New House Adjustments

Things have just been a complete whirlwind since last Thursday. I officially bought my first house. I literally had been trying to buy this house for a year. It was such a long frustrating process. But in the end it was so worth it. 

There was no keys to the house, but apparently the back doorknob was broken so i literally had to break into my house to unlock the doors so i could switch out the knobs and get all new locks on the house. Thursday night Jason's covered the flooring and his mom started painting the ceilings. Friday is when the work began. I took the day off and so did his mom and we both literally painted all day long. We pretty much got the whole inside of the house painted. Saturday morning we went and did the final challenge workout (we got 3rd place) and then we went and started doing some final touches on the paint. 

After the painting was finished we pulled up all the plastic off the floors (there are really nice wood floors throughout the whole house, not an inch of carpet anywhere) and my mom came over and we started cleaning. It wasn't that the house was dirty from the prior occupants, but it was vacant the last 2 years so it was just dirty and needed a good scrubbing from top to bottom.

Sunday I finished up cleaning the kitchen and we moved everything in. Got the beds set up so we could stay there that night. Monday and Tuesday we got pretty much everything put away. Its still a mess cause there is random stuff things that don't have a home yet. But they will find their spots eventually after i go to Home depot this weekend and buy shelving for the closets.

Kendall is having a little bit of a hard time adjusting. Evenings have been a little hard, but her routine has been disrupted cause we have just been trying to get everything unpacked and put together. Our TV isn't hooked up yet so she has been watching movies and playing in her room and doesn't want to stop when it is bed time nor does she want to fall asleep. Its been a battle but over time she will adjust and we will start to get back into a routine. 

Tonight we are having friends over to dye Easter eggs so i hope by keeping her TV off and her mind occupied with the activity it will help her.

As soon as everything is put together i will be posting pictures.

Dentist & Some much anticipated good news!

This girl loved the dentist! I was putting off taking her again because her first experience just wasn't that good. It was a year ago and it wasn't really a kid friendly environment but it was the only place in town that would do toddlers and take our insurance.

There is a couple children's only dentists in Missoula which is an hour away. So I decided to make the appointment because i had heard great things about it. It definitely did not disappoint. They had fun decorations and games that kids could play while they waited, and we literally were only in the waiting room 5 minutes before it was her turn.

The chairs were kid sized so she crawled right up in it and it didn't intimidate her by being so big. They have TVs on the ceiling so she got to pick out a movie and wear headphones. She really didn't pay that much attention to the movie. 

The dental assistant she had was awesome, she explained everything to Kendall and showed her exactly what she was going to do and that helped so much. She was a little nervous but stuck it out and eventually relaxed.

The Dentist came in and counted her teeth with a mirror which she was pretty excited about. And when he was all done she sang him a song. This child is definitely not shy anymore.

They have rewards system, and she got 3 punches on a special card because she was so good.

When its all filled up she gets to spin a wheel and pick a prize.

The part I liked the best was how comfortable they made her feel. Nothing was forced on her and if she needed a break they let her take one. The whole appointment maybe took 20 minutes from start to finish. I was very impressed with the staff and the facility.We definitely will be going back for future visits. It was well worth the hour drive. Plus a couple days later she got a thank you letter in the mail from them with extra stickers in it, which totally made her day.

Are you ready for the news?????? This girl officially bought a house and i couldn't be happier! I went in and signed paperwork! It is mine to do whatever i want with, woohoo!

Art project

So i got this great idea that i wanted to do for Kendall's room. In my head it seemed so easy and was going to look awesome. I bought all the supplies, for $20, so not to expensive of a project.

I quickly learned that chevron stripes suck. After my first row i had to pour myself a glass of wine and decided that instead of doing 5 i was only going to do 3.

After i got the whole thing taped i realized i had a problem with my pencil stripes. you cant really erase it off the canvas without it leaving marks. I figured this was just my test one and left it, since i had 5 canvas's and i only needed 3 i would just paint this one and see how it turned out.

It was going to be pink and bright blue. All the colors of  paint i bought match her bedding that she got for her birthday. Well turns out i had horrible brush marks and the paint bled through under the tape.

After this i officially decided that i am changing my idea and going a different route then chevron stripes. The new idea will include flowers and pray paint on the canvas, hopefully those turn out how i picture them.

Kendall  had been begging to paint since she say me doing it so i gave her my "practice" canvas the bright colors of paint and let her go to town.

She loved it! She painted this all by herself. She went in the unpainted lines all by herself and then after a while the paint started all getting mixed together and turned a funky color and she didn't care about the lines anymore. It is quite the little masterpiece and i have no idea what to do with it. Any ideas?

I can't wait to start the new version of this that i came up with. But am holding off just a little longer.

Weekend part 2

The football team Jason used to play for and a team out of a different town decided to combine and make 1 team this year. Saturday night was their opening game and it was held at the UM Griz stadium, so we decided to go up with some friends and watch.

I don't really recall watching that much of the game plus we only stayed until halftime cause it was pretty chilly. Plus these 2 cuties were pretty entertaining while we were there. If they weren't running up and down the stair and climbing all over the bleachers i may have watched more of the game.

I am not really sure what exactly they were doing but they kept yelling "Ready, Set, Go ROARRRR"

They jumped and played forever until they got hungry and pretty cold.

I am definitely glad we stopped for some snacks and that i thought to bring the kindle in with me. It proved to be very helpful. They probably don't remember it, but their dads used to play together and the girls used to run around and play while we were at the games.

Doc McStuffins is a favorite of both of them and probably every other little girl who is 3.

It wasn't that super cold out but they were bundled up and holding hands under the blanket whenever they stopped snacking.

We love hanging out with PJ, her dad plays on our tournament teams for softball. So we will be getting to spend lots of time with them this summer and the girls entertain each other quite well.

Weekend part 1

 Last week Jason mentioned maybe taking K swimming while i went to my exorcise class this Saturday. I of course thought it as a awesome idea. She loves swimming but we don't get to go to pools often.

Our friend works at a hotel here in town that has a pool. So Jason called her up to make sure it was ok that they stopped in to swim.

I didn't tell her that she was going swimming until the night before just in case it didn't happen. But when she found her bathing suit hiding in my purse she got so excited that she put it on over her pajamas.

I didn't really plan ahead to well or i would have grabbed her life jacket or at least some water toys for her to play with. But they had a couple things there for her to play with and she had a blast.

I was only gone about an hour and a half but that is plenty of time to let her swim and it wears her out. After they were done they got to go enjoy the continental breakfast and have french toast with blueberries.

I have been planning on taking her to the preschool swim class during the week so she can learn  some basics for swimming. The hard part is that they are in the middle of the morning when i am at work and she is at the sitters. I was already told i can take the time off to go take her, i just haven't done it yet. She is definitely a water baby.

Happy Monday Friends!

Fit Friday

I have been a total slacker this week, eek! I still worked out 4 times but didn't get my 6 full workouts in. I don't really feel guilty about it because i wasn't just sitting around being lazy.

Last week on Saturday i tried Oula for the first time. I didn't really care for it. It just wasn't fast paced enough for me. Maybe its cause it was my first time doing it and i didn't really know what i was doing but i just didn't feel like it was as intense as zumba. After the class though i went and helped my Friend paint her house. They just bought a new house and the people who lived there prior had the worst taste in pain EVER. I mean we literally had to paint the whole entire inside of the house. So after Oula i went and painted for 4 hours.

Then on Sunday morning I went back and helped finish up the painting. It took us 4 days of painting with 4 people to get it all done, it was a lot of work. Plus in the afternoon i went and played softball for 3 hours.

So I am being active just in a different way then lifting weights or doing cardio.

I have some good news to share next week and i am so excited, i have been wanting to share it forever but i had to hold off just so i didn't jinx myself!

There is only one week left in the challenge (thank goodness) I don't know why but this years challenge has been so much harder then last years. I have not been as motivated and have only lost 3 lbs. I am still proud of that ya but as much as i want my team to win, i am not sure if it is going to happen. We did try though.

I am pretty excited that is is finally getting warmer out. However, the problem i am running into is that all day long it is so sunny and nice and i will decide, i am going to go on a run and then as soon as i am off of work it is cold, windy and could possibly be snowing. Next week is supposed to be a lot nicer so i am hoping that i will be able to get out a couple of days and run so i can get out of the house. I also bought a jump rope to add to my little collection of home workout equipment. I have not used it yet but i think it will make a good addition to my cardio.