Getting Closer

On more than one thing actually... 

Sunday was the 8 week mark until our son gets here. Where has the time gone?! I feel like now that things have finally settled down, time is just dragging. We want him here, now. My cousin just had her baby last week and seeing him makes me ready for my turn. All in good time I suppose. Things are still continuing to go really well. He is a mover and a shaker that's for sure. The other day I was at work and it really felt like he was rocking himself back and forth, accompanied by his little knees being dragged back and forth across my belly. I don't actually know what he was doing, but it was cheap entertainment for a few minutes :) The heartburn is still killing me slowly, but as long as I stay up on my Pepcid, I'm usually fine. Sleeping is also becoming a thing of the past. I am tired all the time, and I mean exhausted tired. I've never been one to fall asleep in the car, until now. We went and had dinner at a Mexican restaurant in town, probably 5-6 miles from our house, needless to say I was asleep before we even got halfway home. Granted we had been doing yard work all day, and by 'we' I mainly mean Scott. He hit the brakes to turn and apparently my head bobbed forward, he looked over at me and said, were you sleeping?! Uh, I guess so! Ridiculous!

Speaking of yard work, we had a weekend full of it. Saturday we made 3 trips to Pocatello to haul rock and dirt to the house. Thursday we had a truck and pup load of rock delivered out to the house and we also had our sprinklers installed last week. Which, happy for me to report, means Scott is almost finished with the front yard! Saturday he worked his tail off, and he even asked me if he had to do anything else because he was done (meaning, any more yard projects). He hauled at least 2.5 tons (1 ton = 2,000 lbs x 2.5 = 5,000 lbs) of rock in a wheel barrow 100 feet or better up a little ramp and on to our mound. Obviously there would be no help from me with this project, so I stayed on top of the mound and raked the piles around to where they needed to be. And I had the nerve to complain about me being tired! I was hardly doing a thing! Then Sunday, because he is a freaking animal I swear, he was up at 6:30am washing my car (I have no idea why) and let me sleeping in. He came in around 7:30 to check on me, he usually does, and I decided I'd better get up. He decided he was going to haul the dirt into our center island and get that over and done with. I drug myself out of bed and got ready so I could help him with this project. Again, I did help, but very little. Dirt is heavy FYI, dirt with rocks mixed in is even heavier... Ugh, I tried my best but Scott noticed a time or two when I was 'straining' to dump the dirt so he told me to get underneath the pop up tent with the dogs. I did do some raking and fixing the dirt because I felt bad. One time Scott was taking a break in the shade so I got up and was raking, Scott just started laughing so I asked what was so funny (thinking the dogs had done something), he looks at me square in the eye and says "That rake is making you look like a bitch!" Now some of you may think that's mean, but he meant it humorously! I was kind of flopping it around pretending I knew what I was doing, when in reality I was probably messing it up to the point where Scott had to fix my crap to make it work. Needless to say, we both had a good laugh over it!

Pup load

Truck load. Total = 30 ton.... Uh, that's a lot of rock!
These will actually fill that 12 foot area I mentioned last time. 

We added a variety of perennials and srurbs

Another view

Here is the finished product!

Once Scott and I get our center island planted and covered with rock I'll take a picture of that! I'm excited to see how it comes together. We've got some ideas for the plants/shrubs we want to put it, hopefully it comes together as nicely as everything else has. Scott said he should start a landscaping side business... I think he's on drugs!

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I got a wild hair a couple weeks ago and decided I wanted to do some 4th of July projects while I had a little energy to spare, so of course I hit up Pinterest and got some ideas. Here's what I decided to do....

Yarn wreath. Never again by the way. This took forever and changing colors
did not help matters. I was over it by the time I hit the first white section!
But it turned out great! HA!

I made the little fabric pendant banner for the patio, Scott assisted me hanging it.
If you look on the bench, I also made the pillow sitting on it.
Complete with my red, white, and blue flowers in my planters!

Hope everyone is doing well and you're enjoying your summer time!

Until next time,

-M

Mom Update

Saturday the 8th marked the one month mark since my moms accident. I actually went back and read the post about everything that had happened. I couldn't help but cry as I relived the emotions and the roller coaster of those first few days.

I am through the roof excited to report that mom is doing so awesome! She was on a walker for about two weeks before they transitioned her to her cane. I was so nervous about that, especially about her getting up and down the stairs. But she man handled the crap out of it! She was on the cane for just under two weeks before they told her just use it for when she's tired or feels like she needs a little extra support. Which also made me incredibly nervous! She knows to take it slow and also knows her limits. She is still not able to bend more than a 90 degree angle, which again is basically everything we do. Don't believe me, watch the degree of bend in your hip for an hour... It's ridiculous! She was told she could drive, but due to a lower sitting car - that won't be happening. But it's not like she really has any place to go :)

She has been off 4 of her 6 medications for a while now and basically sticks to her pain meds right now. She is weaning off of those little by little. Days that her PT/OT women come in really do a number on her. They come in a few times a week and exercise her for over an hour each time. They even put some shoes on her and got her out of the house to walk up and down the street. I refer to it as taking my mom for a walk, which I find hilarious - her, not as much! 

I have moved back to Blackfoot, per moms wish. She practically told me to leave! I was a stress case the entire night and weekend, even though I did make a couple special trip to her house just to check on her. It was the first time she'd been alone in two weeks, but she insisted she would like to try it out and see how everything went. She did great, which I knew she would. It's still just an adjustment to the 'no bending' rule. We have had to rearrange the kitchen, bathrooms, etc.. For example, everything she uses daily is on the top shelf, every other day or so is on the middle and things we doesn't use too often are on the bottom. We've have to move pots and pans from the cupboards and put them on the stovetop... Just things like that. It's been such a learning experience, for mom and for me. 

I really am grateful for the experience as trying and difficult as it was. It's taught me patience and it's taught me to be much more understanding and mellow. I am grateful for those who still check in on us and stop by just to check on her. My mother-in-law has been a lifesaver. She doesn't come during the day anymore, but she does pop in on the weekends if she knows Scott and I will be busy with something. I am so lucky we have the people in our lives that we do. They've been a shoulder to cry on when we needed it and have been an extended hand when we needed that too. 

Home Improvements

We are always doing something to the house/yard. That's the joys of being a homeowner... also kind of a nightmare, lets be honest! Last summer Scott dug a 12 foot area out from the road, and left it. It has made me absolutely crazy looking at this random mound of dirt in the corner of our property and a long, wide hole of nothing. Finally,  Scott came through and started working on it this last weekend! He said the goal is to have the front yard done for my baby shower (July 20)! 

I am about worthless, for obvious reasons, so Scott's mom and dad came to assist while I supervised and sat in the shade. Much too hot for this pregnant girl. Here is a look at the beginning process...

Finished product! Now I need to get some flowers/plants/bushes in.
Scott is also filling the dirt at the bottom of the mound with 4-6 inch river rocks. That's for another weekend! 

These are a few pictures of some other improvements we've made to the property this year!

New curbing to cover the well head and faucet.
This will have dirt added and we'll be planting some trees, bushes, and roses.

Scott's family had this made for us for Christmas. Scott made this sign for us at the top of our driveway!
I love it, I think it turned out so awesome. The top says "Est. 2012"

This is a view into the back of the property. Scott dug a trench for our sprinkler system that's going in this week.
We planted 2 plum trees (not the fruit bearing kind) a few weeks ago and the blue spruce in front is a tree we planted for Ryker from Scott's mom and dad.

And these two crazies... They haven't been getting much blog attention because of the little man. So here is a picture dedicated to them. They were all tangled up in each others legs playing. I love them!

11 Weeks and Counting....

I should really have Scott take these pictures at the beginning of the day instead of the end when I look the most haggard! Haha! Here I am at 29 weeks, we are creeping up on his due date rather quickly!