Oh Boy!

22 weeks down, 18 more to go! We wish the baby was here already! As usual, it's been forever since the last post. The most exciting news is that we are expecting our first baby boy. Evan, should be joining us around March 27th. The pregnancy hasn't been bad at all. No sickness or crazy symptoms :) We have started working on the nursery, it's far from been done, but we at least have an idea of what we are doing. Here is a pic of the sweet baby at 20 weeks,
Another exciting thing is that I passed the Utah Property and Casualty Insurance test! It's something I have wanted to do for the last 4 months and I finally took the test.

Super Saturday!

Lately all of our Saturdays have been about home work and projects. This weekend was super busy. I reupholstered my kitchen chairs, made a table runner for my dining table, and hemmed curtains. Brett did his usual and some more. He did yard work, put up paintings and mirrors, and installed a new light fixture on our dinning room.

We have had these chairs for about 4 years, there was nothing wrong with them other than that the fabric was stained from daily use. Chair project before:

and after:
Now they match my black and white kitchen :)
Table runner, curtains & new beautiful light fixture. As you can see we still need a lot of decor for our walls, all in time. I have to thank Bobby George for the amazing painting.

Also, I got an orchid plant. I have never taken care of flowers or plants before, so I am really excited to see it bloom (if I manage keep it alive).

Home Update

It's been about 3 weeks since I got back from Peru and 2 months since we moved in our house. My surgery was a success and I have recovered completely. I made a big career change. I left Sears and now work for AllState. I am loving my new job! I do miss my awesome and amazing coworkers :( But I am lot happier and more relax now. I am loving life.
We have been spending a lot of time working on our home. We have a long list of small and big projects for the house. I am so glad I married a handy guy that knows how to do things around the house. Our most recent project was to add a half bath to the main level. When the house was built, they left the little room ready, but didn't put in the bathroom. So we chose the fixtures and Brett added the pipes, drains, water lines, installed a fan and light fixtures all by HIMSELF! It turned out super cute! Our current project is to put our decorations up in the walls. We have realized that we will be needing a lot more than what we currently have.

Finally a post

We have had a lot of great things happen to us in the last few months. The biggest one is that we are finally Home Owners! Yay! It was quite the frustrating experience because we looked at so many homes. During 4 months, we looked at about 25 homes, considered building, put offers on 16 of them (yes, 16!), fell absolutely inlove with 3 of them, finally we found one we liked and our offer got accepted. In case you're wondering why it took so many homes, when we were house hunting, about 85% (I really want to say 99.99%) of the homes were short sales, which are a big pain! Once the offer got accepted, our loan got processed in 3 days (thanks to Andee), we closed 2 days later and moved in 3 days after that. Thanks to the in-laws for helping us move so quickly; we got everything moved in in just one day! Something we were worried about was selling our apartment lease, it would have cost us almost 2 months rent just to break the lease, but we found some girls that loved our apartment and took over our lease.

I have no current pictures of the house since we are still, yes 4 weeks later, putting stuff away. I obviously wanted to make it home immediately, so we have started painting and I believe Brett is halfway done with that job. By the way, we bought our home in Lehi, somewhere in the middle for both of our jobs.

Another thing is that I finally got the surgery I needed in my eye, and coming to see my family in Peru is a huge plus. I do miss my hubby a lot. Surgery wasn't too bad or painful, the bad part is having 10 stitches in the eyeball and having to spend 10 days inside the house without going anywhere. So not much of a vacation, but I am getting super pampered by my family and enjoying delicious food (which means getting at least 5 pounds heavier). Been inside the house so many days is also the reason for the long random blogging. Today is the first day I get to spend some time with my computer for more than 5 min a day (strict doctor orders). Just one more day before they take out my stitches! yay for me!

I haven't had a chance for many pictures with my family either, but I did get this one with my lovely sister before the surgery.


On a side note, our puppies are finally ready for sale! We already sold one and have 2 more for sale. In case interested or know someone interested in AKC Maltese http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=15962056&cat=105&lpid=&search=maltese.

Puppies

What have we been up to? Oh yeah... Taking care of the cutest little puppies in the world. Sammy and Lily gave us grandkids. On April 19th Lily delivered 2 girls and 2 boys!!! It was a crazy night, but they were all born healthy and are growing so quickly.

Coasters

This week I decided to spend my day off doing some crafts. I spent some time online finding a project and fell inlove with these tile coasters. I had been wanting to make some for a while and finally found some that I really like. They were super easy and quick.
This was the final product. I used some ribbon to make it an awesome gift. These tiles are going to an amazing friend that gave me a beautiful painting as a gift.

Sweets

I have found a new love and it's one to share. Baking, baking, and more baking! Once I find a new recipe I make it until I get sick of it. My coworkers seem to like me more than ever...they get to enjoy all the delicious treats. My latest favorite recipe is sugar cookies!