Cuteness

Well since my last post backyard progress has basically come to a stand still. It has been five million degrees here and really just unhealthy for outside work. Thad did get all the sprinklers put in, but again, it doesn't look different cos they are all buried, so no new pics. Oh, and speaking of it being so hot, how on earth could I end up with a sore throat and cold in this heat!? It's ridiculous.
This is just a random picture from Sunday morning before church, but it is my new favorite. They are such buddies, and Thad is so cute, he likes to match his tie to what Andi is wearing to church ;)
This is Andi showing off her "Dancin dress." For some reason every time she puts on a dress it's for "dancin."Nothing exciting to tell you about, except that we find out what we are having in like 10 days, and I will be chopping off my hair in the very near future.

Summer so far

As usual we have been busy. The backyard is slowly but surely progressing. I have been working on mortar for the brick borders, and Thad has been working on sprinklers. Nothing really looks different so I don't have any pictures to post.
It is also recital week, meaning two days of dress rehearsals and then two evenings of shows. I took Andi to the theater with me not sure how long she would last or how I would even be able to help with her running around. But she loved it! She loved the lights and the music and especially loved the "baby dancin," meaning the 3-6 year olds. She kept asking for more babies dancing. She would clap and cheer at the end of the dances, it was so cute. I think we definitely have a performer on our hands.
She also hit a milestone today, at least I think it is a milestone, and she probably could have hit it earlier but I was never brave enough to attempt it. Today she came to tell me she had to potty, and instead of going with her I just said, okay, go. And she did! I'm so excited, I don't have to run to the bathroom every time she needs to go, at home at least where she has her step stool. And I took a picture to commemorate the moment. This is one of those she'll hate later ;)


Andi is having a fun filled summer so far. We have a playgroup at the park on Thursday mornings, she has story time at the library on Wednesday mornings, and almost all the Bradon time she can handle. She is so funny with him, and he doesn't seem to mind too much that she follows him around my parents house and demands his constant attention. Here's a picture of the play group.


And this is Andi with her new bubble blower. She chased bubbles all over the yard with that bat yelling "take that, take that!"


Other than that she is growing like a stinking weed, which should not surprise me, I know, but it still does. She is only 2 and is now fully into 4T summer clothes. People are always shocked when I tell them her age cos she's just so much taller than the other 2 year olds.

Projects

I am naturally one of those people who needs to be busy and productive, so under normal circumstances there is always a project I am working on. But when I'm pregnant it gets worse, and I don't think the whole "nesting" thing is completely to blame. But I think that, combined with my inherent OCD, makes the madness occur, and keeps it in high gear for about 6 months. In this case it's a good thing because we really have a lot of projects in the yard that need to get done. This week so far I have put in the brick borders around the jacuzzi, and the flower bed under my bedroom window. The only reason I haven't started the rest of the border around the yard is because Thad and I still can't agree on how it should look. I haven't picked out the plants that are going in these wonderful boxes yet, but here are the boxes so far.

I also decided this week, that after almost a year of procrastinating, it was finally time to start looking for things to decorate the top of the kitchen cabinets with. Here's my start. I'm not very good at this sort of thing, so I'm sure it will get better as I go.

Like I said, it's a work in progress. Anyway, this is an old project, but I never posted pictures of it. At least I don't think so. I recovered the dinning room chairs. . . again.

Another part of my illness is that if I'm not busy busy busy, I need a good book to stay that way. So I just read Stephenie Meyer's (Twilight author) first adult book "The Host". It's actually a sci-fi about body snatching aliens, so I was really skeptical about reading it at all, but I think I need to stop being surprised by Meyer, because there is just something about the way she writes. She sucks you in to the story from page one and makes you care about the characters so that you can't put the book down. You just HAVE to know what happens to them! At least I do. Anyway, good book if anyone is looking for something new to read.

Current and near future projects:
1. pick out trees and plants for backyard
2. finish brick borders
3. find computer armoire (since our office will not be an office much longer and we are moving the computer out to the kitchen.)
4. Move the rocking chair out of, and reorganize Andi's room.
5. get a tan
6. possibly make a quilt for my bed, if I am brave enough and find the absolute perfect fabric. I am just not loving my comforter anymore and haven't seen one I absolutely love.
7. finish Andi's scrapbook from her 1st year of life(i'm so close!)
8. Work on the family digital scrapbook/journal.

The recital is on two weeks and I am really looking forward to being done. I didn't think I would be, but the drive to the new place is ridiculous, and I can't fit in to my tights anymore, so it's really just time.
I'll be posting more pictures as our projects progress

Progress

We have a fence! Thad has been working on getting the block pillars built this week, and was able to(with some help) get the wood slats framed and put in between the pillars on Saturday. Yay! Ignore the piles, it is still somewhat of a construction zone. But now I can start outlining out planter areas and we can get sprinklers and grass. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.
In other news, we bought a BBQ! Don't laugh, it's very exciting for us. It's hot already and I plan to do as much cooking outside for the next 4 months as possible. We got one with a side burner so I can even boil stuff outside. I'm looking forward to not heating up my kitchen.