The Countdown is On....

Well the countdown is on! 11 weeks 1 day until my due date! Every time I see the count down on my pregnancy app I have a mini heart attack! We are not ready for baby yet! The nursery is not finished, we have no diapers for baby yet, and no car seat to even take her home in! Yup I'm gonna have a diaper-less baby that they won't even let me bring home from the hospital if I don't start baby shopping soon!

Well, at least she will have shoes! ha ha. We are supposed to start prenatal classes at the end of this month so we are looking forward to that and hoping we feel a little more prepared after some classes. ( I am VERY thankful that I will have my mom close by to help me out in those first few days though!)


We have been keeping busy....as usual....oh the joys of home ownership. We never imagined that our house would be such a fixer-upper and although stressful at times, I love being able to help Jonny out with the house and he loves to be able to learn new things! But sometimes, I feel like we just have bad luck with house things....Our last project was planting grass seed...We planned to put sod in our backyard last weekend and then found out how much it would cost to sod our entire backyard (OUCH)... so we decided grass seed was a better way to go! We went into Canadian Tire only to find a million different types of grass seed and absolutely no idea which one to buy. So I convinced Jonny to ask the employee for help.

Jonny: What's the difference between these 2 types of seed?
Employee: Ummmmm, they are the same.
(yet such a big price difference??)
Jonny: Is there a certain seed that will grow better on soil that is somewhat clay-like?
Employee: Ummmmm, all the seeds will grow grass.

Ha ha Canadian Tire Employee for the win! :S Then a very nice customer overheard our conversation and helped us pick our grass seed. I think Mr. Random Customer needs to put in an application to Canadian Tire;). Here is our before picture (even before we took a week to level and cultivate the soil).

My maternity leave starts July 1st so I really hope by then I am able to post a picture of a grassy backyard... because I really would like to be able to lay in my backyard....every day...all day ;). So here's to keeping our fingers crossed that we have good luck with grass growing, considering I am treating those grass seeds like they are my baby and keeping them watered 3 times a day without fail! ;) 

I absolutely love this beautiful weather we have been having lately! Last week Jonny and I decided to visit some garage sales in search of some treasure. (I LOVE garage sales)! We must have been to at least 15 garage sales...all within 5 minutes of our house! I love garage sale season! I have been spending lots of time in my garden this summer and am being rewarded with lots of flowers blooming! This makes me very happy considering last summer we had only ONE flower bloom....(and I pulled enough weeds to feed a whole third world nation-if they were edible that is)!

The Countdown is also on for my last month of work! (Only 8 shifts to go...woohoo!!) Bending over is getting just THAT much harder and I spent an 8 hour shift with a patient who repeatedly took her shoes off .....and then wanted them back on only minutes later. As I bent over for the gazillionth time to put her shoes on AGAIN my patience began to wear very thin ;)! I didn't even want to put my own shoes on for days after that because it felt like such a chore after all my shoe tying that shift. ha ha!

Jonny & I are planning a 3 day getaway for sometime this summer before baby comes. A babymoon! Still deciding where to go but I'm looking forward to it all the same!! :) No Cuba trip for me this yr though            :(....maybe next yr? :)