More Perspective (and how it changes!)

I have to post this "belly" picture from when I was about 3 months pregnant with Georgia. I remember at the time being in awe of how "big" my belly was. Of course, I was in total rock star shape when I got I pregnant with her, but still. To look at this picture now I really have to laugh!! I could only WISH that my waist and skin were even close to resembling that now. I cannot wait to get my tummy tuck and ban the muffin top, hangover skin FOREVER or at least until I'm old enough that I don't care anymore. I still have to decide whether I want to torture my body with one more pregnancy or not. ;)

Perspective

I was going through pictures tonight (Josh needed pics of himself to send to his new Brazilian woman, but I digress) and I came across this "before" picture of our yard that really helps to illustrate how much stuff we cleared out of the side yards. Note the corner of the rock wall in each photo.









It may seem as though I'm dwelling on all of this house renovation stuff and, well, I am! I want it all well documented for posterity and so we can look back and go, "I can't believe we EVER lived like that!" ;)

Beautiful Baby

One of my close friends had her son Niko baptised this weekend and she sent the most beautiful picture of him, I had to share. He is such a sweet, happy boy!

Studs

Here is what's left of the ugly bathrooms (note Jerry smashing some lovely salmon colored tile in the one photo). And if you look closely in the picture of our yard you will see new grass growing! Looks like those heavy rains didn't wash those grass seeds away after all.

My Favorite Time of Year

Fall is my absolute favorite time of year! And even though it's not "technically" fall yet, I'm getting geared up for Halloween. Today I booked our annual hayride/bonfire at Funk's Farm and ordered costumes for the kids. After that we'll hit Christy's awesome pumpkin party and then it's off to the York Halloween Parade. Sitting in a folding chair along the street to watch cheesy floats, marching bands and homecoming queens?? BRING IT. LOVE IT. Georgia wasn't too agressive last year when people threw candy from the floats, so we'll have to have her primed in advance this year. Then when it's all over and you've come back down from that hardcore candy high, you still have Thanksgiving and Christmas coming in rapid succession. It's not like that depressing breakdown you have after the Christmas build up and realize that you have nothing to look forward to except three cold, dark months of winter, especially when those cold dark months also happen to coincide with basketball season (i.e. basketball widow) AND your fair weathered snowbird mom abandons you. I think I need to start a petition to move Christmas to the end of February. Who's with me????? Wow, so not the direction I thought this post would go.

Yard Sale

Some of my sanity has now been restored! The yard sale was a total pain in the butt, but we did get rid of a lot of stuff and I feel very "cleansed." The kids clothes were a big hit and we only had one hard-core cheapo who tried to talk me into selling her a ton of gorgeous clothes for nothing and I wasn't having it. Two bucks for a beautiful dress in excellent condition is a ridicuous deal and "NO" I will not take a dollar. Geesh. Everything left over we donated to Good Will and I spent yesterday *almost* getting my house back in order.

The bathroom demo is over, if you can believe it. In three days two full bathrooms (and a walk in closet) were completely gutted to the studs. They found newspaper in with the insulation from 1956 (the year the house was built) with articles about Elvis! Right now they're tearing up the floors and rerouting plumbing and air vents. I took some pics but haven't had a chance to upload them yet. I'm so excited to have a new master bathroom!

Mr. Mom

Good friends of mine recently had a baby boy and now that mom is going back to work, dad is staying home for a few weeks with the baby - full time (they're both television reporters). Mr. Mom is doing weekly news segments and a blog about his experience and I thought I would share.

Here's the link to the on-line article (CUTE BABY ALERT):

http://wfmz.com/view/?id=384830

You can watch his first news segment and link to his blog. For the record, Sebastian looks a lot like Katelyn. Sorry Joel!!