This week...

Since I am feeling a bit better I got to watch Mr. Evan for the week. We have been smiling lots and taking naps together!

This is who showed up this morning-in the cutest hoodie...

These photos are all ones Amy took, but I have been posting some of my own on Instagram and Facebook.

However, the ones I take are blurry-can't seem to get the boy to stop moving...

 He is now about 9.8 pounds and 23 " is what I think Amy said.

Lots of this face happening lately...

 He will be available for hugs here all summer on Tuesdays...come for a snuggle and visit!

Today=happy

Today was the best day!
It has been awhile since I noticed how all the details came together to make a great day.
We got to church this morning and there was a spot to park right outside the main doors. Meeting and greeting friends, hearing a great message and awesome music. The kids came over today for lunch and a game. Oh and lots of looking, cuddling and kissing an awesome little boy who has stolen our hearts...a lovely nap, $1 coffees from Dutch Brothers and a beautiful drive. We went down to the riverfront and followed roads until we ended up in Ridgefield. Dinner at El Rancho Viejo. Driving home as the sun finished it's day we listened to 70's music and reminisced. A lovely day...

Betcha....

Betcha thought this would be another post with lots of photos of Evan...he is a whole week old!

But I thought I would share a little book I made for my boss at Hallmark who is sorta retiring. File folders, old pay stubs, plus lots of other fun stuff.

the cover says "I'm too pretty to work"-
don't you wish that would fly?!

drink umbrellas plus I included a "Mike's"-

I added in a recipe-

I added a Nicholas Sparks book and some book plates-

some inspirational tags-

and a little note from me....

okay...couldn't resist....Sunday's photo-

Waiting....

March 11March 25You saw that first photo in the last post but I just needed to put it here again for a comparison!

She is pretty close to having little peanut-today she was planning on putting her hospital bag together.

As I was looking at her photos I started thinking about the ones Gary took when I was pregnant. So I pulled out the box they were in and looked in our scrapbook for 1984 and found a few to share.

This is from December 1983-
we tried to "hide" our bellies then...

This is January '84-
Gotta love polyester dresses with big bows...

These were "artistic" ones Gary
took the week before Amy was born...

Every girl had photos taken with silk flowers then! Oh and the dress I am wearing...I wore to prom 6 years before.

February 1984

this angel came to live with us and we were all thrilled
especially her Nana-

Progress

This was the very first Baby Baum Bump photo we took at the beginning of November...
and here she is on Sunday with just 4 weeks left to go...We finished up all the projects and then took everything over to her house and set up the nursery...
this sign is from her Sesame Street themed baby shower...on Sunday I noticed the number was her due date! So I was a little preoccupied at the shower-

Here is the photo she posted on Facebook that gives an overall view of the room...
But since we are so into details I am provided some here...
the hoops you saw in process are all arranged on one wall-
the blanket on the crib was one I made and the one on the chest her life long friend Megan made. And here is the neat thing...she DIDN'T know what the nursery colors were when she made it!

The curtains she had up in her first apartment and there is the bunting that Gabriele and Nick helped make. Gotta love IKEA for great dressers-
This shows the fun rug and elephant bank from Urban Outfitters. The clock toy was mine when I was little. Dr. Suess books were Amy and Nick's.
The mobile the kids made-actually cut all those stars out of felt and strung them together. Shortly after it was hung the heater came on and it started spinning...that will be fun for Evan to watch. Hope he doesn't have my problem with motion sickness though!!
This little corner has my grandma's rocker and the pinboard I made. A great print and a few IKEA pieces.
Oh and I couldn't resist another little hat pattern, this one should fit during the winter.
Now I feel better that there is a room waiting for little peanut, we can relax a little more on Sundays...

Mema, Nonni, Mimi, Grammi

What's in a name?
My friend's grandson came up with a name for her all by himself which I think is adorable.
But I still think we should have an idea of one ahead of time.
These are the things I think about as I wait for "our" little peanut to be born.

Amy is officially in her nesting phase and we have all been helping her along.
Karl is putting furniture together and the rest of us have been hard at work creating stuff the decorate the nursery with.
We have done a whole bunch of embroidery hoop art with fabric, felt, paint and actual embroidery.
Here are the ones you haven't seen yet on blog posts:I painted/ mod podged a chalkboard with frame and also a bulletin board with vintage inspired paper.I have been busy crocheting too... with a blanket, crown and cute hat so far.The next projects are a pillow, painting on a globe, table runner and getting the photo albums prepped in anticipation of all the photos daddy and poppa will be taking!

And another photo of the Amy and her bump with some ice cream:
Chunky monkey because when she was little Gary called her his monkey and well...she is chunky for the first time in her life!

Creativity

First I want to suggest that if you decide in your quest to eat healthier and to make smoothies- smoothies that contain greens as well as fruit and protein powder and some yogurt...DON"T use Romain Lettuce!! Your smoothie will have an overwhelming salad taste. You can alleviate that taste with an amount of frozen fruit and mango juice plus more protein powder BUT you will end up with enough smoothies for the whole week!!
NOW in our quest to get Amy's nursery ready for her and the peanut to spend many hours in -we are spending our Sundays doing projects. She has even gotten her brother and his wife and her dad involved. Here are Nick and Gabriele sewing strips of fabric together. (hope he doesn't mind that I posted that!)
She didn't take a photo of her dad starching and ironing and putting in hoops a bunch of fabric squares. Oh and there isn't one of me stitching either but that is a good thing since I didn't have any make up on and hadn't done much with my hair either. I am not that secure in myself to put those photos out in cyberspace...

This image shows most of the projects I embroidered. The one on the top right is a little tic-tack-toe. She has an eclectic theme that rotates around blue, green and a couple tones of wood.
This image shows her featured fabrics in hoops-this will be a big wall arrangement. These same fabrics were made into a bunting to go on the window. All the kids worked on that one together.
and these are all waiting for felt and paint next Sunday.
And then we can start on the rest of the projects...curtains, globe re-do, table runner, pillows, chalkboard, a banner and installation of all these things too.

It will be a room that she won't mind being in A LOT.