Here it is!

Okay here it is, for those of you who have been wondering what this special picture will be. I actually have a video and a picture so here it is....

I'm PREGNANT!!!!

A lot of you already know this exciting news, but just in case you didn't I wanted to make it public. I'm not good at keeping this a secret. I was going to wait until I had my first appointment, but I can't wait that long. I am about 6 weeks along now. So I know you all are wondering...what's the due date?? If I go online a get a few different answers anywhere from the 12th to the 16th of May, and they always change it at the first doctor's appointment anyway. My first appointment is scheduled for October 9th, so I will let you know then.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

-Bri

Dining Room and Scrap Room

Here are some pictures of the dining room, which is open to the kitchen. You can see we fit our big table in there so that's nice. Also there are three long windows that let in plenty of light. Our pantry is in the back corner, there was no other place to put it besides downstairs, and I didn't want to walk down there every time I needed something.

Here are some pictures of my scrap room. It's not the way I would like it, but it's working for now. Mike put up that cabinet for me and I made use of the microwave cart underneath it. There is a door that goes out to the backyard, but we don't use it much. It pretty much acts as a window for me.

I still need to clean up other area's of the house so I can take pictures. But as I promised a special picture tomorrow!!! Stay tuned!

-Bri

Master Bedroom

Here are a few pictures of the Master Bedroom. Again, fresh paint on the walls. I love the way this color turned out too!! Their is carpet, but hardwood underneath...hopefully to be finished one day. Tyler of course had to get in on the picture taking...such a ham. Oh and I have a story about our furniture...do you notice that we have bedroom furniture now!!! When we left Michigan we could only fit one dresser in the moving van so we had to leave the other's behind. Anyway, the day we moved in Mike was driving down the road and saw a garage sale with furniture. He got both endtables and the big dresser that match and two other dressers all for $50!! Can you believe it. So now we have bedroom furniture again, and it even matches...bonus!

Here is a picture of our main bathroom. We took off wallpaper and painted, put in the medicine cabinet and new light fixture.

-Bri

Tyler's Room

Here are some pictures of Tyler's room. It has fresh paint and hardwood floors.

Tyler loves his bookshelf. Every night before bed he picks out one to read then he runs to the rocker. After we are done reading it to him he has to "pu baaa" (put it back in Ty language). And then he say night night to "turrrrtlll" (turtle on to of the bookcase) and has to give him kisses. Such a cutie.

Keep checking back as I add more pictures and by the end of the week I'll have a special picture for you!!

-Bri

New House!!

Well we are finally back online and I can post some pictures of our new house!

It still feels weird that we are actually homeowners but so far we are enjoying it! There are still boxes everywhere and we are unpacking as we go, but it is coming along great. If I post all the pictures I have taken since we moved in it would take up so much space so I will just post a few here and there. And yes I will be good and start posting more often!

So here are some from the move in day. We had 6 trucks and one trailer filled up with all our stuff. It took us a couple trips, but we were done by 12:30. My dad and a lot of the guys from Mike's bible study came to help.

Later that day we even had Tyler moving boxes!!!


-Bri

Packing again

Well Tyler and I made it home from Michigan safely. He did very well on the plane and even slept during one of the plane rides. I was excited about that! We had a lot of fun on our vacation and he got lots of time with his grandparents.

We are closing on our new house this Friday!!! We can't wait! We have plans for painting and taking down a little bit of wallpaper on Friday and then we are moving in Saturday morning! Meanwhile I am packing.....again! But hopefully this will be the last pack for awhile. It is a little easier since some things are still packed and before we moved here we "weeded" out all the stuff we didn't need.

On another note I wanted to share some pictures from last week. My dad invited us to come to his work and watch a Chinook helicopter land in front of their building. Here is the newspaper article on it. Despite the heat (102 degrees!!! I'm not kidding), I decided to take Tyler to watch. He was so excited here are a few pictures!

He just loved it so much. He was saying "copter, copter!!" and pointing and making that big face with his mouth open. Just too cute! Such a little boy!

Then I was surprised, but they let us all go and walk up to it.

My dad was part of the program so when they landed him, his boss, and a congressman got to go into the helicopter and greet the pilots.

Grandpa got to show off his grandson.

And Tyler got to shake one of the pilots hand!

Now every time he hears a loud noise outside he runs to the window and says "copter!?!?"

So cute!

-Bri

Back from Florida

Well we made it back safe and sound. We had a great time in Florida visiting with family and relaxing in the sun. Tyler loved all the water, especially Grandma's pool. It was his first time in the ocean and he did very well. He didn't like the salt water too much, but loved finding sea shells and playing in the sand.

We caught two lobsters, well I probably shouldn't say we. My dad and Jessica caught them, but I helped too. I snorkeld over them holding a light above so they could see. It was a little scary at first to get in the water at night, but then once we started seeing the lobster it got exciting. I of course got sea sick, and it wasn't even that rough out. I'm getting old!

We also got a 5 generation picture! Tyler met his Great Great Grandma Rabey for the first time. She is in her late 90's and we were so glad that she got to see Tyler. She is doing so well for being older, still walking and is as sharp as a tack! It was so much fun to visit with her.

So here are some pictures from the trip! Tyler and I are off again on Wednesday to go to Michigan for 2 weeks! Tyler's first plane ride!

4th of July Pictures

Finally got them uploaded! Here are some pictures taken from the 4th!

-Brianna

August 31st

On August 31st we will be HOMEOWNERS!!!! YEA!!! We are so excited. We found a nice tri-level house in a good neighborhood and for the right price. We can't wait. It has a nice yard for Tyler and is fenced in for the dogs. And the best thing is that I will have my very own SCRAP room!!! WoooHooo! Mike has told me to start looking at pictures online so I can get some ideas on how to make it the best scrapbook room. Isn't he awesome! I thought so.

On another note, thanks to somebody special we got a new power cord for the laptop today! So I will be able to be online more and will be sure to update regularly.

Tyler is up for his nap and yelling for me to get him up so one quick scrapbook page to show you and then I'm off!

I did this for the Gettin Sketchy challenge, and the pictures were taken by my wonderful sister in law, Michelle!

-Brianna

ScrapPages

Well I did a few more scrapbook pages yesterday. Tyler napped for over 4 hours so I got a lot done. I think he's growing!!

I used a Pencil Lines sketch for this one.

I did this one for the NoelMignon Challenge. The challenge was to use the number 3 in a layout.

All these are for a book about our vacation to Florida. It was a couple years ago that we went but just getting around to scrapping them now. It has been fun to use some pink papers, since I can't with Ty's pages.

Thats all for now! Have a good weekend!

-Brianna