Snow Day!!!

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow! That is the song that has been sung at out home since July and it finally happened. With all this snow and Daddy home from work today we took advantage of the time to take Baylee out for some much awaited fun! She has woken up everyday since mid july and has said "Snows coming". In the above picture we are trying to catch the snow flakes with our tonges.

Baylee wanted to be a big helper and help Daddy shovel the walk. When she first saw our neighbors shoveling the walk she was upset because she didn't want them to touch her snow!

This is the beggining of our snowman. It took us a very long time and a lot of work to get it to be this big. We later figured out what we were doing wrong.

The neighbor girl came over and helped us finish off the snowman.

So we figured out that the snow was too dry earlier we needed to melt just a little bit so it would pack. Once we figured this out Daddy and Baylee headed out to build a bigger snowman in the back yard.

Then it was so easy they decided a family of snowmen would be great!!!

Lots to be Thankful for

Since today is Thanksgiving I figured I would write a post about the many things I am thankful for. As I look at my life there are so many different things to be thankful for. I am thankful for my dear parents that raised me with love and the gospel. They gave me every opportunity to grow and develop talents. I am so very thankful for the gospel in my life and how on an everyday basis it is there to help me. With out the gospel it would be hard for me to find thanks in some of the things in my life. I would not have the knowledge of an eternal family. If I did not have this knowledge I wouldn't be able to be thankful for my two angel daughters. They are a joy in my life. To know that I will get to raise them and spend eternity with them is a great blessing in my life. I am thankful for the many trials I have had to go through to get children. These trials are what brought me to the point in my life that I was ready to accept my sweet Baylee into our home as if I had given birth to her. She is such a blessing in our life's. She keeps us smiling and having fun. She has a sweet spirit that our home would be missing if she never joined our family. I am thankful for my wonderful husband that has stood by and loved me through it all. He has always been there to comfort me when I am down,& make me laugh when I didn't see anything in life to laugh about. He has had the faith when I lacked it, and would tell me to just have faith it will work out. He is always out working hard for our family even as I type this on Thanksgiving he got up early and went to work. I have such a wonderful support group around me that includes family and those who are not blood related but might as well be. I am who I am because of the love of the savior and those around me. So thank you to all of you in my life!

New House!

This is Baylee's bathroom before we painted it. We wanted to add some fun color to our new home and figured Baylee's bathroom was the perfect place to start. It is the only room in the house that we could decide on a color.



This is the After we painted picture. I love the color. I know it seems like a lot of green but it is fun!!!

Baylee loves her Bathroom she helped us pick out all the accessories to go in it and she even helped with the color!! From here on out the pics are of the rest of the house that we are still working on getting organized and put together. Don't mind the mess. We will be adding color and I will add pics as we do.
Master Bedroom.
Baylee's bedroom. We are going to paint one wall in her room purple. I made curtains for her windows in our other house and I have to make some adjustments to them so they will fit this window.
This is the most unorganized room in the house but it will be better next week so Danielle's kids have a place to sleep. We call this the office. It has all the computer stuff plus my craft stuff. When a sweet baby joins our family it will call this room home. These are the 3 bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs.
This is a view of the front room from the stairs. This is one of my favorite rooms. I love to sit and play my piano in the morning with the sun shining in on me. The boxes you see hold all of the pictures we have not decieded where to hang them.
My kitchen. I can never seem to keep the counter cleaned off because every box I empty seems to have some little thing I have no idea where to put so it goes on the counter until I can find it a home. if you look at the cupboard on the left you will see the color samples we are thinking about for this room. I have always dreamed of a yellow kitchen!!!
This Bedroom is the Spare bedroom/ play room, Danielle like to think of this room as hers. I am not sure if we will paint this room or not. It is always a mess right now because Baylee and Grace like to play in there.

There is one more room in the house I didn't have a pic of yet and that is the family room. it is just off of the kitchen. We are loving the house and are enjoying making it ours.

Finally!

Moving day is finally here. Tomorrow we load the truck and unload it in our new home. I love the fact that when I say our home it truly is ours. My monthly payment will no longer be going in someone else' s pocket instead it will be going toward something I will own in the end. We have been so busy around here packing. Baylee has done really well but has had her bad days. She loves to help box everything up and label all the boxes. At times I think she really gets what is going on but then on her bad days I wonder how much she really gets. Today we had to go run some errands and where headed home when Baylee started throwing a fit because she didn't want to go to her house she wanted to go to her new house. She was so upset when we pulled into the drive way. I wish she had a better understanding of time then she would know that tomorrow is the day!!!!! I hope that I am ready for this move. I feel ready but it all seemed too easy! As long as the rain stays away I think all will go smoothly tomorrow. Any way I am just super excited to finally been done packing and can't wait to decorate and organize my new home!

The Best Friend a Girl Could Have!

So today I said good bye to one of the best friends a girl could have! Claudia has been a part of my life for almost 4 years but it is hard to remember her not in my life. She came into my life at a time that I really needed a friend like her. I met her shortly after my dear sweet daughters passed away. I never wanted to leave my house. It was too much effort to visit with people and paste the smile on my face. Jon kept pushing me to get out and have fun but I kept refusing until one day he came home and told me we were going to float the river with the Cook family and there was nothing I could say about it. This was the first time I met Claudia. From that day on I have not looked back at that dark place in my life and felt the despair I had felt. Claudia seem to radiate happiness and I had so much fun and truly smiled when around her. I am so going to miss her. Utah is lucky to have Claudia. I am so thankful for the past three years and look forward to seeing Claudia when ever we get to Utah or her to Boise. There have been so many fun times, like giggling in the bathroom at the movies so hard that I thought I would end up on the floor, or just playing cards, or just talking. Baylee is going to miss her as well. She loves her Claudia, RC and Aidan. Not a day goes by that she doesn't mention one of them. So Cook family I say "Have fun, remember the Svedin's always and you better come visit!!!!"

We Got It!!!

We got the house!! I am so excited and nervous at the same time! This is a big step for us to buy a house and finally settle down. I can't wait to have a home of my own. I have started getting things packed up around here and I think Baylee is feeling a little misplaced. She has been very clingy the last couple of days. When I show her a picture of the house she gets all excited and starts squealing "my house". I know she is just as excited because we will be by her cousin Grace but I don't think she really understands what is going on. I am not sure our exact date of moving because we are not sure when we are closing. We know that we will be closing by the 25th but it could happen before that. We are planning on being moved by Halloween. Any way if you stop by my house anytime soon don't expect it to be in any sort of order! Boxes every where!!!!!!!!!

Wow!!!!

Wow it has been a long time since I last posted. So much has been going on but not many pictures taken. Maybe that is why I haven't posted yet. Where oh where to start.... We got home from our Oregon vacation and I was feeling very unsettled about life. One day I asked Jon what he wanted to do with our time together and he said "I don't know. What do you want to do?" I said "let's go buy a house today" I was only joking but as I got thinking about it I realized how much I really wanted to go and do that. So after talking to Jon and thinking on it we decided to start looking. The house prices where so great in Nampa that we decided to look in that area. Within days of looking on the internet we found some we wanted to look at. Unfortunately they were all under contract, but there was another one in the neighborhood that had just come down in price so we went to look at it and loved it. We put and offer down on it and now are waiting. It is a short sale and could take awhile. We did hear back from the bank with a counter offer but we countered that offer and so are waiting again. We are hoping to be in our new home before the end of Oct.

During all this crazy house stuff we found time to go to my little brothers wedding. Kortney married a sweet girl named Cally. Baylee was a flower girl and I was one of the bridesmaids. It was a wonderful weekend filled with lots of family. Baylee loves her new Aunt Cally and can't seem to get enough of her. She was so cute in her dress.



We went to Utah a few weekends later for my cousins wedding and had a fun time with the Jensen family. They always provide us with lots of entertainment and a great place to sleep. Steph looked wonderful at her wedding and we enjoyed being a part of it.

This has been our many different adventures away from home. We are in the beginning of an adventure here at home right now. We are potty training Baylee and it is going great!!! I just was wanting to get Baylee to try to wear panties and the first day I tried she fought me so hard I thought this is not going to work. I had given up but the next morning I got an idea to hide the panties in her pull up. I got them on her but a few mins. later she realized that she had on panties and pulled them off and yelled at me about not wanting panties. I tried one more time. I knew if I could just get her to wear them for a little bit she would like them and she would be more willing to go potty in the toilet because she can't stand wet panties. The second time around it worked. She left them on and eventually took the pull up off so she was just in panties!!!. we still have a fight about the panties on occasion but I think that is just her trying to have some power in this power struggle. The first day she wore panties we only had 2 accidents!! I was surprised. I was prepared for a bunch more. The second day we had 2 and then the third day we only had 1. But the 4th day we had a bit of a set back and she rebelled against the potty so we had about 4 accidents. Still not bad. We are hoping to get to a point where it is not a fight to get her to go and she will just go. I know this will take time but I am looking forward to it. It has been an exhausting few days. I am excited for this big step for Baylee but am torn because it means my baby is going to be a big girl. I wont have a baby any more. She never lets me call her baby any more she always informs me that her name is Baylee NOT baby!!!