Christmas with Dakota Barker

We picked up this adorable little guy on Christmas Eve as my present! He was the spunky, chunky, fun one I'd picked out. We are loving the guy! He is the cutest thing I have ever seen, and I just am so in love with him. (I know that it is going to be 10x that when we have our baby). This Christmas has honestly been the best I have ever had, and it was the first married Christmas I had ever experienced.  Russell seriously has made this Christmas so special for me by really putting thought into the gifts he gave me. He knew I loved the wooden headboards I'd seen on Pinterest and he actually made me one while I was away at a girls Christmas night! I'll post pictures once we've completed it all the way. I just love my little family and love that it's growing!!!! Merry Christmas Everyone!

We're having a BABY!  We couldn't be more excited! We are really so excited to meet our sweet little one.  We both had been feeling the promptings that we needed to start trying to have a baby. I will be the first to admit that I ignored those promptings trying to counsel God that we needed to wait for Russell's schooling, but God knows best. When I finally gave into these spiritual feelings and told Russell, he told me he had already felt it too. We are 8 weeks and 2 days along and baby Barker should be arriving around July 27th.  We can't wait!!!!  Russell has been so amazing during the morning sickness. He really is the greatest husband and I am so lucky to be his wife.

Christmas Presents

All I asked for Christmas was a Shih Tzu puppy! I love Shih Tzus!!! Just look at the fur ball!!!! Russell and I were so happy when we found a batch of puppies in South Jordan for sell! To make it a surprise I picked out my two favorites in the litter, and Russell got to choose the 1 out of the two to buy. My two choices were either 1) the thick, chunky, spunky, puppy that was running around or 2) the oldest and wisest of the bunch. I really have no idea which one Russell will pick, but we get to pick it up on Christmas Eve!

All I can say is we are so excited to be welcoming these two new members to our family!!! 

Hope everyone's Christmas's are going to be as exciting!!!

Our House

I want to apologize that this post is long past overdue. I wanted to show pictures of the house we just purchased. Russell, and I know that this isn't our "dream" house right off the bat, but we were excited for the chance to find something and MAKE it beautiful.

Our house has 2 bathrooms, 1 car garage, a backyard, 3 bedrooms, 1 office,  laundry room, attic storage, storage closet under the stairs, kitchen, and living room with a fireplace.

The first two weeks that we moved in we had to get right to work re-painting the entire upstairs and re-carpeting. I LOVE Pinterest, it helped me not only find the paint colors I wanted, but also gave me ideas on widening the baseboards and painting the doors dark walnut. Here is a picture when it looked like a construction zone in our house. My parents, and Russell's parents were at the house pretty much every day for those two weeks helping us paint! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

FINISHED PRODUCT...

THE ENTRYWAY

THE HALLWAY

THE BATHROOM (paint color Harvest Brown)

THE KITCHEN

 (paint color Benjamin Moore's Providence Olive, and we painted the counters to look like granite)

MASTER BEDROOM... 

(paint color Benjamin Moore's Tennyson White)