I just got one of these ordered today!! I’ve been eyeing them since I was prego and my mother in-law thinks they are cool too so we got me one! My pad that came with my diaper bag had already torn by the velcro area plus it was a pain in the butt to shove in and out of my diaper bag. I wanted to get one of these but the price is a bit steep so we had put it off so far. She came over today with cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory, some new clothes from the Carter’s outlet for kiddo and told me to order one of these!! Yipeeeeee!!!

linky to show you what it is:
Patemm Pad

I got my appointment set up for the blinds people to come out the 28th to measure for our new blinds. Our washer & dryer was ordered last night and is coming also on the 28th. I am going to spend that day at the house painting kiddos room while everything is measured/installed etc. I can’t wait to decorate his nursery!!!

Well back to my phone calls to get utilities and stuff transferred and more appointments made for the house! Oh, Patrick was also looking last night at what kind of tree we want to plant in our backyard. I think we’ve decided on a Red Maple. I forget the type of one it is but it’s really pretty Patrick made a sweet comment a week ago when talking of planting a tree in the backyard. He said it would be “braysen’s growing tree” and would grow with him. He wants to put a bench under it someday and sit under the shade of the tree. I think it’s cute and I love trees. I’m going to talk him into letting me getting some pretty flowery bushes/plants and maybe some roses yet though! Plus, I adore those hanging flower baskets! We’ll see, maybe we’ll window shop at the nursery this weekend!

~laterz
heather

men that can cook, more so my husband the chef! Patrick made stuffed wild pacific salmon with a lobster/cream cheese/bread crumbs and some herb combo. He also made some potatoes that were sliced up and breaded with a similar combo. We opened up a bottle of Chateau St. Michelle Riesling to top it off. We drank our Ravenswood the other day with our bbq sadly cause I was craving a nice red. Hubby is an excellent chef but his specialty is fish imo. He cooks macadamia nut encrusted halibut, marionberry glazed salmon and all sorts of yummy stuff. It’s so nice living in the northwest and getting such fresh fish. We have turned into such fish eaters up here! His mom has been stocking up on her salmon supply that she buys from a lady at the farmers market in McMinnville. She bought me a fillet of it when I went to the farmers market a few weeks ago and we just got the time to cook it. We were going to invite friends over but we had Sam over last night for movies after dragging him off to look at the house with us.

Anyhow, we went to look @ the house yesterday and I took pics of the fixtures that were hanging!

I also started up our new excel spreadsheet of “house projects / wants”. We had one similar when we bought our first house where we put our needs & wants in a spreadsheet. We had them in order of what we needed/wanted to get done in the house with an estimated cost. Anytime we had extra money or wanted to work on a house project i’d look and see what we still wanted to get. This list though is more long term as we are planning on this house for a long time and not on the 5 year plan like our last “starter” home. We did measure some of the windows to get an estimated cost for blinds. I’m going to call sometime this week and schedule an appointment for the day or 2 after our closing with the blinds place so they can come professionally measure and help us order them / get them installed. It’s insane how much blinds cost..the ones I REALLY REALLY like are way above our budget so we are thinking honeycomb ones that you can raise from the bottom up or lower from top down. They are pretty nifty! I liked our wood blinds in the Nevada house but I think these look nice too so we’ll see. Woods are cheaper for us but I dunno yet so, only time will tell! SOOOO many things to do in just 2 weeks! Packing, ordering my swivel glider rock chair thingy, ordering our washer/dryer so it arrives on time or close to, setting up a blinds appointment, meeting with the landscaper and getting all our utilities set to transfer.

Getting things done with a kid are 10x as hard also!

Oh oh, my best friend is coming in town for Labor Day and i’m mucho excited that we’ll have a house / place for her to sleep instead of the couch LOL. Plus, she is Braysen’s unofficial godmother. (She’s not catholic and since 1 of the godparents need to be catholic, her and Koby (our unofficial godfather) both aren’t catholic so we call them the unofficial.

~well going to watch a movie with hubby and hope that kiddo gives us a good peaceful movie watching nite! I didn’t get to watch much of last nights lol.

hugs
heather

Thumb nailed these to save the entry from going to long for everyone. Hope everyone had a great weekend!
hubby and I cuddle pic

cute hubby and kiddo pic

smiling tummy time

me on the coast

smiley kiddo but a bit blurry

cute kiddo serious

smiling @ my ducky

so sleepy

haystack rock

and oodles more to be found @ 4th of July pics

2880 square feet - sits on a .25 acre lot Patrick thinks…regardless we have a nice big backyard. The neighborhood has a community pool & clubhouse with fitness/business center.

Virtual Tour!!
The tour shows the house a little bit different then ours. We have mantels around the fireplace. The upstairs landing is open rail not the closed walls and hrm…of course the colors and stuff are a bit different but you get the idea!

Floorplan:
upstairs: master does have fireplace in it, master bath has separate samish soaking tub and shower option-not shown (wish it was corner tub but it’s still damn nice!!)

downstairs: does have optional breakfast bar thing and the optional fireplace

i’m taking pics today before we head off to the coast so i’ll post them soon but it really is beautiful on the inside! It has been decked out in lots of nice options. It will be done July 27th so perfect timing for our lease to run out here!

Have a great 4th of July weekend everyone!!
~heather