At last Cody is done with finals so I get my husband back again! I'm so proud of all the hard work he put into studying (sometimes going for 10 straight hours!) and we just hope the grades come back and reflect his hard work. His grades will determine if he gets his scholarship for next year so fingers crossed! I've been keeping pretty busy around the house and especially in the back yard. I got my garden boxes all set up but between Gage and the dog I'm not sure they'll make it far. I've already lost two pea plants and all my pumpkins to their destructive ways. Maybe I'll try fencing it in. I also removed about a ton (literally) of branches from some very overgrown lilac bushes. We just unloaded them at the dump this morning and it was so much work! The trimmed bushes look so much better but unfortunately it shows more of the neighbors house now. Oh well. I finished my outside project for this week by transplanting several aspen saplings we have in the back corner of the lot to the other end. Aspens work on a connecting root system with each other so I'm giving them about a 50/50 chance to survive the trip. They just don't have many of their own roots. So with the pictures I thought would give an insight into what the morning can be like with Gage. Let me sum it up. Lots of climbing. All the time! We were at a play place in the mall yesterday and Gage was scaling the steps to the slide with all the other big kids and several parents told me how shocked they were to see a 15 month old getting up there. And that's just Gage. He's tough, fearless and a boy through and through. I think I could walk away for an hour and he wouldn't even know I was gone. He must have been born with this independent spirit cause he is the total opposite of clingy. Which is great cause I'm too tired to even carry him most of the time. I haven't been having much morning sickness which is really great but it does stress me out cause I was so sick, all the time, with Gage. Maybe that means this one is a girl? Who knows? At least I have an ultrasound appointment on the 6th. The picture of my bedroom is to show the new bedding I got with my birthday money. I finally feel that I am starting to have an adult bedroom where I feel it's separate from the rest of the house. I'm hoping to have some fun pictures from our trip to Idaho next week and hopefully they won't all be of Gage screaming in his car seat. Cody's Grandma is catching a ride up to Idaho with us and all I can say is I hope she doesn't mind a screaming kid cause that's what's coming her way. Man I hate traveling!
