April Showers

no, i am not referring to the weather.  i am referring to baby showers!  how very cheeky of me. in the same weekend, i had not one, but two showers!  extremely lucky girl. it was baby boy madness gone wild.  my mom's girlfriends threw both em and i a joint shower on saturday afternoon and then em and a few of my girlfriends threw another one on sunday. 

they were both amazing.  my moms friends look and dress better than most 20 and 30 year olds - just with more diamonds.  it's both admirable and depressing at the same time.  they are a fun bunch and were very generous with their gifts and advice!  the second shower was strait out of a blog post from some ultra cool professional blog that looks staged.  my good friend jasmine volunteered to help my craft/design/creative challenged sister...  she is an interior designer and has a pretty sweet blog herself, check her out here.  i mean, really... it was too cute and there were donuts. 

in the weeks leading up, walker kept saying how excited he was for my shower.  which i thought was weird, because it's a baby shower and he wasn't invited.  i realized why when i walked in the door.  the girls enlisted his help with the decor.  a dream come true for him.  he made the signs.  i love that he loves to help and the fact that he gets genuinely excited for this kind of stuff.  it's weird and cute at the same time. mostly cute.

knocked up sisters. in the same dress.  ahhhhhhh yeah. seriously, em's bump looks so smooth and round in every photo.  mine is so high and always has my shirt stuck in it.  #mustworkonpreggoselfie

jasmine (decorator) in the leather. duh.

jes, kc, steph, dee

this girl made the journey.  love her.  em and kiki talking shop in the background.

 

didn't get a good group shot, but you get the picture.  girls kickin it, talking maxi pads and babies.  good times.

new bed

when walker found out i was pregnant he kept telling me that he couldn't wait until i do yoga in the living room with my belly.  which is funny, because much to my own disappointment, i never do yoga let alone in the living room. that's a really weird thing for him to say now that i think about it...right?

flash forward to now.  35 + weeks knocked up.  still no yoga, but in order to get the blood flowing and to feel more active, i stretch a lot.  I don't think it's what walker was imagining. it's not cute.  it's grunting and sweating and a lot of frustration because rolling over is hard.  it's really hard.  i can't imagine this boy getting bigger, but science tells me he will.  which is why i am SUPER excited that our mattress is no longer on the floor.  getting out of bed to pee 8 times at night es no bueno.  he made this bad boy all from scratch.  i love it.  i love how log cabiny it looks next to everything else modern.  he will eventually build some side tables out of the same material.  and we are looking at some hanging light bulbs. and then we move onto the master bathroom. and then some custom book shelves.  and then....

hello!

well this is awkward.  it's been a while.

i'm ashamed of my lack of blogging and blog stalking lately.  let's see, not much has happened.  em is still married, which is great. we went to mexico - it rained.  we had all of walkers fam over for holidays (really glad everyone could get together - a lot going on with the templetons - not something i want to get into on here). oh - we got pregnant.  like a while ago.  i am almost 31 weeks!

we are beyond grateful at how lucky we are to have gotten knocked up in like a second and to have had a healthy and relatively sickness free pregnancy so far (with the exception of the first three months - what the f was that?) i need to get better at taking pictures.  i am terrible at remembering to take selfie shots of my growing belly.  my sister is queen of the selfie.  speaking of my sister - she is pregnant too!  we conceived on the same night.  no joke.  it's not weird at all, esp for my brother, or my dad or your dad if he reads this.  not gonna lie, at first my middle child marsha marsha marsha came out and i was a tad annoyed.  like, "way to steal my thunder - again - like you have my entire life".... but i got over it and it has been so FUN going through this together.  like the best.  we text and call about being preggo everyday.  everyday. and we are both having BOYS! best friends forever.

i have really tried to keep calm and keep the anxiety low for the sake of the baby.  so we decided to buy another house to fix and sell.  oh and i cut all my hair off to a face framing bob.  both decisions, super good for my zen.

the other house isn't just a buff the hardwoods, paint the walls, let walker work his magic house.  it's a 400 sq ft house we are turning into a 2600 sq ft house.  holy sheet, makes me sweat just typing it (which incidentally has been my worst pregnancy side effect).  it's stressful.  walker is working double time to pull this off.  i barely see him. and, my favorite question is, "so, your house is done, right?"  No.  it's not.  barely touched it since we closed on the second house.  and that nesting business you read about is for realz people.  one night walker sat down like he was going to watch tv...i was like ohhh, cute.  now go start on the nursery or i will leave you.

normal people just have to furnish a nursery.  we have to build one.  put in a window, frame the window, get blinds for the window,  add a closet, put shelves in closet, put doors on closet, put a door on the room ...  and THEN furnish the thing with a sh*t ton of baby stuff that the internet says i need. oh and because walker thinks he is frank lloyd wright everything is custom (duh - money grows on trees, right?)

here are some really old pictures of the past few months.

mexico 2012.  bust. j and j are some good lookin people.  love them

 sun came out for two minutes.

worst rainstorm ever.

 xmas 2012

 uncle tom helping lincoln

 lincoln and brody

 xmas morning

 gifts galore

 seriously, she got tired of opening them

 emerson lou

xmas dinner

walker built my dream bed. 

  12 weeks. and aggressive face - like beyonce when she dances. 

i have take a few photos with the iphone of the bump.  more to come. i go back and forth on this whole blog thing, but i think i am going to kick start it again.  i want to document this time in our lives and show more house progress! 

 

my sista from the same mista GOT MARRIED!

back in july.

it was great.  the best weekend.

so fun to see family.  so fun to meet david's family.  the weather couldn't have been better.

emily looked amazing.  her dress, her vail, her make-up was perfection. it was almost a tad uncomfortable how amazing she looked.  i had to tell walker "eyes up buddy, c'mon don't be weird, that's my sister"

the deck didn't fall!

mr and mrs LOFTON!

 

 

WHOA! Been a while

hi folks.  been a while.  nothing really extraordinary has happened.  we slowed down the housing projects after em's wedding.  we got to enjoy the last month of summer with friends and fam(documented), swam in the lake, went to concerts, paddle boarded,  road bikes... but after a month off i started to feel the itch.  you know the one you get when you have poison oak ? (which walker got for the second time).... and more importantly get when you walk by an unfinished project every.single.day.  the itch gets bad so you subtly mention it every once in a while, like "hey babe,  your beard looks awesome, sure would be nice to put that counter in" or "morning sweetie, you have huge muscles, remember when you said you would finish the fire place" or "dood,  your haircut is the worst,  i really want to park my effing car in the garage.  clean your sh*t out".  ya know.  that itch.

it's hard to get mad, because it's not like he is sitting in the house watching 8 tv shows a day or playing xbox. he is always doing something, but like the winter he is focusing on the outside, when there is nothing to focus, while there are 5 unfinished projects on the inside.  he spends 8 hours a day out there doing god knows what.  he found a huge ants nest and pored gasoline and poison over it, right next to the house.  i swear the house smelled for a month.  poison and gasoline, it was fun not being able to open the windows when it was 95 degrees.

Here is a recap of the last of summer and some house updates.

wine tasting. lots of laughs

prettiest pregnant girl eva

chalkboard dead bodies

ha!

 

avett bros

too cool to cheer

purple in a sea of yellow.  #godawgs #ilovejakey

 

so f*cking gross.  poison oak.  he pored hydrogen peroxide on it.  got worse.  #idiot

dan's Popsicle swim trunks.  #perfectform

#welldone

closet spice.  walker said the print makes him smile.  #idon'tknowwhattosaywhenhesaysthatkindofstuff

 sneak peek at fireplace...

guest bathroom sink

i am super behind on this blog.  it's cold and dark outside.  almost thanksgiving.  gonna do a better job.