4 Years ago...

4 years ago on March 20th, Lily arrived.

I still can't believe that I grew her in my belly. She amazes me every day. She makes me smile every day. Thanks to her I think life is REALLY good!

xoxo

The Start of Birth Week for Lily!

We threw a little party for Lily this weekend to celebrate her 4th birthday! We still have 3 more celebrations lined up later this week. But this party was for the Utah family! Here are some pictures:

I think my little bug had a good time with her Utah fam! Now on to the next celebrations!

Wet Bag Craftiness...

I decided it was time to get my craftiness on!

Yesterday I headed into my sewing room and made this!

It's a little wet bag for my cloth diapers!

It fits 2 cloth diapers at a time and I think I will make a bigger one for the baby's room. 

I found the tutorial over at "A Lemon Squeezy home". She wrote out very easy instructions. Now that I know how PUL fabric works with my sewing machine I will be using it more. It was Easy! 

Yay for craftiness!

Going to My Happy Place...

The last few weeks have been really hard. 3 deaths/funerals, bad news about our houses foundation, Lily has 4 cavities and other minor problems. I kinda lost it last night. Thank goodness I have such a sweet husband to hold me at 2am while I cry about everything. 

Today I feel a little better but I really need to be in a happy place. Within the last 3 months I think I was at most happy while in Mexico. I thought I would share with you a few pictures of our trip. 

I wish I could get on a plane and go back today. For now, these memories will have to suffice. 

Nursery Inspiration...

Work has finally begun on our house! Today we have a couple of electricians adding outlets and light switches. Even a fan in the bathroom, Yay! And then tomorrow we have a painter coming to paint Lily's new room and the ceiling in the living room. 

But for now I am sitting here surrounded by boxes, dust, tools and big sweaty men. 

I think I need to show you some pretty nursery inspiration from my Pinterest boards. Maybe it will get me through the messy days to come. 

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We still have a long way to go. But that won't stop me from daydreaming about a nice clean nursery!

Yellow Obsession...

    I was looking through my House Decor board over at Pinterest and I realized that I might be a little obsessed with yellow right now. I had no idea I was pinning so many rooms with yellow in them!

Here are some examples:

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Sitting here writing this I am thinking the easiest way to incorporate some yellow into my house might be some new pillows. 

Do you have a lot of yellow in your house?

Nesting fever...

So here I am 25 weeks pregnant and I have total nesting fever. The only problem is we have some major house projects to do before I can get started on the nursery. I wish I was able to turn off this weird nesting thing. But I can't. All I can think about is putting clothes away in her closet, prepping her cloth diapers and decorating her new room. 

So, the best I can do right is imagine how nice it will be. I attempted to make a mood board for the nursery. 

  It gives the general idea of colors, art and fabrics. I did get the chair recovered already!

Now if I could just put it in her room!!!!! 

(kinda freaking out)

I think I need to go sew something to keep my mind busy!

XOXO

Ultrasounds...

Here are some ultrasounds I had done a few weeks ago! We didn't find out the sex with the first pregnancy. And went back and forth MANY times about with baby #2. 

But in the end...we found out!

Yay! Another girl for the Monsen clan! Lily of course knew she was having a baby sister before we did. Now we just need to figure out a name. 

Any suggestions?

It's been a while!

So....I fell of the face of the planet. Or you could say, I got pregnant! I am now 24 weeks along and feeling WAY better than I did in the past couple of months. This pregnancy has kicked my butt. 

More on that some other time...

I am totally on board with cloth diapering this new baby! I have been given some used diapers and am now currently adding to my stash. A few of the websites I really like are:

www.cottonbabies.com

www.kellyscloset.com

I don't know anyone that is currently cloth diapering here in Utah. I wish I did! 

I would love to hear from you if you have anything to say on the subject! Being a newbie I am researching cloth diapers like crazy!