My Spirit Will Not Be Crushed!!!

This cute snapshot was taken our first morning in our very own apartment. Notice how Sophie has made her way in between our pillows, this happens often.
Its official. We not longer have to live with ANYONE. I can't explain how completely wonderful it feels. We began our moving late Thursday night, and finished bringing everything in Saturday afternoon. The only non-family member that helped us move was Matt, kudos to that little ball of sunshine. All the rest of you - are crappy friends. Moving on!

Our first night in the apartment, I went to turn on the heat ... it didn't work. Talk about a nice little surprise. The maintenance man was also fired the day we moved in, so nothing was going to be fixed until Monday. Also almost every door in the apartment, would get stuck. While it was a crap apartment - it was still OUR crap apartment. So I was still happy.

2:00 am I heard a strange voice on the baby monitor, and realized it was picking up a different monitor since Sophie's had turned off. I went to check her room, and the power had gone out in both her and our room. I woke Denny, and he went to fix the problem. After flipping a few switches, the power went back on in the rooms. We got everything settled and went back to bed, 5 minutes later it all switched back off. Once more Denny flipped the switches and we went back to bed... and once again it all went off.

Being as we NEEDED the power on, since it was the only thing giving us heat; we called the emergency maintenance number. They informed us that we were out of luck, and they couldn't make it out until 7 am. We unplugged everything but the heater in Sophie's room, then came to camp out in the living room - and freeze to death. Soon after Sophie woke up, so I just brought her out on the couch with us.

Denny was loving enough to sleep on the floor. A few hours later, the maintenance man arrived to save the day. Turns out the idiotic apartment people didn't turn on our pilot light... that's cool... it's not like we have a baby or anything.. oh wait, we do!

A wonderful man name Juan has been here all morning, fixing all the crap that was wrong with our apartment. He is great at his job, and he is keeping me sane. :) So that was our delightful adventure of our first few nights in our apartment. :D

The Joys Of Fatherhood

Thanks to the beautiful and talented Tasha, Sophie has a box of cute little bows. She LOVES to put all of them in EVERYONE'S hair. While we were all watching tv, she started sticking the bows in Denny's hair. Against his wishes, I snapped a few quick pictures. :) I think they are super cute.
I also have a video I'm going to upload. It will be at the bottom of the page in the video bar.

Free Gifts!

5 Gifts

The first five people to respond to this post will get something from me! My choice. For you. Handmade.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done within a year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.
5-I have to know you so that I can customize the gift!

The catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they want to receive a homemade gift from me will indeed receive one. Be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!!!

How To Make A Baby

Denny showed me this video, and I had to share. :D

If only it was really this easy...

My Pride and Glory!

I heart crafts, and always have. When I was little, my mom always did fun little crafts with us. My favorite, at the moment, is by far scrapbooking. Tina has oodles of scrapbook supplies, and we all enjoy doing it. On the weekends, I would go over there and work on my books; little by little the pages filled up.
The first one I finished, was Sophie's 12 month baby book. It goes from my pregnancy all the way to 12 months. I kept a journal throughout my pregnancy, and after she was born. Each month I would right her milestones, how our family was adapting, and how much I loved her. For each month I made a two page spread, with a journal, my favorite picture, and then random pictures from throughout that particular month. I love it!
The next book I worked on was Sophie's 2008 book. It was just all the other random pictures I took throughout her first year... and boy were there a lot. I haven't finished it yet, these are just the pages that are done.
I'll put the whole scrapbook up in a slideshow on the side of the page. I'm also working on our wedding album.. finally. So once I get around to finishing that, I'll post it as well.