Some new pictures of Owen (@ 5 days old)

Some more pictures

Big sister at last!
Grandpa Bourassa with Owen
My big boy!

He's Here!!

Emily, Ethan, Owen and Abby. Just for Grandma Hilligas!
Great Grandma Bourassa with Owen...her latest great grandchild. My boys!! Ethan and Owen

Abby and Owen...she's totally a mother hen :)
Emily and Owen

And boy for this little one to be late he sure got here in a hurry!! Poor Rhonda had to drive me to the hospital and we almost didn't make it! Seriously within 5 minutes of getting to the hospital Owen Ranald Hilligas made his debut! He weighed 8 lbs 5.6 oz and was 22 inches long.

my excuse for not blogging

is that I'm waiting on this baby!! It seemed like things were starting to happen yesterday but then they stopped. I'm heading to the doctor's today to see what's up. Technically I'm only 1 day over but I'm ready to have this little guy! I'll keep everyone posted!

my scrapbook room is done!!

for some reason blogger always adds my pictures in the opposite order that I want. Geez! Anyway here's the after pictures...

And now the before pictures...what a mess!

this one should have been included in my after photos but again, blogger!!

apparently I'm nesting

or so my mom says. I'm just thrilled to be getting a bunch of stuff done and organized. The kids' rooms are done, including the baby's room. All that needs be done in his room is to set up the baby monitor and wash his new sleepers. I'm so anxious to do some scrapbooky/decorations for all of their rooms but I'm a bit held up by the fact that I don't have a scrapbooking space right now. Heck I don't even know where half of my stuff is! I'm going to see if I can convince Ron to set up my desk today, then at least I can start organizing my stuff. It'll be like Christmas all over again especially going through all the bags of stuff that I've gotten over the last 3 months. Just because I didn't have a room didn't mean that I didn't shop ;) I didn't realize how stiffled I was with my creativity without a space of my own. Dragging out some of my stuff to try and create doesn't work well for me.

On to baby news...he's still baking, lol! I've got 2 weeks until my due date and so far I'm feeling ok, some contractions but nothing regular. My doctor checked my yesterday and I'm dilated 1 cm and feeling "soft" but it will be a week or so still. This is fine for me, gives me more time for naps :) I went and got some maternity pictures done this week with a friend of mine. I had lots of fun but was I tired! I'm anxious to see how the pictures turned out. Thank goodness Chantelle can photoshop out stretch marks! After 2 other pregnancies a smooth belly is not always in the making. Of course, I got more stretch marks with Ethan than any of the other 2. He paved the way.

The rooms are done!!! *beware long post*

Such a relief! Let me tell you! It seems like this process took a long time but I'm thrilled with the results. Nope. There are no before pictures. The rooms were in that bad of shape that I didn't even want to record that particular memory. LOL! This is Abby's room. Orignally it was a yucky light dirty blue with holes, glow in the dark paint and written words all over it. I had to use 2 coats of primer plus 2 coats of paint to cover over that. I swear that there were so many holes that the previous owners had used this room for dart practice! Abby picked out her paint colors and did an awesome job of it. Because our house is a bilevel we've got a ledge in each of the kid's rooms, Abby's had been left bare so I didn't paint it. To make her room seem larger (its long and narrow) I left the closet doors off of their closets and painted them a contrasting color. All her furniture is from Ikea :) The flower by her bed is actually a night light, from Ikea as well.
This is the far side of her room (when you walk in the door) Her desk area isn't totally set up yet. We need to pick up a new desk chair for her (there's cute pink one from Ikea) and I'd like to set up her an art/scrapbooking centre. Yet to be done is putting up her name which will go just above her desk. The letters are wooden and painted purple and spell "Abigail". I'm also planning on stamping colored butterflies around her room. My plan is to use pink, white, yellow, green, blue and purple and mix in some glitter to the outlines of the butterflies. Her new blind is coming in this week and will be white.
Ok here is Ethan's new room. Wonder of wonders this used to be my scrapbooking room. Of course it wasn't this cool. Picture that same yucky blue paint on the walls with a million holes everywhere. Then look down and about 18 inches from the floor the walls were cut and new drywall was put in. No primer no patching nothing. So we had to do that. Ron did an awesome job of patching and sanding that weird drywall cut. In his room I had to do the 2 coats primer and 2 coats paint as well. Unfortunately Ethan's ledge had been painted blue as well so I needed to cover that. His 2 colors of paint that he picked were both green and closer in color than I would have liked. I would have picked a greater contrast. But its his room and I let him pick. Thankfully he chose some other colors to go with the green :) We like to call this the Kermit room, lol!
His closet also has no doors (really opens the space up) and honestly they never closed their closets anyways. All Ethan's furniture (except the antique desk) is from Ikea. Can't you tell we love that store? I still need to add his dinosaur models that will go along the ledge. I'm going to be working on some canvases for him that are 12x24 which will go on the wall beside his bed. I'm going to scrapbook them with some very cool dinosaur pictures. In the corner of his room Ron will be hanging some of his Star Wars ships as well. The green bugs on his walls are actually a night light of sorts also from Ikea.

So the kids were moved downstairs this past Friday and have done really well being down there. I expected some midnight wanderings but we haven't had any of that yet. They love their rooms and are really stoked about them. Their old rooms upstairs will be turned into the baby's room (Ethan's old one) and my scrapbooking/computer room (Abby's old room) Right now the baby's room just has my rocking chair, the change table and a dresser in it. Later tonight we are going to set up the crib and get the bedding and everything set up. When that room is finished I'll post pictures too. Unfortunately my scrapbooking room will be the last to set up and probably won't happen till after this little one is born (less than 3 weeks!!) But I'm in serious nesting mode and I might convince Ron to at least set up my new desk so I can slowly start organizing some stuff. I can't wait! I so miss having my own space.

so tired of being tired

Ok I get the fact that with only 5 weeks to go I'm going to be tired but geez! I wake up in the morning and I'm ready to go back to bed. Plus the fact that I have 2 sleep positions to choose from...it doesn't make for a restful sleep. Its a good thing that stuff is almost in the completed stages around here. The kids' new rooms have both been painted and Ron and I are so thankful my dad is coming this weekend to help install the carpets. After that its just a matter of moving furniture. I feel so bad for Ron as he's doing all of this moving on his own (well all the heavy stuff) but I'm getting anxious to be able to set up the baby's room. I'll be taking pictures this weekend of the carpet installation and then post about the new rooms...be prepared for some serious color. You head down the hallway in the basement and get to see a distinctive glow coming from each bedroom which have been appropriately nicknamed the "frog room" and the "cotton candy room"

Just playing around with my tripod and remote...

Here I am hugely 34 weeks pregnant. Thankfully things are going well...our baby boy is sure kicking up a storm. Abby jokes about the baby using a bomb to get out of my tummy. I think she's been watching too many Loony Tunes shows...course the way this one kicks it sure feels like it some days. 6 more weeks to go!!! 8)

March Design Team Stuff...

This was a mini album that I did about Abby's friends. All supplies are from Scrapper's Haven
Layouts have used Bo Bunny's Teen Chic papers...very fun to work with

The great hunt...

The kids were so excited to be able to hunt eggs outside. With our freak snow storm we weren't sure if they would but the die hards that they are it was hard to hold them back.
Ethan got the harder ones and Emily had the easier eggs...still one always gets left out. Ron found a hidden egg in the bumper of his truck 3 days later...after he had driven to work and to Athabasca a few times.
This is the picture that I got seconds before she hit her head on the top of the wishing well. Poor girl, it wasn't even for a chocolate egg!
Ethan trudging out to the trampoline to do a last look around.
Abby is not so good at the "hot-cold" game. The egg is actually right next to her and it took her 5 minutes to find it.

Happy Birthday Mashy!

Yup my baby (ha!) brother is a whole 27 years old today. And even though he never remembers *my* birthday (hint, hint!) I've decided to wish him a happy one anyways. I can't get over how baby faced he looks!!!

Egg dying....

We ventured out, despite mommy being sick, to Auntie's place to dye eggs...
Emily totally got into it :)
My Abby concentrating so hard on painting her eggs
Emily working away with Grandma's help

Our two peas in a pod...what one does the other has too, lol!
My tentative little artist...Ethan was way more interested in eating the hard boiled eggs.

The group shot...
Abby and Grandma

Some new pictures of the kids...

Before anyone says anything...I get that there are more pictures of Abby and that's just because I'm getting the gargoyle look with Ethan lately :P