Painting

Well, I'm finally getting around to a post I promised! A couple of months ago now, my in-laws were here visiting and my mother-in-law helped me paint my kitchen and one wall in my living room. It looks so nice and I'm very happy with how it all turned out. The kitchen took way longer than I though it would, though! There's lots of small areas that have to be handpainted instead of rolled on, so that took longer. We worked on it for two days. Now, I just need to start working on repainting some of my cupboards and drawers. Maybe this summer.

Here's a before picture, so you can see what color paint I had before.

Here's what it looks like now.

This is the wall by our eating area.

Here's the living room wall.

The pictures really don't do the paint justice, since you can't really tell what the true color is. The paint in the living room almost looks the same in the pictures as the kitchen, but it's really quite a bit darker.

Well, I do have a ton of cute pictures of my kids I could post, but I'll just have to try and post them later. We just got back from a trip to Seattle yesterday and I threw up twice yesterday on the way home. I still don't feel 100%, I feel really weak and food doesn't settle in my tummy very well, but I'm hungry! I need to get another belly picture taken before this baby comes. I haven't been doing very good about that this time. It's starting to seem more and more real that there's going to be another baby around here in a month or so. I'm so ready to be done with being pregnant!!!

No pics of the snow post!

Well, I thought I had some pictures of the kids playing in the snow last week but they turned out so dark you can hardly see the kids so I'm not posting them. For some reason my brain went dead when I was trying to think of a title to this post!

Here's a cute picture I took of my kids.

Here's Little Miss Priss being her goofy self! She loves clomping around in her brother's snow boots. I thought it was especially cute with the pink dress!

I think I set myself back trying to make a snow house for my kids last week. Afterward my hip hurt so bad. Its been doing so good until now. It's still not back to what it was. If I could get enough energy to do some excercise it would probably help. I'm in the third trimester now and I definitely feel it. I'm so ready to be done! My belly feels so heavy and I have so many Braxton-Hicks contractions. If I'm walking around for very long, especially in the evening, I feel so uncomfortable. The contractions don't hurt, they're mostly annoying and uncomfortable, especially if my bladder feels full! Which it almost always does, now! It still seems like a long time until this baby is supposed to be born. In some ways I'm glad, since I'm not exactly ready to deal with a newborn right now, but in other ways I'm ready for it all to be over. Plus, I can't wait to meet this baby!

She's Walking!

Finally! At 14 1/2 months old Little Miss Priss is walking! I wrote yesterday down in her baby book as the official day that she walked. I don't consider a few steps walking. I won't write it down until they are walking most of the time. Yesterday was the first time she actually walked almost everywhere. If she fell she would get right back up and start walking again. This is so exciting to me. I've been waiting for this for a long time. It is so cute to see her walking. She's so proud of herself, too. Here's a video clip that I took of Little Miss Priss walking a while ago. She was just practicing and it was so cute because she would walk to Mischievo and hug him, then he would carry her back to my husband.


Here's a cute pic of Mischievo and Little Miss Priss
I have not been doing very good at taking pictures or blogging! I always have a post in my mind but it never makes it to the computer. There's always something else I'd rather do. I guess I get a little discouraged sometimes. I'm not sure whether people really find it interesting or not to read my blog. I keep meaning to have my husband take a picture of me so everyone can see how big my belly is getting, but I never remember. So, maybe I'll try to make that my next post.