Making Progress

Doug spent alot of time working on the nursery this weekend. In the first picture he's putting together the shelving unit we got for her room. It turned out great, as you'll see further down.

He also set up the crib, with a little help from his sister-in-law, Becky. Becky & Eric were kind enough to pass down this crib to us. It used to be their oldest son's, but since he's almost 5 now, he doesn't have much use for it anymore! I'm not so sure how thrilled he is about having his new cousin sleep in it though. He's not too crazy about having a girl for a cousin. :) Anyhow, after they put it together I got to have my own little bit of fun. I put up the bumper and the mobile (that I picked up at a garage sale for $10!), just to get an idea of how it would all look. And Saturday morning when we were at Sam's Club, after showing Doug the adorable rug, he ran back and got it for me just as we were leaving. Mom & I picked it out a couple of weeks ago, but I wasn't so sure that was what I was wanting. But, I'm so glad I got it. It looks so cute with the bedding and the price was excellent. It fits perfectly in front of her crib. And you really can't see it in the picture, but the wall next to her crib is where the quilt is going to hang. And I want to get this to put above her crib. I love that it is vinyl and so totally removable, not to mention that there will be nothing heavy hanging over her. So many cute things to do! :)

We also decided for the sake of utilizing as much space as possible, to remove the closet doors. I promise it won't look nearly this messy in the future, but it seemed like a good spot to put the bookcase and it doesn't look half bad, minus the fact that we didn't get the top of the closet painted! Oh well, there's still time for that. Or maybe I'll just some cute baskets to put up there. :) Once we get the dresser, alot of the stuff on the shelves will be put away and we'll use it for what it was really intended for, books! :) Doesn't it look cute though? Doug still plans to attach it to the wall though, so there'll be no chance of Katie pulling it down or anything like that when she starts climbing.

New window treatment, I had a yellow sheer up there, but it wasn't quite the right shade, it was a little muddy. This white really brightens things up and the light that filters through is cleaner. The changing table (also a garage sale find) is actually on its way to get a paint job. You may have noticed it is a little darker than the finish on the rest of the furniture, so my mom has agreed to paint it for us. But for now, it's doing it's job holding diapers and other assorted items.

That's what we've got for now. We still need to find a chair and get the dresser and then we'll be just about set. Not bad with 9 weeks to go!

Snow!

We had some snow this weekend. A little bit on Saturday that melted away fairly quickly, but yesterday's stuck around for a little longer. There is still some out there now.

It certainly made it a festive day for putting up the Christmas tree. We went with a small white tree with blue decorations this year, Doug's idea, he's always wanted us to have a white tree. We've got so much going on that getting out all of our decorations just seemed like too much work to me. I think it disappointed Doug a little bit. Christmas is my favorite time to decorate for, but we're both so tired right now, I don't think we'd enjoy it much. But we've got the wreath hanging on the door and our sweet little tree in one corner with our stockings hung right above it and a couple other little things here and there. It'll be enough this year. Next year, I'm sure we won't be able to resist going all out. We'll probably even have to get a real tree. :)

Whine, whine, whine...

I'm tired and just want to go sit and watch TV for the rest of the night, but I shouldn't. Not yet. I really should go clean up the kitchen. I should unload the dishwasher, make my coffee and probably lunches for tomorrow. But I'm *so sleepy!*

I'm Ready

I wish every evening I could remind myself that just a few minutes of prep will save me tons of time in the morning. Tonight when I came home from work I:

• did the dishes
• got the coffee ready for tomorrow
• made our lunches
  
• put in a load of laundry
• folded a load of laundry
• set my clothes out for the morning

I did all of this in about 40 minutes or so and now I can relax, play on the internet and watch a little TV before going to bed. And I'll sleep soundly knowing that I don't have to rush around in the morning.

Good Morning!

Well, the house definitely got picked up Sunday. We had some last minute company and that gave us about a 20 minute warning. Fortunately it was family and of course they don't see the mess. :) It's truly amazing what you can get done in 20 minutes though. Vacuuming, wiping everything down in the bathroom, dishwasher unloaded and reloaded and all of the clutter tucked away. It was cleaning in overdrive! Anyhow, I'd like to say that it stayed that way, but it didn't for long. We're halfway through the week and now I'm looking around at all the mess again and shaking my head. Oh well, I'm off work tomorrow since I work Saturday. Plenty of time to work on it then. Or maybe I'll work some more on our wedding album. I'll figure it out tomorrow.

Hope no one got you with any pranks yesterday! I managed to avoid most of them and I'm sad that I missed an opportunity to pull a really great one on Doug, but there's always next year!

Restful Weekend

We have had such a nice restful weekend so far. It's the first Saturday Doug's had off in quite sometime. Since his birthday, I think. I'd like to say we were really productive like we had originally planned and got a bunch of stuff done around here, but that just didn't happen. No, yesterday was a lounging around in pajamas day for me. I had all my fun Friday night out with Desire & Angela. Had too many drinks, got to bed much too late and consequently had terrible head and stomach aches yesterday morning into the afternoon. There's a reason I can only do this once a year anymore, I need that long to forget how bad I feel the next day! I did watch Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium though. I really enjoyed it. It's definitely going on my list for summer movies at the library! Doug went to the Central/Benton baseball game (Central won!) and spent the afternoon with his dad. By the time evening rolled around, I was starting to feel human again so we decided to head out and pick up some dinner. Mmmm...Chipotle and then to Hastings to look for another movie. Doug & I are pretty good about finding something we both are willing to watch or not picking up anything at all. Last night, I begrudgingly agreed to watch Hot Rod, but only because Doug watched Martian Child with me a few weeks ago. All I can really say about it is fortunately I fell asleep about half way through! Although Doug claimed the second half was actually funny. I guess you'll have to decide for yourself!

Anyhow, Doug's still asleep and I'm sitting here enjoying my coffee. I'm going to read the paper here in a little bit and then try to restore some order to my house. I hate starting the week with everything all in shambles. Mostly because I know it won't get done any evening after work, no matter how many times I tell myself that I'm going to come straight home from work and clean.

Living Room

Our living room got a fresh coat of paint this weekend. It's much better now!

Frightful Weather Pictures

This is what we woke up to this morning. Actually, we're pretty fortunate. We still have power, for now. The library is closed (thank goodness) so that means no work for me and Doug doesn't go in until 3:00, although I'd really prefer it if he just stayed home with me tonight. If you are in the path of this storm, please stay safe everyone!


Here's a picture from the front door. You can't even see the driveway because of the limbs.

Further down the driveway and it's covered with tree limbs as well.

Another shot of the first picture, this time you can see more of our driveway and you can see that limbs have fallen on our neighbor's work van (fortunately, nothing on our vehicles.)

From the back of the house. Lots of little limbs all over the place back there. That was probably the source of much of the snapping noises I was hearing last night.