Sniff Sniff. . .

           Today was a sad day at the Bunker home (mostly for me).  I put Hayden down for a nap and proceeded to clean things up just like any other normal day.  Little did I know this was not a normal day.  Today my life would change forever.  After about a half hour I was walking past his door and heard a thump and then a few seconds later the door knob turned. . . NOOOOOO!  Then out walked a tiny tot who started giggling and saying happily "I no night night! I get out mommy!" over and over again.  And that is when I knew that my beautiful two hours of blissful nap/clean/craft/reclaim my sanity time was probably a thing of the past.  There's no telling what the next few weeks of Hayden's first big boy bed will bring. Only time will tell.
          Yes, I know, this all sounds a little dramatic but it's the truth!  I'm so scared this stubborn little sweetie will never nap again! (besides the occasional day when he gets to the point of exhaustion where he puts himself down for a nap which doesn't happen very often)  I knew this day was coming.  We were actually talking about what we should do with the whole situation yesterday in fact (since we will be needing the crib for someone else when we move) but I just wasn't planning on making up my mind about it 12 hours later.  I guess that answers the when question!  Now I just have to figure out the  "how".  How to get Hayden to take a nap in his bed.  How to get him to go to bed at night.  How to get him to stay in bed at night when there's not crib bars holding him there.  Oh boy this should be exciting!

Weekend getaway

           This past weekend we took a trip to St. George to watch the air show with the blue angels.  The weather wasn't as pleasant as I hope for when we take a trip there (of course it's 15 degrees colder and decides to rain when we go down) but we still had fun and for as bad as the forecast looked we really lucked out.  Matt's grandparents have a house there so we were able to stay with them (not that we would have been able to get a hotel if they didn't live there!)  Hayden had fun playing with "gamma" and he LOVED seeing all the airplanes.  I can't believe how many people were there!  We heard that EVERY hotel was sold out over a month ago because of the air show and baseball tournaments.  Crazy!  We were nervous about the drive (Hayden does not enjoy riding in the car and we haven't gone farther than delta since we got rid of the binks) but he did so great!  He fell asleep on the couch for 5 minutes before we left but i was still hopeful that he would sleep at least a little on the way down. . . Nope.  He stayed awake the whole time but surprisingly didn't throw any fits!  He sat and pointed out every vehicle we passed telling us what it was and played with his cars and watched a movie.  He was super good the hour we were in the car before and after the air show (the line was so LONG) and he slept the whole way home from St. George to Orem! He never does that!

Hayden as we pulled into the air show and he started to see the planes. Love this little man!

Love this face.  He was so happy to watch the planes out the window.

He squealed about the planes the whole way!

I can't believe how huge these planes are.

playing with his cars and new plane souveneer we got him

crazy helicopter/plane. it can switch back and forth

blue angels

matt and my grandpa being twins.  they chit chatted the whole time. it was so cute! sometimes i think matt is an old man trapped in a 28 year old body

He was sooo good during the almost five hours at the air show.  He sat with us in our little cramped spot and played the whole time and was so tuckered by the end that he fell asleep before we could even get him to give up this bottle.  Can't wait for another little family weekend outing!  I can't seem to handle being stuck in our apartment any more and this was just what we needed!

           Of course I have to do a house update to announce that. . . our house has finally started!  They dug our basement today and things will move very quickly from this point on.  Can't wait till June when we get to move in!

Baby boys

        We got to see our cute little man again today! What a relief that everything is looking just like it should:)  He weighs in at about 15oz right now and is as cute as a button (from what you can tell in a grainy black and white picture:)  The doctor scared us for the first few minutes.  We told him we already knew it was a boy and he said "are you sure about that". I thought he was joking but then we were watching the screen and couldn't see the goods for a couple minutes! He was hiding them real good but we finally confirmed his boy-ness again.  I love him already!  He was going to town sucking on his thumb for a few minutes and then we realized it wasn't his thumb.  He had his foot in his mouth ha ha! so cute!
       My sister finally found out what she is having today! She is 3 1/2 weeks behind me and also having a BOY!  So now I have less than three weeks to get a baby shower planned before she moves away:(  not too happy about the whole moving away thing.

Updates. . .

First things first. . . We are officially half way through this pregnancy! It's crazy to think I'm already on the down hill side but we're so excited!  I feel pretty great (besides not sleeping super great).  Sickness is all but vanished and my appetite has returned with a vengeance!  I started feeling some tiny kicks and punches around 16 weeks and this past week he has really kicked it up a notch:) I forgot how much I love and appreciate every little movement I get to feel.  Matt was also able to feel him kick for the first time last week which is really exciting for him.  We have our anatomy ultrasound in a week which has me excited to see our baby again and just hoping that everything is going just right in there!

20 Weeks

 I've decide for sure that the theme for little Carter's room will be nautical and I'm so excited!  I've been trying to find a ship wheel to hang on the wall but all the ones I've seen on the Internet have been $60+ so i was so happy when i found this one at Hobby Lobby and was able to use a coupon and get it for $22! It's going to go perfect in his room!  I've also been searching for fabric to make his crib bedding (i couldn't find anything pre-made that fit the theme and colors the way i wanted) and was not finding ANYTHING that I liked until a friend told me about fabric.com.  I found exactly what i was looking for for the bumpers on the first page i looked! It's fate! I even found some way cute material to do the quilt with.

I'm so happy I found this!

These are the four pattern materials his quilt will be made of (for some reason the color on the striped one looks weird.  It's a navy blue for reals).  For the quilt I want to use these and some solids and maybe minky on the back so it's soft.  For the bumpers I am just going to do the navy and white striped material with either navy or red trim but I'm haven't decided yet. There's a ton of cute stuff I have pinned on pinterst so I'm excited to see how his room turns out!

              Now for our slightly bigger baby. . . Hayden has come down with a cold so he's not exactly happy right now.  He's been whining a lot and I'm hoping that it has to do with him not feeling well and not just his age because it is getting old.  He's also been waking up a little earlier than usual which is making me pretty sad:( but other than that  he's pretty much hilarious.  He jabbers all day and repeats just about everything!  He pretty much thinks he's the boss man of the house. (he's pretty much right).  His favorite thing right now is trains.  We passed one on our way to Delta last week and he freaked out!  I'm pretty sure he thought it was the best day of his life.  When he saw it coming he starting squealing train!!! here it comes!!!! over and over again.  I was so exciting he was shaking.  I thought he was going to pass out:)  I will now go out of my way to hopefully see this reaction again.  

            I am proud to say we have now officially been clean at our house for two and a half weeks! (clean of the binky that is.  and yes i would say that thing is probably as bad as quitting drugs)  We are still working out some rough spots (nights in delta have not been all that pleasant) but all in all he really did pretty good.  He hardly ever asks for it and when I tell him it went bye bye and he lights up and says "Prize" all excited (he got some prizes when we got rid of it:)  I will admit that I miss it sometimes and i will never say that i wish i would have never given him one because that thing literally saved my sanity sometimes but it is nice to not have to cart it around or worry about having an extra when we go places.  

little man on the way to delta.  It was "bight" from the sun so we've gave him Matt's sunglasses.  I need to get him his own.  I'm kicking myself for not getting the cute baby aviator sunglasses i saw last year!

         House update. . .  I really really wish i could say that our house had been started already:(  The engineer should be done with the plans today or tomorrow and then they should have a building permit by the end of the week and hopefully in the next 2 to 3 weeks they will be digging!  This hasn't slowed Matt and I down though ha ha!  We have already picked out our couch and put money on it and then we were in the mall the other day and the guy at sears randomly asked us if we needed a lawn mower because they still had a few good ones on clearance from last year.  Did we buy one?  before we have a house let alone a yard??  yes, yes we did.  We're crazy i guess.

         Right now we are trying to pick tile which my dear daddy has graciously offered to lay for us. (I'm very happy to be getting tile in our entry, kitchen and all the bathrooms)  It's sooo hard!  You have to factor in all the elements of the house that will be near the tile and make sure they all go together and then somehow find it at the right price! blaish for the walls and white for the trim).  I love the carpet! It should be very good at hiding dirt!

        Hopefully we get this show on the road soon because I'm getting some major cabin fever in our tiny apartment with last weeks frigid weather!  Luckily we should be in St. George in a couple weeks for the air show and some much needed sunshine (hopefully).  Luckily today has been so nice to hold me over till then!

Mommy Woes

So. . . I always promised myself that my kids would not be allowed to have their binky passed age 2 and it seems that Hayden's 2nd birthday has come and gone and the binks has still been with us:(  I tried to only let him have it at nap and bed time but he would always end up crying for it during the day and being in the first trimester and sooo tired and sick i just caved and let him have it to give myself a break.  I decided maybe it was best to just wait till he was a few months older so he would understand the binky fairy and being a big boy but lately he just seems to be getting more and more attached to it so I decided that it was probably best to just cut the cord now. . . for real this time.  I actually threw the only binky we had left away so I couldn't fall back on it. Well. . .just as always Hayden is proving to be a very strong willed child.  The first day was wretched (He whined for it all day and then finally went to bed at 12:30 in the morning and only slept until 7:00)  Day 2 wasn't so bad so I thought the worst was over. We even got him to bed at 10:00  (progress right!)  WRONG. He woke up at 2 in the morning and cried for about an hour without wavering.  When he finally fell asleep on the couch I tried to take him to bed and any time I would get him near his crib he would hold his arm up and say "couch" and cry if i tried to put him down.  I'm fine with letting him cry for a little bit to learn to sleep without it but our neighbor is soooo rude and not understanding!  She makes sure to let us know if he peeps too loud even once so I really don't know what to do.  He won't go to sleep in his crib without crying but I don't want to let him make a habit out of sleeping on the couch obviously.  What am I supposed to do!!!

So excited!

I can't believe I finally get to say we're going to have a house!!!  I feel like we've been searching FOREVER. (really it's only been like a month but we're pressed for time with our new little man coming)  We looked at bunches of houses and have actually put offers on a few only to find that the ones we wanted had multiple offers already.  Finally one night we decided that if we didn't like any of the houses we looked at that night we would make the decision to have one built.  We went out confident that we weren't going to like anything we looked at. . .  wrongo!  We looked at a home in our friends neighborhood and there were quite a few things that we really liked about the house. It had a little over 3,000 sq feet, 3 bedrooms upstairs with the option of a 4th and also a great loft area (this is why I really loved the house. I would love a loft area!) It also had a really good sized backyard that was already finished and fenced in. (perfect for an energetic 2 year old!)  There were a few things that I really didn't like about it.  I wasn't in love with the kitchen and the layout of the first couple rooms in the entrance were really weird and there was no basement which is something I decided that I really really would like. I also thought the outside was pretty unattractive.  We left the house torn.  Our decision was supposed to be made for us but now we didn't know what to do because we were finally the first ones to have the option of putting an offer on a house that we might actually want to live in.  After much deliberation and (some tears on my part) we decided to put an offer in on the house. Well. . . long story short the people decided that they didn't want to sell their house (dear owners please explain why there is still a for sale sign in your yard and your house is still listed online???) So I guess that was our answer on what to do!  We are now getting everything signed and ready to go so they can start our house!!!  Our lot is in Spanish Fork (I would love to stay in Oren but unfortunately it is ALOT more expensive up here)  We actually are in the same neighborhood as 3 of our really good friends and I'm so excited for our kiddies to be best friends and have tons of play dates and summer bbq's!  We will be meeting with a design team on Wednesday to pick out all the fun stuff (cabinets, counter tops, paint and flooring colors, appliances, colors of the outside and all that jazz) I'm so excited!  I've been pinning my eyeballs out for how to decorate the boys rooms (I'm thinking of doing a nautical theme for the baby's room with bright white, dark blue and some red and Hayden's room I have no idea what I want to do right now!) but I'm so excited for both my sweet little boys to have their own little rooms and a real place to call home and room to stretch their legs.  I'm also super excited for the extra bedroom that I have called for my very own craft room until our basement is finished! No more kitchen craft room!  Just a few of the many things that I am excited to have!  Our official latest date we will be able to move in is June 7th (seems like forever but I know I'm just being impatient) I'm really crossing my fingers we will be able to move in the end of May.  We decided that I will have to take my lawn chair and hang out down there to make sure no one is taking any breaks (who needs lunch!!!)

Explanations. . .

I seem to have a little bit of explaining to do. . . I've pretty much just been really lazy in a LOT of areas for the past few months.  My blog has been a poor excuse for telling about our "exciting" lives lately, and I'm sure most have come over to our apartment to see it in a massive blunder or my child just running around like he owns the place and has no mother, and I'm sure I've forgotten (probably multiple times) something I was supposed to be doing for someone but I promise I have a legit excuse! (It feels legit anyway:) I'm going to blame my massive amount of laziness on this little gem right here!  We call him Carter (for now anyway:)  He is due to be here on July 22nd (or a week earlier:) we'll see how I feel when I'm large and in charge in the middle of summer!) 

It took me about 5 seconds after he put the ultrasound thing on my belly to see this little man's goods!  (what is it with my boys that they are just hangin out spread eagle!  I'd say we have no question what this baby is!

We found out we were expecting a couple weeks before our cruise.  We'll say it was a little bit of a surprise.  We were not very smart and assumed i would ovulate on schedule so we weren't exactly extra cautious until we were closer to that time.  Well we never factored in that maybe i would just randomly ovulate early.  Ha ha oh well!  What's a couple months???  We were planning to try around December or January anyway so we just got a little early surprise!  This did complicate things on the cruise a little bit unfortunately.  Every time I would get in any kind of moving vehicle I was pretty much asleep instantly but what really kicked my butt was when the nausea set in after about day 1 on the cruise.  If you've ever been on a cruise you're aware that you are confronted with food at just about every corner!  Sometimes i really thought i was going to die!  I'm probably like 1 of 10 people who have lost weight on a cruise ha ha!  I also usually took at least a two hour nap every day that we were at sea.  Poor Matt was probably ready to kill me!  Luckily he was fed very well for that week. (he still says he misses the windjammer buffet)  Things have been looking up for the past few weeks though and I'm only really sick at night and I'm hoping that will disappear soon also!  But luckily we all survived the first trimester (barely).  I never imagined how hard it was going to be being pregnant with an active toddler but we're all alive and kicking still so hopefully it will be smooth sailing for the next few months!

Here i am at 16 weeks!  Just kidding (can you imagine what i would look like at full term!)   but isn't this dress cute!  We had to take the opportunity to try on some maternity clothes with the motherhood strap on belly since they were having an awesome sale!

Anywho. . . we are very excited for this little man to be here and I'm especially excited to have a real room to prepare for him when we get our house!