The Big Sister Nala!

The first night we got home from the hospital Kelly's parents came and dropped off Nala. I can't thank them enough for taking care of her while we were at the hospital. I know she's a pain and always hyper. 

No one believes us that she really is a calm dog when she's at her house. The first thing they teased us about is how long until Nala will be gone. It kind of made me sad to think of Nala not being here but then I realized she was going to do just fine.

Charli started to make a couple noises and Nala just sat staring at her and unsure about what that little thing was. At one point Nala thought someone stepped on her toys that squeak but it was just Charli. My mom and me sat laughing at Nala's expressions.

First Time looking at Charli

Nala was still confused about what that little bundle was for a couple days but we got this picture of her just sitting next to Charli. She has done really good with listening to us and looking from afar. The first night home Charli was up a lot and crying Nala would sit in her kennel looking so confused at what that sound was.

We have had Charli sitting on our bed with the boppy pillow and Nala will just lay down far enough that we are happy but close enough she can still see the baby.

I am so happy at how good Nala has been with having Charli in the house. I think she will continue to be good with this change. She is starting to know the rules and I think she will be protective of Charli since she knows that we both are.

This is Nala trying to be far away but still close enough to see her. At one point her head was almost on top of Charli's forehead. It was quite funny.

We love our puppy Nala still and I am so glad she still gets play time in with Kelly every night. She has become more clingy some days. We have had her lick the pinky several times and try to attack poopy diapers. But I can handle that. 

This could be the LAST Bump Update?!

This could possibly be the last Ultrasound of Little Miss Nelson before she is here... 

Now that is CRAZY!

We actually were able to get a picture of her this week at our Ultrasound. She has a little dancer bicep showing if you know what you are looking for. I don't know what it is with this child but she loves the duck lips. Hopefully they stay as a pose and not used for kissing boys till she's 35 years old.

How far along are you: 39 Weeks

Dialated/Effaced: 3 cm and 75% effaced to 80%

Total Weight Gain: I gained about 2 more pounds this week so it would be 15 lbs total so far. I had a heavy coat on when they had weighed me.

Stretch Marks: Nothing yet. I do have some pain on my left side mainly because she doesn't sit anywhere else but on my left side.

Sleeping: I have been able to sleep fine with only having to get up to go potty once a night. It really hasn't been to bad. Although I realized my arms fall asleep and become numb a little bit.

Best Moment This Week: I have still been coaching and going to dance. Although I have cut back on moving mainly because its painful and well I can't do a whole lot of stretching with this bowling ball in the way. But I was really bummed at watching the dance girls turn so I made Alexa do a turn combo or two with me. It was great to turn again. I came home to show Kelly the video of us turning... he was anything but happy. He was like "I told you to not dance and blah blah blah.." Well sorry dear I couldn't help it. I look a little funny with the belly and I am totally not balanced completely but it was fun to turn at 9 months pregnant. You may even be surprised that I can still do the splits, it actually feels good to sit in them since my hips are getting tight and tense sometimes.
Little Miss Nelson is going to come out knowing how to turn and she is going to find this years dance music soothing more than likely since she has heard it a ton.

This week I also used a gift card that Kelly gave me for Valentines Day. It was for Massage Envy. I hadn't used it because I wanted to make it worth something. Well a prenatal massage was totally worth it! I loved it. It was the best hour. I can tell that I haven't had as many back pains and it made my attitude better about still being pregnant. I called Kelly and told him how much I loved it and how I want to go back once a month. He laughed and said you have had that gift card for over a year and you now are in love with massages.. Sound about right!

Contractions: Sunday was pretty bad I couldn't walk very well and was definitely waddling. Monday & Tuesday was fine. After the doctors appointment today I have felt a lot more contractions but they aren't up to what they should be to rush to the hospital quite yet.

Cravings: I got a frosty with Kelly tonight and Nala hitched a ride with us. I was very excited to have Ice Cream even though its 20 degrees outside and its suppose to snow tomorrow. Also Kelly got us a Chicago Style pizza for dinner this week. It was delicious. We also stopped at Fiiz drinks on the way home from Grandma Smiths.

Labour Signs? I have noticed that she is shimmying down lower. Now if she would like to just make things move along a little faster.

Happy or Moody? impatient. I am getting to the point where I am sick of being pregnant and I am sick of being asked so are you still pregnant, is it going to happen today, are you at the hospital... I understand the excitement that everyone has but this little girl inside really isn't wanting to leave quite yet.
Looking Forward to? I am hoping that my doctor is somewhat correct and that she will be here before our next appointment. He seems to think that its any day now.. But I don't know if the baby thinks that.

We have talked about how we are going to spell her name, all of the insurance stuff and Kelly has asked me several times if I have a bag packed for him. He also has shown that he is nervous for the time when we are sitting in the hospital.

I finally parked in a parking spot for me.. it was already an empty parking lot
since I woke up early to get clearance halloween candy.

This is at 38 Weeks

On Sunday in between 38-39 weeks

Since I haven't had to go to work the last week it's been nice to be able to clean the house, work on things for the babies room, read a bunch of blogs and of course watch Studio 5. But we also have had our lazy moments.. more than I would like to admit too but look at how cute this puppy is.. ignore the fact that I don't wear make up hardly ever now. 

Little Miss Nelson's Nursery Part 1

Before I start telling you all about Little Miss Nelson's Nursery project I need to let you know that it would not have been even close to what it is if it wasn't for Kelly. He spent so much time working on it, drawing up different plans and going back to the drawing board when things wouldn't work out. He sometimes questioned if what he was really painting was for a girl and if I was still going to like it when it was finished. I am so grateful for a handy man in my life who can do anything and everything.

This room use to be my craft room aka the messiest room in the house. Well after we spent half a day getting everything moved down to the new craft room we were ready to finally start envisioning what we wanted this room to look like.

Before photos of the bedroom.

Slowly our house is changing colors in every room. Our whole house use to be this tan/beige color and well since we have been married we have painted over half of the house something new. Its crazy how much paint can change a home.

I am a Lowes Lover. We shop there for almost any project that involves our home improvement.

I love the Valspar paint line it always goes on great and the colors are always rich! I tend to pick colors that are vibrant and risky so having a paint that makes it look just like the card is awesome!

Indigo Cloth

and 

Bella Grove Sorbet 

are the two colors we used in this project both are from the Lowe's Valspar paint line.

Semi-Gloss Valspar Ultra Paint + Primer 

this has very low odor and zero voc.

We painted the blue wall first and ran out of paint had to get more for touch up and a third coat. 

Nala loves being anywhere close to Kelly but every time we paint she ends up wearing it. Same thing happened this go around, she rubbed up against the wall while it was wet and had a mint bum for over a week. 

The base coats are done. Accent wall is Indigo Cloth and the other
three walls are the Belle Grove Sorbet

This is when things got rough real fast.

I had always envisioned a spanish Moroccan tile stencil on her wall.

After attempting to get the stencil we had borrowed from a nice friend it just wasn't going to work.

As you can tell..

So cover that back up and go back to the drawing board...

(This is why I mention that Kelly is an amazing husband)

I had showed Kelly a million different ideas on Pinterest. Stripes, argyle, stencils, different shapes. We went back and started looking again. I came across some metallic polka dots. I thought for sure if I showed it to Kelly he would just straight up laugh and say 'Yeah right, I am not painting that'... well, the total opposite happened. He was in for it.. Although once he had come up with several different grids and layouts we weren't sure how we were going to get the PERFECT CIRCLE on to the wall. 

Luckily for us we have our resources and Kelly has an amazing sister who helps us with projects. We asked Krystal if we could cut 3" circles of contact paper on her Silhouette machine that we would then use as a stencil after sticking them to the wall. She has used contact paper for many stencils and said yes that would totally work. Well we got to cutting them out and after a roll of contact paper we were ready to get to work.

Kelly stayed up past midnight coming up with a better grid formation and then spacing them out and drawing the grid onto the wall with a sharpie highlighter and paint marker.

As you can tell not all of our circles that we cut even filled the whole wall and we did reuse some of them. But thats the glorious thing about contact paper its sticky enough to be used twice.

You may be thinking why didn't you go to Lowe's or Hobby Lobby to find your own polka dot stencil. Well I will let you know one thing yes there are some out on the market but they are all tiny little guys and to be honest they won't sit flush against your wall even with adhesive glue spray.

Next step. Test Kelly's painting skills once again and see if this polka dot thing is going to work.

Well after doing one coat on all of them and then going back and doing a quick second coat we were ready to see if we pulled the contact paper off what it would do?

Sadly the latex had just made a barrier with the contact paper so it was as if the paint wasn't sticking to the wall at all. Well, of course it was going to be a little harder for us to get what we wanted.

Kelly spent about 5 minutes on every circle after that with a x-acto knife going around the whole edge of the contact paper to get the paint to separate from the stencil.

AND IT WORKED!!! YAY!!

After 75 dots later we had a finished product... we had the cutest mint polka dots on the block.

Probably the only polka dots on the block because I don't think our neighbors are as crazy to paint polka dots or have the need to paint a bedroom like this.

The night we finished painting our room we also got to pick up our crib. We thought for sure we were going to have a couple of weeks before it would arrive to the store. Well it took 3 days... I am not complaining.

I didn't mention to Kelly that I had read it takes 5 hours with 3 men to set up.. 

#badwifestatus but I knew it would probably make him change his mind on the crib.

Well the next day he spent about 3 hours putting the crib together all by himself. 

So whoever took 5 hours with 3 men obviously couldn't read or had some other issues.. hehe..

(Don't look at 'chicken'! Nala has moved all of her toys into this room thinking this where she gets to hang out now.. she definitely knows something is going on because we have spent so much time in this room for the last 2 months!)

I love love love love love love love love love love LOVE how this room turned out. We still have some other little secrets going on that I will post in Part 2 but until then don't you just love how symmetrical those polka dots are!!!

Winning & Loving

Friday night Kelly took me to In n Out burger. Yum. He told me that his coworker was asking where we like to eat. Kelly responded with my wife would be satisfied with any cheeseburger & pizza everyday. Sadly, he was totally correct. Those are major comfort foods & they make me happy.

After we were done eating Kelly wanted to go and play games at Nickle Cade. I had to laugh. It was actually quite fun. We played Skeeball for most of the time and a jackpot game. We ended up getting 257 tickets. 166 of those tickets were from when I won the jackpot game. I kept getting the light before or after the jackpot. I finally won the tickets. It was so weird how I felt happy when all those tickets kept coming & their were a few kids who were just staring at me that I had won so many. They had some old school games like Pac-Man. But 75% of their games had a jammed nickle so most of them we couldn't even play.

Premiere 

Varsity

This Saturday two of our teams competed at Taylorsville High. It is the WDFKP, all of the fees for the dancers go straight to the Utah Food Bank. It costs a little more than usual competitions but they get to be around different studios & great judges. Plus just the cause of raising money for kids in need is a great idea.

Although some of the costumes didn't come like we wanted and didn't get shipped in time. The girls were great at knowing there routines & performing. I was very proud of them. Sometimes its hard to sit back and remember that they have improved & that things will still improve.

Also there is nothing better than a Hospitality room filled with veggies & coke!

Daylight savings time is killing me! I really shouldn't complain but I am going to. I just can't understand why we have to change the clocks. I know in about 6 months I will be fine with this & I do like it getting dark later.

I had to throw in these pictures of Kelly & Nala. We go and visit Kelly's grandma every Sunday. She has this chair that is fun to play with. I snapped this picture of Kelly getting out of it. The first thing he said was "No Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.." He didn't say blog. So here it is!

Nala is a sun bather. She cant get enough of it! & who wouldn't love to just lay in bed all day.

Love Day 2014

We all say how much we love and appreciate our significant others. Weather, it be a boyfriend/girlfriend/crush/wife or husband! I will be honest this year I had no idea what we were going to do for Valentines. I had totally racked my mind for Kelly's 25 days of Christmas and last year I did 14 days of love! I couldn't come up with anything. I finally realized that no matter what I do he will enjoy it.. It doesn't matter what I do as long as he doesn't get a pair of skinny jeans & stilettos.

Thursday night I called Kelly to see if he was home from work. He was getting home at different times last week since he was doing Welding school down in Salt Lake. Once he answered the phone, I told him I was on my way home. That is when his voice turned to panic, he instantly said "uhm, can you go to the store and get milk & bread! We are out!" .. I knew right then he was  up to something. I tried to say well can't we just go together tonight. I finally said I would go to the store and get milk & bread. He wanted me to send him a text when I left the store.

I walked into our house with milk & bread, walked upstairs & there was a clean kitchen, a note & 12 beautiful roses! ...I was so happy! He was so happy! He then admitted he was hurrying to type up the note, cut it out & the stems of the roses! On his note he wrote about how the flower selection the day before is much better! His wife deserves the best flowers & all this mushy stuff. I sat and smelled them for a good half hour. They were perfect! (I even got out our humidifier so it would keep them from drying out.)

For one of my Christmas gifts from Kelly was a couple gift cards to Farr Fresh! If you have not been there you must try it out! It is AWESOME! It is self-serve frozen yogurt, their flavors change out every so often and they have tons of toppings! Yum! (I almost want to leave work right now to go get some!) 

Kelly's Ice Cream

My Delicious Bowl

Thursday night, we went to Farr's Fresh for the second time in two weeks. They have a heavenly Dole Whip that tastes just like Disneyland. We also love their banana & huckleberry!

Before we left I caught these two watching the Winter Olympics. Man, I just think they are adorable! Nala, just loves Kelly. Wherever he goes in the house or even outside she just wants to be with him. I don't think she really cares if she's with me! But, when Kelly is gone she will mope around the house waiting for his return!

Finally Friday came! I enjoy Friday's. I have the day off most of the time plus its the day that I normally get to spend with my parents if they are around. Since, it was 'Love Day' my parents were celebrating in Logan by themselves. I ran around different stores trying to return a few things & come up with a couple more things for Kelly.I definitely had to go to Zurchers. I love that place! I love balloons, I don't even know if Kelly even cares about them, but I grew up with my dad getting me them for Valentines & my mom always would bring us balloons They always have such fun balloons for Valentines. They even already have some bouquets ready to buy! I was looking at the price of one already made & I couldn't believe how much they were. So, I walked around finding those exact balloons to see how much they were with hi-float. How much the weight would cost & the foil balloon. I realized it was marked way to high. I mentioned it to a worker and they ended up making cheaper than if I would of picked the balloons and weight out myself. SCORE!

At home I already had a mug, card & a 5lb. bag of gummy bears. I just needed something he would really get use out of. I was in Wal-mart, it finally clicked that he just got new work boots and needed some longer socks. We had already bought some but not very many.. so what did Kelly get for love day.. work socks! Yay!

He just loves pictures on Holidays.

Friday Night, we were planning to go to Texas Roadhouse. We tried to call ahead, guess what? They say you can call in on Valentines Day but their phone was busy.. coincidence! We went in just to see how bad the wait would be it was an hour and a half to two hours. The crazy thing is that people were waiting!! We decided we would just go next week. Instead we drove around to see what was less busy and ended up eating at Cafe Rio. Not that I complain, since that was where we had our first date. It was still quite a wait but worth it!

After we ate we still had a few hours to either walk around the mall before we went and saw a movie. Although, we weren't really in love with seeing a certain movie. Kelly ended up picking Labor Day, it was an interesting movie. It is based on a novel, it didn't start till after 10 pm I am surprised we made it on time. I had to go home to get my 'fat pants' on. I knew with going to a movie that late I wanted to be comfortable. We ended up running into Mickenzie & Josh. We talked to them before heading in to the movie, they are just the cutest couple. I love talking to them & spending time with them! I got my large popcorn and was totally settled in for a good movie. After the movie we were talking about the plot & I said to Kelly. Sometimes, I wish I liked to read books. Kelly started laughing at me.. I then finished my sentence 'but it's easier to watch a movie for two hours!' 

It was such a fun night & I am so glad I get to have dates like that with Kelly whenever I want! 

I love you Mr. Nelson! 

To the Moon & Back!!