A Morales Minute

Yes, this is true. And yes....this will be our newest addition to the family. You think you're surprised! Just imagine how surprised I was! Big time let me tell you. And in case you are wondering, I am just starting my first week of month number five. Yes, I am in my second trimester already. Hard to believe it's really gone that fast. I haven't been sick at all. It's been very nice. I could easily not know that I was pregnant because I don't feel like I am. This explains why I haven't been sick. It's a boy. I wasn't sick with Aidan either. I kind of figured it was a boy and this morning confirmed that it was. Here's the little guy in action. , We got up a little after 6 a.m. and got ready to head to the hospital. My mom showed up at 6:45 to watch the other three at home for us. Thanks Mom! We got to the hospital and you know the rest of the story there...boy. :) Everything looks to be good from what we saw but someone else will look

On Friday I was still trying to pick out the color I wanted to paint the family room. I had picked out a color called Clay Bisque and it looked like a real nice beige on the family room walls but in the kitchen against the newly painted cabinets the color looked white. So, after already trying the Clay sample I risked a new color. I had Jaime pick up a color called Wood Smoke. That night we started to prep the room by taping trim and windows. I painted a little bit of the smoke color (a grey) next to the clay (beige) and I felt like the grey was going to be too dark...what I was trying to get away from with the dark brown panelling. So, after lots of talk and feeling bad that Jaime already bought the smoke colored paint I decided to go with the beige. We were up until 1 a.m. Friday because we watched a movie after our working. Saturday morning Aidan woke up at 5:40 so I fed him, put him back to bed, then I changed and by 6 a.m. I was on my way to Richland to Home Depot to pick up the c

I've decided to paint our family room. It is wood paneling but it's real wood, not that particle/laminate stuff so I'm a bit nervous to do it. But, I've already started priming so I can't turn back now! This is what our family room looked like before the work began... (the lights you see are only a few months old. Jaime put those in. The old lights were copper cabin lanterns...so it looked to be anyway. I love these new pendant lights.) And now the priming begins... I'll post pics when we are all finished...who knows how long that will take me! It's a large room and there are a lot of windows for me to go around. Tedious work really. Jaime hates painting so it's a big job just for me and trying to take care of the kids at the same time. Jaime would help but I do it during the day while he's at work. Maybe this Saturday we can get it all done together. :) cross fingers!!!!

I had to get this on camera. If I was ready I would have video taped it but at least I got a picture. On Sunday we had Jaime's family over for dinner. Afterwards Grandma Morales was playing with Aidan. He was standing up between a couple of his toys and she would make a stuffed Nemo toy come up and tickle his tummy. He thought it was great. He laughed so hard and so long. I'd love to reenact it so that we could get it filmed...we'll see. It may not be as funny to him again. The girls love having their pics taken. I love this one of Livie on the floor. Livie adores Uncle Marcus Lindsey wanted a picture of her with her hair up in a "crown." At least that's what she says it looks like when I put so many bands in it.

We had a great 4th of July weekend. We started the morning by going to the city flag raising. We had to hustle because I was singing at it and wouldn't you know it, we were about 5 minutes late. At least I didn't miss the songs I had to sing, right? We spent the day with some friends and had a great time. The day ended better than I could have imagined. Can you believe that this is the first year that we have been able to watch fireworks as a family in our six years of marriage? We didn't have any tired little kids that were asleep (however they could have used the rest, I know), none of our kids were throwing up, and we had a great time. Up from our house is a dead end road. We drove to the top of the hill there and we could see the fireworks bursting all over the city. It was beautiful. The kids sat up front with Jaime and I and loved it. At 7 a.m. Olivia woke me up saying, "It's the 4th of July and we need to get dressed. I have my 4th of July clothes!" Sur

Can you believe it? My baby is 10 months today. It's amazing how fast Aidan has grown. He's crawling so fast, pulling himself up to stand near furniture, has six teeth, and eats a lot at dinner time which makes me think he'll be having a growth spurt here soon!

I finally got pictures of our finished kitchen. I love it. It looks so nice with the new wood floors, brighter cabinets and new hardware. We bought new door latches so now all the cabinets stay closed...which is nice now that Aidan is crawling and won't be able to open them.

We've been pretty busy around here. Can you believe it? We took on the project of refinishing our kitchen cabinets. They aren't perfect but they are light years better than what they were. I actually enjoyed the work. It's nice to see the end result of your hard work. Here's what our kitchen looked like before the work began. Taking all the doors off... Look at Marcus working so hard! Thanks for helping us out. The end result... The drawer pulls aren't on in this picture but they are now. Looks pretty messy still. I hadn't put everything away yet. I'll have to post more pics when I get them taken but I really like the way the island turned out. I painted it a different color. Believe me, my kitchen is NEVER this messy! It's much more put to