GROWING PAYNES

My oh my!  Have I been bad!!!!!  I know I am long over due for a post.  Things have been busy around here and I just haven’t had time to sit and focus on writing.  Today I am going to play catch up and fill you in on all that has been going on in the Payne household…this might take several posts

The last time I posted was just after Thanksgiving so I guess I will start by filling you in on how the rest of our holidays were spent…

Since I was in my third trimester Josh and I were not able to travel for Christmas and New Years.  We were blessed though to spend those holidays with close friends.  For Christmas Eve all we had to do was put on our pjs and stroll next door and hang out with our neighbors, Chris and Courtney and their children.  We helped arrange a scavenger hunt for the kids which led them to a Christmas present that they got to open that night.  Conveniently, it was Super Mario Brothers for WII…which the adults played all night once we sent the kids up to bed so they could wake up early for Santa   If that wasn’t bad enough we came over the next day and the adults played the game all day and night, occasionally giving the kids a turn.  By the end of the night Josh and Chris played most of the time while Courtney and I sat next to them and yelled commands about when jump or what bricks to break with their heads.  And everytime they beat a level Courtney and I knew it was due to our great coaching

Our New Years Eve was spent with some of our closest friends from church.  Our friends Kyle and Isaac hosted everyone at their house. Of course, it was a great time of fellowship as always, but the spread of appetizers was just too much for me to handle this time   They had all the food sitting out on a large pub table…I just pulled a chair right up to it and grazed on the appetizers all night   Well, I grazed most of the night and then the other part of my night I layed sprawled out on the couch because my belly was so full :-)  I was still able to participate in the coversation and games, but since then I have learned to pace myself.         

Other than celebrating the holidays Josh and I spent rest of December preparing the house for Easton’s arrival.  Yes, even Josh was nesting…maybe even more so than me.  He was on a mission to purge the house of all things not relevent to our life anymore…in other words things that have been sitting in boxes since we moved in and haven’t used in the past two years.  This included many pieces of home decor, linens, drapes, curtain rods, lamps and pillows that I have been saving for that “one time I might use them.”  There was a little heart ache for me to see them go but Josh talked me through it and just told me how happy the shoppers at Goodwill would be to have such beautiful things in their homes :-)  But don’t think that he was void of uneccessary collections of junk…like 45 different types of cables/cords for his various, never ending supply of electronic gadgets.  Other pieces in his junk collections included numerous headphone sets, old cell phones, speakers, random desk top knick knacks…and this is the best one…a collection of over 100 Beanie Babies!!!!  We have yet to part with them, however. 

After we completed our “get rid of” pile Josh made several runs to Goodwill,  Salvation Army, and the Airman’s Attic to drop off our donations.  Now it was time for Josh’s fun to start…he got to reorganize his garge in order to accomodate all the “junk” we decided to keep.  This called for a trip to IKEA!!!!  Josh got to pick out and design a new workbench/ storage system for the gargage and he was so into it.  He was a little put off though when I started to tell him how to hang the tools on his peg board so that it would look more organized…he said I was “overflowing” and that he could handle it   The funny thing is…I knew the whole time I was “overflowing” but I just could not help myself and I just continued to sit on my chair in the garge and “suggest” where a better place to store XYZ would be.  We got through it though and now we have a new code word for ”you are too involved in this and you are getting on my nerves.”  We simply say “you are overflowing.”

Other preparations for Easton included cleaning out our closet which was hard for me, because I have no idea what clothes are still going to work with my new “post pregnancy” body   Even though I didn’t purge many clothes we were able to better utilize the space by hanging hooks and new shelves in order to better organize hats, belts, tee shirts, purses, etc.  We also added one of those over the toliet shelf units, which I am usually very opposed to, and now our master bathroom is much more organized. 

And last but not least I finished quite a few sewing projects for Easton’s nursery but I will put those pics and details in the next post!  Im the mean time enjoy these pics of our other completed “nesting projects” :-)

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