I scream, you scream....

We all scream for ice cream!

After dinner on Wednesday we headed to Petsmart for a little outing to see the animals.  Hannah has had an obsession with birds lately.  We were considering getting her a little bird, but the cages were so outrageously expensive that we decided no on that.  Hannah actually really liked the snakes and rats -GROSS. Sorry girl, we'll NEVER own either of those creatures.

After that we headed to Braum's for some ice cream! Yummmm. 

Wes and I crack up at how quick it seems that ice cream goes to her head. 

Here she is mooing like a cow. There were pictures of cows on the walls.

She just gets so hyper after about 3 bites of ice cream. It's so fun to watch her.

Gotta love that chocolate mustache! 

Wordless Wednesday

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Happenings

Last year my mom monogrammed Hannah's name on the cutest Easter basket.  Well, a few days after getting it Hannah and I went to a Easter egg hunt and my friend Jennifer had just made her daughter the CUTEST basket.  Since I love Hannah's basket my mom did I didn't want to make one for Hannah, but yesterday I made one for Ashley's new baby girl. 

I thought it was so precious. 

This past weekend we had some sunny days, so Wes cleaned up our yard. Hannah, of course, had to help! Here she is showing me a rock she found.

I've been trying to keep Hannah up in the mornings these days.  She has held on to her morning nap for so long. I've been so thankful, but it has made it a little difficult to run errands and have play dates with the interruption of needing to be home for a morning nap. So now, we're trying to stay as busy as we can to last until about 1:00 for her nap.

Hannah LOVES water, bubbles and ice.  So on Monday I filled up one bowl of soapy water and another bowl of ice.  She had fun putting the soapy water into the ice. 

On Tuesday my friend, Leslie, had a play date at her house.  We had so much fun.  She made some homemade playdoh, had a coloring table and a finger paint table. Hannah absolutely loved the finger paints. She stayed there pretty much the entire time.

We will definitely be doing this activity at our house soon.

And lastly, Aunt Jenn made Hannah some bows to match a dress they got her...for Easter, maybe? I think it was originally for her birthday and somehow she ended up with it a couple of months early.  That's Aunt Jenn for you!  Anyway, the bows turned out really cute and I was trying to get Hannah to look at me for a picture.

Well, she never looked.  This was me asking Hannah where Jesus lives. She looks down and says: heart. It's so sweet. 

Hope all of you are having a great week! 

Pregnancy Highlights

I'm 29 weeks pregnant today!

If I have Ethan as early as I had Hannah, that's just 2 months away from yesterday! Crazy! It's also crazy to think that even if I go full term this time, that's still just 11 weeks away. I'm getting so anxious. 

Ethan is the size of a butternut squash this week. He's about 15 inches long and weighs about 2 1/2 pounds. 

Wes and I were talking this week about whether or not we thought Hannah knew what was going on with the new baby coming.  We decided that we think she understands that there's a baby in my tummy and what that means, but she doesn't understand that this baby is going to be born and live with us. That might come as a shock!

Things I've done to prepare:  Well, I've ordered a scripture for Ethan's room that should look similar to this: 

I'm excited to get this and hung on his wall.  We are in the process of cutting out letters that spell out his name and Wes matched the stain this weekend to his crib that we are going to stain the letters with. The dresser is ordered and should be in sometime this week or early next week.

It's all coming together! 

Canton

Just wanted to do a quick little post about our trip to Canton this morning. I debated forever about whether to go. Hannah has really started rebelling against her stroller lately and being confined.  I was so panicked that she was going to do horrible. After much debate and Wes giving me a nudge, I decided to head out there. I was so worried that I was going to make the 45 minute drive and have to turn around and come right home.

To my surprise, Hannah did AWESOME. It's like she was proving me wrong for doubting her.  We went with a large group and Hannah and I actually spent a lot of time just the two of us.  It was so fun and when we got to the car I told her how proud I was of her and she just grinned ear to ear. 

We just made it home with a new wallet for mommy and a few hair accessories for Hannah, but the quality time with my sweet girl was priceless! 

A great day!

When Wes gave me my camera it had this video recorded on it:

Totally melted my heart!!! I think I'll keep it forever.

Well, on Tuesday I turned 28 years old! I'm getting up there and so much closer to 30! Wow, seems like yesterday Wes and I were 21 and 22 years old getting married.  I know we're still young, but 30 just seems like a big jump! My morning started off great. Hannah slept until about 8:00 and so when she woke up we hurried out of the house to get to Bible Study.

After my Bible Study my sister took me to eat at Don Juan's. It was so yummy. By far my favorite Mexican Restaurant. 

Thanks to Uncle Justin for watching Marley & Hannah so we could enjoy a quiet lunch. I don't think my sister and I have had the opportunity to visit like that in months!

After lunch we headed home for Hannah to nap. She woke up so happy from her nap and we played a lot. I was so thankful that she was so happy all afternoon, considering we tend to melt down these days around 4:30 or 5:00 every day! 

Then Wes and I headed on a date to Jullian's. It was SO YUMMY. I've been craving some fried rice and it totally hit the spot.  Aunt Jenn offered to keep Hannah while we were gone. It was such a treat to have 2 undisturbed meals in one day!

What a blessing it was to spend time with my family on my birthday.  I have so much to be thankful for and great friends and family that helped make my day extra special. Thanks, everyone! 

Projects

Within the past few months I've spent most of my free time (Hannah's nap time) taking a nap myself. I've been so exhausted in the afternoons and I just can resist my big, comfy couch.  Well, I've gotten to where I'm not sleeping too well at night, so I'm trying not to nap as much during the days so that I'll be dead tired at bedtime. So, I've been filling my time with a few little projects.

One of them is a birth announcement I did for my friend Lindsay.  She had the sweetest little boy in January. I loved designing this owl themed announcement.

I also designed my best friend, Ashley's, daughter's announcements.  Is this not the sweetest little thing you've ever seen?

What a doll.  It was easy to do these announcements since the babies are so sweet and precious.  It makes me really excited to meet our little Ethan soon!

A project I finished this week was making Ethan's lamp for his bedroom.  I've shopped and shopped for lamps in stores and online, and there's really nothing that is boyish to match his room that I was able to find. So, I decided I would try to make something. 

It actually turned out really good - which is shocking for most of my homemade projects! I used the same fabric that my mom used for his bedding. His room is really starting to come together and I'm ordering the dresser this week.  I'm waiting on a few things I've ordered to come in and once I get those things hung, I'll just be waiting on my little man to arrive. 12 weeks and counting!