New Adventures of Regan

Just to add a little something different, I thought maybe I'd let Regan narrate this blog. (Oh my word, I've turned into one of those moms...)

Well, let's see. Here I am this morning taking a bath in the baby bathtub because the big girl bathtub is broken right now. When I woke up this morning, my diaper had leaked all over my pajamas and sheets, and even though we were already running late, Momma had to give me a bath because I was so stinky! Daddy whipped out the camera and here I am showing off. Do you like my shampoo mohawk?
Here's a picture of Papa. He was crawling around under the house trying to fix the big girl bathtub. He didn't. I even think I heard someone say that he broke it just a little bit more. The plumbers are coming tomorrow. Daddy told me to look out for their cracks. I wonder what that means?
Oh, this was fun. I was rolling around on the floor playing with my blanket, and somehow I managed to pull it over my face and when Momma saw it she said, "Peek a boo" and I started laughing because it was so funny!
Yep, I'm pretty much hot stuff. I learned how to sit on my own. I'm not perfect all the time and sometimes I cry when I fall over onto my face, but I'm getting better! I look a little bit crazy in this picture because Momma had just given me some medicine to help me feel better. I was getting my first tooth and it really hurt! It's all in and no, I have not bitten Momma yet. Why does everyone ask that? I'm starting to work on my second tooth now.
Here I am helping Momma bake some cookies. She said that I was a little bit too young to be eating cookie dough, though. I think she just didn't want to share.
Oh yeah, this is a good one. I was taking a nap with Fabio, my naptime buddy. He's so soft and fuzzy and he's very nice to hold on to and cuddle with when Momma lays me down in my crib. I love Fabio.

That's all the pictures!

Painting!!

A couple weekends ago my parents came down to "visit". I had devised a plan to have them come down and help me paint the bedrooms in our house. Eric hates to paint, so I wanted to do it as a surprise for him while he was away at a marching contest. The plan was to get all three rooms done, but alas, we only had time for 1 1/2. Then this past weekend, Eric's folks came to visit and he and his dad spent the better part of this past Saturday finishing the second room my parents and I had started and then they painted Regan's room.

Since my sisters keep bugging me to post pictures of the new rooms, here they are. Although I realize the majority of you could really care less! :)

Here is sweet baby Regan showing off her new pink room. This color has a story to go along with it and I'm going to tell you because even though the majority of you could care less, you're obviously still reading.

In March before Regan was born, my parents came down and Dad and Eric spent the whole weekend painting the nursery. I had two colors picked out, and while I liked the end result, it was nothing like I had planned. I wanted a sage green and a cream color, but instead it turned out almost mint green and tan. We were still okay with the colors though, because our little boy would have lots of blue to match the colors and everything would work out okay.

Enter Regan. A girl.

So in June, I spent quite a few days picking out paint samples and finding the perfect pink color to match her bed set. And I've been waiting for 4 months now to paint her room. So this weekend, my precious husband (who is going to shoot me when he finds out I called him precious) and his dad painted it the perfect pink.

Which turned out looking like somebody had spilled a bottle of Pepto Bismol all over the walls. Seriously, it was awful. I cried. A lot. But we had no more money to get a different color, and as I belive I've already mentioned, my husband hates to paint, so getting him to do the nursery for a third time is out of the question!

So for the time being, we're adjusting to the paint, which actually does look better with the blinds back on the windows. Fear not, though, because we e-mailed our story to Rachael Ray (her website was asking for home remodeling disasters) and we're hoping and praying that she will respond before Regan's Pepto Bismol room gives us even more heartburn and indegestion than we already have!

And here is the guest room which used to be white with maroon trim. I kid you not. Jeremy was a huge fan of whichever Texas team has black and maroon as their colors (A&M?), and his mom allowed him to pain the trim maroon and then he had black curtains. Which apparently was a compromise because he wanted maroon walls and black trim. Of all the rooms, I think this one turned out to be my favorite.

And this is our room. Yes, we rearranged. Notice how we still have nothing on the walls. Seriously, though, it tooks us a year and a half just to paint the rooms, how quick do you expect us to move!?!


Then end. No it's not. I found a picture of the nursery after the guys painted it in March, so now you know what it looked like before!

Last week

Here are a few more pictures from last week. Travis the Cheater took this one of us on the last night of camp. Doesn't Regan look so ornery in it!?
Here she is hanging out with Dad's baseball cap on. How stinking cute is she!?
After we left family camp, we drove up to Elkhart because my sister and her two kids were visiting, and Eric had yet to meet Kyle, so we stopped by there for a visit. Here are the two babies in their car seats with their matching pacifiers. Regan looked like she was going to eat Kyle!
Here's Aubrey being Aubrey. :) We took pizza out to Papa's work and she got into the cabinet where he keeps his safety gear. She's such a goofball and oh my word, that kid is hilarious! I don't think anyone can make me laugh as much as Aubrey can. She's so funny! And yes, her name tag says "I make stuff up" courtesy of Uncle Eric. If any phrase fits Aubrey, that would definitely be it!

Family Camp

This past weekend we spent up at El Porvenir Christian Camp with our church family. It was such a relaxing, peaceful weekend. We got up there Friday evening in the middle of a blackout; we had to unload our car by the light of our cell phones! I'm pretty sure I've never been in the dark quite like that! Anyway, here are just a few of the many pictures we took. This is the chapel where Eric and I first met.


Here's Regan and her friend, Matt Thurston. She was acting a bit camera shy.
And a storm rolling in....
And Caitlin Shaffer, who is without a doubt, the best babysitter anyone could ask for! All weekend long wherever Regan was, there was Caitlin holding her! It was actually nice to not have to constantly watch out for what Regan was putting in her mouth because Caitlin was always there to do that!

And our other favorite babysitters, Travis and Kayla. We had a lot of fun playing Phase 10 with them and a few others the last night. Or not. Eric and Travis were caught cheating and ruined the whole game for the rest of us because they're bad losers. Big brown...