today

well.  I DID it.  I sat down and finished our taxes and just sent them off to our CPA friend to see if he will double-check them for us.  And, I am excited, because unlike last year (fingers crossed that I did everything correctly) these were WAY easier, and we should be getting a nice chunk of money back.  It was really frustrating when I started, because I KNOW I did all of Jeremy's self-employment tax paperwork back in July after he was done working at the church, but none of the forms were saved anywhere on the computer.  So I had to re-do a lot of stuff, but it didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would.


Anyway, I decided that once I completed that, I would post about my day!


I don't work until 5 (and my boss just texted me and said I would probably be coming in later than that), so it has felt like I've pretty much had the day off.  Jeremy didn't have to go off to work until 9 today - he has thankfully been getting lots of extra hours at the church, because they are tearing down and putting in a big new deck.  So, I made us some lattes while he cooked up some bacon.  Then we had egg, avocado, and bacon sandwiches on english muffins.  OH so yummy.  I am obsessed with avocado since I bought some delicious ones for only .50 each!  I need to go back to that store and get some more now that I know how good they are.


After Jeremy left, I worked on party decorations for our gender reveal party on Sunday (Angela, did I tell you I am so happy you can come?? I told Amber, haha.  And Candice, you would of course had been invited if you didn't live so far away - lots of pictures will be shared, I'm sure)!  I am getting excited about it! I have found so many fun/cute teal/red decorations and my sister-in-law, Hanna, is making a some cute stuff too, and helping with food, etc.  Here is a sneak peek at the mess that is my dining room because of all the craftiness going on:

Yes, I spraypainted an old frame and a cupcake holder I got at Walmart for $6 to match the color scheme.  I am excited because these are the colors I am doing for Shea/baby's room too, so I didn't mind buying things I could use again for decor in there.


I also baked three loaves of lemon-coconut banana bread (my favorite recipe).  And they turned out better than any batch I have ever made!  I made so much because I brought home all the too-ripe-to-serve bananas from work.  I'm planning on giving some to my sister-in-law and then taking some into work.  The third loaf will be frozen for when we have company and we have half a loaf left to enjoy this week with our coffee.

After that was done baking, I did a 45 minute work out.  Felt SO good, I haven't worked out in about a week, because I've been so exhausted from work (and a little lazy).  My hair looks horrible, but here I am in my work out clothes - it is so nice that work out clothes are stretchy so I can wear them the whole time!  I'm sure a better/more official belly pic will come when Jeremy is home to take one, but it might not happen until tomorrow.

And, of course, my Sheabug!  He played so much today and is always so, so, happy - how can I get his cheerful and energetic attitude?  I tell you, this kid has always been a sweety, but in the past month, he has just turned into super-sweety!  Always smiles and hugs and laughter and love from this boy (and the occasional tantrum, or course!)  Oh yes, and he is in overalls which the back leg is covered in play-dough from this morning, and that is still his pajama shirt on underneath.  Its been a chill day.

I had bought some noodles for him to do stringing with - turned out fun, but hard, so it didn't last long.  I threw them into a bowl with some counting bears and measuring cups, and he had so much fun concentrating on this!  He divided them up by bears and noodles, tried to fit them all into the smaller containers, and eventually dumped them all over the table.  Good clean fun.  I put them in a ziploc bag for other times - I know this will get a lot of use and there are SO many different activities he can do with it.  Yep, homeschooling has begun ;)

Shea is still taking a nap right now, I think I am definitely going to get OFF the computer after working on taxes and staring at this screen so long and probably go do laundry and try and organize my files a little better - my organizational system has not been very uh, organized since we moved here.  Gotta get back on track for the next year!  

Oh yes, and this is just me being a nerd and feeling very smart.  I set up dual monitors today. Which isn't really very hard at all with the help of google, haha.  But it made doing taxes so much easier since I could keep track of the millions of forms we have to fill out, and copying numbers over was so much easier when I could look at both forms at the same time.  Love it, never going back.

Tomorrow is my ultrasound at 10am!  It came quick!  I'm still voting girl!  We'll see...;)