Belly shot comparison

29 weeks pregnant with Mackay

29 weeks this time around.

Preggers

If there's anything more exciting than being pregnant...

It's getting to be pregnant at the same time as your best friend!

Kiah is due with a little girl just 9 days before I'm due.

Kiah and Mikel were in the area for a wedding, and we were lucky enough to steal them away for an evening. We had a lot of fun just catching up and chatting. I wish so much that we didn't live 14 hours away, it would be so nice to be able to hang out like that all the time. 

(And to use her daughter as a model after she's born!)

Kiah left with a few Maegen-made things for Baby. A little pea coat, my Oliver + S remix top, hairbows, and some beanies including one exactly like the one I made for Fizzie. There are a few more projects in the works for her little girl, and I'll be sharing those as I complete them. 

Christmastime was here... like a month ago

Here are some pictures of Mack helping decorate our tree. We didn't get a tree until about a week before Christmas, and if we'd waited two more days we could have saved $30. Oh well, it was the perfect size tree for our apartment, and Mack absolutely loved it. 

I borrowed a silhouette and some white vinyl from a friend and made snowflakes for our window. I love the way they turned out and they're still up. I don't plan to take them down until spring.

 We had a hard time getting Mack to leave the tree alone. He thought it was pretty, so he kept playing with the ornaments. All the fragile ones slowly made their way to the top portion of the tree, while only our teddy bear ornaments and a handful of broken candy canes stayed down at the bottom.

His wooden construction vehicles from Grandma Smith. He loves these!

This is a sheet set from his Grandma Great.

He kept showing Nathan his muscles. He's absolutely hilarious!

Puzzle set. He's still too little for these, but once he starts learning to read they are going to be awesome.

Mack loves this book. It's a little book about construction workers. It's by the same person who wrote the little dinosaur book he has, Byron Barton.

We didn't take a whole lot of pictures, but we spent the rest of the day over with Tony and Angie, and forgot to bring our camera. Dinner was scrumptious. 

I got tickets to go see "Lame is"

Deep Cleaning our Abode

 I'm not the only person out there who wishes their house was more clean and organized. I've decided to do something about it. Our apartment doesn't have a ton of storage, but I'm finding ways to get everything put away. It's just taking a bit of rearranging.
Unfortunately I didn't take any before pictures, but I really should have. Imagine a lot more things stacked and one less tub and a lot of loose screwdrivers and other tools.

What I moved elsewhere:
Nathan's hammock is now in our laundry closet with our camping chairs.
Nathan's football and rugby ball are now in Mack's closet.
Our Christmas tub will hopefully find its merry way under our bed. Currently it's in my closet.

I didn't have to get rid of anything to get this closet organized. Which is lucky because Nathan didn't give me permission to get rid of anything.

 It only took me a week to get this done.
Yes, I know, a week is hardly impressive.
Suffice it to say I started a project I wasn't ready to tackle and then I ended up putting it off and dawdling.

I hope I never have to do this again, somehow Mack kept finding all the most dangerous things from the closet to play with. Saws, wire cutters, hammers, branch clippers, you know, those things that you definitely want your kid to play with. The funniest thing was when I had completely emptied out the closet Mack came over and poked his head in and got this look on his face that said, "what is this strange new room? I didn't even know this was here!"

The only downside to completing this project:
Now Nathan doesn't know where anything is.
And about 83% of the stuff in there is his.

Oh well.

January. The time to start anew. Right?
So I'm working on some resolutions, just like everyone else. I'm hoping they go well, and that I'll be able to share my progress on the blog.
Here are a few of my goals:
Participate in Project Run & Play
Lose 10 more pounds
Keep a cleaner home
Take the time to make myself beautiful for my husband every day
Finish all my started projects

Also, I'm sorry I haven't been the most frequent blogger lately. I plan to do better this year with sharing the things that have happened.

A morning in the life...

Yesterday I emailed Nathan pictures and little messages all morning. I had fun doing it. (ps. these are not all the pictures. I realized as I was uploading them that a few of them were not all that share-able :))

"Have fun at work. Don't look like this. I LOVE YOU!"

"I'm a blowfish!"

"Hey look, I fixed my hair all prettiful!"

"We have a clean baby"

"What a cute boy"

"sad... I burned my toast"

"Nailed it! Scraped off the burned part of the toast and put on Nutella. Now it's awesome. Plus, I took this picture with my elbow."

"Yup. Looks good." (about my makeup)

I took a picture of every piece of clothing before I put it on. Here are my stripey socks.

"HEEEEY SESSSSY LAADY!"

"Snack time"

"Having lunch without you."

"Playing horsey"

My primary class a million years ago. We lived in Tacoma. I'm third from the left on the top row. My best friend was Jenna, and she's furthest right on the bottom row, the one who is in shadows.

This is me as a baby. We thought I looked quite a bit like Mack in this one.

Accent Tag Video

Just did this for fun.

Hermione Hearts Ron

http://maeandk.com/hermione-hearts-ron/

We took some family pictures