Sunday, July 31, 2011

Project Life Tuesday - Week 30





Welcome to Project Life Tuesday 2011! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay awhile. I'm Jessica and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.

Don't worry, I'm not leaving traditional scrapbooking behind. This just gives me the opportunity to focus my scrapbooking on trips and things that are important to me right now and not get all bogged down with every birthday, dinner, and holiday that comes along.


Each Tuesday, I will post my pictures/journaling from the previous week. Project Life Tuesday was created by Jessica Turner over at The Mom Creative and she hosts a linky for readers to link up their pictures. So if you want to join in or want to see others POTW, just click the Project Lift button at the top of this post.


And finally, my POTW:


Saturday - We worked all day on Coco's room and getting her closet set up.  The closet has a corner for Juan's desk and study materials and a little mini desk right next to it for Coco.  Then, there is a 6' section for all of Coco's clothes and things and the far back corner is for additional storage.  Mom is making us a curtain with pink and yellow fairies that will hide all of our luggage and stored items at the back of the closet.  Juan is very excited about her closet and being in there with her to draw and color.
 
Sunday - We finally finished clearing out Coco's room today.  Then we put down the rug we ordered for her play corner.  It's small, but so fun.  Of course, the rest of the room is empty still.  Next on the list, order the furniture!
 
Monday - This is a shot I've been meaning to take for a long time.  I've been saying for months that my stomach is lopsided.  I've gotten bigger and I keep thining my lopsidedness will eventually even out; but for now....my right side is way larger than my left.  Can you see it? 
 
Tuesday - Juan brought home and cooked dinner tonight from Central Market.  Salmon, veggies, rice, and croissants.  Yummy and oh so appreciated.
 
Wednesday - Today I am officially 29 weeks pregnant! Weight - 233.8 lbs. Our baby is growing rapidly now. This week she weighs about 2-1/2 pounds, like a butternut squash, and is a tad over 15" long from head to heel. Her muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and her head is getting bigger to accommodate her growing brain - which is busy developing billions of neurons. Every day, about 200 milligrams of calcium is deposited in your baby's skeleton, which is hardening. With this rapid growth, it is no surprise that our baby's nutritional needs reach their peak during this trimester. This week she has also become SUPER active. She moves almost constantly now and it surprises me everytime it happens. The movements are getting stronger as well.
 
Thursday - I've been preparing for Angie's baby shower all week.  I'm throwing it for her in Tulsa on Saturday.  On the left is the thank you for attending favors that I will hand out to everyone and the right is the prizes for the games I have planned.  The theme is a baby clothes line theme, laundry, diapers, baby clothes, etc.  I thought favors of downy and tide were appropriate.  The game prizes are lingerie bags, wrinkle release, tide pens and travel sized spot cleaner.

Friday - Still preparing for the shower tomorrow.  Here are the Izzy drinks that I wrapped in gingham and a baby safety pin.  I also made little signs with the flavors of each bottle.

Thanks for visiting me this week.  I hope you past week and upcoming week are fun and eventful!

Project Life Tuesday - Week 29




Welcome to Project Life Tuesday 2011! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay awhile. I'm Jessica and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.

Don't worry, I'm not leaving traditional scrapbooking behind. This just gives me the opportunity to focus my scrapbooking on trips and things that are important to me right now and not get all bogged down with every birthday, dinner, and holiday that comes along.

Each Tuesday, I will post my pictures/journaling from the previous week. Project Life Tuesday was created by Jessica Turner over at The Mom Creative and she hosts a linky for readers to link up their pictures. So if you want to join in or want to see others POTW, just click the Project Lift button at the top of this post.


And finally, my POTW:

Saturday - We finally registered for Coco!   Juan wanted to do in in about 30 minutes and totally drove me crazy!  I really didn't know what I was doing and wanted to take my time; but Juan just wanted to "hurry up and pick something".  Needless to say, I finally decided to just let him register for the items he wanted to and decided I would come back later with my sister and "fix" the registry.  We started at Babies R Us and that took us about and hour and a half, then off to Buy, Buy Baby which took us under an hour and then we finished off at Pottery Barn just to do our final bedding information update.  It still was a huge accomplishment and took us most of the day.
 
Sunday - I am throwing a baby shower for my friend, Angie, next weekend.  I wanted to make her a diaper cake, but had never made one; so my mom came over to help me make my first diaper cake!  It went together fairly easily and I am happy with how it turned out.  Thanks for the help, Mom!

Monday - We've been looking for a coffee table and rug for our living room since we started renovating.  The coffee table that I really wanted was at Crate & Barrel, but it was out of our price range.  When I found this trunk/rug combination at Pier 1 for about 1/5th the price, I knew it was perfect.  The size is right and the rug helps blend  all of our living room colors together.

Tuesday - Vanessa went with me this evening to "fix" our registry.  She was a HUGE help and we were at Babies R Us for almost 4 hours!  We went through everything on our registry and I feel SOOOO much better about it.  I was amazed at all the stuff we hadn't put on it and all the stuff we picked that we didn't need or needed something different.  Thanks, Vanessa!

Wednesday - Today I am 28 weeks pregnant!  I am very concerned with my weight increase this week. I seem to be skyrocketing and I am nervous that it's justational diebetes. I am 235 lbs today. My next doctors appointment is tomorrow and the big test day. Our baby weighs two and a quarter pounds, like a Chinese cabbage, and measures 14.8 inches from the top of her head to her heels. She can open and close her eyes, which now sport lashes. This movement is more of a reflexive blink than a deliberate openeing and closing, but it won't be long before she's batting those eyes at us!


Thursday - Today was our next doctor's appointment.  This is Dr. Farrow and we are extremely happy with her.  My weight this morning was 233.8 lbs. I also broke out bad again this morning on my feet, hands, and arms. They drew my blood for the glucose screening test, after I drank my orange liquid. My blood pressure was good at 120/72. I won't get my glucose results until tomorrow; but when I expressed concern to Dr. Farrow about my weight gain this week, she said that I hadn't gained ANYTHING in the last month based on their records and had only gained 10 lbs since my first appointment. That made me feel a lot better. At the doctor's my weight was 232.1 (with clothes on) which was no gain from last month. Yeah!

Friday - The nurse called from my OB this afternoon and my glucose test was negative!!!!  I don't even have to take the 3 hour test. YEAH!!!!  She said the protein levels in my urine were fine and everything looked great.  YIPPEEEEEE!!!!!  I was really worried about that.  I celebrated by going to Eatzi's with Danna for a delicious spinach salad with lots of veggies.

Thanks for visiting me this week! I hope you had a terrific week! 






Monday, July 18, 2011

Project Life Tuesday - Week 28






Welcome to Project Life Tuesday 2011! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay awhile. I'm Jessica and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.
Don't worry, I'm not leaving traditional scrapbooking behind. This just gives me the opportunity to focus my scrapbooking on trips and things that are important to me right now and not get all bogged down with every birthday, dinner, and holiday that comes along.
Each Tuesday, I will post my pictures/journaling from the previous week. Project Life Tuesday was created by Jessica Turner over at The Mom Creative and she hosts a linky for readers to link up their pictures. So if you want to join in or want to see others POTW, just click the Project Lift button at the top of this post.
And finally, my POTW:


Saturday - We went to Tulsa today to visit my friend, Angie, and see her new little one, Kayla!  She is adorable and super sweet.  So are the photos, but I am not posting here as the adoption is not yet finalized.  But the photo for today is adorable!


Sunday - This week I've finally been able to scrap and I was featured for three different layouts on two different blog sites.  Yeah!  I guess I haven't lost my touch and my mojo has returned.
 
Monday - My friend, Joy, is a new Mary Kay consultant and she came over to give me a facial.  I needed a new cleansing regiment, so the timng was perfect.  I bought the setup, hope I like it.




Tuesday - I finally cooked dinner tonight.  Just simple salsibury steak and steamed vegtables, but it was nice to be able to sit down together for a real dinner.
 
Wednesday - Today I am officially 27 weeks pregnant! It's beginning to get difficult to bend over and to get in and out of bed. Weight update: 233.1 lbs. This week, our baby weighs almost 2 pounds (like a head of cauliflower) and is about 14-1/2 inches long with her legs extended. She's sleeping and waking at regular intervals, opening and closing her eyes, and perhaps even sucking her fingers. With more brain tissue developing, your baby's brain is very active now. While her lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning - with a lot of medical help - if she were born now. Next week is my next doctors appointment and my glucose screening test.



Thursday - Tonight was our last Theater ticket for our season tickets. The show was the Wiz and was great. It is a spin on the Wizard of Oz with singing, dancing, and our seats moved around as part of the show.  Very cool! We had dinner first at Fedora's, a little italian place.  I had a glass of red wine, my first of the entire pregnancy and probably my last; but boy was it fabulous.  I had a very rough and stressful week at work and desperately needed a little relaxation.  It definitely helped.

Friday - We have replaced pretty much all of our hardware in our house. We finally added hardware to our drawers and cabinets in our master bathroom.  The top two drawers are now sporting these adorable dragonfly drawer pulls.  My sister got them for me for my birthday like two years ago and I never found the right spot for them.  I'm so happy that they now have a home!

Thanks for visiting this week!  Hope you come back soon!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

SC Sketch #259 Layout

I know this is a bit late; but I loved this 2-page sketch at Scrapbook Challenges and just had to play along.  Oh, and it did work perfect for yet another Sagrada Familia page.  Almost through with these photos! YEAH.  Here is the sketch: 

And here is my layout:


A few detailed shots: My favorite thing about this layout is that I coerced my husband into journaling!  He actually journaled these words while we were in Spain, but I managed to get him to rewrite it on my journaling block. I so love having his handwriting in our album as well!  I also used glimmering spray on the chipboard, which is a bit hard to see in the photo but helps bring out the gold.





Materials Used:  paper - Paper Studio, Studio Calico; border punch - EK Success; title letters - Quickutz Khaki; gold Fleur di Lis - EK Success Jolee's Boutique; chipboard - unknown; paint - Making Memories Marine; shimmer mist - Creative Imaginations Luminarte Radiant Rain; brads - unknown; jute - unknown; journaling blocks - unknown; stamps - CTMH Picture Perfect, Simple Stitches, and Adorning Corners; ink - CTMH barn red & black.

Thanks so much for visiting and for bearing with me through my million Sagrada Familia pages.  I promise we will move on soon! LOL  Happy Hump Day!

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Let's Scrap - Challenge 103

Let's Scrap has a new DT challenge #103 to replace a letter or word in your title or journaling with something else (think chipboard, die cuts, stickers, stamping, etc.).  I knew immediately I wanted to play along, so I used Let's Scrap sketch 2-23-11.  Here is the sketch:



Here is my layout, yet another from the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona! 

Here are a couple of detailed shots: 


I was surprised when I realized that I didn't journal, at all on this page.  I have NEVER not journaled; but this is a follow up to my last page and I did all of the journaling there. 

Materials used:  paper - BoBunny and Paper Studio; arrows - Maya Road; alphabet chipboard - Heidi Swapp; border punch - EK Success; ink - CTMH indian cornstalk; ribbon - unknown; brads - unknown.

If you haven't checked out Let's Scrap, I highly recommend it!  They have great sketches and challenges and everyone is super encouraging!  I hope your week is going smoothly.

Thanks so much for visiting me!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Project Life Tuesday - Week 27





Welcome to Project Life Tuesday 2011! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay awhile. I'm Jessica and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.
Don't worry, I'm not leaving traditional scrapbooking behind. This just gives me the opportunity to focus my scrapbooking on trips and things that are important to me right now and not get all bogged down with every birthday, dinner, and holiday that comes along.
Each Tuesday, I will post my pictures/journaling from the previous week. Project Life Tuesday was created by Jessica Turner over at The Mom Creative and she hosts a linky for readers to link up their pictures. So if you want to join in or want to see others POTW, just click the Project Lift button at the top of this post.
And finally, my POTW:


Saturday - Juan decided that he needed ants to crawl across the beam in our living room.  I'm not real thrilled with them, but he thinks they are "artsy"!
 
Sunday - Mom came over to help me modify our new curtains and get them hung.  Juan had to install all of the curtain rods and after about 5 different curtain configurations, we ended up using them just they way they were intended.  Our bedroom is almost finished!
 
Monday - Today is the 4th of July.  We were supposed to go to the fireworks tonight with Mom and Vanessa's family, but Coco decided to wear me out and upset my tummy, so we bailed out at the last minute.  I couldn't stand the thought of sitting outside in 103 degree weather. Adam was planning on going with us, so he and Juan decided to grille instead.
 
Tuesday - Here is our new bedroom, almost all complete!
 
Wednesday - Today I am officially 26 weeks pregnant! This week I am really starting to feel big. It is much harder to get up and down, especially from bed in the mornings. She is also very active, just in the last couple of days; but now it is different. Instead of feeling her high when she moves, it is way down low...almost to my chahula! And it sort of feels like little spasms. I keep having this reoccuring dream that I look down at my belly and here little face and hands are pushed clear through almost my skin and I can make out every feature and detail; but then I panic that she is suffocating. How wierd! Weight update: 230.2 lbs. She is now about 14" long from head to heel and weighs about a pound and 2/3rds, about the size of an English hothouse cucumber. For some reason that makes me laugh.


Thursday - I made dinner for the first time since we've moved back into our house. It was just mexican chicken casserole, mexican rice and salad; but it was nice to sit down together for dinner at our new table.
 
Friday - This week I was finally able to start scrapbooking again.  I was excited to learn that one of my pages was "featured" on Scrapbook Challenges and one of my pages was "featured" on Let's Scrap. What a way to inspire me to create some more!  I have soooooo been missing my scrappy loft.  
Thanks for visiting!

Project Life Tuesday - Week 26





Welcome to Project Life Tuesday 2011! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay awhile. I'm Jessica and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.
Don't worry, I'm not leaving traditional scrapbooking behind. This just gives me the opportunity to focus my scrapbooking on trips and things that are important to me right now and not get all bogged down with every birthday, dinner, and holiday that comes along.
Each Tuesday, I will post my pictures/journaling from the previous week. Project Life Tuesday was created by Jessica Turner over at The Mom Creative and she hosts a linky for readers to link up their pictures. So if you want to join in or want to see others POTW, just click the Project Lift button at the top of this post.
And finally, my POTW:


Saturday - This evening we went to the ccrd night at the ball park in Grand Prarie.  It was the Air Hogs.  Unfortunately the lost 14-0; but there were fireworks after the game!
 
Sunday - Another needed trip to Destination Maternity today.  I can't believe I have already outgrown half my pregnancy clothes. I had coupons, so it was well worth the trip!
 
Monday - We FINALLY got our intertainment center setup and items on the shelves.  It has taken forever to get moved back in.
 
Tuesday - Travelling a lot this week.  Today was a day trip to Kansas City for an OAC meeting on OPRMC.  Thursday is another day trip to Austin for the Bee Cave FSED OAC. Thankfully there were not a lot of people in the security line!

Wednesday - Today I am officially 25 weeks pregnant! Ok this is crazy but my right side is WAY bigger thank my left. I even have way more stretch marks on that side. Coco needs to even out! LOL. Weight update: 231.9 lbs. This week she is 13-1/2" from head to heels and weighs about a pound and a half. She is about the size of an average rutabaga! She is moving around a lot more now.




Thursday - Vanessa brought Jakob and Ashlyn over to our pool today. Jakob was way more scared of the water this year.  Last year he had absolutely no fear. He was better once Juan arrived. Ashlyn didn't know what to think of the water, but it was fun to play with both of them!   

Friday - Today's photo is my friend, Angie, with her new baby, Kayla!  As the adoption is not finalized, I am refraining from posting the adorable photo here; but, she is ADORABLE!!!
 
Thanks for visiting me, even though my weekly posts have been a little late! 

Project Life Tuesday - Week 25





Welcome to Project Life Tuesday 2011! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay awhile. I'm Jessica and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins who has put together a wonderful kit to make this challenge easier.


Don't worry, I'm not leaving traditional scrapbooking behind. This just gives me the opportunity to focus my scrapbooking on trips and things that are important to me right now and not get all bogged down with every birthday, dinner, and holiday that comes along.
Each Tuesday, I will post my pictures/journaling from the previous week. Project Life Tuesday was created by Jessica Turner over at The Mom Creative and she hosts a linky for readers to link up their pictures. So if you want to join in or want to see others POTW, just click the Project Lift button at the top of this post.
And finally, my POTW:


Saturday - Boxes fill our house, but at least they are now all in our living room! Vanessa helped me with the last 4 loads from storage so that we would be truely moved back in.  Now we just have to unpack them all!  
Sunday - Father's Day! We met Marco, Gracie, Alfonso and Maria along with Gracie's entire family at Maximo's for Father's Day brunch.  It was really delicious, but also really expensive at about $50 per plate. It was good to see family.
 
Monday - We finally hung our valence in the dining room today.  I really like how it turned out and was just the right touch to our little nook. 
 
Tuesday - The electrican came to install our new receptacles and switches and we talked them into installing our new bedroom ceiling fan/light as well.  It goes great with our new bedroom look, but the light is not as bright as what we are used to.
 
Wednesday - Today I am officially 24 weeks pregnant and getting HUGE!  This is a major hurdle as if Cocoa is born now, she can survive. Of course, I'm not ready for her to come out yet; but at least we've jumped one more hurdle. I also had my monthly OBGYN visit today. Everything was good, including the heartbeat. I was still concerned that she hasn't been moving much, and Dr. Farrow said I have probably been too busy moving in to notice. She recommended drinking cold water, laying on my left side, and turning off all TV's/radio's/etc. and being still. I think I'll try that tonight. Weight update: 230.1 lbs, 232.1 lbs at the Dr. office. Next month I take the Glucose screening test. This week Coco should have gained about 4 ounces, and be just over 1 pound. She is almost a foot long, about the length of an ear of corn. I also started feeling weird movment in my lower belly. At first I thought it was gas, but now I think it was Coco!




Thursday - I met the girls today for lunch to catch up! We've all been so busy that it's been forever since we have been able to get together.  I miss seeing my girls!
 
Friday - Here are our new decora light switches and receptacles. They modernized our house and look great. The best part, the receptacles are all built in tamperproof, so we won't need those clear safety plugs for Coco!
 
Thanks for visiting me this week!