Here are some photos. Nothing too exciting, I need to get out the other camera that actually takes full photos. If you want to see more, just come over!

The room on the left is pretty special huh? That wallpaper was insane! I'll get better office photos up once the bed in there is made and my stuff is in there.

Now onto the nursery. Again I don’t have great photos yet…

New crib and changing table

The accumulation of stuff starting (cruddy photo sorry). Closet doors will be back on soon.

So, it doesn’t look too exciting, but everything that is in the nursery and study was in our living room, so the house seems to be in a lot less chaos now! Hell even all our outlets face the right direction and match now.

I told Mandy I was promising everyone a new photo. This is what I got:

She doesn't believe me when I tell her she looks awesome pregnant. I'm sure I'll get a belly photo that is approved from her soon...

Cheers

I know we, mainly I, have been promising photos over and over again.  This weekend they will finally be put together.  If all goes well this weekend we’ll be able to say that the guest-room/study is 100%, the nursery is 100%, the bedroom is 100% and the kitchen pantry door is finally 100%. I have lots of odds and ends to finish in them all.  I can’t wait to be talking about different rooms, like bathrooms or granite counter-tops!  If I’m feeling lucky I’ll even try to get a photo of Mandy up here.

May your weekend be as productive as ours. Cheers!

To me, it still seems surreal/fake/unbelievable. The only thing that feels very real right now is all the work being done on the house. I’m totally not complaining, we’re having a blast over here. Yes, there ARE photos coming very soon! I think I expected to feel like life was totally different immediately, but really, it’s not.  Most days go like this:

If you couldn’t already guess, I’m the one in green.

Where are we right now?  The nursery is no longer in staging, but it’s still floorless.  The bedroom no longer has mirrors on the wall and the hole that was revealed with that job has been covered.  Over the next couple of weeks the nursery will get it’s floors and closet doors back, the kitchen pantry will have a door again and the bedroom will be repainted.

Seriously, I’ll have pictures up soon!

Cheers.

So here we are in our 2 1/2 story house, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 living rooms, you know, enough room for 3 to 5 people, easy.  We went to a Divine Consign sale this past weekend. Our first baby shop-fest!   I was so stoked that we found a baby jogging stroller for half price.  It’ll be perfect for walking around the neighborhood and to use camping and what not.  We found a few other cool things, a bunch of onesies, wiper warmer, the tiniest Crocs I’ve ever seen, and some maternity clothes.  A successful shop!

We went to leave and out in the parking lot we were staring at the stroller, in all it’s massiveness, then looking at the new mommy mobile.  It was dark, we were clueless and suddenly totally embarrassed.  Mandy jumped in the front, I jumped in the back.  We threw down the seats and stuffed the sucker in the back as fast as possible, unfolded, still in one piece.  I know there were seasoned parents in that parking lot completely entertained by our ignorance.  We silently (and quickly) drove out of the lot.  A minute or two later we both laughed and realized we were just initiated into a world that is totally foreign to us.

When we got home that night I ignored the beast in the back.  We are surrounded by parents in the neighborhood, I really wanted to wait until 3 in the morning to take that thing out, trying to avoid the ribbing.  The next morning I got the bags out, put all the clothes in the laundry, feeling great about everything.  Look at the size of a onesie, you could fit 100 of them in a drawer.  This is gonna be a piece of cake!  I finally gave in and went to get the stroller out.  In broad day light I still couldn’t figure the stupid thing out, so I threw it over my head and just carried it over the car into the house.  Whatever, it worked.  Nothing felt that wrong until I brought it up stairs into the guest room, put the stroller in the corner and looked around.  If it was a scene in a movie you’d hear a sucking sound and watch the house collapse into a tiny room.  H-o-l-y c-r-a-p, this house is about to go from half empty to full.  Reality smacked me in the forehead at 9:30 am this past Sunday.

Shit.

This morning we woke up to a winter wonderland. I really wish this stuff was remotely normal around here. It makes Texas so beautiful.  Above is a photo from the nursery. I’m hoping the little guy isn’t going to have to wait until he’s 25 to see this much snow again (yeah, it’s been that long here since this much has fallen in one year).

Everything is going smoothly here on the home front. We’ve been busy getting things organized – AKA nesting. I’m off my holiday break on the remodeling, so I’ve been busy painting. Hopefully, fingers crossed, we’ll have the kitchen wrapped up by the end of next weekend! Photos will follow. After that we’ll be finishing up the flooring in the nursery so we can start getting the little man’s room ready.

Mandy had another checkup yesterday. We got all her blood and sono results, and it looks like we are at the lowest risk for any of the complications they test for, mostly Downs, so, so far, so good! I must say, as an innocent bystander, it’s pretty cool watching Mandy and Heather grow. It’s truly amazing to see how all this works!

I hope you are all well! I’m off to build a fire, get another cup of coffee and watch the snow fall while getting some work done.

Cheers!