It's....A...........Girl!!

Yup that's right for the first time in (almost) History Brian has guessed wrong about the sex of a baby! We are having a Girl!! Kaylee gets a little sister to be BFF's with! We are very excited! And yes we are pretty dang sure (don't worry Brian double checked with the ultrasound tech! lol) We have pictures (which I won't sport you with by posting...)

So sorry I didn't post this the second we found out like I had planned to, but yesterday was a crazy day! I went from an ultrasound appointment to a doctors appointment; and then straight to a dentist appointment. Only to go from there to a Young Women's planning meeting and then an activity! By the time I got home and made my little dinner at 10 o'clock I was pretty bushed! But that's ok because tonight Brian and I go to a celebratory Birthday/we're having a girl Dinner at an amazing new Japanese restaurant!

Potty Training!

Yes that is right we are potty training! My goal is to have Kaylee totally potty trained by her second Birthday! And we are happy to announce that our hard work is finally paying off! She isn't totally there yet, she can't quite go without help. But she has finally gotten it and is starting to prefer the potty to diapers. (Perhaps that is because I shamelessly bribe her with "try treats and Go treats" PLUS we ran out of wipes today so we were" roughing it" with paper towels! lol) But nevertheless we will celebrate our victories no matter how great or small! Good Job Kaylee!

Graduation!!!

Oh my goodness!! We are finally done...well for now anyways ;) !! Brian has officially finished all of his course work and has earned his Bachelors degree!! Seriously, you have no idea how happy this makes him! So all we are waiting for is the official diploma to come and we are good to go.

K so let me take just a second to brag a little bit about my Hubbie....He is awesome not only did he earn a four year degree in just two years (we took one off so I don't really count that one), but he did it while working full time and keeping up with our lives with moving and buying a house and having kids...you know that sort of thing!

The only sad thing about this whole affair is that we just missed the last graduation ceremony by a few weeks :( and the next one isn't until the first week of February! And even though I insisted that I really could give birth and attend his ceremony with all of the grace and pose us Parry women can muster; he just wouldn't buy it! So alas he won't be walking!! No matter I guess! I made Brian promise to let me take pictures of him in a cap and gown anyways once the diploma gets here! So pictures to come sometime in the relatively distant future!

So this week is celebration week!

**sigh**

It's done!

I love you honey!

P.s. sorry I know the picture is just a little random, but I can't help it I am pregnant and I LOVE this pic of Brian! It is one of my favs. because it makes me smile! And to answer your question...yes, that is what Brian was like as a child!...or so I am told! :)

Kaylee and the Jalapeno Popper

Can I just say that Kaylee is SOOO funny!! Many of you might already know but Kaylee is a VERY adventurous eater. To name a few of her weirder favorites: Salsa, BBQ Sauce, curry, Wassabi (yes I am totally not kidding), this girl will even eat lemons like an orange without batting an eye!

So last night in celebration of Star Craft II's release (its a video game for those of you who don't speak nerd :) I decided to bring home Arby's for dinner. Fast food is normally not allowed as a dinner, but we all make exceptions right! Besides we love their Jalapeño poppers! Eventually we decided to let Kaylee try a Jalapeño Popper. I confess I just wanted to see her reaction especially because I can't think of a single food she just plain won't eat! So she takes a bite....."Oh Wow!!!...then her little eyes widen and a little serious look comes to her face....and she looks up at Brian and says: " Oh Wow!!! That's Amazing!!"

So I guess Jalapeños are added to the list! :)

P.S. I'm Pregnant!

Yup you heard it correctly! I can officially announce that indeed I am preggo! I am totally excited! Yes it was planned, yes you can now tell anyone you want, and no we don't know what we are having yet. My due date is January 29th! which makes me just over 12 weeks along!

Holy Cow...It's an Update!!

OMGosh!!! It's really here....a new Update! I know it's been months! Yeah sorry about that! I know I have totally earned the "Horrible Hypocrite Blogging Award"!! I will totally admit it! But in my defense......um.....well OK so I don't really have one, but here I am now to beg your forgiveness and give you a much needed official update!

Well let's see....we have finally settled into our new townhouse. We absolutely LOVE not renting!! We have done a ton of work to it already (as it was definitely a fixer-upper!) And amazingly there is still a ton of projects yet to do. We had to scrub everywhere (I hate to say it but the people who owned before us were dirty and I won't even tell you the things I had to scrub off the walls!) Paint (everywhere!), put in new carpets, replace the floor in the bathroom upstairs along with the fixtures, fix the hot tub, re-stain the porch, and we are currently working on restoring the backyard deck and planters!

Honestly I think I will always have some kind of constant project going! It will NEVER end!! Here are some of the pictures of the bigger projects :)

This is the color we ended up going with! We liked it so much that it's pretty much what we painted the whole house! It was a LOT of painting!!

Here is the new floor in the bathroom. We changed out the old plastic orange fixture with a cheap $10 one..but I will post additional pictures as I get around to replacing it with a permanent one and new fixtures everywhere else!

Here Is what the living room set up ending up being...for those of you who helped with our never ending furniture placing debate! LOL I know I know I have yet to decorate, but to be honest I figured that I would get all of these dang projects out of the way first and then decorate....so basically it may never happen! Good thing I am not high Maintenance like that ;)

Well that about covers the high lights of moving in and doing the basic move in repairs! Kaylee loves the new space and is just the cute crazy girl that she naturally is...Here are a few of the cute pics of her favorite things to do around the house!

K so the next four are fuzzy but adorable! She LOVES to help out with laundry, much to my frustration!

Kaylee's guide to folding laundry:

Step one: Investigate Mommy's perfectly folded piles

Step two: Shake!

Step Three: "Hmmm...what is it?"

Step Four: "A Hat!!"

And your done!!

Here is a picture of Kaylee "helping" to re-organize my desk! .

Read! She loves it and has memorized most of her books now!

A girls got to have a sword...am I right?!

Crazy hair day!!

Getting ready for high heels already!! We are so in trouble!

Yup... definitely in trouble!

And lastly she loves forts! But only if someone can crawl inside with her! cause playing forts alone is just no fun!

Brian Update:

Brian is doing really well lately. He has one class more to finish until he graduates WGU!!!!!!!!!!

We are so happy for that day to come! Work is going fantastically! He is really enjoying some of the projects that he is working on ( I would tell you all about them, but trust me they are so technical unless you work in his exact field you wouldn't understand half of it!) But he is able to incorporate his love of gaming into some of his projects and that is like Brian Heaven!! Other than work, school, and gaming ...he is still the same old Brian we all know and love! Although a note must be made of Brian's new found love of Hot Tubs! Yes we finally got our's up and running. Mostly due to Brian's genius and hard work! And let me tell you it is so worth it! Brian doesn't think he could ever live without one now! Here are some pics of that renovation project!

Haha! First we had to go under the house and fix some water pipes that ran to the hot tub and stuff! It's really gross down there and there's snakes!

Brian was not a happy camper!!

Then we had to reinstall some broken parts that had deteriorated due to neglect.

And clean everything out until I felt it was sanitary!

But then we were left with this:

A beautiful Hot tub!

And a very happy family!

K so the last project I have to brag about for a second is the play kitchen that I made for Kaylee! So I have always wanted to make one of these little things, but didn't want to invest the time and money into a toy that she wouldn't like or be interested in. So this little cardboard kitchen is a made from boxes condensed inside each other (for stability) and $8 worth of "stuff" . not only is it cheap, but a good "test run" for the real thing one day! check it out!

TaDA!
K so all of the knobs turn...the curtain I attached with elastic so it opens and closes, and there is even a secret compartment under the sink.

And the oven door opens! I am so proud!

Well that is basically it! I think I am all caught up ... pictorially at least! I apologize if this post has been a little disjointed. I just figured you all would want to see more pictures than just read about boring stuff! Well talk to ya later the "monster" just woke up from her nap :)

FINALLY Our New Townhouse!!

Well as many of you know the reason I haven't been posting is because Brian and I have become insanely busy with the process of trying to buy an awesome foreclosed townhouse that we got for a killer deal! But with the crazy bank and having to re-schedual our closing 5 times; it has taken up almost our entire attention lately! But we finally got to close on the property last night!!!!! We are so excited. Not only is it more space than we have now, but it also LOWERS our cost of rent very significantly!! On the flip side...it is VERY dirty and needs a lot of basic TLC! You may not be able to tell in the pictures but the walls are actually a light pink and lavender, so that is the first thing that is going to go!

So consider these the before pics :) sorry some are out of order! And I have no idea what happened to this text but I am too lazy to fix it sorry!

Here is what it looks like from the street! Its actually in a little closed-like community and has a little park that is in the middle of the community. There is actually a creek and then a little lake/reservoir/mosquito breeding ground behind the property but you cant see it at all through all the trees.

K so this one is out of order but this is meant to show how the law out of the bottom floor goes. Brian is walking past the kitchen and our Realtor is actually back in the "sun room" area.

Here is the living room!!! (If you skip down you will see the other half of the room including the front door! oops!)

The Kitchen! I am totally in love with all of the cupboard space!

Here is the other half of the living room. Any suggestions for furniture arranging? :)

This is a TINY guest bath that is basically where one would expect to see the hall closet! And its pretty much the same size as well. The Silver lining?!....Now we can watch TV from the bathroom! Whew Hew!

Here are the back door and windows! Personally I like it. You can also see the back yard, and yes that is a hot tub you see back there. Note how you can open the door and go directly into the tub! How cool is that! (It's actually a nice unit..it just hasn't been kept up for a LONG time so we will have to see in a few months if we can restore or salvage it.)

The Master bedroom

The One and Only main Bath! Its pretty gross right now! The lighting is really orange in this pic because of a HIDEOUS PLASTIC light fixture that hasn't been cleaned in a few years.

This small little room is perfect for Kaylee!

We call this the red room! Any doubts as to why?! P.S this room actually gets a good amount of natural light its just a REALLY dark blood red color!

This will be Brian's office/ Guest bedroom.

K so that's the end of the tour! I hope you all enjoyed and didn't get too confused :) I promise I will keep trying to update the blog...But obviously we have a lot of cleaning and painting in our future!