The Girls' Room

So now that we know what we are having, I finally decided on what to do with the decor in the girls' room. It is still funny to think that we will have two girls or two children period.
I first took painters tape and marked off the room to see if I liked the idea that I had seen online. Once I laid it out and knew it would work, I started painting.



I love that you can buy little samples of the colors instead of just relaying on the swatch. I decided to go with green, despite my initial thought of wanting to go pink. I just realized that all my fabric and decor was pink and it would just be pink, on pink, on pink.



I am so happy with the way it turned out! So Cute!!
I think Sophie really likes it too.
The only thing left is to sand the joints that
I filled and paint the modeling white
since it is only primed right now.
Love it

24 Weeks Belly Picture

24 Weeks and 1 Day (Monday)

Columbia Part Two: Punta Faro

Ok, sorry I know this has taken forever to post...

Welcome to Punta Faro. We headed to this island 2 hours off the coast of Columbia on Tuesday afternoon via a 20 passenger speed boat. It was a nice day and fun being out on the water. I loved the boat ride, but was questioned by just about everyone on the trip if I was ok after the ride. Being prego and all you get that question alot.

My sweetheart and I in the boat waiting to head out to the island.


This was the little dock right outside of our room. We were just steps from the water.

The building we were in was the guest house and it had three separate rooms in it and then a common patio area with couches and hammocks.

Not a great shot, but there was not much to it. This is the door to our room and you can our bed inside. The bathrooms have a sink, toilet and shower in them but they are pretty primitive. The toilets worked some of the time and there was no hot water in the plumbing. You can picture the water coming out of the shower head like a hose on half power. It wasn't cold water, but definitely not warm. Being in the sun and salt water all day, any shower was welcomed.

Our guest house was located across a coconut field from the main area of the resort. It was beautiful, but I did worry about falling coconuts. I never saw one fall.

This little or not so little guy was hanging out in the coconut field.

This is the beach area where we spent most of our time. It was so beautiful and warm. We played in the water a bunch, went out snorkeling and Mike even got to go scuba diving.

For snorkeling they took us to a reef area about 10 minutes from the island. It was a little overcast that morning so the water was a little darker, but you could still see lots of fish. It was fun except for in those moments when you realize that you are in the middle of the ocean and something could eat you!
While there one of the guides swam over holding something. IT WAS A SHARK! He had caught a 3 foot shark and was swimming over to show us. I looked at it from a distance. Yikes!

The three of us posing for a picture. I am 21 weeks pregnant in these pictures.

Sitting in a beach chair relaxing.

More beach picture



It may be hard to tell unless you make this picture bigger, but this is Mike with live starfish for a bra singing a song from The Little Mermaid. It was hilarious, everyone was laughing so hard. Especially because he sang like 8 or 10 lines of the song.

This is the only picture I could find of me in my suit. It's a good side shot so you can see my baby belly.

This is the view from where we had breakfast each morning. We had lunch in another location each day and then dinner was moved each night to a different location.

All we can say is what an amazing experience it was and how grateful we are that we had the chance to experience it.

The crazy story of getting home will be in the next post.

Columbia Part One: Cartagena

I just want to start off by saying this trip was amazing!!! A once in a lifetime experience for sure. We both had the time of our life. Our trip started off with a slight detour which turned out to be really fun. Our flight (the 16 of us) from SLC to LAX was delayed, then it took 45 minutes to get to the gate once we landed, then it took 50 minutes for our luggage to come. (We had to get our luggage because we where switching airlines.) With all these delays we ended up missing our flight by 20 minutes.

By this time it was midnight pacific time. We spent the next three hours waking up the travel agency folks who were already in Columbia, finding a hotel, and walking three terminals over to find that the only food at LAX at 2am is McDonalds. 16 Bottles of water, 17 cheeseburgers, 3 cokes, 1 coffee and 1 salad later we were all held over until we could get a shuttle to the hotel.

The next morning we found out that we wouldn't be flying out until that night. Since we had a long wait, it was arranged for us to go to the Staples Center and see a hockey game and then out for a nice dinner. Then we went back to the airport and headed out for Fort Lauderdale, FL. We reached Florida at 7:30 am East Coast time. At this point we had to divide into two groups to get us to Columbia. Five of us were bussed to the Miami Airport to wait for a flight directly to Cartagena. The other 11 stayed in Fort Lauderdale and flew to Bogota then to Cartagena.

Finally after two days of travel we all arrived and started the next part of our journey in Cartagena and the Hotel Santa Clara Sofitel.
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The Sofitel was a beautiful luxury resort. "Originally built as a monastery in 1621, the Sofitel Santa Clara Hotel is a reference point in the heart of Cartagena de Indias, where its walls, which acted as a shield in ancient times, combine with colonial balconies and republican structures to evokethe splendor of days gone by."

There were toucans around the hotel. This is one helping himself to some breakfast in the courtyard. Breakfast at the hotel was pastries, fresh fruit and wonderful breads.

Our second night in Cartagena, after dinner, we took a carriage ride through the city.

We took a bus tour the morning after arriving. This is the courtyard inside the monastery on the highest point in Cartagena.

This is a Fort we visited on our bus tour. It has tunnels running throughout it. We walked down into one tunnel that is about two stories deep. It got pretty tight the further down we went.

In the walled city where we were staying there are squares like this every few blocks. Most restaurants have the majority of their seating outside in a square like this.

This is a square where we had dinner on the second night. The food was amazing, sushi, shrimp, beef tenderloin and coconut pie. All the food we had in Columbia was delicious.

This is a typical street in the walled city. Cartagena was very clean every where we went, even outside of the walled city.

These next pictures are a few of the beautiful doorways that where every where in the city.





After a few days in Cartagena our vacation continued a two hour boat ride away on a island in the Caribbean at a resort called Punta Faro. This will be my next post.