Round 2

Sienna Grace is going to be a big sister!! The Gipson family will be adding a member to the family in February! We are beyond thrilled and cannot wait to meet our new baby...in about 6 months! (I'm 12 weeks along right now).

We found out 1 week after we moved into our new home :)

Surprise face!

Our serious little girl. This was the day we told our family!

Baby Gipson #2 (due Feb.3, 2013)

Sienna is very excited about having a baby, although I know she has NO clue what that truly means yet. She is obsessed with baby dolls- feeding them, walking them, giving them a bath, and trying to change diapers (which is probably my favorite- she walks over, gets out a changing pad, takes out a wipe, wipes the baby, and then tries to put a diaper on...but ends up needing help from mommy and daddy with the diaper). So, although she loves her babies right now, and she loves real babies when she sees them, I know it will be different for her own sibling that is at our home 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week, (but I feel optimistic that she'll be a big helper and love on the baby most of the time). Sienna loves lifting my shirt (or dress--yikes!!) and looking at my belly and saying, "Shhh...baby ni-nights." Then she'll lift up her shirt and point to the baby in her belly :).

Along with the blessing of another baby, comes the morning sickness! I was sick for about 6 months with Sienna and I am really hoping that it doesn't last that long this time. I have not been throwing up nearly as much as I did with Sienna, but I am nauseous much more often. I do throw up every morning now and Sienna loves it. Yes, that's right...Sienna loves it when I throw up. She laughs and says, "Mommy, mo (more). Mo, mommy!" Awesome. She likes to imitate me throwing up while it's happening, which, definitely makes me smile while I'm hugging the toilet. I can't help but laugh.

There was a day last week, however, that she did not like it. I was starting to get her something to drink and I had to run to the bathroom. She followed me in there and said, "No mo mommy. I want yuce (juice). No mo....no mo mommy." I swear to you, she grabbed toilet paper, gave it to me, flushed the toilet, and was pulling me away...as I was continuing to throw up. It was really funny. Even though I do not like being sick (it's especially hard with a busy toddler), it is so worth it and I will gladly take it, knowing there will be a little baby at the end of this!

I will continue to update you throughout our pregnancy, so check back sometime soon!

We can't wait to see this sweet girl as a BIG SISTER! 

How is it possible that our sweet Sienna is going to be 2 in a little over a month??? 

Time has gone by WAY too fast!

Updated pics of our new home!

Here are the pictures of our home after we painted and changed some of the downstairs flooring. This blue color did not turn out how I was hoping. I wanted a blue-grey (more grey than blue). That didn't happen. But I don't mind it as much, now that we have furniture in it. We plan on painting the stair-rails white eventually (among many projects!). 

Formal dining room/sitting room

We took out the tile by the front door and added laminate all the way to the back of the house

We had the laminate make a trail go to the bathroom. We didn't want wet bodies crossing over the carpet to get to the bathroom, so this way, there is a nice path to get there. Behind the couch is a little play area with a few of Sienna's toys. This is the one room we had to re-carpet because the other carpet was in BAD condition. I look forward to one day replacing the carpet in rest of the house. This carpet is so clean and pretty!

TV nook area

The kitchen looks much nicer with beige walls! I did not like that maroon color. We also had the tile flooring removed and used the laminate in here as well. We love it. We are planning on painting the cabinets and I can't wait until we do. Because the counters are white tile, we can't paint them white (which would be my first choice). So I think we're going to be crazy and paint them a color. We're thinking a green that is similar to the cabinet against the back wall in the picture above. We'll see...we're looking into our options! I'm also on the hunt for a white round pedestal table to go in the kitchen. I'm on craigslist daily trying to find something cheap!

Now onto the upstairs:

Upstairs bathroom-we didn't paint or do anything to this room-yay!!

This was the pink/yellow room with Winnie the Pooh wall paper remnants...and the blue ceiling with clouds. Wow. What a combination. Now it is a green color that I am not a huge fan of. This green was also not the color I had planned. I wanted a light sage green and so I grabbed the can (or so I thought) that was the color of Sienna's room in our old house and I gave it to the painter. I didn't even look inside it. I saw the green on the outside, and since we didn't have any other green walls, I figured it was the correct one. WRONG. I came home to a much darker green room. I don't love it. I may need to change it in the future...(sorry Garth!). We'll see.

Guest room (previous Bratz doll room). What a difference paint makes! No more purple and pink.

Notice the left over purple fan blades? We still need to change those out! 

Sienna's room (I haven't put anything on the walls, so it is very boring). It is a beautiful light aqua color-which you can't really tell in these pics). I love the color in this room-finally!

The loft/playroom. This was white, but we painted it a nice, warm beige.  

This is the nook that we eventually want to build a desk into. Right now it stores our printer, my craft supplies, and Sienna's "coloring box." That is our last box from moving and she loves coloring all over it and in it. Cheap fun!

Master bedroom (also not the blue color I was hoping for. I wanted the same blue-grey as downstairs. I tried 5 samples of blues! I don't get why it's so hard to find! Don't ever come to me asking for help with paint colors!

There it is! We are loving our new home and can't wait for our many, many, many memories that will be created here.

Moving time!

Wow, the last month or so was CRAZY! First off, we moved!! We bought a home on the opposite side of town (we were previously renting the home I grew up in from my parents).  This happened to be the week before school was out (and that is crazy in itself). Right after we moved, we had to do some major deep cleaning in the new home (it was a foreclosure), we were also working on cleaning our old home to be rented out, then Sienna got sick, and then I had horrible allergies that turned into an awful sinus infection that lasted for way too long. Boo. But now we are moved in, things are clean, and we are loving our new home. We are all healthy and we look forward to all the new memories we will make in our new home. 

This is our new home!! We love it! We can't wait to take out those huge bushes in the front!

I'm going to give you a tour of our home BEFORE we painted and changed some of the flooring. I will post the "after" pictures on the next post!

This is the front room you walk into when you come into our home. It is the formal dining room/sitting area. This home came with grey-green walls with gloss stripes down the wall. Definitely not our style.

This is the other side of the formal dining room. This is what you see when you walk in.  More glossy stripes. Yuck.

Our maroon kitchen with tile floors...but not for long!

This is the family room connected to the kitchen. Back on the left is a bathroom.

This is the loft. I love this area! We have Sienna's toys up there and there is a little office nook in the back right corner (see below)

Office nook. Someday I'm hoping to build in a desk and some shelves...(on my to-do wish list)

French doors into the master bedroom (this is on the opposite side of the loft)

Master bedroom and closet #1

Master bathroom and closet #2 ( I can't believe there are 2 closets! Talk about storage!!)

Hallway to the other bedrooms and one of my favorite features of the house....

My UPSTAIRS laundry room with a small counter space!! I can't tell you how much I love this feature already. Laundry is already becoming much more efficient because I just walk it straight down the hall and put it away. AMAZING! (Ours used to be outside in the garage around a corner. It was always messy and clean clothes were always falling on the dirty garage floor).

Upstairs bathroom 

Now, are you ready for some crazy colors? Remember, this is all BEFORE we changed things up!

Bedroom #1

Yes, even the ceiling, closet doors, and the bedroom door were all painted these crazy colors...with remnants of Winnie the Pooh wallpaper here and there. 

Bedroom #2 (Sienna's current bedroom)

Again...LOTS of colors. They even painted the fan blades!

Bedroom #3- Crazy colored room with Bratz dolls wallpaper lining the room. I can't stand Bratz dolls...I just started to go off on the whole Bratz dolls concept, but then I deleted it. Haha. I don't need to vent about my distaste for them. Just know I couldn't wait for this wallpaper to come down!

Our beautiful pool. THIS, we did not change one bit :). We love our pool and so does Sienna! I'll post more pictures of the backyard on our next post.

So after all of these glorious shots, we did some changes to the house. We had the whole house painted and we changed some of the flooring downstairs. There are many other fun projects we have in mind, but those will have to come with time. Before we go I will leave you will a couple pictures from moving day. I was not good about taking pictures this day. I was a little busy :)

Garth bringing in the U-Haul

Sienna loved playing in the empty U-Haul!

She was cracking herself up

and then she pulled out some awesome dance moves 

Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of our amazing friends and family who helped us move. Our awesome brother-in-law came all the way up from Southern California bright and early in the morning and then went back home after he helped us later that after noon. How amazing is that? He really wanted to help us out. Man, we are blessed! 

Next post you will see our home AFTER we moved in! So come check back soon!