Just in the nick of time...

Movie Night!

Thank goodness we didn't wait much longer to cross this item off the list!! I am starting to get more uncomfortable sitting in one position...and I was shifting around a lot near the end of the movie. I also had to get the smaller drink, so I didn't have to pee every five minutes and miss the movie. With a few minor adjustments though this movie was the perfect opportunity for a date night with the hubby and our 'friends with kids' Kate and Beau! I must admit that the movie poster did scare me a little....do I really have to sacrifice love or happiness when we have this baby? Yikes?!? But luckily the movie ended up being a really cute (albeit a little sappy) movie about the ups and downs of parenthood....really just a fitting movie for where we are at in life!                                            #15 Movie Date Night with the hubby ✓

♥ Lindsay

Mom guilt already?

There are a lot of things running through my head these days....and sometimes my irrational side just takes over! Don't get me wrong,  I love being pregnant....maybe this is because so far I have been blessed with a pretty easy pregnancy! I expected the hormones to make me a crazy, crying, bumbling mess 90% of the time. Even my husband admits that there have been far fewer of 'those' moments than he expected too! That being said though....I must admit that there have been a few times in this pregnancy where the pressure of growing a human being inside me has really gotten to me and I have become a crazy,crying,bumbling mess. In the moment it feels rational.... I mean....I could screw this up before she even makes it to the world! However, looking back at my biggest 'mom-guilt' moments I do realize that they were probably hormone-fueled and definitely irrational....but luckily Ty was there to talk some sense into me and give me some much needed perspective!

Biggest 'mom-guilt' moments so far:

• Dang....forgot my prenatal vitamins again and now clearly my baby will be stupid. Why can't I just remember to take a vitamin? This baby is counting on me and I can't even remember to take my vitamins everyday....I can't do this!!
• I ate a hot dog.....therefore I will get listeriosis and cause great harm to my baby (this actually brought me to hysterical tears one day). Was eating a hot dog really worth the risk? I can't believe that I put eating a hot dog because I felt like one at higher priority than my baby's health! I am a horrible mother already!!
• I drink a cup of coffee a day....sometimes I also have a few cups of decaf which apparently also has some caffeine in it (who knew?). What if my need for caffeine results in my baby being preterm, or low birth weight and it will be all my fault!! I read that caffeine is ok in small amounts during pregnancy and I thought I was doing pretty well....but then I read in US Weekly that Jennifer Garner 'doesn't drink ANY caffeine but allows herself a special treat of a decaf latte or two per pregnancy'! PER pregnancy?? I can't even count how many decaf lattes I have had in this pregnancy and thought I was being so responsible because they weren't caffeinated lattes! Does this make me a horrible mother already too??

Who knew that mom guilt started already? Why am I being so hard on myself? In these moments, the pressure to do everything right isn't coming from the outside...it's coming from me. I am trying to do all the 'right' things and make the best home for my baby as she grows and get all the 'right' things so I am prepared for once she's here....not to mention reading books upon books so I can have the least stressful birth experience possible, making her transition into the world as smooth as I can! 

In my more rational moments I am able to see that I am doing the best I can and I am not going to be perfect. I will make mistakes and that's ok! Everyone has an opinion and I am open to advice from other moms who have been here before, but in the end I need to trust myself and find my own way in this exciting, confusing, frustrating and rewarding journey through motherhood. There is so much to be scared about or feel guilty about if you let those thoughts take over, and I am so lucky I have a husband to remind me in those weak moments that we can do this! 

♥ Lindsay

Baby's first concert

Much to Tyler's dismay I think the baby likes country! I consider myself to be a fan of all kinds of music. Pretty much anything that inspires me, fits my mood of the moment or makes me feel like dancing.....I am into it. I love live music and have been to tons of concerts and music festivals over the years, but I realized that I have never been to a country show.....so when I heard Lady Antebellum was coming to town, I was sold! Gotta take advantage of my freedom while I can right? It's not that I think that life ends after baby comes along and sure plenty of people attend live shows with their babies but the way I see it is.... never again will it be so easy to bring baby to a concert ;) Other than kicking my bladder and making me have to pee every 30 minutes, the baby was no trouble at all and let me tell you....if kicking is any indicator, she is going to be a country fan for sure. Sorry Ty!

Great concert, great girls night out!!

♥ Lindsay

Hey....I can make that!!

What do you do when you fall in love with a discontinued item? Make it yourself!!
I saw this adorable Amy Coe canvas for a baby nursery and thought it was such a fabulous way to decorate a baby's space without being too 'frou-frou' or 'babyish'...if you know what I mean. 
Love it....gotta have it! Where can I find it? Well....nowhere....as it turns out, it was discontinued!
Don't you hate that? It made me want it even more!! 

 I checked all the auction websites and googled obsessively until I could google no more. I was almost ready to give up on it....then I realized..."Hey! I can make that!!" 


So I did. And it was practically free! I had an old canvas under my bed and the leftover paint from the last item I fell in love with and decided to make myself (Sugarboo Designs pillow project).... then all I needed was to find the right font to print off and transfer somehow onto the canvas! Here's how I did it:

Step 1- Print off the outline only of the letters you need in the size you need (in this case I printed off 1 letter per page)


Step 2- Cut out carefully using scissors and exacto knife for the inside pieces


Step 3- Lay out the letters on the white canvas and secure them with tape once you are happy with the layout


Step 4- Using a sponge paint over the whole canvas with your chosen paint colour. This is kind of like a reverse stencil. So the area around the letters will be painted but the shape of the letter will remain raw canvas


Step 5- peel off the paper letters and Voila! you have your fabulous 'PEACE LOVE BABY' canvas!


(Optional)Step 6- With a small brush I added in the little specks within the letters by hand. I tried to match them as closely as possible to the original....not perfect, but not too shabby either!

 And here it is displayed on our wall above the baby's dresser    


(side note: this dresser is the  next project for hubby and I...it's not in bad shape but needs a little freshening up. Can't wait to get it painted with some new hardware and cute drawer liners. Stay tuned to see how it turns out!). 

Cute right?!

♥ Lindsay

Bittersweet farewell to my beloved Jetta

I know I shouldn't have attachments to 'things', but sometimes I can't help but be sad when something that has been in my life for 8 years is suddenly not. Yes friends....I am talking about a car! 8 Years ago (almost to the day actually) I bought a fabulous little black Jetta, who I affectionately called Jezzy (short for Jezzebel) and just last week I had to say good-bye. *sigh*.....I loved that car..... sure the speedometer would stop working from time to time, but it was nothing that couldn't be remedied by a few loving taps on the dashboard. And I thought for sure our inability to open the trunk at the border crossing was going to get us in BIG trouble....for some reason the border guard didn't like my suggestion of going in through the folded down backseat (who knew?) but after he realized we weren't lying, it was totally fine!! I know deep down that with a baby on the way, I guess it is kind of important to have a safe vehicle with a working speedometer and a functioning trunk.

 I don't know if it was the hormones or my fear of change....or maybe a little of both but I was really sad to see Jezzy go.... quirks and all!! 

 I do love our new Subaru Forester though!!! Isn't she beautiful? 

 Welcome to the family.....Freddie? Frankie? Farrah?

 Hmmmm.... this could be harder than naming our baby ;)

#6 New Car ✓

♥ Lindsay

Courtney? Really?

Well last night was the final night of the Bachelor....and I am not going to lie Jill and I didn't get much crafting done! We ate lettuce wraps and treatza pizza while we held on to the hope that Ben might pick Lindzi, although we already KNEW it was going to be Courtney. I don't know why I watch this show anymore.....I can predict the winner 9 times out of 10 and out of what? 20 seasons of the show? And only 2 marriages....not great odds....but hey everyone needs a guilty pleasure show right!?! Well last night Courtney was the chosen one. Really Ben? Not sure why the guys always choose the mean girl that "isn't here to make friends, but is here to win" ? Usually even if I am not particularly fond of the winner, I still love the proposal....but let's just say this year the highlight of the evening was the treatza pizza!! 
So, although I don't think this relationship is destined to be the third ABC televised marriage I do wish them the best and hope they truly found love. Guess we'll see in a few months....


♥Lindsay

Seattle Shopping Getaway

They say that the second trimester of pregnancy is where you feel your best and therefore it's the perfect time for one last mini-getaway with your spouse before baby! Although it would have been nice to escape to somewhere tropical, we were limited by time and money......so we opted for a mini road trip to the America version of Vancouver. I don't know about you, but the perfect getaway for me has nothing to do with distance travelled and more to do with what you do when you get there. With Ty doing his masters and the craziness in our schedules right now, what we really needed from this Seattle weekend was some quality time together! It was so nice to have a change in scenery, to be able to do whatever we wanted, not have to cook or clean....and of course throw in a little shopping and I am a happy girl! So that is what we did.....

We ate.

From my first breakfast in bed room service experience (so luxurious) to my guilty pleasure the Olive Garden and Tyler's guilty pleasure The Cheesecake Factory....

food was a big part of the weekend. 

I also have been on a bit of a lemonade kick lately (craving perhaps?) so I think I probably drank my weight in lemonade of all forms....plain, raspberry, frozen....you name it, I drank it. Yum! We even got to try out the famous Top Pot Donuts (Obama has eaten there...FYI) where I had the most delicious blueberry donut ever! 

So let's just say....we ate well in Seattle :)

We relaxed.

Since we don't have a television in our bedroom at home, one of the biggest treats for me when I stay in a hotel is being able to watch TV in bed! There is nothing like a cozy hotel bed for snuggling up and watching a movie before going to sleep or lounging in bed longer than I should with a coffee in hand and The Price is Right on the television. It's the little things....right?

We shopped.

It was President's Day Weekend, so between the fabulous sales and our trip to the Premium Outlets I had to really use my self control to stay within our maximum allowance of what we could bring back into Canada without paying duty. Let me tell you, the only thing that held me back from spending hundreds of dollars on baby items was my severe anxiety of crossing the border. Buy one suit at 50% off and get the second one free? Take an additional 55% off the already ridiculously low clearance priced items? I mean really....we just don't have sales like that in Canada! I could have literally outfitted our baby in Carter's gear for the first year of her life for a few hundred dollars. But, alas I am too much of a scaredy-cat to lie to the border agent (I mean really...they are government employees....who knows what they could do to me!!), so I came home with a small fraction of what I wanted to..... but still $250 worth of Carter's baby items for only $60 is pretty darn good!!  

Overall...a fabulous weekend getaway in Seattle with the hubby( #11 ✓)!

♥ Lindsay