Well we are almost there! Time flies when your having fun! Just kidding, time hasn’t flown and this has definitely not been fun! I learned at the doctor’s this week that I am dialated to almost a 2 and that her head couldn’t be any lower or it would be out! My doctor, bless her heart said she didn’t want me to go overdue because the baby would get too big! So now I am very relieved to know I won’t be going 2 weeks overdue. Praise the Lord. She has got to be running out of room in there! Here at the Dickmeyer household we are getting very antsy and impatient. Today I spent my time making Miss Violet a Welcome banner, check it out:

After not updating the blog for waaaayy to long I am back and promise to keep it updated! Now that little princess Violet is almost here, I have lots more to talk about! Unless you live an incredibly exciting life or are a great writer, its hard to think of things to blog about without kids! To start things off I wanted to unveil the nursery, which might I add, turned out awesome! Check it out!
Welcome to Violet’s Room!
I bought a cheap crib set and added the ruffles and bows as well as made the minky dot crib sheet.
Vintage handkerchief/minky dot pillows I made.
Vintage handkerchief curtain valance I made.
Old rocking chair I painted and scuffed up.
More pillows… alice in wonderland of course!
Alice in Wonderland wall art by me.
Crackle paint shelf with vintage clothes.
Right side room view.
Left side room view.
old book shelf I painted, scuffed and added cute shelf liner/vintage blanket rack with blankets I made/my old rocking chair when I was little.
Changing table Justin painted for me, added cute vintage style knobs.
Tea time.
bought a cheap basic mobile and added some details- ribbons and minky dot cover.
one of my favs- the lamp shade I made.
alice wooden blocks I made.
love the twig wreath frame.
other window- bought some gingham curtains and then added on strips of fabric and trimming to make them extra long!
thanks to etsy for the cute name decal- on right wall next to crib.

She certainly didn’t inherit it from me… quite the photogenic covergirl.

I'm so cute and innocent

I never leave “presents” around the house, only outside

“I certainly didn’t unroll and tangle up all your yarn Mom”

ok, maybe I did

So I actually did it… I came home with another puppy. Third time I have came home with a new little family member without Justin’s acknowledgment or consent. Hence, his anger over the whole thing. (Side note: I got the pup the same day I rearranged the closets… bad idea) I had been thinking lately that Trixie needs a little buddy. Of course she loves playing with her brothers, but sometimes a girl just needs a little sister, who will eventually equal her in size. Trix is very spoiled and basically a snobby puppy. I baby her to no end. I felt that she needed a playmate so she wouldn’t be so dependent and have to be by my side 100% of the time. So I found a cute little 8 week old yorkie and brought her home, obviously before Justin came home from work, obviously. Justin was furious, Trixie hated her and me… she growled and bullied poor Penny and totally ignored me. Two weeks later and Trix and Penny are two peas in a pod. They wrestle and play and keep each other busy. Its wonderful. Justin has forgiven me but has made it clear no more of these shenanigans.. do you think a bunny or a baby duck would count? I’m thinking he just meant dogs…

Hiding from Max

Justin came home last Monday with a few surprises… one being, da dadadaaa! The new closets! I moved everything into the office closet for him! Now he can have his own closet and I can have mine! I’m so thoughtful huh…
Behold, my new closet…

My New Closet (yes those are bunny ears)

A dream come true

I may even consider letting him hang some football posters in there

Closet space… a girls best friend. A place a girl can go to admire all her pretty soft clothes and shiny heels. A place to hang all your necklaces, scarfs and hats and even a picture of your idol Lady Gaga (maybe thats just me). I’m fortunate enough in this world of micro closets and pipe dreams based off MTV Cribs and the Real Housewives on the Bravo channel, to have a decent sized closet. But… and of course there is a but, my husband shares it with me. After consulting other women on this matter, most tell me they simply put their husbands clothes in another closet. Do I dare? I mean, my poor Juicy Couture track suits are getting squished and I can barely pull a hanger out. I have shirts I haven’t seen in months because they are trapped in the back. I can’t even fit my dresses or cute jackets and plaid blazer in there at all, they are hidden in the office closet. Should I have to take this closet abuse another day? My beloved shoes, my best friends, are crammed and squeezed in all the nooks and stacked around like a garage sale. I pride myself on having the whole closet (including Justin’s side) color coordinated and it gets all ruined by the shoe explosion. My jewelry is tangled and I can’t even reach my bedazzled pink cowboy hat or my assortment of tights and leggings. Using the whole closet could really complete me, its the average housewives american dream. Then I could buy a fuzzy leopard chair with pink fuzzy pillows and set it in the center of my haven and spend my time gazing at my treasure. Hey, he gets the garage, the closet would only be fair.

Two weekends ago we went camping. Isn’t camping fun? The s’mores, campfire, cute red tent and smell of nature. Well…. we had all of that more. Let me start by saying that we went camping at Folsom lake, Beals Point to be exact. We didn’t trek up in to the mountains to explore the great outdoors, we drove 15 minutes up the road for our great expedition. That may have been our first mistake. We arrived early Friday evening truck packed, Hartwin in the back and big grins on our face. We wanted our campsite to be out in the boonies, maybe the furthest one away. We wanted to feel alone in the wilderness where bears could attack our food and we slept with our pocket knifes. Maybe we would even get lost and have to kill a mountain lion for food to survive. Well, our spot ended up being one of the first ones on the camping loop, right next to the road. But that wasn’t the bad part. Right across from us was a Citrus Heights (ghetto town of Sacramento area) family reunion. Are you kidding me? Instead of listening to the birds, crickets and sounds of the forest, we got to thug out to all the dirty rap music we wanted. With their lowered trucks and loud sound systems blasting at all hours at night, it wasn’t quite what we expected. Then are neighbors arrived at about 10pm. Oh boy. Not sure what they were on or experimenting with but they stayed up all night jabbing away only to go to bed around 8am the next day. If we had been comfy cozy in our cute red tent, we may have been able to block it out… well, being that I haven’t been camping since high school, I forgot that no padding under your sleeping bag is pure hell. Hip bones, back bones, elbows and other bones we didn’t even know existed dug into the hard ground. My sweet husband went to Costco the net day and bought us an air mattress. I suppose camping in town has its advantages.
Day two… we are hiking and walking around the lake, eating foil meals and enough s’mores for a family of 8. Then comes the other neighbor. I would take the Eminem, 50 cent and Snoop Dogg any day over this fruit loop. For one, he was obsessed with Hartwin and kept joking that he was going to take him. Two, he told the most horrific jokes… blonde jokes, sex jokes, political jokes, and racist. He would not leave us alone. He hung at our campsite for hours. Everytime he would finally walk away to go back to his site, 5 minutes later he returned with more jokes about the “ragheads” walking by. His vodka hidden in his lipton raspberry tea bottle raised his voice 5 octaves which resulted in him shouting “Wheres the snipers” and “go back to your country” in regards to the poor Muslim and Israeli people walking by to their campsite. Luckily I was reading a book so I buried myself in that and let Justin suffer. Sorry honey. All in all, we had a great time, learned how to pitch a tent, start a fire and fully enjoyed roughing it. Next time I think we will actually go out of our area to camp, somewhere that’s too far for Citrus Heights people to go to.

Sorry for slacking on the blog guys, facebook has taken presidence lately. That darn facebook, sucks you right in. I think I am also addicted to the quizs they have on there.. like ‘how blonde are you?’, ‘what animal are you’, ‘what color is your aura?’ and ‘how redneck are you?’… by the way I scored ‘total redneck, don’t ask me how but I guess it’s growing up in Loomis. Today I took ‘What dog are you?’ and found out I’m most like a beagle. Geez…. why couldn’t I be like a wolf? A measly little pestering beagle is hardly something I was going for. There are some good things about facebook though, I have reunited with old friends and have been meeting up with a few. It’s always fun to reminisce back to elementary school or high school. Plus I am not a phone person.. I actually hate talking on the phone, so facebook works perfectly. A quick hi, how are ya, no 30 minute phone call necessary. So, on to another subject… gosh there is so much going on, where to begin (actually I have nothing)… Tonight my friend Lisa is coming over for a sewing party. haha, I guess that sounds pretty lame but I assure it will be most entertaining. I will be sewing hair clips onto her hair extension while watching Twilight and eating huge amounts of candy. I know I know, you all are wishing I had invited you but I really need peace and quiet when I watch Twilight and lust over Robert Pattinson. So one other person is all I can do. Gosh that man is amazing… Rob, Robby, Robert… my heart be still….

I just wanted to say a big congrats to my brother-in-law Jason and his soon to be wifey Melissa! They are getting married in August! Woo Hoo! I’ll have another sister, you can never have too many!!

OK, SO I HAVE TO WRITE THIS WHOLE POST IN CAPS CUZ MY FAKE NAILS ARE SOOOO LONG THAT I CAN BARELY TYPE. I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR THE TYPOS. I LITERALLY CANNOT DO ANYTHING WITH THESE DANG THINGS, INCLUDING ZIPPING MY PANTS AND OPENING A CAN OF SODA. BEAUTY IS PAIN PEOPLE. WE GOT BACK ON WEDNESDAY FROM THE AMAZING KAUAI! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN AND GORGEOUS WEATHER THE WHOLE TIME. I THINK I DESERVE LIKE THREE MONTHS OF SUNSHINE AFTER IT RAINED THE ENTIRE DAY OF MY WEDDING. I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE IT. THE WEATHER REPORT TOTALLY LIED. MAYBE I SHOULD WRITE A COMPLAINT LETTER TO WEATHER.COM. OH WELL, THE PICS TURNED OUT GREAT, I SUPPOSE THE RAIN HELPED WITH THAT. A BIG THANKS TO MY DAD FOR ALL THE LANDSCAPING AND FLOWERS EVERYWHERE, HE DID AN AWESOME JOB! IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL, I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED IT AND STAYED SOMEWHAT DRY. WE REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU THAT CAME HELP US CELEBRATE OUR SPECIAL DAY! NOW BACK TO THE HONEYMOON… DETAILS… THE PG RATED VERSION OF COURSE. WE DID SO MANY ACTIVITIES, WE BARELY SAT AROUND! WE WENT ON A HELICOPTER RIDE AROUND THE WHOLE ISLAND, WENT ON A SUNSET DINNER CRUISE, ATTENDED A LUAU, AND WENT ON A 4 HOUR HORSEBACK RIDING TRIP TO WATERFALLS! WE ALSO HIKED TO THE TOP OF THE SLEEPING GIANT MOUNTAIN.. IN 90 DEGREE WEATHER… I WAS DYING. MY FAVORITE HIKE WAS THROUGH THE HIGHEST SWAMP IN THE WORLD… 8 MILES LONG. I ALMOST HAD TO CARRY JUSTIN ON MY BACK, HE WAS LAGGING BEHIND ME. FOR SOME REASON I AM A POWER HIKER.. I JUST KEEP ON CHARGING THROUGH. OOO, AND ANOTHER TOTALLY COOL THING WE DID WAS HIKE OVER ALL THESE HUGE LAVA ROCKS TO THE SECRET LAVA POOLS. THE GREATEST PART WAS THAT WHATEVER WE DID THEY WASN’T VERY MANY PEOPLE. WE HAD A PRIVATE BEACH AT OUR RESORT WITH LIKE 5 PEOPLE AT A TIME ON IT. JUSTIN ALSO TALKED ME INTO SNORKELING WHICH ENDED UP BEING SOOOO COOL AND NOT SCARY AT ALL. I WAS SCARED OF THE BIG WAVES AND MAYBE TAD SCARED OF A SHARK, BUT IT WAS SO NEAT AND WE SAW ALL THESE CLOWN FISH AND NEON FISH… AWESOME EXPERIENCE. I RECOMMEND IF YOU GO TO KAUAI, STAY IN KAPAA IN THE EAST, IT IS SUNNY ALL THE TIME AND THE CHEAPEST AREA ON THE ISLAND. SO NOW WE ARE BACK, ALOT TANNER, AND ALOT POORER, HAA.