Crib Assembly 101

Since the baby is due in January, we are trying to get a head start, because the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are stressfull enough, not to mention basket season and Kiesha's wedding, without throwing in extra baby stress. So since we already bought the baby's furniture, we decided last night to put the crib together, even though we haven't put up baseboards yet, but they are painted and ready to go, but if you look closely, you can see my nice floor that is finished. Any way, the dresser/changer comes already assembled, yipee. I knew this would be quite interesting. This is the beggining of many more things that daddy will have to put togther.

I call this one, "You put that thing up to this thing?" However Tim does look "in the zone"


After getting one and a half sides done, I noticed a big warning sticker in chinese that would be on the outside, and we just couldn't have that, so we had to take both pieces apart, and start all over. Here we have two sides and a back, it's beggining to look good. That is the dresser in the background, I forgot to take a picture of it.

Daddy adding some finishing touches. I did help a lot, but there was no one there to take a picture of me helping, and tim would not let me go search for the tripod.

Here it is, our bueatiful new crib, it is so cute, I really love it. You can't really tell, but it is cherry and matches the floors pretty good.

Some finishing touches and we are good to go. I couldn't resist but to put the stuff in it, it looked so sad all alone with nothing on it. I just got to excited. We are doing Raggedy ann and andy, I found some old pictures and dolls I had from when I was a baby, and decided to give them life again. Then I found out they had a bedding set, and I was sold. They discontinued the bedding set the year Tim and I got married, and I was so upset. On ebay it is really expensive and used and all that. My mom found the entire bedding set at a garage sale, sadly,the lady had lost her baby and decided to do something different, so we got all of it for $25, and she had never used it, and was glad that someone was really excited about finding it and was going to use it, that was so meant to be, and it can be boy or girl so we can get things ready now.

Our Nightmare (Cont'd)

I Don't know why these pictures are so bad, Tim is getting his really nice $2,000 camera for Christmas, and I can't wait, even though it is really for taking portraits of the baby, but still. Anyway, this is my buetiful new wood floor living room. It is a miracle that it is finally done, even though we are still not too close to finishing.

Birthday Boy having fun in the sun.

Christopher celebrated his 3rd birthday back in June. I can't believe he is 3, I was there when they wheeled him into the nursery, wow, how the years fly by.

Melissa had a fun pool party for all the kids and babies, this was the baby pool.

Christopher on his new motor bike.

Texas

The flowers in the arbatorium were really pretty
Tim and Alicia sword fought at the Renissance fair.
Our Texas trip went really well.

We are going to have a baby!!!!!!!

So, to break the news to Tim I put some "daddy" bibs, a sippy cup, and blanket in his sock drawer, because he always changes his socks when he get home before he leaves out again. After talking him in to opening the drawer, he said I have already seen these bibs, I was there when we bought them. Frustrated I said, well, I just thought you should get used to your stuff being mixed in with the baby's, still not getting it, I showed him the test, he said I should take another one, just t o be sure, needless to say he finally believed me, and was so excited.
PROUD PARENTS TO BE!!
PROUD PAPA!!!!!!
We have already started painting the baby's room yellow, and we have the furniture.
Grandma (my mom) helped me with the room. She is just as excited as we are.
I found out that we are going to have a baby, I guess we weren't too far behind Amber. We are estatic, I already can't wait and I am only 8 weeks and 4 days.

Our Nightmare

Tim cutting the tile
Marc laying our kitchen tile
Tim cutting more tile
Remodeling has turned into a bigger job than I expected, but we are actually finally getting somewhere. We have now finished two bedrooms with wood flooring.

Suprise (Sort of)

This was the cake that Tim got me
Me and my girls
Amber even made Tim clean up some, that is a rarity.
Tim threw a "Suprise" Party for me, even though it was a total suprise.

I DID IT!!!!!!

Myself with my wonderful husband who has supported me through even at times when I didn't want to do it anymore.
As have my parents.
I finally graduated on May 3 from the University of Central Arkansas.

Ms. Ibarra's Birthday Bash

I was so busy during the party with everything that I didn't get any pics, duh Angela. Everything went really well, and she said that she had never had a real birthday party before, so it was pretty exciting.

In Memory of...

Wow, this has been a crazy weekend, I will post graduation pics and Ms. Ibarra's Birthday pics later, but first I would like to take a minute to remeber some family we lost this Friday. It is kind of hard to explain how we are related, but I will try. Some of you may or may not know that here in Arkansas there were some tornados on Friday. 8 total fatalities, and three of them were ours. O.k., I have a half brother, we have the same mom, but different dads. Two of the deaths were his dad and step-mom. So please pray for him, I don't think it will really hit him until sometime this week that his dad is actually gone. Please pray for my mom, this was her first husband and she has know him since she was 15, and his having a little bit of a hard time. Mostly we are concerned for Malcom, my brother, even more confusing the dad's name is malcom too, my brother is malcom jr. Now, especially pray for Dawn, this is Malcom's other sister with the same dad. She lost her dad, step-mom, and her little girl Kadi, who was four years old. She also lived there at the house and now has no home, since the house is completely gone, even the foundation is not all together. We went to the site on Friday, and just seeing it makes you sick to your stomach, it was awful. So please just remember the Brumley family in you prayers.

Suprise!

Raegen enjoyed playing with my balloons.
Since my degree is in Mass Communication with an emphasis on Television, the gang put together this little "T.V." so everyone could see what I will look like when I am on the real T.V. We do have some ingenious people around here, I heard it was Ms. Edna's idea,
Melissa and Amber did such a good job serving, thanks gals.



O.K., so now that I have shared some stuff about us in general, I want to get up to date. The church suprised me with a little graduation party last night. I love my church family, they are so great we do not know what we would do without them.

We went to Green Bay in August 2005, and took the tour of Lambaeu field. What a difference four months can make, it was beutiful in August, too bad they don't have games then.

HIYAH

Tim and Marc got their black belts in akido jujutsu, I do not know if that is spelled right.

Family Fun

Last year, Pastor Carnagey celebrated 50 years in the ministry.
It was also the twins ten year high school reunion.
This is Tim, Marc, amber and myself at the San Antonio zoo.  CONGRATULATIONS to Marc and Amber as they are expecting a baby in November, Hopefully we won't be far behind. :)

Angela's Family

This is my family.

Tim's Family

Tim with his dad who lives in St. Louis.
These are the 6 Ibarra kids.

South Padre Island with Bro. Eddie.

Now for some random family picture

These are from when we went to Virginia with Bro. Eddie.

We visited Tim's cousin Dora.

Waukesha

This is us in Tim's childhood home of Waukesha Wisconsin, the snow really was pretty, but I am glad that I don't have to deal with it that much