Our house, is a very very very fine house =)

I saw a lot of Bloggers doing home tours awhile back and decided to jump on the bandwagon, I am going to do it a little different and include before and after pictures of how the previous owners had it and how we have it. So... come on in!

This is the outside (obviously) which looks about the same besides some lighting fixtures.

 
 This is a before picture of our kitchen

After

This is a before picture of the basement, man was it a doosie =)

After and I will show you the project we are currently working on. (getting rid of the fireplace)

And last is our upstairs living room

After (before we put anything on the walls)

Right now we are working on getting rid of the fireplace. I just pretty much hate it. I think it's so ugly and takes up a bunch of space and it's dangerous for Jayden. So here are the pictures.

And here is where it is now, Hubs did all that in one day, I'm hoping we can finish it this weekend!

Yessssssssssssssssssss

My laptop is fixed. Finally i will stop neglecting you all =)

Help a sister out

I entered Jayden in a Gerber contest to try to win her a college scholarship. So if yall could be so kind and just pop on over there and vote for my baby I would so appreciate it! It is super quick! CLICK ME
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MIA

Wow, I did not realize that it was a whole month since my last post. Here is a quick overview of the last month. The husband had to go to Kentucky for work for a little over 3 weeks on July 10th. So my parents came here for a week, and very last minute I decided to go back to AZ with them and spend the duration of Jeremy's trip with them. Let me tell you, it is HARD to travel with a baby by yourself. My parents drove, but I couldn't put any of us through a 14 hour drive with Jayden, so Jayden and I flew. The way there was hell. She would not sit still at all, and she kept trying to pull the lady's hair in front of me. The way back was much easier because she slept 3/4ths of the time. It is also extremely hard to be in a un-childproofed home. Lets just say I had a great time but it was very difficult.

Now we are back home and all of a sudden motherhood doesn't seem as hard. Sometimes when you are in your daily routine you forget how hard it is to take care of a baby. Jayden is finally sleeping better! Thank god! She sleeps through the night here and there, and if not she wakes up once for a bottle. That, I can live with. I am not complaining about that one bottle because atleast it isn't 4 or 5. Jayden turned 10 months on the 3rd and started officially walking on the 5th. I think it's great! She was already getting into everything as it was, walking doesn't make a difference. Now climbing on the other hand. i am not looking forward to that. Well that's about it. I swear when we get this laptop fixed I will write more.

Bathtime

Jayden LOVES baths! She has 3 rubber duckies, and she spends the whole time trying to figure out how to hold all three at the same time. A couple of times she has achieved this by putting one in each hand and one in her mouth.

oy vey

I try not to complain about sleep too much because anything has to be better than before, right? When Jayden was a newborn till about 5 1/2 months, sleep for us was awful! Anyone I told could not believe she slept that bad. Lets not explain it all to you again, but lets just say, I don't think I could have handled much more.

When I was still living in Tucson and working as a nanny for the most adorable kids ever (besides my own of course) I used to take the 18 month old to story time at the library every Tuesday. There was a mom of a 9 month old that I would chit chat with. One day she came in and looked pretty tired. I said to her "are you ok" and she looked at my and shrugged her shoulders and said "I'm just so tired, he wont sleep through the night still and I just need a good nights sleep" I offered her my apologies and I remember thinking to myself. that will never be me, I'll just let them cry and they will fall asleep. Oh how naive I was! If I could go back and meet myself back then, I would have slapped myself in the face. I just had no clue, none.

Fast forward to now, Jayden is 9 months. Since we did a version of Ferber at 5 1/2 months, she has slept through the night a handful of times, and has slept through except for one wake-up fairly often. But for the past couple of weeks it has been hell. She has started to cry before bed again. She wakes up literally EVERY SINGLE 3 HOURS. So, 10 pm, 1am, 4 am, and then up for the day at 7. Now this is not exact, I would like to say give or take a wake-up. But that would not be accurate to say "take." Only "give."

I guess I assume that it is teething, she has her top and bottom 2 teeth, so 4 total. And she is currently getting 2 more on the top atleast. But what am I supposed to do? I give her teething tablets and oragel. But I am terrified of giving her Motrin too often. How much is normal. I feel like it's crazy to give it to her every day, but she is in pain. Help me ladies!

Happy Father's Day

 Happy Father's Day to my Dad, mostly for being a great man! He has shown me the love and respect that every daughter should be shown. He has always been there for me, and never wavered. I Love You Daddy!

And also to my amazing husband. Thank you for being such a great father to our little girl. I so look forward to watching your relationship grow. I know she's already a daddy's girl.