my baby bump

Lots of people have been asking for baby bump pictures, so I finally decided to put some up.  I was planning on taking a picture every week to see my progression, but that didn't happen.  I started taking pictures at 21 weeks and right now I am 30 weeks.  

21 weeks

23 weeks

28 weeks

30 weeks

Looking at these line up next to each other, I am amazed at how much I've grown.  And I still have 10 more weeks!

starting the nursery

 I started working on the nursery for our little girl.  Only part of the room is done, so those are the pictures I took.  First, I made a blanket with the pretty black and white quilt fabric Mom bought me for my birthday last year.  All I did was cut it to size and sew black bias tape around the side.  Next, I made a crib skirt with the other pretty black and white fabric Mom bought me.  I used THIS great tutorial online to make the crib skirt.  I just added a pleat on the short sides and made 3 pleats on the long side.  The crib rails cover the pleats, so they are hard to see.  Last, I made a diaper stacker using THIS tutorial online.  I had barely enough of the black and white fabric left for the top and I happened to have black fabric for the bottom of the bag.  It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be, but I think it will work.  I made all my bedding except for the crib sheets.  I wanted a little pink in the room for our little girl, so I bought some pink crib sheets.  We don't have a mattress yet, so the sheets are just sitting there. 

 For the mirror, I repaired and spray painted black an old mirror given to us.  The changing table was the one I re-stained a couple years ago in THIS post and goes perfectly with our crib we bought! 

I got the cute butterfly frames from umbra.com. 

 Now once I get the treadmill and keyboard/sewing table out of the room, I can finish the other half.

so much has happened since september!

I'm definitely a slacker.. September, really?  Well since then we have visited the Blood's for Thanksgiving, had a wedding in December, and a baptism in January.  

Starting with Thanksgiving, we went to my parents in West Virginia for a week.  The whole family was there, but luckily Stephen and Claudia lived close by and allowed some of us to stay with them.  Kade and I were some of the lucky ones who were able to sleep in and have a warm shower in the morning.

While in West Virginia, we found a break in the rain to go visit the New River Gorge.  Considering I grew up in West Virginia and had yet to see it, I figured it was time.  It was a beautiful day, and we got some really good views, even without the green trees.  

While there, we took a hike to get a different view of the bridge.  It was so green and wet.  So different from Nevada.  We were loving it.   

notice the mushrooms growing on the side of this fallen tree

In December, my little brother Aaron married an awesome girl, Ashley.  We flew to D.C. for their wedding.  It was great to see my family again so soon.  I completely forgot my camera, so all photos are from Kade's iphone.  Lucky he had it, and it takes pretty good pictures. 

   

the wedding cake made by the talented Megan

On our way home from D.C. we had major airplane drama.  Getting stuck in the airport all day when you are exhausted is not fun.  But getting stuck in the airport all night and having to drive 2 hours home from the airport and then driving the next day for 12 hours to Washington is impossible.   So we didn't.  Instead we got the flights switched so we flew straight to Washington.  We were able to go to our nephew's baptism.  It was great to see the first kid in the family get baptized and see Carrie and Brian.

Sorry, no pictures were taken, but we did have fun hanging out and ice-skating.  

We also have some very exciting news!  We are expecting our first baby on July 8th!  And we just found out we are having a girl!      

our baby girl at 20 weeks

kade's home!

Could I be any happier? I think not. Kade left me for two whole weeks to hunt elk down in Pioche, Nevada. He was so lucky to get an elk tag in Nevada. He wasn't so lucky hunting. He came home empty handed, but he had the time of his life. As did Brandon and Brian, his hunting companions. He did find a bunch of elk sheds that are pretty cool and he was excited about. They are in the garage. They poke my butt while trying to load the car.

While Kade was gone I had to keep myself busy so I painted our bedroom, exercised Roxy and canned tomatoes, while working my three jobs. I watched like three girly movies and finished rereading the last Harry Potter book. It was pretty lonely and boring without Kade around, but I have to be honest, I didn't have to make dinner and had way less cleaning to do. But kade is definitely worth the work :)
I'm so glad he's back.
And did I mention my garden is doing wonderful? It's so delicious. :)

hiking falls canyon

Isn't Nevada beautiful!  Well, at least parts of it...

 

It's been so nice outside lately we decided to take a hike.  We had been to Falls Canyon in the Santa Rosa Mountains before and it was really pretty.  We knew the creek would be running really good because of the amount of water coming out of the mountains.  We were right.  We had multiple creek crossings and the water was so cold!  With Jennie and her kids we hiked the half mile trail up to the falls.  It was gorgeous the whole way up and the falls were running really good. 

Kade looking extremely excited for the hike

cute picture of Miley

As you can see, Kade is doing much better

  I tested out my new camera on the water.  I found a nice shaded spot to increase the shutter speed to take these cool water pictures.

some pretty flowers along the trail

a cherry!

I planted fruit trees when we got in our house.  It's only the third year for these trees so I was super excited when we discovered a single cherry on my cherry tree!  Kade let me eat it, and it was delicious.

My garden hasn't done that great because we had a pretty cold spring again this year.  I'll have to get some pictures.  My peas are already done, but I didn't get very many off of them.  The strawberries we planted in the garden beds we made are doing pretty good, I've been getting some strawberries.  I've only gotten one tomato so far, but I can see some more coming.  I'm hoping this 100 degree weather will get my garden growing!

Oh and some more falls canyon pictures I got off Kade's phone!

one of the creek crossings on the trail
water was freezing!

cool picture

Jennie crossing with Miley

carter looking cute

a lizard on the trail

and who wouldn't want to see an adorable picture of Roxy.. she's so pretty :)

kade's wreck

So we had quite a Saturday last weekend.  With a very normal day of me mowing the lawn and running and Kade working half day then going dirt bike riding.  At around 4:30 I got a call from Kade's brother, Ryan, from Kade's phone.  I thought it was Kade calling and thought he was letting me know he was on his way home.  Instead I got Ryan telling me that Kade had wrecked his dirt bike and was being put in an ambulance.  At first I wasn't sure if he was serious.  He said he was dead serious.  So I asked if he was OK.  All the information I got was that Kade was breathing and moving his arms and legs.

 I tried to calm myself down before going to the emergency room.  I found Kade's insurance information and drove to the ER.  Because it's just down the road I got there before Kade or anyone else.  I had to sit a little while by myself.  Kade's sister Jennie showed up, then his mom and dad.  Eventually Kade showed up in the ambulance.  I could see the paramedics rolling him in.  It was really hard to see him strapped down with a neck brace.  They let me go in after a little while.  It was even harder to see him up close and in pain.  He kept saying sorry to me and when the nurses asked how he was doing he would just say he was tired and his back hurt.  They had him on some drugs for the pain that was making him really tired and out of it.  They scanned his chest then sent him to get a CT scan to see what was wrong with his back.  I went out to tell his family how he was doing.

While we were waiting Ryan told us what happened.  They had went riding and saw that the track was open.  The track was completely different so they took a slow lap around to get used to it.  When Ryan was riding his third lap he looked back and didn't see or hear Kade.  He rode around and found Kade sprawled out far away from his bike.  He didn't see what had happened.  He said he was unconscious but moaning and he couldn't wake him so he rode around to the car to get his phone to call 911.  When he went back to Kade he was kind of waking up but still moaning.  When he got back from the CT his dad and Ryan went in to give him a blessing.

When the results for the CT scan came back the doctor told us that he had cracked 2 of his vertebrae but it wasn't that serious and he could go home.  The doctor said Kade was really lucky and that his neck brace really did its job.  It was pretty hard for Kade to make it to the car and then to his bed, but once he got there he fell right to sleep and slept all night.  Before we left the ER they gave us a bottle of pain drugs and some for nausea.  He took some pain killers before falling asleep and in the morning, but it was making him feel crappy so he started taking ibuprofen instead.  He was pretty loopy the first few days from the concussion and his back was pretty sore.  But he's getting better everyday.  He started going to the farm in less than a week and was working in a week.  Now its been 3 weeks and he is doing really good.  He still can't remember what happened.  It's still a mystery.  His back gets sore after a day of work.  I'm so grateful that he is doing so good.  It's a miracle how well he is doing after such a hard crash.  He was definitely being watched over.

these are old pictures of Kade riding..