Homemade Pizza

Tim got home from work and asked who was coming over for dinner.  Um, no one, we were having homemade pizza made with leftover stuff.
That was not a satisfactory answer for Tim.  So I started texting people.  Kevin, Shayna, and Gunnar came over...after they took their baked potatoes out of the oven (lunch tomorrow)!

Because I only had one pizza dough from Trader Joe's (not anticipating guests), I whipped up a batch of dough from The Recipe Critic called Homemade Breadtwists.  Then I could make some breadsticks to go with the pizza.  

Boxer Baths!

If you don't like silly pictures of dogs getting a bath, just hit the red "x" at the top of the page to exit.

Saturday was Doggy Bath Day.  They needed a bath SO bad!  We like to be as kind as we can and give them one when it's warm, so they had escaped one last weekend.

Tim washes and I dry.

When they get water on their face, they let it run down and lick it up.  

We use Pert Plus as the shampoo, it actually works great and keeps them smelling fresh for a long time. When they get damp later, they smell like Pert instead of wet dog.  

Cole has environmental allergies and has been itching his ears, so I picked up some Spectrum V from Lemos.  It's a shampoo thats supposed to help itching from allergies.  

Usually Kensi (who always goes second), hides on the patio with that look of "oh no, I'm next" on her face, but this time she chose to come sniff Cole as he was being scrubbed.

35 weeks and a Birth Plan!

Thirty-five weeks!  Yea!

Carlene was asking me when my next appointment was today, and its next week, but the crazy part is that after that, I go EVERY WEEK!  Meaning, its almost April and April is when the baby comes!  Cray-zee!

Baked Caprese Chicken

Tim is going to turn me into a good cook.  

He likes variety (something my family wasn't too great at growing up).  And he has really good taste buds, so he can tell me how to spice things differently to make them taste better.  

When I made the Meal Plan for this week on Monday, I planned to have "Pan Chicken", aka throw chicken, veggies, and potatoes in a 9x13 and bake it in the oven, but with today being so warm (and my oven heats up the house terribly), and already having an 8x8 of leftover "Paulsen Potatoes", I decided just to make chicken and salad to go with the potatoes.  We usually like Lawry's Mesquite marinade (modified, of course), but I ran out of time to marinade anything, so I opened the fridge to see what kind of chicken I could make quickly.  And I came up with this:

Baked Caprese Chicken

Fixing my TOMS

I FINALLY fixed my TOMS!!!  I seriously think they've been sitting in a bag (with fabric and glue) in my closet for a year since they got a hole in the toe.

I think wanting to fix my TOMS were the reason I joined Pinterest, when I found multiple blogger tutorials on how to recover them.  A year later and having seen many posts about doing this, I didn't follow any directions.

Baby's Room

After my baby shower almost 2 weeks ago, we finally have enough things in Baby's room to make it worth while to take pictures and share!

Everything in Baby's room fits in one corner!

Tim and I are both really excited about how the room looks.  In fact, one Saturday morning, Tim got up and walked into Baby's room, saying, "I love this room in the morning!" and that was before we had all the "stuff" in there and just had the walls newly painted.
The colors we used are Behr Premium with zero VOC (Dad says that as well as being okay for preggos, its better for the environment).  The two darker walls are "Asparagus" and the two lighter ones are "Celery Ice".  Yes, we are brainwashing our child to like veggies!  (Most people think we picked green because it is gender neutral, but we probably would have picked green anyways, we don't want pink or blue!)

32+ weeks!

Well, I feel like I'm in the final stages of waiting for Baby Paulsen!

31wks 3days

I knew the minute Carlene had Baby Miller the next 8+ weeks would be the hardest!  Ahhhhh, waiting!  Now I'm trying to find ways to fill my weekends so I can have something to look forward to (and trying to plan summer/fall vacations too!  Yosemite anyone???).

I had my 32 week OB appointment around the time that Carlene was texting me that they were going to the hospital.  In my excitement for Baby Miller, I totally forgot to ask ANY questions.  LOL.  There's always next week.  So I didn't even ask any questions when Julie (one of the midwives) said I was measuring 34 weeks instead of 32 weeks (I've been measuring right on during my past appointments).  All I could think was, "well, maybe the baby will come early then instead of late!" but I must have been giving a funny look, because she immediately went into that we aren't exactly sure what this means but we'll reassure you anyways mode and said "it's normal to be measuring ahead!" and I said, "no wonder I've been really uncomfortable in the last week and a half!"

Here's what Baby has been up to (besides growing!):

• Week:  32w6d
• ETA:  April 25th.  They haven't changed it yet.  
• Size:  honeydew melon (19in, 4.5lbs)
• Best part so far:  having our baby shower and being able to set up more of Baby's room!
• Hardest part so far: walking in the neighborhoods around where we live has gotten REALLY boring!!!  I think even the doggies are bored.
• Weirdest part so far: right after I woke up this morning, I think I drank too much water for my smushed stomach to handle, because it came right back up.  What the heck?  How can my stomach be smaller than 16oz???

Tim's newest thing is to complain about me hogging the baby.  That I've been hogging Baby for 8months so far and how I'm going to hog it for 2 more months and then its HIS turn to hold it.  Right now he just has to hold Cole and Kensi (they don't really even fit on my lap anymore).

Tim with our fur-babies:)