pictures of our place

At the apartment I discovered that I loved being able to have flowers of my own and so we ended up with a collection of pots on our patio. Sadly though I am not that great at watering and so most of my plants ended up dying there.  When we moved here I came up with all these great plans for making my house look so cute on the outside...but in reality haven't done that great of a job accomplishing it. :)

The first things I planted (some bulbs...can't remember what) I accidently planted them sideways or upside down...something like that...OOPS!! And this flower you see below...it is one of the few living flowers planted in front of my house. :) I kept forgetting to water!!

Here is the other flower in the front that has survived my gardening skills

at least so far!

And I was super excited to see that the hydrangea out front was begginning to do something!! The one in the back is still just a leafy gross bush. :)

We have a couple rose bushes a very tiny little start in the front that just put out a tiny little flower and then a larger one in the back which I took this picture from. Then one more in the very back against the fence. They are pretty but this one by the back of the house really smells like an old lady rose. (No offense to any lovers of that rose smell!! )

Then we have our nice apple tree which has cute green apples, I tried one off the ground last night and it was crunchy and really yummy!!

And then we have our apricot tree which doesn't seem to have any fruit on it, but it has some super cute red tipped leaves, that's for sure!!!

And then our weird apple. Hmm, interesting!

And then we have our tiny cherry tree which has given us like 20 cherries!  The big one didn't make it on here because it doesn't have any fruit on it (well it does have one or two but they aren't ripe...and when they get ripe they disappear...weird, eh?!) Sorry the pciture is so poor but it was getting dark and I couldn't get a decent one.

And here are some pictures of my cherrys YUM!! Court didn't want any so I put them in the fridge and ate them all myself...so GOOD!!

And here is one of the two that got destroyed. :) I just thought you might like to see it...hehe

Well, hope you enjoyed the mini tour of the outside of my house! Once little man makes his appearance I promise pictures of actual people...one in particular! :)

more....WOW!!

:) I feel like I am on a roll or something so I shall leave you with a few more pictures before I head downstairs to try and cool off. :)

 So here are some random pictures of May!!! :) 

 This is what I looked like in May of this year...and no that is not my belly button sticking out. Although it has changed and become weird it doesn't stick out. It is pretty flat though, now!

This is our fireplace (after a quick paint job by awesome mom Barndt) it's very cute, I must say!! hehe

This is the front of our house although the white plants you see in pots are now just green stalks due to windstorms and bad watering on my part...oops! And the rhody is now just a green thing...I love them when they bloom but when they're done...let's just say...UNATTRACTIVE!!

This is the only redeeming quality of the gnarly crab apple out front...the blooms come spring. :)

And then this is paint samples on our bedroom wall. We ended up going with the middle one...something teal. :) It's really cute!!

So, anyways hope you like my random pictures...I'll try to get on again and throw some more up! I just took some tonight around the outside of the house...and I shall try to throw them on here tomorrow!! :)

Night my friends!

Pictures...

So I just realized that the a long time ago I teased you guys with this post...and then never gave you the pictures of the actual people! So the people whose pictures I took that day were Laura and Brian Barr.. although only one of them was a Barr at the time...because those were my sisters engagement pictures!!

So here are a couple pictures that I took of them back in December!!

soooo big!!!

I found myself thinking today that I felt as big as a house, and then I realized that I really was somebody's house!! :) That makes me feel good!! :)

I really have gotten HUGE in the last couple weeks and today marks the beginning of the eighth month!! I am 32 weeks today!!  He is getting quite big in there and you can almost find a body part sticking out. For those of you who have never felt somebody poke their elbow, knee, hand, foot, bum, etc out while in your stomach, let me just tell you that it is sometimes quite uncomfortable. At times it kind of tickles, at other times it is just plain distracting, other times uncomfortable feeling (like really stretched), and sometimes when your stomach muscles are sore it can either feel like a painful massage (just on the other side of the muscles), or just painful. :)

He is head down already though which is a good thing, because he won't go flipping around becoming breech, which could complicate things for us a little bit. The only problem with him being head down is he can now stick his feet into my ribs! :) Although another favorite is trying to stick his bum under them...which doesn't feel that great!! :)

We are trying to work our way quickly through Laura's wedding pictures so that we can get some online for people to view but what with Court and I getting completely moved over to our house last week and Marianne having misc things needing to be attended to I am not quite sure when it we will actually get them finished!

 Anyways, I better go...love, Lynn...and little man!!

hectic...

I remember when I got married and life suddenly seemed busy and hectic. When you weren't working there always seemed to be something else that required your attention.  It was a lot different from the laid back life of a young adult still living at home. But eventually I became used to it, and even though it still seemed to have it's hectic moments it really wasn't as hectic as it had seemed at the beginning. Well now that we have progressed to the next step of buying a home and having a child, life has once again stepped up its pace. I am viewing my life as busy and hectic again, and I now that eventually it will settle down and I'll get used to be being a little busier. Although when little man comes it is probably going to start the cycle over. :)

So yes we signed final papers on our house on the 30th of April and received our keys. It was a very exciting evening! Let me tell you, if you ever need real estate agents in this area let us know and we'll give you the numbers for the men that helped us. They were amazing!! Paying for the insulation under the house out of their own pockets, bringing us housewarming gifts when we moved in, always being there if we needed to talk, funny, eager to help, easy to be around, always looking out for your best interests, and just downright AMAZING!!! :)

Having a home has been a lot of work, but well worth it. I love not having neighbor kids on my patio, or playing loudly RIGHT outside. Although we still have neighbors to deal with, it helps that they aren't right there in your business all the time. We are still on the hunt for some dressers, and a changing table/dresser...so if you hear of any one getting rid of something let us know!! :)
I'll try to post some pictures of the place before long.

Now on the Little Man....we have picked out a full name for him, but have decided to tell only parents and siblings for now. I am hoping to keep the name a surprise until he comes but I guess we'll see. :)
He has been growing at a rapid rate lately, and I find myself really looking forward to the end. It is getting harder to sleep for very long at one time because he moves around a lot the minute he knows I am resting. He also likes to make me go to the restroom many times during the night. :) We were giving a new due date...July 30th...and while it is only two days different then the old one I like it a lot better because I can say that he is due at the end of July. :) Plus two days makes a big difference when you are counting weeks! :) Today I am now 30 weeks!!! :) Wow!!! That means only ten more weeks. I CAN'T WAIT!!! :)

On to other news, my friend Marianne and I finally got our photography business off the ground  (although we still have to get our website up and running). We shot Laura's wedding with a little help from Marianne's mom, Linda Foster. It was VERY stressful, and very hard...but we loved it, and really want to do it again. :) We didn't get some of the shots we wanted just because of time restraints  (people weren't ready on time) but we still got some great shots and for that I am grateful. :)

Well, anyways I better get off...hope you are all having a good week!!!

Whoops!!

:) Guess I should update!!!

Little man has been moving more and more every day. He is a very active baby...unless someone wants to feel him, then he tends to take a nap. :) His favourite time to move is still whenever I lay down. :) What a silly child!! He also likes to wedge himself way down low and make his mama uncomfortable. He did that earlier today and I thought that's what was happening so I put my hand down low on my belly and you could really feel him bulging out down there. :)

Court and I are very excited to meet little man, and can't believe how fast this pregnancy really has gone. I remember back when I used to have really bad morning sickness I thought the end would never come, but it sure has gone fast! I still get sick, although its not as bad or nearly as frequent as it used to be. I do have discomfort and pain though from muscles stretching, Mister pushing on stuff, etc. But all in all we are cruising good. :)  We are past 6 1/2 months now which means Aug 1st is quickly approaching.

In other news we are in the process of buying a house. It's not far from where our gospel meeting used to be, and I am super excited. It has 1300 Sq feet, 4 beds one bath.  Very good house! I can't believe we found something this nice in our price range! We hope to close this friday but I guess we'll see!!
We went by it today to show my parents and the owner was there! We hadn't met him yet so that was nice! We found out that the fruit tree in the front is a crabapple, and then in the back we have an apricot (YUM), two apples (one that has gravenstien type apples and the other one is kind of like a golden delicious.) And then two cherries. One a bing cherry and the other a mixture. The mixture one is pretty new though so I don't know that it gives out much. Anyways, we are very excited!!!

Well, that's all!

Toodles!!

It's a BOY!!!

:) Yep it's a Humphrey!! :)

We are very excited to know what we were having and now we just want to hurry up and meet him!!!
Court is over the moon about the fact that it's a boy because he thought it was going to be a girl but he really wanted a boy first. He has the idea that you have to have a boy first because then if you ever have daughters they have an older brother. I say....WHATEVER!!! Sounds like a bunch of baloney to me.
But hey, he is welcome to think what he wants to think.

No, we haven't decided on a name. And we probably won't be telling when we do. It seems like everyone thinks that as soon as you find out what it is your name should be picked and announced...and I don't feel the same way. Now that I know what we are having I am searching for the perfect name. We already have the middle name picked...I think...but who knows. That could change. :)

Anyways, that's all for now!! I will try to get a picture of him up here if I can...maybe even along with a picture of my pregnant belly. You can really tell there is a child in there now!! :)