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Recent Happenings

I have been at home a lot. One of the ways that I have been filling my time is by taking pictures of Nate. So here is picture overload. I think Nathan is cute and he has such a personality. I love catching his different faces. He is definately a character and I love the memories behind these pictures.

The first images are on and evening when Jake and I made cookies and ice cream. There is no meal eaten without a mess :)

The pics above are a when I went down into the kitchen and I caught Nate while he was getting into some rolls we had bought to make some sandwiches.

Below is an afternoon activity. Shaving cream painting. He loved it.

Above is the clean up of the shaving cream painting

Below is my birthday. I am pretty sure Nathan was more excited about the candles than the cake

Last is this morning. I was making some banana bread to use of some old bananas. The recipie calls for apple sauce. I went upstairs to the restroom for a minute and when I came down this is how I found him.

Nate bring us so much joy. He certainly keeps my hands full. We love him so much.

I'm so ready for spring

I have spent the last half hour organizing some picture folders and I found a shot that I have to post here. It made me laugh. First, doesn't Nathan have the greatest look on his face? Second, doesn't it look so nice and warm? Yup...I need spring. So break out the sunscreen and lets have a pool party or bbq. I am pretty sure this has been the longest winter ever. Seriously! Spring needs to get here in a quick hurry because I need me some sun.

It has been a little crazy around here the past few weeks. That is probably adding to my longing for warmer days. I want to move forward with this year. The month started pretty well with Jakes family making a quick trip out to Elko. They came to help us with a few yard projects. Our yard needed some major cleaning and pruning so Jakes parents and Jon & Tami came out to help. In just one morning all of the trees were pruned (meaning 9 in the backyard and 3 in front) and we took down 2 yucky pine trees that were making a mess. We now have a giant wood pile in our side yard that needs to be taken to the dump. Anyone have a truck they want to lend us for an afternoon? :) We were very thankful for their help and we are excited for the coming summer so we can make our yard a place we enjoy together as a family.

Pretty much the rest of the month I spent in Utah. I ended up needing to have surgery to help me carry the baby. I have been on bedrest but I am now up and around being very cautious. This surgery should help me carry the baby to 36 weeks. As long as I am careful and don't have any other complications I should be able to stay in Elko I will just need to take it easy.

That was pretty much the whole month for us.

So...we have a little news :)

I thought we would let people know that we are expecting again. Obviously we are a little nervous this time around. Mostly we are just thankful and excited. So far this pregnancy has been a lot easier than my last two. I haven't been sick very much. Mostly I hate food but I can deal with that.

There are extra precautions being taken in hopes of preventing a repeat of our last experience. I have made a trip to Utah for some extra tests and I will probably be spending a good portion of my pregnancy making these kind of trips. It will all be worth it.

I'm not going to lie. I am a bit of a crazy b....well lets just say I am not very pleasant when I am pregnant. This time around has been no different... unfortunately. I may be a little better since I am not constantly living next to the toilet but still I have a constant glare on my face. From May 2010 to Sept 2011 I will have been pregnant all but 7 weeks. Jake deserves a medal of honor for putting up with me and all of my craziness. To all of our friends, if you see him give him a little pat on the back. He deserves it:)

At this point Nate just doesn't get the baby thing. Thankfully we have a little time to let him know that I will not always be pregnant and the baby wont always be in my tummy.

I am 15 weeks today. Baby is due Sept 2. That would be 4 days after Nates birthday. I am hoping we don't have a double birthday. We will see how things go.

Terrible 2's

I am one of those people that thinks their kid is perfect. Overall Nathan is pretty awesome. He is good in church. We get him to eat almost everything (sometimes there is a little barganing involved..."you can have some chocolate if you eat your peas") He is very good at playing the clean up game. Plus he is a great snuggler. Overall I am happy.

All of the sudden I have been feeling the winds of change. Lately he has been testing me. Hitting is the biggest issue right now. He is good around other people but for me it is a constant battle. That plus extra fussyness due to an earache that has lasted for over a month and I am one frazzled mom.

Thankfully he is cute and he takes naps. I have found no matter how upset I am at him. After I send him to bed after a fussy morning I am always excited for him to wake up.

I took these pictures the other day. He was taking a longer nap than needed so I decided to wake him up. He was so cute I decided to take a few pictures along the way.

He loves his animals...and buzz :)

He always kisses his bear for a few minutes. It helps him decided if he is going to be happy or crabby.

Decision made...he will be naught ;)

This was one of those naught moments. When does dumping the last of the cereal eating all of the marshmellows and smashing the rest into dust become cute?...haven't decided.

On another note. For v day we kept it simple at the Cefalo home. I decided I missed Trio and I took matters into my own hands. Jake and I go to Trio as often as living 4 hours away will allow (once maybe twice a year). Our favorite thing in the whole world is the Rosemary Flat Bread...oh my! This way my attempt at it. It turned out amazingly close to the real thing. The 2 things that were a little off was 1) the didn't have ANY red peppers at the store yesterday...seriously! 2) The sundried tomatoes were a little dried out. I think the costco jars of sundried tomatoes would have added that extra pazazz. Otherwise it was fabulous and Jake thought I was amazing:)

Nathan did too but I am pretty sure it is because of the chocolate covered strawberries :)

Now onto March. I am done with winter.

Paints are back

One of Nathan's favortie activities from this last summer was finger painting. If you remember we spent a lot of time out on our old deck covered in colors. This week has been a little slow and I wanted to change things up for Nate so I decided to pull out our old friend. Nathan loved it :)

The best part of this activity was it helped accomplish 3 things at once.

1. Entertain Nathan

2. Get him to bath

3. Clean the shower

January happenings

Hello all. Long time no blog. January has been a pretty humdrum month for us in the Cefalo home. It started off with a very boring New Years. Jake had to work both day's so we pretty much went to bed early on New Years Eve and I spent the day alone. I did make a fun meal and we did a small celebration around 8:30 before we went to bed but it was really not that eventful.

Nathan has been a real good helper. He is learning so much right now. One of my favorite things to do with him over the past month is cook. He gets so excited to help. Especially if he knows it is a treat. I took a few pictures of him last week as he "helped" me make some brownies.

As you can see from the pictures above Nate got a hair cut. Its was long overdue. I have to admit I love his hair long. I get sad every time we cut it. He looks cute either way but I still get a little sad when I see pictures of him with his long hair.

Such a poser


Ta da! Hey good lookin.

As for the rest of the month we have been working of a few projects. Slowly but surely we are getting the house together. We decided that we wouldn't start on any house projects until after we closed. That means even though we have lived here for almost 2 months we have only started projects in the last 3 weeks.

Jake did a wonderful job painting the ceiling.

My sister Melanie came with her kids for a couple of days and she helped with the painting. I am pretty happy with how the room looks now. It feels much cleaner and brighter.

There is still a lot of work to do. We will be painting the molding and door white and we need to replace all of the ivory electrical plates. That should be done later this week. Right now the room is looking pretty bare but we have some grand plans.

I want to find some pillow covers similar to these. Probably a little more yellow.

I don't really know how things are coming together but I really like this pillow as well. We will see.
I love these chairs and I am hoping I can get a couple for a little more seating.

Jake and I are also determined to get one of these as soon as we can possibly afford it.

We will have to see what happens. There are a lot of wants but we need to make sure we can afford so for now I am pretty happy with how things are. Next we will move onto Nathan's and our room. During the summer we hope to tackle the kitchen.

We are so thankful that we were lucky enough to get this house. There is a lot of work we will need to do to make it our own but we are enjoying the adventure right now.