We're adding to our family...

We're expecting!

What: A Baby :-)

When: March 15th, 2011

I've always loved maternity and tummy pictures, so I've decided to take some to track the changes and progress of my pregnancy. This is my little baby bump at 16 weeks, still not showing much, but it will be fun to compare these in a few months......



My latest project

A NEW FIREPLACE and PELLET STOVE

It is becoming a tradition that when Jeremy leaves for hunting trips, I do a "project" around the house. In the past i've buit entire storage shelving units in the garage, painted bathrooms and this time it was remodeling our outdated fireplace. I was going to go at it alone, but when I was asking my dad some questions, he simply said "when is Jeremy going hunting?" and offered to come and help-which I was SOOOO glad he did. There was no way I was lifting that old pellet stove out by myself, plus I wasn't feeling very good, so Dad did the majority of the work with tiling too. Maybe before I was pregnant I could have done it alone, but not now. We brainstormed and found a way to make it free standing. Oh and by the way, we ended up buying a whole new stove while in the process.. Between the tax rebate, city rebate and selling ours, this one is a bargain! So here are the before and after photos. I am loving the new look, I hope Jeremy will too!! :-)

BEFORE: The brick was stained with soot and starting to fall apart...... plus it was big and bulky.

AFTER: This is the same tile we will be using in the kitchen, laundry, bathroom and entrance this winter when we re-do our floors. We can actually walk in our front door without walking around a giant fireplace!! The whole thing only sticks out 9" as opposed to 18" before!

Sayulita Mexico

Hola! We are finally here in Mexico!~ We came with our good friends Justin and Pam Grillo and their adorable little girl Dakota! The weather is beautiful, the scenery is amazing and the food.... WOW the food rocks! blows Rancho Chico out of the water :-)

The internet isn't good enough to upload very many pictures so I'll add more photos when we get home, but here is what we've been up to so far:

Saturday: mostly travel, we flew out of Seattle early in the morning, connected in LAX and made it into Puerta Vallarta at about 4:30. Jumped on a bus and drove north for about 45 minutes to our final destination, Sayulita!! First thing was first, we had to get these fresh fruit popsicles Justin and Pam raved about (they were here 2 years ago). Then we met up with our ride to our house. The place we are staying is AWESOME~ very private and we even have a great view of the ocean! We got settled then went to get TACOS!! YUM... Finished the night off at the beach (had to at least get our toes wet :-)

The Sunset Sunday Night

Sunday: got up, made breakfast then headed to the beach~ were there about 3 hours, got lunch (more tacos) and went back for a Siesta :-) Jeremy burned pretty bad so he didn't go out in the sun again until Tuesday.We went exploring in the evening to a very secluded beach (looks just like the North Shore of Oahu` ~which Nicole was very excited about) we found a cocunut which the boys managed to break open witht the help of a large rock, and we enjoyed fresh coconut while watching the sunset.

Dakota on the beach, playing with her pink bucket!

Monday: Slept in, had breakfast at the house, then everyone but Jeremy went to the beach. Dakota is loving playing in the sand (Pam brought her a pink bucket and shovel, which is perfect). Went to lunch, then took a nap, Justin,Pam and Dakota went for a walk, Jeremy and Nicole went for a run then went again to the secluded beach to watch the sunset. Went to a great place for dinner, had Pozole and burritos. Pam got a shrimp burrito which she shared with Dakota, which at about 3am proved to be a bad idea! We were all scared to death because she started throwing up-continued to do so for about and hour, then LUCKILY was fine :-/ (we were all a little worried).

At dinner Monday Night

Tuesday: Went exploring (aka- lots of walking of the beach, we're all really sore) Walked through the "jungle", over some pretty steep rocks, and on the beach. Was beautiful, but we were all pretty tired, so we took naps again :-) Started our dinner out right with Churros from the Churro Man :-) Then we went to dinner with another couple (Nick and Oli from Seattle) who crazy enough, Justin and Pam meet 2 years ago when  they were here,  they are even staying in the house across the street from us.... talk about a small world! We had Fish Tacos, then got a piece of pie from the pie lady (we've done this every night).

At Lunch Tuesday .. The make these drinks called Liquados de Aguas (fresh fruit smoothies minus the ice.. YUMMM!)

Having a great time, this probabuly won't be the last time we come to this part of Mexico! We come home on Saturday, so I'll try to update the blog Sunday sometime! Wish you all could be here~

Adios!

President's Day Weekend

Our weekend in Seattle with Shane and Suzanne

On Saturday, Shane, Suzanne and I (nicole) went to the Bodies Exhibit. It was very interesting and educational. We were all a little worried that it might be kinda morbid, but it wasn't, have a whole new respect for the Human Body!

We couldn't take pictures inside, so we got a few outside by the poster..

Valentine's Day Dinner (by the water)

Went to a seafood restaurant on the water (near Pikes Place), called Anthony's. Had a wonderful time and ate some AMAZING food!

Fun to dress up (we don't get to do that in Omak very often ;-)

Shane and Suzanne at Dinner

Suzanne ordered the Crab, it was like twice the size of her head! was pretty tasty too :-)