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The previous owner of our house seemed to have loved birds. He had a large bird feeder and a birdbath in the backyard. Our next-door neighbors have feeders all over their yard, as well. Sure, I like it when I see a pretty blue jay sitting on the fence, but mostly all that we see are pigeons. Tons and tons of pigeons. On summer evenings they perch in our big trees and have a pigeon party. Our back patio and front sidewalk, driveway, and mailbox become covered in pigeon poop! It's disgusting! There will be (I'm not kidding) about 30 pigeons in our tree at a time.

Another annoying bird that we have frequently in our yard is the woodpecker. Not just one, but three. They tossed the squirrel nest from our tree (a squirrel family with 4 babies) and took it over as their own. They love to peck on the metal vent on our roof, which echoes though our whole house. Very annoying at 5:30 am! Worst of all, they have pecked several holes in the side of our house, the largest being about the size of a softball. UGH!!!! Several people told me, "Oh don't worry, they are just passing through. They will only be around a couple weeks!" No, my friends, you are mistaken! They arrived sometime in the middle of March..... it is now the middle of June!

One Saturday morning Lucas got out of bed at 6am because we heard one of the woodpeckers pecking. I stayed in bed until Lucas came to wake me up and told me to come quick! As he was looking for the woodpecker, he discovered that in our neighbor's tree was a Bald Eagle! It was really cool to see! There was a crow who normally is in that tree who was not happy at all about the eagle being there. He kept diving and screaming at the eagle, but the eagle just sat there ignoring the crow.

I will gladly take the blue jays and the eagles, but can the other birds just leave us alone already??!!

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Spring is here! (As I am writing this, it is snowing outside, when it was in the 60's and 70's the past several days. That's Colorado for ya!) The days are getting longer and August is coming closer! I finally look pregnant and not just fat! Things seem to be progressing along well. We have started to feel baby kick!

A quick catch-up: In February we celebrated Valentine's Day by going to dinner at Benihana (Lucas surprised me) where we had our first date! In March we had a weekend in the mountains where we checked on our rental property, ate at a yummy restaurant in Glenwood Springs, stayed the night in Silt, and drove back home through a huge, crazy blizzard! It was an adventure! My Birthday was also in March, which we celebrated at the Cheesecake Factory.

Birthday flowers from my sweetie!

We are making our 2nd attempt at a garden this year and got our little seedlings started! We are trying out a couple different foods from last year, and we also are trying some different methods. That's what makes it fun: gardening is a learning process that we are figuring out as we go by trial and error!

Other than that, we have just been enjoying life and getting excited about the arrival of our little one!
Stay tuned for exciting news in that department.......

In Case You Haven't Heard......

In case you haven't heard, we are finally expecting!!!! It took a while, but good things take time, right? We are due August 24th and could not be more excited!!

 

 

Shower Re-Do

The previous owner of our house updated each of the bathrooms, except for the master shower. It still had white square tiles from the 80's and green-hued textured glass doors. We decided to ask for a couple Home Depot gift cards for Christmas and tackle the shower.

Lucas had a lot of fun with the demolition!

 

We had fun learning how to tile! This is the finished product. We put in a new shower head and handle. It required a different valve than was already on the pipes, so Lucas learned some plumbing, too! We put in taller glass doors that are clear. It really opens it up! We also decided to take the tile all the way up to the ceiling.

 

 

Lucas also cut into the wall where there was some dead space to make a bench. It is amazing how much bigger the shower seems with that little addition. If you look closely you can also see a small square boarder that we put across about half way up the wall.

 

 

It was a fun project and we are loving the results!!

Turkey Day

This year we made the drive to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with my dad's side of the family. My parents went, too, and Brooke and Greg already live out there. It was so much fun to be with everyone!(too bad Brandon wasn't there, too) We had a wonderful dinner at my Aunt Emilee's home.

 

Sisters!!

I made a pumpkin pie and an apple pie the morning
 of the day we left. I transported them in a cooler to Utah. They survived the trip!!

 

 

This year was the first Black Friday since I can remember that I did not go to a single store! Instead, we went to breakfast with my parents, went to the Provo temple, decorated my Grandma's house for Christmas, and went to the lighting of Temple Square. I have been many times before, but it was BEAUTIFUL!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Macy's in Downtown Salt Lake had Christmas window displays! They were giant ornaments made of candy.

 

 

 

When we returned back home to Colorado we transformed our home for Christmas.

 

 

 

 

Halloween!

This year we got invited to our friends' Halloween party. There was a costume contest and we were supposed to bring a "spooktacular" dish to share. I made a spider web chip dip.

 

 

If you are familiar with our engagement story, you know that Mario and Luigi are kind of special to us! (If not, you can find it HERE). We spent all day before the party creating our costumes. Here is how they turned out!

 

By the way, we won the costume contest!! :)

 

We had a lot of fun carving our pumpkins together, and I was happy with how they turned out!

It's not Halloween without roasted seeds! (This was before we cleaned them, though!)

Lucas carved the witch and I carved the Tinker Bell

 

Lucas added bats to the back