"Mommy dance like a chicken"

We had an impromptu dance party while I was cooking dinner and Mac told me that I needed to dance like a chicken.  It cracks me up watching him dance.  It makes my heart happy!

Yesterday morning, we had blueberry bagels for breakfast.  Mac loves bagels. He got it all over his face.  He thought it was hilarious when he saw pictures of cream cheese all over his face....

After breakfast, we drove out to Wasilla.  Mac got ahold of my phone and began taking feet selfies.  He took SOOOOO many pictures of his feet....

Yesterday was awesome because he was in a FABULOUS mood.  Today, he was not in such a good mood....but we dealt with it!  He wanted to go to the store this morning to help Joe pick out our breakfast donuts.  You could immediately tell which donuts Mac picked out.....the red and blue ones.  He got the red icing ALL OVER his face.  ALL OVER.

We got a crazy amount of stuff done around the house today.  Today was a very productive day and now my feet/body are paying for it.

put together a beef stew freezer meal.
made meatballs and then froze them.
made breakfast pizzas and then froze them.
started laundry.
moved some furniture around.
grocery shopping.
went by Barnes and Noble.
went by Sams Club.
swept the laundry room floor.
cleaned out/semi organized Mac's bathroom closet.
folded Mac's clothes.
wiped down the kitchen counters.
cleaned Mac's bathroom while he was in the bathtub.

Now I need to go switch the laundry and do five million other things.  This is one tired pregnant mama.

House update

We have been so incredibly focused on the laundry room that the rest of our house is a DISASTER.  No lie.  It is driving me absolutely insane.  The guest room is jam packed with all of the stuff that was in the laundry room.  I think our house is going to be like this for a little bit until we figure out a storage system that we want to use!

Speaking of storage.....we drove out to Alaska Picker yesterday with specific plans to pick up this dresser that the owner had posted on Facebook.  It is a 1950s dresser and it is going to be great storage. I am going to use it to store stuff that was in the guest closet and some things that were in our office.  Lee actually came by to help Joe carry it up the stairs (how sweet?!).  We put it on the landing at the top of the stairs in front of our bedroom.  It fit there perfectly!

I have definitely started moving "vignettes" around the house.  I decorated the top of the new dresser.  I moved some stuff out of the guest bedroom to go on top of our bookshelf downstairs.  I put the new calculator that we bought at Alaska Picker on the sideboard in our living room.  Joe kept playing with it at the store so I just knew he had to have it!

This is not on a decorating note but something that Joe is pretty excited about.  I gave him an AeroGarden for Christmas and he immediately starting growing kitchen herbs.  Our basil has exploded!!!!!  Which is awesome because I LOVE basil!

Grey Room Update

I probably need to get better organized when it comes to posting things that we do around the house.  Oh well.

Joe wasn't super happy with the pantry storage that he originally did so he decided to go buy another pantry kit from Lowes.  He moved the storage on the wall down a little to accommodate putting another set in.  I just left it all up to him.  It worked out great that way!!  Now, we have an L-shaped pantry storage section.  I think he is still planning on putting some kind of storage on the naked wall.  We have talked about putting up spice racks, canned goods holder, or use the leftover kid pieces to rig more shelves.  Either way, we have a ridiculous amount of food storage now!  This area has not been Jami organized yet.  Expect that to happen!  Right now we have just thrown stuff up there until I figure out a system I want to use!

Joe also did a lighting update.  We had this weird super modern/contemporary light fixture up there.  We thought about not keeping it when Joe was painting and so Joe got paint on it.  We ended up using Christmas gift cards to buy a new light.  It is amazing how much brighter that room is now!  Joe started putting it up while Mac went down for his nap.  I even helped!

We have even took the plastic off of the floor!  I am incredibly five million times more happy about that room.  We still have big plans that include building a desk using a filing cabinet......building a murphy bed.....installing curtains.......hiding the pantry........

BABY STEPS!!!!!!!!!

Weird Alaska Weather

The weather in Alaska has been a little weird lately.  We go from super cold to warmer than Georgia to lots of snow back to warm weather.  We had winds up to 94 mph gusts on Friday.  It warmed up to the 40s and started raining.  Because there is ice covering everything, the rain has no where to go so it just forms huge puddles.  Gross gross gross.  Anchorage is definitely not looking too pretty right now.....

I stole the below picture off of KTUU's facebook page.

And so it begins

So our weather is supposed to get pretty nasty over the next couple of days (snow, wind, warming up so ice and rain).  It has most definitely started.  The snow was really wet and heavy about the time that I came home.  Wet and heavy snow is not fun.  Eventually wet and heavy snow freezes over.  It makes walking for this pregnant lady incredibly difficult.  As in tomorrow, I am probably just going to wear skinny jeans and some kind of shirt and snow boots to work tomorrow.  True story.

Speaking of work....I have been on my feet more so than normal over the past couple of days.  I am paying for it.  My hips hurt so incredibly badly that I am literally limping.  It is mostly my left hip.  Tomorrow I will have to sit down more than I usually do.....

And continuing thinking of work....one the sped TAs (she is also my Zumba instructor) brought me 2 giant space saver bags of baby clothes!  It was super sweet of her.

Everyone at work has commented on my belly or rubbed it.  I have definitely popped out.  Mostly people just look at me and smile.  A lady today stopped me in the sped office hall to ask me when I am due.  When I told her the due date, she was completely baffled.  I read the expression on her face and was like "yeah, my belly got pretty big with my first one too."

Switching gears. Mac was pretty cranky.  He didn't nap again at Erica's.  I don't know what his deal is lately!  He didn't nap yesterday.  Cranky Mac is NO FUN.  After one of his numerous mini meltdowns, we did get some snuggle time on the sofa.  He uses me currently as his personal pillow....

After Mac tore up dinner (biscuits and gravy), we decided to compare bellies.....

So as I am typing this, Joe is working more on my storage.  He has decided to move the storage system that he just put up to the exact center and then add to the sides more storage.  There is a lot of noise going on in there.  I told him I didn't care what he did as long as I had storage and run to put up a divider to hide the pantry storage.  I think he is having fun......

Baby Nora Update!

We went to the doctor as a family today, so that Jami could get a belly/baby inspection! Jami has officially gained 13 pounds. The doctor said that she is right where she needs to be weight wise. The babies heart beat sounded good also. As far as the baby, we got a clean bill of health!!! 

Mac decided to go without a nap today (I am sure Erica was happy about that...), so I gave him my phone while we were a the doctors to keep him at bay:

I KNOW I NEED A HAIRCUT!!! LOL, I believe I am over a month due...

Grey Room Update

I love that I can say grey room and not red room.  Today, big things happened in that space.  Joe put up phase 1 of storage!  We also bought a new light fixture to go up!

Our wall is not "normal" sized for the typical pantry kit.  After much debate (and staring at the stuff in Lowes), we decided just to get the pantry kit and put it up and then create custom shelves to use the space better.

After Joe got the shelves up, I started organizing them.  I pulled the baskets out of the storage above the washer/dryer.  I moved some appliances around.  Things are slowly coming together and that makes me happy!  We are not going to leave the pantry storage just exposed.  We plan on getting a sturdy shower rod to hang in front of it to hide the pantry when not in use.  That is later down the road though.  Not a priority in my life right now!