.Thanksgiving... check!

No we don't have a baby yet. My due date is tomorrow (Oct 26th), but we are so anxious for her to get here already. All along I was hoping she'd come early. I figured I'd blog about other recent happenings in the meantime… Like our Canadian Thanksgiving for instance. It was delicious and fun thanks to Air's family and Tam & Jadey's awesome home and yard (sad that Tara and Tom couldn't make it though).

Will I ever get used to having Thanksgiving so early? I don't know.

Turkeys (two of them!), sweet potatoes (with marshmallows mmm), mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, rolls, carrots, punch, TONS of desserts… everything!

↓↓↓Including these wonderful people↓↓↓

↓↓↓After that we ran outside and raked up the millions of leaves into a huge pile for jumping. We played out there for hours. Ames was game↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓can you spot Tiana in this pic?↓↓↓

↓↓↓Air had fun taking photos of everyone in the leaves too↓↓↓

↓↓↓Thank you Tam for taking some photos of us… she's good right?↓↓↓

Fair warning: This is probably the most ridiculous set of pictures I've ever had taken of me.

We were going for awkward ↓↓↓

We all filled out these lists Air's Dad made of ‘thirteen things we’re thankful for’ (since Thanksgiving was on the 13th). We all went around and shared our lists with each other—mine came with a lot of explanation (and some tears… I’m really thankful guys).

↓↓↓Here's Air's list and then mine↓↓↓

 

Can you read them? Anyway… Happy Thanksgiving when it comes to you next month too! hehe

.Prairie Gardens: Autumn Adventure

In a world where you never go anywhere fun because you always have other responsibilities or plans or your child is always napping or your husband is always sick or your extended family is always busy, it can be difficult to find a Saturday to just GO and spend together at the corn maze/pumpkin patch/farm. Sometimes you just have to pick a day and make it work.

We happened to pick the windiest day there ever was, and one of those days where Ames just really needed a good long nap. Despite all that, it was still one of the most fun days we've had in months! haha This is the second year we've gone to Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm and we absolutely love this place! We were really happy that Air’s family could come along with us this year too.

We started out in the little petting zoo because we all know how obsessed Ames is with animals:

 

↓↓↓Can't you just see how tired this poor boy was??↓↓↓

These little goats are so adorable and its hilarious to see them walking up and down the ramps onto the rooftops. Goats are the best.

↓↓↓He loves playing drums↓↓↓

↓↓↓Then something pretty terrible happened… Ames got pushed (by a little boy) off the platform of this little playground and landed on his back on the ground about 4 feet down!!↓↓↓

Most of the rest of the day was pretty emotional for him… Amesy+no nap+getting hurt=one sad boy! He was really clinging to his Daddy (I don’t think Air minded one bit).

↓↓↓We took his mind off it by going on a train ride. Another one of his favorite past times↓↓↓

↓↓↓If I wake up one day and find that Ames no longer has this incredible big cheeky profile… I might die↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Tessa and Josh had fun playing giant chutes and ladders and checkers while we rode the train↓↓↓

↓↓↓We watched some cute puppet shows↓↓↓

↓↓↓Baby Jake gets cuter and cuter every minute of his life↓↓↓

Then when we went over to watch the pirates shooting off the pumpkin cannons, Ames couldn't handle the loud bangs and he went to sit with “Gwomma” and fell right to sleep on her lap… THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED!

He slept for a little while while we wandered around… and then Tam and I went through the sweet haunted house together and I almost peed my pants and went into labor at the same time when some kind of creepy hanging skull started moving right in front of my face. haha

I do miss going to awesome haunted houses every year growing up.

↓↓↓Air caught this adorable photo of his parents holding hands and swinging …young love↓↓↓

Thank goodness we found a day to go again this year! These are the kinds of things that make life worth blogging about right? haha

(See last year's adventure here)

.project eight: master bathroom

 

There you go, I’m starting you off with a before and after shot of our master bathroom renovation.

But now, before I show you more after’s I’m definitely going to show you more before’s and some during’s, m’kay? We actually started renovating this bathroom back in February and we finished it in April… it was easy peasy compared to the master bathroom reno. No tile, no problem! For some reason I never got around to taking photos of it finished until recently? Weird, guess I was too focused on our big basement renovation, which we were beginning at the same time.

This bathroom was gross. The inside of that cabinet was so filthy I refused to store a single thing in there for the entire two years before we tore it out. I didn’t get a picture of the original toilet though. This is our new one here.

Here’s the floor once everything was torn out (including the light fixture hence the lamp):

So just like every room in this house—the walls! Just horribly filthy and covered in dents and blobs of painted on guck. Every inch needed to be scraped and sanded and mudded and sanded again and painted.

Once I had the walls and ceiling all painted we installed this vanity fixture I fell in love with from Home Depot:

We installed the same awesome and simple vinyl flooring we used in our kitchen and main bathroom. It went in in a night and we immediately re-installed the toilet and a new cabinet! Yay!

Air cut the big wall mirror again and built this frame for the smaller sized one:

I begged him to let me paint it white but he wouldn’t have it this time, he loves the natural wood color in there.

It’s pretty nice I guess.

And here it is again… the finished master bathroom:

I can’t tell you how spoiled I feel having a bathroom right beside my bed these days with my multiple nightly bathroom breaks, etc. It’s heavenly.

I’m really gonna miss this house some day… Hopefully that happens later rather than sooner.