Fitz

My little Fitzy was blessed last weekend. I love this little man! He is so sweet and calm. Thanks everyone who came and supported us! It meant the world to us to be surrounded by so much love! It was humbling to see William encircled by such an awesome group of men. I love family!!! I took some quick photos, but I haven't had a chance to actually look at them on the computer yet. The point is, the photos have been taken and that is what matters. Haha! I took a few photos of the back of my camera with my phone. Here ya go:

Town House

So.... we've been busy. Last weekend my parents, oldest brother and his youngest came to help us. We have been plugging slowly along and chiseling away on this thing a little at a time. When people come help, WHAM we get stuff accomplished!

With their help, we were able to get the subfloor in!! That is so huge!!! Then this weekend, even though Trevor told me he had to work and do car stuff, he surprised me Saturday morning and we were able to go put up our very first wall!!! Get excited with me!!!! How cool is this?!

We also tore some more stuff out while we were there. I've had a few people ask why we don't just tear it all out and be done with it? The answer has to do with the size of our dumpster. We cannot afford a construction size dumpster. We have the biggest size dumpster they make without going up to the construction size, and yet it's still affordable. However, with this size comes compromise. We can fill it up, but they only come every two weeks to empty it. So that's why at this phase we are still doing teardown. We are getting close to being done though. I think at most we will only need the dumpster for two more months. I could be wrong on that, but we only have a few more walls of plaster to drop.

Anyway, while my family was here helping, my brother got the great idea to gift us a notebook of graph paper. Up to this point, not many ideas have been sketched out as far as floor plans go. I mean, we HAVE sketched out our ideas, but not with dimensions and such. So this week has been spent at the house measuring and drawing and thinking and drawing more and planning. I love this stuff.

I took some photos to share with you.

Sketch of the back wall of walk-in closet. Do you see my built in dressers? Yes!!! I. Am. So. Excited!!! I get to build this thing, and it will be awesome! 

Cardboard camera panorama with our new subfloor.

The new wall between the kitchen and master bath.

This is the computerized version of our new house plans. I've since tweaked these to include all doorways and fixtures. Fun stuff.

These are my drawings and measurements from the beginning of the week. Lots of fun. 

You know what? Baby weight is the pits to get rid of. I hate losing weight.
H. A. T. E.

It's especially not fun when your spouse doesn't want to lose weight or eat healthy, so you are on your own. Ugh. And stress. Stress makes it so much harder!!!

Anyway, this post is to inform you that I won't be carrying this baby weight around much longer.

This weight is almost gone, and good riddance too.

I'm ready to have my pick of clothes from the closet again, and not wear the same clothes over and over.

Now I will share my mantra, which I repeat over and over throughout the day: Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels!!!!!

So yeah.

Now go eat a cookie for me.

Erased

The long post I had all typed up yesterday is gone. How sad.

I can't remember what it was about either.

haha! Still sad.

I hate it when the blogger app fails me.

I'll post a quick update: the house is all cleaned up. Most boards have been sorted through, and nails hammered out and either thrown away, or saved in the garage for later. We started screwing down the sub-sub floor in preperation for the sub- floor which I ordered yesterday! If you remember, the sub-floor that is there is 1x6's and doesn't do a good job of supporting the floor. We are laying 3/4" tongue and groove OSB over the top of that. This will be a good weekend, I just know it!!

Will is being blessed this weekend finally, so lots of people are going to be here. I'm kinda excited to be with family!

I have an update on Carter too: we went back to the specialist thinking that he was going to chew me out for failing the past six weeks, but Carter gained weight! He gained 1 1/2 pounds! He grew taller too! He went up 10 percentage points on the scale for both height and weight! The doctor went on and on about how good we did! We told him about how we found that carter is allergic to tomatoes, oranges, and grapes as well as gluten. Any more than a little sugar gives him diarrhea as well. He was pleased. It was very much the boost I needed to keep plugging away at it.

Anyway, I'll fill in with more details later. Gotta run!

Catch up

The past few days I've been little by little taking my kids Valentines photos. The reason this is even news is because it takes over my house and makes me feel crazy!!

We went our of town over the weekend to a baptism/baby blessing in Cedar City. I have decided I could live there. #1 reason: It is beautiful!!! #2 reason: polygamists! How interesting! #3 reason: family! #4 reason: not too big, not too small #5 reason: I could have a lot of fun photographing anything in Cedar City. It really is a beautiful backdrop.

So there you have it. We are now moving to Utah.

I'm kidding!! Calm down Mom!

Anyway, back to my original topic, my house is a mess. Today will be cleaning and catch up day. Except I have to leave the photography stuff out, and it is most of the mess. I can't clean it up until Saturday night, after a photo shoot I have scheduled for the afternoon.

Ugh. We get to trip over lights and backdrops all week. I need people to come make use of this stuff so I won't get irritated looking at it. It's not annoying when it's in use.

Phone shot of the back of my camera:

Panorama

If you had one of those cardboard camera viewers that Google makes, this photo would make sense.