More Pictures

Just in case you can't get enough of Life with the Leivas here's a link to some pictures I just posted on Shutterfly....
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Just when you think you know what's going on....

everything changes! One of the most challenging things about being married to someone in the military is that the only thing that ever stays the same is that nothing ever stays the same. Change is the only constant.
In my current state of nesting/uberorganizing I really wish that I could control every aspect of everything going on in our lives. Today was just another reminder that I am absolutely not the one in control and I should just let go and let God. Why is this lesson so hard for me to remember!
I know I'm being way overdramatic here, Mike just found out he's staying with his current unit a bit longer than expected. He had been thinking he'd move to a different unit around the end of the year, now he found out it's more like the end of next year. In the grand scheme of things this really isn't a big deal (at least he's home) but when you'd been looking forward to something and it doesn't happen it's always a little disapointing. Now that I've complained about it I can get over it!

Pizza

We recently discovered that Olivia loves pizza. We don't eat pizza all that often, her first taste of pizza wasn't until her first trip to Chuck E. Cheese a few months ago. This past weekend we had dinner at a local pizza parlor and were reminded how much Olivia really does like pizza. She likes it so much she even says pizza, except she pronounces it "pizas", if only she liked broccoli as much!

Nesting

The countdown has officially begun. I have just 14 days until my due date and my nesting instincts have officially begun. I'm amazed that I can be so tired yet I'm completely unable to rest until I finish these projects. It's compulsive! I can't stop myself. I'm only working 3 and a half days a week at this point so that "rest" but really I'm spending that time doing all the things that MUST be done before the baby arrives.....like re-arrange the living room furniture. Here's a quick rundown of some of the projects that I completed over the last week:

• Rearrange the living room furniture
• Switch the coffee tables in the living room and the upstairs family room (fortunately Mike did this one as one of the coffee tables is really heavy)
• Rearrange all the family pictures hanging upstairs in the family room
• Take digital pictures of Olivia's artwork then photoshop them into posters to be hung in her room (see picture #1 below)
• Scan all the random family pictures that Mike and I have, edit them and frame them (see picture #2 below)
• Clean out and organize the pantry (look for more on that in another blog post later)
• Pack my bag for the hospital
• Make 50 hand-made baby announcements to be sent after Baby Leiva's arrival
• Get Baby Leiva's room ready to go: involved 3 loads of laundry, folding, hanging, major cleaning and re-organization
• Uploaded hundreds of photos that we've taken over the last several months (expect a separate blog posting about that later on as well)
• Took everything out of the linen closet, washed and re-folded it

This list may sound a little ridiculous to you and I am aware that it is ridiculous. The point is for the most part our house is pretty clean. We are only a family of 3 and since we both work and Olivia is at school the house is empty from 7am to 5pm Monday through Friday. We don't have any pets so it doesn't really have that much time to get dirty.

This is a terrible picture but at least you get the idea. I took digital pictures of all of Olivia's artwork then I uploaded them to Shutterfly. I created two 20 x 30 collage posters of some of my favorite pieces.

Again, another terrible picture. We have tons of random pictures of Mike and I growing up and of Mike's family in Guatemala. I scanned them all and did some photo editing so that they now all have similar color tones.