Baby Showers and Such

Goodness it has been a long while since I last blogged. Things have been busy around here! I had my last day of work last week, finally. It was getting kind of hard to clean with my belly growing like it is. It's like having a bowling bowl strapped to your belly, try bending over with that! :)

Sunday my Mother and my best friend put on a baby shower for me. It was a great time, of course, I hadn't really been to a baby shower before. It consisted of games, food, and opening of presents.. and let me tell ya! There were a lot of presents. I am very thankful to everyone that came, K has everything he will need when he makes his way into the world! My mom has all the pictures that were taken, otherwise I would put some on here. Maybe next time.

Since they moved my due date again, to March 6th, Tuesday marked 35 weeks for me.

I finally have a belly, or at least I feel like I have a belly. Everyone has said I've had one for a while now, but to me it finally feels like it. Only 5 weeks left, or so and I can't wait!

I have also been excited about decorating K's room for when he gets here! Here is what I've been working on so far.

These are for the curtains I am making for K's room. Don't look to closely at the sewing job. I am still getting used to my new sewing machine that my loving in-laws gave me for my birthday.

Isn't that cool? I'm so proud of myself! That's for the center of the curtain!

T's mother made K a quilt for his crib and I wanted to share it as well! She is pretty talented at quilting and I know that K will love it!

It's so adorable!! :)

Well I have to go feed my belly.. Haha! Ya'll have a great night!

P.S. As soon as K's crib mattress gets here and I get his room finished, I'll take pictures and share! Night!

Wishing things would Hurry Up!

Do I sound impatient? Because I am..

1. T applied for a job, (shuuuushhh though, keep it on the down low please,) and the guy wants to met with him, in a couple of weeks...

• I want so badly to start packing my house, even though it's not for sure yet. I've already starting acquiring boxes, cleaning out closets, and throwing useless trash out.
• On the other hand, I want to re-organize my house, but whats the point if there is a move in our future?
• My mother said I'm nesting.. big time.

2. I want this baby shower to get here so that I can start decorating K's room!

• So far, his room consists of a dresser, futon, and the saddle I won last year. Not very baby friendly if you ask me.
• There are boxes, some empty and some full of my old baby books, toys, blankets etc, stacked against one wall and in the closet. Oh, and our hunting bows, my "hobby" items, and tubs of stuff my mother keeps giving me.
• I have all these cute ideas that I want to do to decorate his room! But nothing to decorate with yet.

3. I want K to get here...!!

• I'm nearly 32 weeks along, and not very big but my back and hips kill me all day long!
• The last couple of days I've had some weird bug going on which hasn't been very fun, at all. The first day my stomach hurt all day long, as did my back. Then that night I got a bad headache and a fever. But the next day it was gone, except for my stomach hurting. I have no idea whats going on. 
• I'm tired of not being able to bend over and pick things up like I used to. My husband thinks it's funny to put things on the floor nowadays... mostly my favorite snack or something I was fixing to grab. 
• Oh yea, and I'm just excited to get to met him!

I did manage to clean out 2 closets that were full of junk however. T came home before I was finished and sorta kinda not really helped me finish. He found his banjo and got distracted, way to easily if I might add. The whole time I've known my husband, I have never heard him play the banjo before. It's always just sat there in the closet collecting dust. I don't know why he doesn't play more.

I guess I should stop "nesting" and start thinking about something to cook for supper.  Thanks for listening to my rambling about!

Another Year Gone

2011 has come and gone, much to my disbelief. I thought it was a pretty good year over all. I know many people are probably already doing this, but I wanted to recap the past year month by month. So here we go!

January:

This picture was taken in December, 2010 but I thought it was important for January mainly because my wonderful cowboy asked me to marry him. It was on New Year's Eve. I said yes of course and that started a journey that would have many ups and downs for the coming year. I also started my first semester at Sul Ross State University.

February:

Engagement pictures! T's sister came down from New Mexico to take picture for us before she went on her wild adventure overseas. This was on of my favorite pictures that she took. February also was the beginning of making wedding plans, secretly.

March:

This month marked the 2 year anniversary of the Stovell clan making their way to Texas. It seemed like those 2 years just flew by, with many trying moments as well as happy ones in between. Also this month, T was offered to move to a different part of the ranch he worked on, to a camp that was a little more secluded, and had a better house!

April:

Senior pictures! Even though I graduated in December of 2010, I never got any senior pictures taken. So this month that was my goal, and we sure enough got it done. This month was a very trying one for me. After several weeks of bickering and arguing with my parents, a date was finally set for the wedding. And when I mean set, I mean my parents were ok with it. T and I had already had a date in mine ever since we got engaged.

May:

Isn't this just an ere picture? To me it shows how terrifyingly beautiful God has made the world. This was the month of all the really bad fires that occurred down here in West Texas. This was the fire that was so close to the ranch. T and I also bought our first pick-up together this month!

June:

Sadly, I don't have a picture for this month, mainly because it was such a busy, stressful month, planning for a wedding and what not. My mom quit her job at the bank so that she could help plan everything.

July:

My cowboy and I tied the knot on July 22, 2011. It was such a small, family centered wedding out in the middle of no where really. Actually it was at the place where I work now, a small hunting lodge. Afterwards, we spent our honeymoon in San Antonio!

August:

I love this picture, don't you? August was filled with many adjustments, such as moving into a new house, moving away from my family, and getting see my cowboy every day, instead of 2 or 3 days every two weeks!

September:

This month we announced that we were expecting. At first, it was a hard decision to make, mostly because it was a shock to us at first, and to our families, but a blessing no less.

October:

Cooter! My parents got T Cooter for his birthday, even though it wasn't until the next month. He is such a cutie in this picture! This month was a relatively slow one. Mostly because I was trying to coop with the fact that my belly was starting to grow.

November:

This month T celebrated his first birthday as a married man. He turned 22. We spent Thanksgiving with my folks in Alpine and basically had a pretty laid back month!

December:

The snow and baby bumps! I turned 19 this month, and we went to New Mexico to see my in-laws. It snowed and I loved it! Oh and the baby bump picture is me at 30 weeks!

That pretty much sums it up for the year 2011. It was an exciting year for me and everyone else I imagine, and this year will be even better! Happy New Years!!!

Nothing like a White Christmas!

That's right, it has snowed as most of you probably already know. It didn't really snow that much down in West Texas, but this year T and I went to my in-laws for Christmas in New Mexico. And did it snow there!!

I love this picture! My sis-in-law took it for us.

It was snowing when we got to T's parents place in New Mexico.

I love Hereford bulls so I had to get a picture of one.

We also went sledding and had snowball fights.

Doesn't he look handsome! I thought so too! :)

T's dad made us both a pair of boots for Christmas. I love mine!

I also drew this picture for T's parents. That is a picture of his dad. I'm very proud of this piece, I tried some different techniques and I think they worked!

We had such a fun filled, busy Christmas and I had lots to tell, but I decided it would be better just to post pictures. I think people would rather look at pictures anyways. Hope you enjoyed!

Birthday's and Baby presents

Who would have thought that I'd be getting baby things for my 19th birthday? I sure didn't, but I love it! Tuesday was my actual birthday, December 7th, but Sunday night my parents and grandparents came out to the house for supper. My mother cooked me lasagna, a tradition for my birthday for as long as I can remember! It was fun, My grandparents hadn't ever been out to my house so I was excited to pick things up and decorate. Just ask T, I think he was a little put out me for cleaning so much. Only because he made the mistake of getting all of his things done and I put him to work when he got home. Oh well, it's good for him!

My parents got me a new car seat for little K when he gets here. Just the first of many baby things we are going to need I imagine. My friend is working on putting a baby shower together for me, sometime in January but we are still pondering ideas. I can't wait for it!

Today I had to work and boy let me tell ya, I'm tired! My helper wasn't there today so I had to do a lot of cleaning by myself, and I didn't even come close to getting it all done. Luckily I have tomorrow and my helper should be there to get the rest of it done. But for now, I'm sitting here with my feet up!

I wanted to add a lot more to this post, but I'm to tired too.. Sadly. So I'm going to say good night and see ya next time! :)

Windmill's and such

I know I blogged yesterday, but it's Sunday afternoon and I wanted to share some pictures with ya'll.

T took me to see a windmill yesterday on our way over to some friends. It's not just any ol' windmill though, this one is really old and is completely forged!

T says that it has a span of 20-25 feet, he couldn't remember which but I had him stand in front of it to see just how big it is. I also thought the sky is really pretty behind it.

This is a leg of the windmill and you can see that there are no welds or anything.

Pretty neat huh? I thought so!

Well, I just had to share and I needed a break from cleaning. (My motivation is still MIA but I've been forcing myself to pick up the house.) T went with the hunters that are here this morning so I was able to get a lot done. I thought we would get to spend the afternoon together, but the hunters came back after dinner and asked if T could go play. So I'm here by myself, trying to get out of cleaning :)

Ya'll have a great week!

No Motivation!!

Nope, nada, none! No motivation whatsoever. This past week it has just up and left me and it's not a good thing! I have a house to clean, presents to wrap, a yard that really really needs picking up. Not to mention a truck that I've been wanting to clean for some time now because there is a "happily hitched," sign still painted on the back window. How sad right? Yes indeed, very sad. I have all these ideas and no motivation and it's driving me crazy! Maybe tomorrow I can get some things done, since I don't have to work and T will be around to help. I doubt it though, that has been my excuse for the past week.

I am very proud of myself this year. I have all of my Christmas shopping/crafting done for the season, save wrapping everything but that shouldn't take me very long. We also have our Christmas tree picked out, but we are waiting to cut it down. I don't want it to dry out this early on, although I'm excited about getting it up. Of course, it would help if I would take down my fall decorations, but no motivation is responsible for that. I haven't gotten my Christmas cards done yet though, still waiting on pictures.

In other news, I'm 26 weeks today! Doesn't that mean I'm in the 3rd trimester? Or at least really close to it! Little K has been kicking and kicking me like crazy, and seems to like the right side of my belly. It always bulges out more on that side.

Not a very good picture huh? I thought for sure I'd be bigger by now, but to me it looks the same! T says I've gotten bigger. I disagree... In my hips but not my belly.

Well, not much else has been happening around here. It's hunting season out here so work has picked up and T has been in a really good mood lately. Since he doesn't have to see certain people everyday. Tonight we are going over to eat with some of the other ranch hands and it will take us about two hours to get over there. So, I'm going to force myself to do something.. wish me luck.