And baby makes 3!

We are expecting!

Because I said I was starting this blog to keep up when we had little ones, this means I need to kick it in gear.
                                                                              20 weeks

We are due June 29, 2012 with a boy, and couldn't be more excited!

Catch-Up Cont'd

Let's try this again...

After several years of work, here is some of our progress. Having a handy husband is pretty...well, handy! :o)

                                           New paint/Old Porch/No Flowers

                                          Master Bedroom

                                           Living Room

                                          Yay for flowers!

                                           Living room before pictures and curtains

                                              Living room floors

                                          Woodstove and the Christmas tree, before flooring or trim

                                                    The start of our shower

I need to get better pics of the spare bedroom and dining room and I'll post those too.

On an even more exciting note, I'm an AUNT!!! Aint she sweet?  **Update*** What is this crap? Why can I only upload pictures once during my post?? That will have to be saved for next time. She's pretty stinkin' cute.

1/2 Year Catch-Up

Wowzers! Where did those 6 months go? Quite a bit was going on so I had plenty to write about... I'll start with updates to the house. We now have a real-life living room! We are no longer confined to our dining room. Only having a couch for seating was rough. Because I haven't posted any pics of the remodel I'll do that here and end with the latest.

                                          What is now the mudroom, bathroom and laundry room

                                           Our master bedroom demo

                                          Living Room Demo

Just a little taste of what we started with...

After many hours of work we now have this:  **Update** Apparently when you're a lowly peasant you can only add 3 pictures to a blog post...I'll have to write another post.

A lot of progress

We have made a lot of progress on our house lately! We gutted the living room and installed a wood stove with a tile hearth. We are now in the process of installing hard wood floor in one half of the living room. The other half (where the furniture and tv will go) will be carpet. I set up the Christmas tree even though we're right in the middle of construction. I just couldn't stand it. Of course I did it while Phil was at work so he couldn't stop me...sneaky huh? So, now we just need finish the flooring, install carpet and built-in shelves and we'll be set!

It's surprising that we've gotten this much done during the busiest time of year. We know good and well that we won't get anything done on the house next weekend because of all the Christmas celebrations. I also have a birthday creeping up on me...28 years young on Dec 29th!

Our four-legged kid is loooooving the wood stove. He hangs out by it all the time. I on the other hand, try to stay away. It's averaging about 80-85 degrees in our house so I have been opening the windows. I'm sure the neighbors think we've lost our mind when they see them open. We also don't have blinds up in there yet so they see me in my shorts and t-shirts too.

I'll post pics of the updates next time.

See ya!

New ceiling and a BBQ

The living room is completely gutted a new ceiling is up.  Our old ceiling had some old water damage and so it was sagging. Because we started with 10 ft ceilings, it was no big deal to drop down 6 inches and build a brand new ceiling. We didn't tear out the old because sitting on top of that ceiling is about 100 years of insulation, dirt, gunk, etc. No thanks! We hope to order a woodstove this week so we can have it in before the cold weather. The only way I agreed to having a woodstove plopped in the first room you see as you walk in the house, was to help pick it out and to have a nice hearth and back drop. Sold! Phil was really excited to go by a new toy...a chainsaw! The ultimate tough-guy toy.  The story that goes along with that purchase is a little entertaining, so I'll share.  We went to the store that has been around since dirt. It's around 100 degrees outside and as we pull up and shut off our air conditioned car I see a sign that is never a good one...the door to the store was propped open. Yep, you guessed it, no AC! So here I stand with a bunch of sweaty men, looking at chainsaws. Phil was like a kid in a candy store. Later he told me he didn't even notice there was no AC. Pitiful.

So, next step is to patch up the floor a litte and lay OSB. Then we'll be ready for sheetrock and flooring!!!

We had our first BBQ with some friends. We've had a few people over here and there, but never a planned, group BBQ.  I of course, bought wayyyy too much meat and buns, but nobody went home hungry. It was fun and hopefully once the living room is done we can have friends over for game night! This may sound cheesey, but there may be beer/wine/rum involved, making it all the more entertaining :o)  Catch Phrase is sure to get a giggle, or all out hysterics. 

On to save the world...or to do laundry.
Kristy

What I like right now

Sometimes silly things stick in my mind and right now it's 90 calorie Snickers ice cream bars, new babies and my Leaves scented candle from Bath & Body Works.  I really like them all and yes I do realize it's not even close to fall.  I busted out some of the fall decorations, hoping that I could encourage it to come a little sooner. It actually feels like fall outside tonight. It's such a nice change from the 105+ temps we've been having the last month. My flowers say "thanks", our dog Jack says "thanks" and I do too! Thanks to the 70 degree weather.  70 degrees is what I consider PERFECT weather!  The kind of weather that you can still wear shorts, but you better grab a sweatshirt for the evening.  LOVE it!

As for the ice cream bars I was thrilled to find one of my all-time faves in a 90 calorie portion...I was quickly taken back to reality when I opened the box and saw they're no bigger than my thumb.  They're still amazing and I am able to stop after just 1(insert pat on back here). 

As for new babies, our good friends are expecting a new baby anytime! An even better reason to be eager is that they didn't find out the gender. Aren't they crazy!  I don't think I can do that.

House update:  We hope to start demotion of the living room this weekend!

Still learning

So I'm still trying to figure out this whole blogging thing.  I plan to do a better job at keeping it up once there are little ones around, so I want to be a pro by then because I know I won't have time to figure it out once that happens.  For example, I want to add a picture right here ->

There isn't a point to this picture but it does a great job showing our awesomeness.

Success!  My first blog picture!  I've used up all the extra brain power for the night, so I'm out!