Where do my weeks go?

So I'm thinking the exhaustion is slowly coming back to me in my third trimester. I've been trying to stay real upbeat so that maybe I wouldn't notice it. This week is my last week off before school starts. I have to say I'm a little sad!! I did however get a ton accomplished, but I still have so much more I'd like to get done.

On Monday I met Mom and Dillan in Temple and drove with them to College Station so that Dillan could have a tour/look around Texas A&M-I so love that place. I get chills and a rush that comes over me when I just drive into that town. I have to say those years were amazing and I wouldn't change any of them (well maybe the first girl I moved in with-for those that remember snake girl). Anyways I really want Dillan to start thinking about schools and so I've researched a ton of stuff for him to get involved in, and what classes he needs to make sure he's in these last two years of high-school. He's not liking that I'm making him take Spanish 3-but I'm pretty sure he'll thank me later! So we took a tour-I even saw things I'd never seen, such as inside our academic building-Did you know that every state has a replica of the Liberty Bell and they are all in the state capitols except Texas. Ours is in the academic building at Texas A&M. Crazy huh! We had a great time and I can't wait to go back!

On Tuesday I attempted to finish scrapbooking on two books that entailed trips from 2 summers ago. I have to say I am down to just working on a FAMILY book for Kevin and I. I usually do books based on trips, however I'm going to start running them together. Not putting as many stickers etc. on each page to fill up an entire book. We shall see how this goes. I do realize I need to get on this ASAP b/c I'm about to not have ANY time! I've at least got the pictures cut and ready for action!!

Wednesday I organized again-yes I never noticed how our pantry didn't really make sense until yesterday. So it does now. I got rid of A LOT of things that were out of date..that's bad to think I had it, but with moves things get pushed to the back and for some reason newer ones get put in front and you don't see the out of date brownie box learking in the dark. I then re-organized my laundry room/craft room- however most of my boxes of crafts are in the study hidden in the desk-but it is officially clean!! And I finished painting a stool for Tristin, some boxes to store things in for him, and Jana's gift for Kaiden! I enjoy doing these things-but BOY am I tired! I so very wanted to actually CLEAN the house-but that will have to wait.

Thursday-I am up and about-I have a few things I need to get done this morning(clean the house and myself), and then Kooper and I are off to visit Taylor and Kendall for the afternoon. I haven't seen them in a few weeks and miss them both dearly! I have to get back b/c my family (boys) are coming in tonight. They are headed to the coast for a fishing trip with Kevin, while the girls are in Hamilton at Tristin's baby shower!! I am looking forward to seeing people I haven't seen in a LONG while!! We need to have more reasons to get together so we can just hang out!!

Well I've babbled on quite a bit. I hope you are all having a wonderful week!! I'm off to finish it and start a new week-with lovely GT training!! YIPEEEEEEEEEEE

Well,

It has been a while since I've blogged! I have to say I've missed it, but I've enjoyed an afternoon reading and getting an update from everyone else!

Last Monday July 13th, Kevin and I left early for Colorado. We had a big day planned, since Kevin was actually going to Colorado for work and I was just going to tag along. Monday was our only full day without classes, so we landed around 7:30 got in our awesome car-pics later-and drove to Manitou Springs for a trip up the cog railway to Pikes Peak.

Here we are ontop...it felt SOOOOOO FREAKING GOOD!! A storm was coming, so we took our pictures really quick then left for the gift shop and then for our trip back down the mountain.

After our trip up the mountain, we went to The Cave of Winds...it was neat, but nothing amazing...and they took our picture for us, however it didn't turn out so well...but Kevin has proudly displayed it on our fridge:).

We then headed for the Garden of the Gods...it was beautiful!! We had a lot of fun hiking around...yes I hiked...not as much as Kevin would have prob. liked...but he was a trooper, hanging in with me as I trekked ever so slowly along..haha

If we would have waited just a tad...or taken this before the sun, you could see Pikes Peak in the background.

Here is a nice belly shot..haha..Tristin's first big trip!!

We headed back to Denver after this stop and found our Hotel room, food, and went to crash. I was soooooooooooo very tired. But we had a lot of fun!

Thee next morning, I slept in, met Kevin for lunch,and then read out by the pool. When Kevin was finished..we headed to Red Rocks for an afternoon of small hiking and looking.

We went back to town for a bite, and then back to the hotel!!!

The next morning, I took Kevin to his class, and then left to go to the Molly Brown museum downtown. It was very interesting-and I enjoyed this time. I drove back to meet Kevin for lunch, and then sit by the pool and read. This afternoon, we drove to Estes Park. It was soooo nice!! We had a lot of fun here, and would love to go back. We don't have a pic from my digital from here..so sorry..

Happy Anniversary!!! 4 YEARS...The next morning we repeated our steps but I went to the Nature and Science museum. It was very interesting! I liked it a lot. When Kevin finished, we headed downtown to a park, and then to dinner on 16th Street..it was lots of fun....Here we are at one of the 200 parks in Denver....

The next morning....we woke up and followed our morning ritual once more, but at 11 Kevin was done with class. We took this time to make a few quick stops here and there, eat lunch..and then dive our cool car back to enterprise.

Public Restrooms

So those of you who know me know of my fetish with using public restrooms. I would rather hold my pee for hours or hit the ditch before using a gas-station potty or fast food restroom.

This weekend was a big test of my previous wishes!! Kevin and I made the trip to Port O'Connor to visit the Family for the 4th. The 3 hour trip was painful, and I did have to give in to the idea of a gas station-many times.I realize now I CAN'T hold it...especially with someone kicking it..hehe It seemed as if I could have gone all day- b/c as soon as we got a few miles down the road from the first stop-I had to go again. I even tried not drinking as much, but that didn't work either.

At one particular time we stopped at Whataburger and I was about to pee my pants-ran in to wait...I could have died...but as soon as the lady walked out, I went in to the ONE "seater", shut the door and went to grab a paper towel to lock it (I DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING), and as I turned around to lock the door, it opened, and a lady just kept walking in...I stood their and looked at her,and finally after our 5 min (really 30 sec) stare down said, I haven't used the bathroom yet..(this is funny thinking back, however I was literally about to go at the time, and didn't find it amusing)..So she said...OOO.and walked her kid out of the bathroom and I quickly locked, and hovered..haha..

I know this isn't the most pleasant topic-but wow-what I'll do already for this little one.

He is supper duper active now-and moves around like you wouldn't believe. At times, I think he is dancing. Its soo very exciting when he moves frequently..it makes me laugh. I am now at my 3rd trimester, and have less than 3 months..YIPEEE!!

Well I'm off to bed for the evening..I have family-mom, aunt and cousin- coming tomorrow and I'm sooo excited! I'll post about them soon!! Have a good night!!

One project down, many more to go

As I was watching HGTV a few weeks ago, I got a great idea from a show, where they made a collage of artwork through fun old items. As I sat back and thought, I wondered-where could I put something of this sort in our house, without having to rearrange to much and make Kevin mad by changing the look of yet another room.

As I pondered, I walked into Tristin's room, with yet a still black wall-which don't get me wrong I had found a few things to place up, but hadn't gotten around to it. Thats when it hit me...his name. Now Kevin isn't tooo big on putting Tristin's name up on a wall-he thinks it is kinda girly-but I told myself I could find a way for him to like it.

When I visited Kevin last week for lunch, Inoticed an old scrap peice of wood-and asked him if it was of any use. He said-it wasn't, that it came from a crate that was shipped to them, and he just took it apart-b/c Kevin doesn't waste anything!! He brought it home on Monday and cut it down to size, and on Tuesday I started to work. I got everything done, but hanging it on the wall-b/c Kevin was tooo tired to help, and I knew I'd get SUPER frustrated if I tried myslef. So up it went today. Here are a few pictures,and a few pictures of his room. We've got a little more to work on, but it is almost complete!