Our little cutie!!

Jeff and I cannot get enough of that precious little face! We just want to eat her up and ask each other about 50 times a day "how is she so cute and perfect?"!!! I know, I know, enough already but what can I say it is just one of Gods tender mercies that you think your children are cute and perfect! It's amazing how you can love someone so much!!

She is so tiny and our little cuddle bug!

She is always making us laugh with all the cute faces and noises she makes!

**And we are so happy that my sister 'finally' had her baby today(early, EARLY this morning);) We wish we could be there to snuggle him! At only 6 days apart I am sure Avery and her new (yet to be named) cousin will be very close! We are so sad we are not closer but so happy for the new happy healthy baby!! Hope he keeps up with the sleeping for you Kathryn!**

WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Our Beautiful Baby!!!

We finally had our beautiful little baby and we couldn't be happier! I wanted to get some pictures up so we are just being lazy and doing the slide show for now. I am pretty sure that there will be more pictures to come;) We are all doing well and are excited to have her home now and adjust to our new life!
We are SO SO blessed!

Still no baby!

Believe it or not we still don't have a baby! Apparently she is just too cozy in there! So in the meantime I have been getting all kinds of things done!

It has been a good week, especially in the Craft department! Here is a taste. For more photos and details I am now a contributor on my sisters craft blog Nannygoat and so I will post my crafts mostly on there to avoid double coverage!

Car Seat Cover

Mod Podge Christmas Star (to hang on your door)

Cute and simple bibs

Paper Montage

UTES WIN!!!

And we are breaking the BCS... again!

Last day of work!

As of last Wednesday I am officially done with work!! I am excited! I am nervous! I am very grateful! I am anxious to start this new chapter of my life! I am grateful to have a degree and I am so so so grateful to my amazing supportive husband who works so hard so that I can stay home to raise our baby!
I know that we are in for a HUGE adjustment, life change, sleepless nights, guilt, sickness, heartache, worry and on and on and on!!! And joy and growth! Happiness and adventures!
WE CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Things I LOVE right now!

MY NEW CAMERA!!!!


And my wonderful husband for letting me buy it!

A clean and orderly home
The DI where I can get rid of stuff while helping someone else out


My ulta crafty sister who motivates me to be more creative!

My Furnace
Peppermint soap from Bath and Body Works

Birds

My sewing machine
Wonderful friends


Little baby girl stuff!


And my cute hubby for this new adventure we are about to embark on!

jeffrey, jeffrey, jeffrey

A big huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the love of my life!!!
Everyone who knows Jeff can't help but love him!!! (oh, except the lady at Ablaze Deli..."Nobody likes the Jeff Leger":-))
Jeff is funny and smart and happy and successful and handsome and witty and has a great long term memory (lacks a little on the short term;)) and is friendly and loyal and honest and a good provider and going to be a GREAT dad and I could go on and on!!!!

I am so grateful for Jeff in my life and for the person and example that he is!


Jeff is a great boss and a great provider!


Jeff loves to play golf and to watch sports of all kinds!


All the kids LOVE Jeff because he is so fun to play with and so silly!


Jeff loves to entertain us and is so good at it!


Jeff is a wonderful person and is so sweet to me and I can't wait for us to start our little family! He is going to be the best dad ever!

I LOVE YOU BABES!

A Tag, My Bargains, and A SNEAK PEEK!!

A TAG-
My talented sister craft tagged me along with some other ladies in efforts to get some cute and simple Christmas gift ideas or just for craft ideas... we are ALWAYS looking for those! The rule for the tag are as follows:

1. Post a project that you have been working on lately or some thing you want to start soon.
2. Include pictures, a few instructions on how to make your fun project/craft idea, or a link to where you found the idea.
3. Then tag a few people to do the same!!

I am generally TErriBle at getting back to tags (more on that later) and frankly I probably would have slacked on this one too had I not just had a craft day with my dear friends Ashley and Chantel (Chantel is my cousin and my dear friend:))
For some reason this craft has taken us a while but we started on our Vision Boards some time ago and finally got together to make the cute cork boards to hang our 'visions' on.

Here is how we made them:

#1- We purchased unpainted open back frames from Michael's Arts and Crafts (with our 40% off coupon of course) and then painted and sealed them with our desired colors.



#2- We cut out a piece of solid cardboard to fit in the back of the open frame and proceeded to hot glue the corks onto the cardboard in our desired patterns. (My mom donated some wine corks she found at a yard sale and the rest we purchased on eBay.)



Notice in the picture below that the frame is not painted... we used it as a guide while the others were drying but do not glue all your corks down until the frame is painted and ready to go because you will not be able to get the cardboard with the corks attached in or out after they are all glued on.



#3- Hang and enjoy with either photos or as a vision board.




MY BARGAINS-

For those of you who know me at all know that I am one of the cheapest (in a good way) people you will ever meet. I was thankfully (maybe not always so thankfully at the time) brought up bargain shopping. My mom and dad always worked hard to save money so that my mom could stay home to raise us, another blessing I am truly grateful for!!! And I am also grateful to have married a man that knows how to bargain shop!
Well on with it now right?!?!
I have clipped coupons for years but have just recently gotten VERY serious about it and I am so excited and happy every time I go to the store and save SO SO much money and come away with bags full of groceries for practically nothing.



My total bill for the items shown above was.... $7.16

YEP! that is right ONLY $7.16 for:
8 bags of Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers Veggies
5 Zone Perfect Nutrition Bars
6 Arrid XX Deodorant - Ultra Fresh Scent- (the absolute only deodorant Jeff will use)

Keep in mind none of these items are pull dated or even close! They are all fresh off the shelves at my local Alberston's Super Market!

My bargain from several weeks ago:



4 Boxes of Electrosol Dishwashing power tabs...$0.36.
Yes, Yes, I typed that right, I paid 36 cents for the above pictures items. Once again fresh off the shelves of my local Albies.
I LOVE A GOOD BARGAIN!


A SNEAK PEEK-

I have been working on Avery's nursery for months and months and months now!!! The plans changed I think 2 times and even after that it has taken me way to long to get it done and well it is not actually ALL done. So here is just a sneak peek with more pictures to come once I have finished the bumper and other finishing touches!

Ken-tucky

We wanted to leave up the Ryder Cup post for a week or so, hence the lateness of this post on the rest of our vacation to Kentucky:)

Kathryn and I each had a list of all the things we needed to do when I got to Kentucky and so it went that we had a lot to accomplish but of course made sure to sneak in a lot of down time too!

Jeff of course was off to the Ryder Cup for the majority of Friday thru Sunday and stayed only until early Wednesday. The girls missed him while he was gone during the day and kept wondering why he would want to go watch people golf all day (we echoed that question!) They couldn't wait for him to get home at night to play games!!



While he was away Kathryn and I made sure to get in lots of crafting!


cute Tu Tu's and adorable bib clips

Kathryn also helped me to redo my blog template and make baby shower invites. We also made cute and simple 'thank you' cards for the upcoming 'bibi's' (we due only one day apart, by the way! never mind that I am bigger than her and it's my first and her 4th!:))



We watched a good baby video and did lots of talking about babies. I wish she could be a little... I mean A LOT closer for the big day!

Before Jeff left for Utah we made sure to go to the Louisville Slugger Museum, play at the park, take a photo opp at the Louisville Temple, go on a picnic and see the great Ohio River.









Jeff went back to work and the parting really started;)

We made our usual trip up to The Gap Clearance Center in Cincinnati. LOVE THAT PLACE! We also went to an unforgettable hot air balloon glow.




Did I mention that while we were visiting my sister had her 30th birthday??? (sorry Kathryn) Well she did! I could not have a neater, kinder, or more spiritual sister! She has been an amazing example to me my ENTIRE life!!! I hope that one day I can be as good a mom, friend, daughter, sister, and example as she is! I am so so grateful to have her as a sister and am so blessed to have her as a friend!

I LOVE YOU KATHRYN!!!

Can you say... RYDER CUP?

If you know Jeff at all or have ever read this blog you know that he LOVES and I mean LOVES golf!!! He plays golf, he watches golf, he listens to golf, he talks about golf, and he buys lots of golf stuff!! This last weekend Jeff walked the golf course again and again and again as he followed his very favorite professional golfer Phil Mickelson as he played in the Ryder Cup, (USA versus Europe golf tournament). He kept trying to express to myself, my sister and her husband what a big deal this was... "It is just under The Masters you know!!"

Jeff was lucky enough to get 2 tickets at face value from a buddies brother to the Ryder Cup for Friday the 19th. He then proceeded to sell one of those tickets and found a ticket for Saturday and Sunday on ebay. It also turned out that Valhalla Golf Course is only about 9 miles from my sisters house here in Louisville Kentucky. The deal was SEaLed!!!

What it all boils down to...

Airline tickets to Louisville: $$$

Tickets to the Ryder Cup for Friday, Saturday and Sunday: $$$$

Food at the Ryder Cup: $$

Souvenirs at the Ryder Cup: $$$

Transportation to and from the Ryder Cup: $

Buying ANOTHER Sunday ticket for the Ryder Cup: $$

Following Phil for 3 days, talking to his dad, standing next to his wife, getting a high 5 from the team captain Paul Azinger, listening to the Irishmen sing, seeing George H.W. Bush in person, and being there for the first USA victory in 9 years:

PRICELESS

Favorite Jeff quote of the trip (upon picking him up Friday night): "I have a massive headache, my hips are killing me and I need a Coke as soon as humanly possible but besides that it was pretty much the best day of my life!"

Productive Weekend

August has been a whirlwind and I have not had any time of my own! I cannot believe how behind I am on everything in my life! Jeff got invited on a guys golf getaway this past weekend and so I planned MY weekend and could not wait to finally get some things done!


THURSDAY
**I have been working on the babies nursery for weeks and weeks and weeks now (just ask Jeff) and finally made some decisions and so it was time to go fabric shopping. Luckily, my wonderful mother agreed to go with me because after the countless trips I had taken to fabric stores alone over the past weeks I somehow left empty handed every time. My mom is so good and picking fabric that looks good together and I am so happy to finally have my fabric in hand. I am ready to get sewing.


It will make more sense when you see it finished and in the room!

**Later that day (until about 3 in the morning in fact) I brought the sewing machine upstairs!!! We had our ward Super Saturday several weeks ago and as usual I didn't get all my projects completed during the allotted time. So I finished these cute nursing covers. They probably don't make sense unless you have seen them before in person. You can check out this link to a lady that makes and sales them. The photos on the right hand side show how the covers work.



**I also had to get one of these cute reversible capes. I don't know that Avery will want to use it necessarily;) but I am sure we will have a little boy eventually (I sure hope we do for Jeff's sake)!!





**I got the CUTEST little girl's tutu's but am holding off till I can make them with Kathryn when we go to Kentucky (in 2 weeks and 3 days:)).


FRIDAY
**After sleeping in till also 12 (after my above mentioned 3am sewing session) I headed off the the big sale going on at 'Babies R Us' to purchase some of our needed big ticket items.


This is just one of them! I also got a Pack n' Play, monitor and more!


SATURDAY
**I spent the day with a long time friend Savannah, helping her make a darling rag time quilt for the little boy she is expecting several weeks before we are due. She has yet to cut all the edges but she promised I could get more pictures when it is ALL the way done. It is cute and cuddly with warm flannels and super soft minke. This picture doesn't even do it justice.





Needless to say it has been a relaxing and productive weekend!! I am pretty sure September is going to be as busy and fast as August was. AHHHHH!