MOVING is the WORST

So, I have been talking about us moving for a while now, and it's FINALLY the week that we are moving!  When we got married we had Little Fox, and we needed a place that allowed dogs, and was in the price range that we felt comfortable with, so when we found the place we are in now, I was excited!  It was little, BUT it was more room then we had living at my parents house in a tiny bedroom!  AND we LOVED LOVED LOVED the neighborhood, they allowed dogs, and the floors were hardwood and AMAZING!

Needless to say, we looked passed some things that were NOT so great, the itty bitty kitchen (literally, if two people are in there you will be pumping into each other, and the fridge won't open all the way) -.- ALSO to get from the car to our house, is FOUR yes FOUR flights of stairs, same thing if you want to do laundry.  AND the walls are paper thin, OH and we have had LOTS of complainers about anything from our dogs WALKING too hard, living next to a Fraternity House, AND oh ya neighbors leaving notes on our door, TWO weeks after we moved in saying that they can hear our TV! (ridiculous, considering for ONE of week we were gone on our honeymoon) It has been a long, almost two years, and we really did love this tiny apartment, it was the BEST first apartment, AND I am going to miss it, BUT I am ready to move on to bigger and better things!

The new apartment has a POOL, a FITNESS CENTER (it's tiny, but it has a treadmill), a BALCONY, TWO BEDROOMS & TWO BATHROOMS, a BIG step up from our tiny one bedroom, one bath right now, A HUGE kitchen with LOTS of counter space, a DISH WASHER, a wayyy bigger dining area, AND bigger closets (which is funny, because when we moved into the apartment we are in right now, we were super excited about the closet that we have right now, because we had the super small standard closet before) and NOW bigger!!  I'm excited!!!  

So, now the downside to moving....

PACKING

I hate it, so much!  We kinda started on Sunday which means we packed all our DVD's and some of our books! :)  and umm that's it, and then last night we started packing up MOST of the living room, actually it's pretty much packed just furniture left.

BUT, I have been on the phone with people from all the utility companies for the last two days, and blahhhh I don't like dealing with all the people I have to deal with to change everything over, it reminds me of when I was changing my name :l

So, after ALL of this complaining about moving, I mean I think I've done enough of it in my life, considering when I was in college I MOVED EVERY SINGLE YEAR :/ BUT I am really really really excited to finally be in the new apartment, it's bigger, and better and hopefully doesn't have paper thin walls, AND to make things better our neighbors are moving to the SAME apartment complex like us, remember when I was talking about how sad I was that we were leaving them, because they are the BEST neighbors ever!  WELL looks like we will just be cross the street neighbors soon, so we're excited! :D

BUT, until everything is set up in our NEW apartment, I'm going to continue to complain about how much I hate moving, thank god we have LOTS and LOTS of people coming to help us with the move, 

Thank You Friends/Family you guys are the BEST!

So, happy 4th of July EVE everyone!!!  I hope you guys have lots of fun, eating, drinking and lighting fireworks tomorrow, I LOVE the 4th! 
SO MUCH FUN!!

Oh, and as PROMISED, I have a picture of little Penelope, and why do I love this puppy so MUCH, she is doing the BEST with pad training AND is the calmest little puppy ever, and DID I mention the CUTEST little puppy EVER! 

Meet Penelope 

(still working on a middle name)

isn't her shirt the cutest, I got it at the swapmeet for $1 LOVE!

Baby Laines-Week 21 + a weekend update!

How far along: 21 Weeks :)

Baby's size: about 10 1/2 inches, the size of a spaghetti squash! 

Miss Anything: since it's getting hotter, I'm definitely starting to miss alcohol more and more :(  ONLY 4 more months plus breast feeding right? :/

Best moment this week:  looking at all the baby boy stuff at Target and imagining that in a short four months he will be here!  AND I can't wait!!

 

Movement: No crazy moves or kicks this week, but I feel something, I guess he's just too little for me to feel him moving out of control!

 

Food cravings: nothing this week...that I can remember

 

Anything making you queasy or sick: no. I can even eat chicken (kinda)

Maternity Clothes: YUCK!! I still NEED to invest in some maternity clothes, but I don't want to!  All of my shirts are getting shorter and shorter and my pants are not buttoning AT ALL!  As soon as I get home I literally change in to some sort of lounge clothes cause they're that much more comfortable :/ 

Stretch marks: none yet...still praying

 

Symptoms I HAVE:  still in the honeymoon stage that they keep talking about, and its amazing :D

 

Doctor’s Appointment:  you can read alllllllll about the last one here!  And our next one isn't until the end of the month, so for now baby laines is just growing and hanging out!

 

What I'm looking forward to:  I can't wait to set up his room!  I am constantly looking online for things to buy him, but don't want to buy anything until we move, just so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle!

Gender: BOY!!!

Belly Button in or out: in

Wedding rings on or off: on and still fitting like normal :) 

Happy or Moody most of the time: I can feel myself geting more and more easily angered!  I don't know how to stop it either!  the other day I dropped the orange juice container out of the fridge and I was sooo mad, then I tried to put something else back in the fridge and I dropped the eggs, I was so mad, I couldn't even get over it!  I have noticed that when people tell me dumb things or ask me dumb questions it gets on my nerves so much easier...I wish it wasn't like this but I feel like I can't help it, I try to stay as calm as possible but sometimes it doesn't work

Sleep: It's still good thank god!

Showing:  still growing, everyday!!

 

 

 

 

 

OKAY!!  Now on to the weekend update!!  I feel like a lot happened this weekend (kinda) so I would update on what is new in this little Laines home of ours!

 

We baby sat my godson Joseph & the husband's god daughter Delylah this weekend!  It was super last minute but it was hilarious!  You see Delylah is only a year and a 1/2 and she was fast asleep before we got home, and what do you know when we got home @ 1 am, guess who decides its time to wake up and play!?!  I thought I was going to die, I had been up since 8 and I was ready for bed!  So we watched some cartoons had some milk and FINALLY @ 2:30 I asked her if she was ready for bed now and she said "Ya!"  Yes!  Finally, some SLEEP!!  BUT guess who woke up before EIGHT the next morning?!  YEP!  She did!  I was so tired, and all I kept thinking was how am I going to live without sleep when the baby gets here!?!  Here's hoping that Carter likes to sleep in :D

 

We are moving!  I'm not sure if I have said this before, but we are, we had to give a 60 day notice, and it has already been almost FORTY something, we are supposed to be out of our Apartment as of the 30th!  I can't believe it those 60 days went by fast!!!

 

So, we hadn't really been looking at a lot of places, actually we hadn't looked at any places at all!  It's soooooooo hard to find a place that allows animals, and if they do, they are usually not that nice of an apartment!  So I have been on a hunt for a couple of weeks to find a TWO bedroom that allows pets!

 

Before we moved into the apartment that we are in right now, we had found this apartment complex in a nice neighborhood that allowed pets, but it was a little more then we wanted to spend just getting married and all!

 

So, once we were moving again I knew that I wanted to look at those apartments AGAIN! So we made an appointment to go check them out this weekend, and BOY did we LOVE them! 

 

They are so cute and way nicer then the ones we live in right now, I  mean these new ones have a washer & dryer INCLUDED in them!  A pool!  a small gym (at least it has one) and this one has TWO bedrooms & TWO bathrooms one inside of our bedroom!  OH and the kitchen is about twice the size of the one we have right now!  AND so is the dining room, and when we moved into our apartment I thought our closet was big BUT this one is BIGGER!!  LOVE!!

 

We instantly fell in love, mostly because it comes with a washer and dryer AND oh it has a balcony so that the beasts and I can sit out in the sun, OH and we can put the BBQ up there and BBQ from the comfort of our own home :D

 

SO we will be putting a deposit on it this week, and lets hope everything works out because I can't wait to have more room to move around in and just a different apartment all together!

 

Who wants to help move?!

 

Other then that we just hung out and watched movies all weekend, went and grabbed some dinner @ a mexican food place, and  had lots of leftovers!

 

I'm excited for the upcoming weeks, I can't wait to move and I can't wait to Carter to start moving more, we have a couple of birthday parties this month and then my bday is next month and VACATION!  So excited for what summer has in store for us!

 

Moving!

Randomly I'll see something in a news article, or yahoo news that catches my eye, and today it was this!

BEST PLACES TO LIVE 2011!!!

I pretty sure I've said it here before, but there are so many times when I seriously wake up thinking, "What if me and the husband left the state and found jobs doing something completely different then we do here?  Have a BIG beautiful house with LOTS of space for our kids & beasts to run around!"  Could I really do it?  I don't know.  I mean we talk about it all the time, but it's so hard to say we'd do it because our ENTIRE family is in So Cal...and I mean we would be lonely. I get sad thinking about my kids not growing up around alllllllllll of their cousins because thats the way that I grew up and I didn't care that we didn't have a GIGANTIC yard to run around in, or the things that I had, BUT I loved the memories I had/still have with my cousins!!

I mean, what would you rather have?  More family, or a house that you love, in a community that you love?  I've never lived in a small town, I mean I grew up within 15/20 minutes of downtown LA and everything down here is pretty cramped so it definitely isn't a small town at all.  BUT when people talk about how they grew up in a tiny town, and loved it, I think man thats so cool!  I wonder what that would be like?  Which one is better?  Does anyone really have the answer? 

I remember when I moved to Fresno from LA to go to college I was in shock!  I could NOT believe that they only had ONE mall!!  I mean ONE mall!!  How do they have options?!?!  Considering I grew up within five minutes of TWO malls, and 15 minutes from 5+ different malls!  It was just crazy to me!  But this was completely normal to all of the people that were from the small towns surrounding Fresno, actually they were super excited that they even had a mall!  Heck, most of them were excited that they had a Targer/Costco/Walmart!  I couldn't believe it!!  Isn't it funny though, that now that I am older I long to live in a smaller city then even Fresno? 

Well, only god knows where our lives will lead us in the coming years, but I can't wait to see what he has in store for us!  Let's just hope it's where the husband and I are both making enough money to own a house a live comfortably with all the things that we ever need in life.

Until that time though, I'll continue looking at the BEST places to live, and maybe someday we'll end up at one :D  Hey!  You never know :)