You may have noticed a lack of big DIY projects on my blog over the last few months. No Britney Spears coffee tables. No ugly purple desks. No painting huge laminate armoires.

Lately, I’ve just felt sick. And tired. And sick and tired of being sick and tired. But, I have a good reason why.

I am now able to joyously announce that Zack’s biggest wish has come true. He is finally going to be a big brother.

As you can imagine, we are simply over the moon that we’ll have a second little one joining us in August. I think this is the one ultimate DIY project that doesn’t need a tutorial.

Zack is absolutely over the moon. He is so excited about “his” baby and wears his brother-to-be tee every single day. I actually had to buy him a second one, because I was getting tired of washing it every night.

He has grand plans of “baby brother” sleeping with him in his bed as soon as he’s born. It’s too early for us to know the sex of the baby, but Zack and I are both 100% convinced (and super excited) that it will be another boy. My husband, Tom, isn’t making any predictions. He’s no fun!

I’m at the end of my first trimester, and we’ve had our 12 week scan to make sure everything is looking good. I’m hoping that I will be back to my energetic, DIY self in the next few weeks.

We can’t wait to meet you, Baby B!

I want to give a huge thanks to my long-time friend JJ of The BLAH BLAH BLAHger and Jen Johnson Photography. I took these photos of Zack and she waved her magic editing wand on them (all while keeping my pregnancy a secret). I love you, Jen!

I also ordered his shirt from Zoey’s Attic. It’s so adorable that I know that some of you would be asking. I can’t wait to order matching Big/Little tees once the baby gets here.

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It’s time to announce the winner of the Cap Creations jewelry giveaway! Out of 309 comments (gah!), the random number generator selected Commenter #25:

Congrats to Natalie! I’ll get you in contact with Cathy so you can make your selection!

If you weren’t the big winner, don’t forget that you can receive 15% off your Cap Creations purchase by entering LWL15 at checkout!

Four years ago today, Puxatony Phil saw his shadow.

Want to know how I remember that? It’s because it’s the same day that my own little Groundhog didn’t see his own.

My sweet baby big boy turns four today. I can’t believe how quickly these past four years have just flown by. It still seems like yesterday that I was in a panic, because I was actually responsible for taking care of another human being.

Today is much different though. I still panic more than I probably should, but being the mother to a little boy is so much fun – a complete joy. I couldn’t ask for more.

In order to celebrate his big day, we hosted a Hot Wheels-themed birthday party in Zack’s honor this weekend. And like the DIY Dorks that we are, we decided that it would be fun to build a huge ramp for the kids to race their Hot Wheels. I give my husband full credit for his masterpiece (he created this from white molding of some sort from Home Depot):

As you can imagine, the kids thought it was just the coolest thing ever. Tom helped them set their cars up for the big race, and they all cheered as their cars zoomed to the finished line.

However, the boys soon decided it would be more fun to be a “tunnel” than to be the one racing cars.

It wasn’t long until everyone was a tunnel and no one wanted to be a racer…so we turned to cake.

There also may or may not have been a pinata that wouldn’t break until Tom took a crow bar to it. I kid you not. It was solid cardboard. Note to self: do not buy pinata’s at Target.

Even with the pinata incident (which was actually quite hilarious to the adults), a great time was had by all. Happy 4th Birthday, My Little Groundhog!