So life has been a little chaotic. And probally will be for the next month.
We sold our house - and are actually moving- we close on the 15th.
We have found a house- it's kind of been a long road on trying to get the contract worked out but we are almost there i think. We'll be moving into that house on the 29th. so yes for two weeks we will be without a home. que the crazy pregnant woman now.
I'm doing better today about it - earlier this week when time was ticking and we had no clue what was going on or happen i had a few emotional distress breakdowns.
hopefully we can during the two weeks the people want to live in the house after closing get in and paint- it would be oh so nice and make life easier. expecially for a nesting pregnant lady who can't do anything - and already had a nursery done- i've nested in one house and now will get to do it all over again.
i don't know if i will post again until after i've gotten settled - the next two weeks i'll be packing and loading up a pod and moving things to a storage unit as well.
hopefully this will not be as hard and stressful as it feels in my mind.
i am very greatful that it looks like we are getting the house we want and looking forward to see what God is going to be doing.
please pray for us during this crazy time.
i'll probally post pictures once everything is perfect =)
i unpacked us and moved us all in one day to the house we are moving out of -
this time i'm pregnant and moving and realizing that i may not be able to do that again- so i'm trying not to have any expectations and just take it one step at a time and see how it all pans out - pray for that -
thanks for reading.

So i have been busy to say the least and enjoying being able to move about - and enjoying the wonderful weather and breezes that come through - this short time before it gets hot in mississippi is my fav. time of the year next to fall.
I've been nesting , as usual. But the bebe room is finished! (well minus the pillows for the bed) I'm actually washing some of Riley's baby clothes to put in the room. Today she saw what david and i worked on last night - basically hanging everything and putting up new pictures in the house - and she noticed zoe's bookshelf was empty- her response- She needs some books i'll give her some of mine- just about melted my heart. So i put some books on that girls shelf so riley would be happy =)

The week Carrie was here was absolutely wonderful. i reallly enjoyed having her here. It was so nice to have a sister here, and to talk to , and to watch our kids play together - even if sometimes the girls would not share. It was nice. I'm hoping maybe she will be able to come back down in august when i am due. we'll see.
I also got to make strawberry preserves with a woman from my church this past weekend- and i have to say that was my fav. day - we stayed home ALL day. we made preserves in the morning and did gardening in the afternoon and finished off the day with putting the crib together. And waht was amazing was the crib was so easy to put together and david and i didn't try to kill eachother once - it was the best! usually we have a spat when we put things together but not this time =) .

Monday i spent the entire day painting while david was out of town - which was really nice - the painting part that is. And today i waged war on the things in my yard - moles and ants.
Carrie for my birthday gave me some of mary's flowers- probally the best gift ever- so i'm very protective of them- i've created this little garden get away in the back yard and play area for us to relax. well there are moles in the area and i want them gone - so i found out this really nifty trick - put a piece of bounce dryer sheets in the mole holes - regular bounce is perfumed with oleander which is a poison - and the animals smell it and move away - then for the ants i put grits - the regular kind uncooked , not the instant , around their ant hills - well when they eat them they pop, and they take the food back to the queen and she pops.
Now for my flowers i added two tablespoons of maple syrup around the base of the flowers - this helps bring in the moisture better and draw in the good bugs to help the soil.
i know i can't believe any of this either - but you can find all this and more in this nifty book called gardening magic by joey greene- simply the best.

Anyways so i took pictures today of all that we have been up too and i'm going to attempt to post them here - we'll see how it goes.





the painting above the crib is one of the ones i did on monday , in the middle i'm going to put a verse and then around it in the white border i'll add the birthdate , weight , and time born , plus full name.

this is so you can see the cutsy chester drawer david and i painted and re did - the day pic didn't turn out great.


there are some cute pillows we are having done by my friends mom , that have the same colours as the painting a did , one with the strips , and then the other is green with the polk a dots- real cutsy.
































the blue room is our room we added in my old bed , and the picture above the dresser is one i painted as well. we moved my fav. chair in our room - which was great i was scared i wasn't gonna have a place for it .
in the orange room our living room we added a picture above the rocker- which is a collage of our trip to new york last year that i put together monday as well.






the crazy line painting is mine as well. it's a personal take on the picture of community.




this is my outside area that i made last week . the concrete area is riley's play and picnic area -


this is the garage behind david's band room- he cleaned it out and organized it for me - what a sweety.

that is riley's playground. it's really fun to lay on the ground on a quilt underneath that tree.

these are growing along the fence line in the other part of the yard- i absolutely love them- they are a pure gift from God cause we never planted them and this is the first year they appeared. fun fun.

david cleared out all my boxes and put in pine straw , i planted some seedlings - we'll see if they grow.
my fav. tree in the whole yard- it's white and just beautiful .

riley made this pot for my last year for mothers day. it's sitting at the back door and i just added that flower to it .

Hope you enjoyed the pictures- there sure where a lot. =) i took them with my semi new canon that i have no idea how to work - i've got the manual and i think i'm going to actually read thru it tonight- cuase i know it can do wonders.

Anyways
Thanks for reading.

Craziness...... this past weekend on a whim we decided to tackle the baby room and our room.
a friend of ours was kind enough to help us out . very kind.
so we have the new bed set up and it's a dream and we have more space than before! which is great. i just can't get up in the bed cause it's so high - which is gonna be a problem when i get fatter- looks like shortie is gonna need a step stool.
The babies room is coming together. We painted the chester drawers and it looks like new. i love it!
One problem- the baby bed is missing parts- it was bought at a church consignment sale and well getting the problem fixed was not likely. I was devastated. David had worked so hard and we were so close and i was going to put the bedding on and put riley's baby zoe in the bed .... yeah i had major plans....major nesting plans.
But my mom came to the rescue and is buying us a crib on friday- so the plans are a little delayed but it is still coming together. Which is really excited.
During the packing and moving of things to and from the storage unit we found this box.
After i had riley i worked for the health department with wic as a breast feeding consultant peer counselor- yeah lots of words . Well we got tons of samples while i worked there and this box has them all. It was packed full with detergent samples and baby diapers and breast pads- it was a pregnant womans buried treasure. I was pumped.
I'm really excited about everything coming together and being able to put everything in it's place.
yes very ocd. but yet so satisfying .

Carrie, my sister in law and her children are in town for the week and i'll be spending the majority of time this week with them. I'm hoping to actually try to possibly post some pictures of the house next week once i get it all finished.

There probably won't be too many posts this week due to family and all that is going on.
I'm gonna be trying to paint some pictures this week or weekend as well.
David will be leaving for gulfport on monday so maybe around then it will be a good time for a distraction.

Thanks for reading.

- i'm starting to give into this whole posting pictures thing......

I just got to use my new food processor and man am i in love. I got it to use for my projects and also because a lot of vegan recipes call for blending . And this one works like a dream .


I tend to get these ideas or passions to do things and what happens is i wanna do em all at once, and well david hates it cause sometimes i'll have the best of intentions to make something or eat something and the ingredients just sit there and it never happens- he hates it .
So now i tend to just do one at a time i have a new project to make each week - i've learned.
This week was bubble tea - oh how i love bubble tea.
Now david really thought this was a bad idea and was not convinced that i would do it.
Oh will he be so happy when he gets home.
Those little things at the bottom of the tea are tapioca pearls- i also made the sugar syrup that goes in the tea as well.
Mine was a mango tea. and it is delicious.
Tomorrow i may do it again since i have the supplies already made.

Tonight we're also going to make some vegan kung pao chicken to take with me tomorrow for a fellowship dinner.

It feels really good to do things - like make bubble tea and cook..
I like this whole being at home thing with Riley it's very much a gift.

Nesting....again.


So i've been nesting like crazy. Just a mad woman full of nesting. I'm 5 months and on a mission. To have the best home ever- yes a stretch but i'm determined to have the house the way i'd like it . 100% . The big problem is not only am i nesting but i'm ocd, and a pack rat. i know it makes no sense. So what was suppose to start out as an innocent clear out my perfumes and fix the shelfing in my closet turned out to be - clear out closet , re organize - clean up riley's closet and move baby things to babies closet. Wash baby linens. And clean out my desk and box up what i don't need and somehow find a place for what i need.
Which was : 1- way too much for me too do , 2- way too much- which i was majorly convicted aout through out the night and know i can't do that again. But it got done- Riley helped. My closet is a dream once again and i like it better than when we moved in. Riley's closet is nice and clean and polished with everything in order. Zoe's closet has riley's box full of baby clothes and toys , clean linens , one of those baby bouncer vibrating chairs (i wish i had one for myself) and clothes that are going to be way too big for her but will fit one day so i'm putting em in there. So everyone is in order and my desk is ready to be moved out. I love when things look polished and put together - i get a sense of accomplishment when everything has a place and order- man am i ocd.

The desk was the worst of all because of all the papers and junk- things i didn't need but i had and just stuff. But it was fun to go thru some memories that were hidden in there. My favorite thing i came acorss was from my First baby shower for Riley- my cousin put it together. They had this game or activity wehre they handing out tags and on one side you write when you think i'll deliver and how much the bebe will weigh on the other side you offer some advice or encouragement. She (my cousin) then took all of these pieces and made a book out of it. Yesterday i found this treasure , and snuggled in the encouragement and notes was my mother in laws word of encouragement....... i was stunned and was of course brought to tears what she wrote was perfect and timeless and i have a hand written piece of advice from her for me with my children ( and she signed it Mama Sprayberry- which she was ) ....i am so uber thankful for that gift- it's now sitting in Riley's room on her shelf.

I think that is the hardest or one of the hardest parts about this pregnancy i don't have her- I don't have her timeless advice and encouragement and endless outflowing of unconditional love. How i miss her and crave her .

No one can ever , ever , ever replace her . NEVER. but i have found myself praying for a spiritual moma to come into my life. someone. If it's God's will. I may have used up that though- maybe you only get one per life and my time with mine was so super short. But so precious and sweet.
My mother is not the most motherly type and definatly not the most spiritual or even a picture of unconditional love. So i really crave that influence not only in my life but in riley's , oh i want it for her. Am i to be the only one ....if so for her , that scares me. Completely.
I'm greatful i'll have my husband this time around to take leave time to be with me after Zoe comes but i want that mama figure here too. I think i took her for granted too many times in the beginning.

.....that's really all i can write right now about her or that without completely loosing it as i'm seeing i'm going down that road so i'm going to change the subject quickly........

I'm very excited about getting the bebe room together and Riley is excited as well.
This weekend we'll be finding frames for pictures to hang and finding fabric for pillows to pull the room together.
I hopefully will have her dresser this weekend- which i'm excited about.

Today my mini projects maybe organizing and cleaning out a burrow and sowing some patches on Rileys quilt back together- there are a few splits and i've been meaning to fix if for forever.


Thanks for Reading.