Our latest projects

Since we moved into the house, we have been busy with all types of projects. We like the idea of doing cool projects but they always seem to be a lot more work than you think they would be....right?! So here's a list (accompanied with a few pics) of stuff we've been up to:)
1. Planted a garden. We feel like we had no idea what we were doing but some plants have already started to grow. We hope we can manage not to kill them....or dig them up, in Kendall's case.

2. Painted the swingset. The swingset the homeowners left was in good shape but the maroon color was fading and there was some rusty parts too. We decided to buy a few cans of brown Rustoleum spray paint and it looks awesome.
3.Fixed the kitchen sink (was not planned). So the night before Matt's parents came into town we found out that the gasket/putty to our sink had seen the last of its days and broke apart. This allowed water to drain into the cabinet below the sink rather than the pipes. Luckily, I decided to store all of our huge serving bowls right underneath that leaky sink. Those bowls were almost full to the brim meaning no water leakage anywhere else! The next day, Matt's dad took a look and fixed it right up!
4. Refurbished a dresser into sewing hutch. We bought this dresser off KSL a year ago. It worked just fine holding our clothes but gave everything an old musty smell (not huge fans of that). So we took a trip to Home Depot and voila! Now my sewing machine has a home:) The sewing machine can roll in/out, we can close the doors so its out of Kendall's way, and the drawers give me storage for fabric, etc!

fits nicely in this little nook!

5. Spruced up an old bookcase. We got this guy from one of Matt's friends for free! They we leaving for an internship 3 months earlier than expected and had to get it out. It had quite a few scrapes and scratches but a little Pledge goes a long way!

6. Fabric wall hanging. I've been wanting to do this for a long time and we were able to hash this whole thing out in one night!

There's a little belly shot too!

7. Picture collage. Got this idea from pinterest, of course. We got this huge frame from a garage sale forever ago and it was in pretty bad shape. Matt picked out the paint color and it turned out great. We have this up in our bedroom.

8. Picture for the little man's nursery. Also inspired from pinterest. This beast took a lot longer than I thought...  We'll hang it up once we paint the nursery.

And there you go!

On a quick note about this pregnancy (in case you wanted to know) I've been diagnosed with gestational diabetes again:(  Its a mild form but my doctor is monitoring me like crazy. I have to test 7 times a day to track my blood sugar. Sad, huh? Luckily, my levels from this last week were great so my doctor relaxed a bit. Now, I test twice-a-day for 5 days of the week and only 2 days are those crazy 7-times-a-day. My due date is exactly 2 months from today so I just keep telling myself that the end is in sight. Let the countdown begin!

Grandparents are coming to town

Kendall has definitely been a spoiled girl lately. Both of her grandparents were able to come spend time with her (and us of course) this last month. My parents came down for Easter weekend and got to watch Kendall "hunt" for Easter eggs and eat lots of candy. Mostly, Kendall would pick up the Easter eggs we had pointed out and wouldn't move to the next one until she had eaten all the candy inside. (Maybe she just didn't trust that mom and dad wouldn't steal the candy for themselves......smart girl!)
Here's some pics and a video of my dad playing with Kendall. (I don't remember my dad ever doing this thing to us but Kendall sure loved it!)

Holding her basket. The green things on her back are supposed to be wings but they wouldn't stay up right. oh, well.

About a week later, Matt's parents came into town. Matt's younger sister Randi was graduating from BYU and his other little sister Renae was receiving her endowments at the Provo temple. Busy weekend for sure but it was a lot of fun. Kendall really latched onto her Grandpa Deighton. Here's a cute video of them playing.

Randi graduated! I stole both of these pics off of facebook so thanks to those who put them up:)

A group shot outside the temple. Looking into that sun was brutal for the eyes!

House Baby!

Oh my goodness, this last month has been a roller coaster...not literally because that would be silly. But seriously, this month has been crazy. We bought a house! It feels weird to say that, but we really did buy a house. So lets rewind.
At the beginning-ish of March we were in the midst of house hunting. And it felt like we had seen/put offers on every single house in Utah county (not really but it sure felt like we had). So one day after work, Matt picks me up to go look at a house in Pleasant Grove with a separate 2 bedroom/1 bath apartment in the basement. It was a beautiful home but it was priced out of our original budget so I didn't think it was realistic for us. I had already moved on toward the idea of building a home while Matt was stuck on this Pleasant Grove house. After nearly a week of this, I thought what the heck, lets throw them an offer way below list price. They'll reject the offer and we can finally move on toward building a home. So that next morning, we threw in our offer and by that afternoon we were under contract for the home!
The next 2 weeks involved a home inspection, lots of packing, signing mounds of paperwork, a nervous breakdown or two wondering what the heck I was doing, and a moving party 3 days earlier than expected. (Thank you to everyone that helped in all the craziness!) And to top it all off, we were able to find an awesome little family to rent the basement who moved in mid-April.
After all is said and done, we are very happy with the new house. It has everything we were looking for plus a little more:) Enough talk, here's some pictures.

Kendall's favorite part of the whole house!