the post.  I have been impatiently waiting for blogger to respond to the issue and fix it so I can fill everyone back in on the day to days over here.

For the meantime here's a quick what's going on at our house!

- I'm 30 weeks today!  Contractions have pretty much gone away since I stopped picking up Makenzie.  (Which is SOOO not easy for me... she's not a cuddler but loves to be held when you walk around and I'm missing all of that as well as playtime outside with her.)

- We finished planting our 50 x 22 foot garden last night!  Yikes... big garden :-)  I am SO excited but a little nervous at the same time.  Gardens are a lot and we have a lot going on this summer!

- We planted: strawberries, rhubarb, red cabbage, carrots, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, muskmelon, beans, green peppers, jalapenos, banana peppers, tomatoes, grape tomatoes, green onion, onion, potatoes.  Whew!  (See why I'm a little intimidated?)

- Makenzie has been REALLY cranky.  She hasn't been taking naps.  She has started having night terrors.  (I was up 4 times with her last night... Matt was up a good chunk of the night with her Sunday night.)

- Our landscaping is pretty much done.  Rose bushes were transplanted, new perennials were put in, mulch put down, LOTS of weeding, lots of digging overgrown plants out.  Looks SOOO much nicer and cleaner. 

- We bought a new truck!  One that will be big enough to fit our growing baby.  We are selling our old one!  Any takers!?!?

Okay, Makenzie is napping, I cleaned the bath, the floors and am in process of making dinner!  (Amazing how much I can get done while she is sleeping!)  I should get back to making dinner before a fire alarm goes off and wakes her up!

Random's

Random Pics ~ Random Thoughts:

Weather has been wet here.  LOTS of rain... LOTS of time spent indoors.  Seems like every day last week it rained... non... stop.  Yesterday I ran a few errands and I saw so many hoses coming out of basements spewing water out and garbage bins full of wet carpet and other water damaged items.  This is our first spring in this house and we didn't have ANY water!  Woot woot!

I've been working on lots of little projects.... I think I'll do a separate post on this later.  So far I have made a wreath, redone a couple of old stained glass window cabinet doors, finished sewing curtains for the bedroom, painted a stool, transplanted and trimmed rose bushes, repainted a couple of flower stands, painted a mirror frame... that MAY be all for now.  I do feel like I'm missing something....here's a before of one of my projects...

Makenzie has been VERY busy... she finds ALL the trouble.  Being cooped up in the house with the rain wears on ya.  We had a couple of days of really nice weather and were outside a LOT of the day.  Thank GOD!  Today is kind of a yucky day and she just wants out.  She is tired of being at home. 

Matt has a huge list of projects that he is working on. 

Making dinner is difficult in this house... I have to pee every 5 mins it seems like, so I go quite often during making dinner and always come back and seems like something is missing...

My plants are doing fantastic in the basement!  The tomato plants look great!  I have 9 good looking plants.  The green peppers are a bit poky... not sure how they will turn out yet.  Jalapeno plants are looking good too!

We planted our potatoes and onions in the garden.

I'm so anti animal right now... Ruger (who was in Makenzie's room while she was sleeping) just threw up all over.  And of course it woke Makenzie up and she is ticked!  We have learned not to wake her up.... if you do she is horrible!  So she's got the mad cry going on right now and I'm crossing my fingers she falls back asleep.  Our cat has WAY too much hair and it ends up all over everything.  Gross.  The bunnies are eating my tulips that I planted.

I like ducks... we had ducks in our yard with all the rain...

Contractions come and go.... I over did it one day last week and spent the next 3 days having quite a bit and in a good chunk of pain. 

There's a giant spider on our basement stairs... I needed to go down stairs to get some meat out of the freezer.  Scratch that idea! 

A neighborhood girl was wandering out in the rain yesterday, not at school, her hair was died pink.  She's probably 6 or 7.  Hmm....