Hot date plus Thomas

Recently, Carson and I have been trying to think of things that we won't be doing once the baby gets here... and we are trying to do them in the next few weeks. Sleeping late has been the one I've been trying to soak up most:)

But this past Sunday, Carson told me he had a surprise date planned. But he promised I would enjoy it more if Thomas came along. I always love having Thomas along, so I agreed. They made me stay inside and had me walk out to a big canoe in the back of our neighbor's truck. And they took me on a hot canoe date. Carson had packed a cooler of drinks and the camera. We put the boat in right in front of the park and canoed for a few hours. I say "we", but really it was "they". Carson told me that my job was to sit in the middle and enjoy the scenery. I was definitely enjoying the "pregnant card" that day.

And canoeing is not something I think we'll be doing when meatball gets here. It was a perfect day.

There is a deserted island in the middle of the river that we see literally every day and have always wanted to visit. So, we did. Only to turn around after 10 minutes upon realizing that it was crawling with poison ivy.

Work Shower

We are blessed. Seriously, having these baby showers has been so humbling and overwhelming (in such a good way) for me and has reminded me of how blessed we are. Blessed to have a son on the way. And blessed to have such loving and giving friends.

Last week, some co-workers of mine at Erlanger threw me a work shower. Mom was invited and it was really fun for her to meet all of my work friends. They gave me tons of practical things (diapers, wipes, baby shampoo, etc.) and some really cute outfits and toys. My friend, Ruth, even knitted him some little baby booties.

I am planning on taking 6 months off from work and then going back one day a week. I love my job in both ERs and I'm sad about not seeing everyone for awhile ... but I'm pumped about my soon-to-be job as a mom:)

Genetics

Good news. My wish from the last post might come true. My very serious wish that our little meatball will have a fro like his daddy. You see, we went to the doc on Friday and had our 30 week ultrasound. Immediately, the ultrasound lady said, "Oh my goodness! Look at all that hair... all those curls! You aren't normally able to see this much at 30 weeks."

So... we might have a gorilla. Or just a stud with a fro.

We shall see!

Just to give you a glimpse of the fro Carson was rocking as a babe, look below. These are three pictures that I blew up and hung in the nursery of the dad and 2 granddads. Aren't they all adorable?

And we're back!

Ok guys. It has been 6 months or so since my last post. If there is anybody still out there, I'm sorry:) I am determined to be more bloggy now. I have a little more reason to do it now.

You see, here is what I am thinking. I have a niece now. And I love her. And I don't live in the same town as her, but I want to know all about her life. So Sara has a blog and updates me on Maggie.

So, since we do not have any family in town, I will attempt to update you on our little one when he gets here. I know now how important it is.

Things we have been told about our child already:

he's a boy.

he has long legs.

he is "extremely active" (so much so that he gives me contractions every 20-30 minutes already).

he is due june 23rd.

he has a fro like his daddy.

nope, we don't really know if the last one is true. it is just a very serious hope of mine.

many of you have asked for belly pics. we haven't been good about taking them, but here are the ones that i have...

4 weeks (the day we found out we were pregnant)

14 weeks

16 weeks

21 weeks

23 weeks
29 weeks

Again

It's scary. Really scary, I tell ya. No, this is not a picture from this past May when a tree fell on our car and then another fell on our house. This is what we woke up to last Tuesday morning. And it's our neighbor's tree. This time it came 3 feet from our car. Wouldn't have really mattered though because we still haven't gotten it fixed from the last time. Anyways, it is crazy. 3 big trees in 4 months. Everyone was completely ok and it only did damage to the driveway. But, it was a gorgeous tree. And it blocked a lot of sun from our bedroom window on Saturday mornings. Oh, well...

Not that this is a big deal at all, but the next day one of our small, dead trees fell. Just for giggles.

la toilette, il bagno, el bano

This past weekend, I got some grief from four different people about lame my blog is now. Not that it has ever been even decent or anything. But atleast it used to have posts. I think I don't want to post stuff until we completely finish a room, so that's stopped me from posting since we still don't have everything complete. I don't think I'll ever post if I wait until its all done though. So, here you go. Master Bathroom.

Again, starting with the before pictures. Pluses: big master bathroom for an old house, master bathroom connected to master bedroom, lots of windows, hardwood floors. Negatives: no tub, nicotine, nastiness.

We ripped out the shower.

Started priming every surface with KILZ.

Decided to move the toilet (and get a clean new one thanks to Pyles Plumbing) so that we could have room for a big tub. Put in new ceilings and the durock.

Note our "curtain" so that we could use the bathroom here instead of going to the school up the street.

Started tiling. Actually, our contractor, Jesse, did this. We were too busy still trying to figure out how to tile the guest bathroom.

New vanity and granite countertop installed. Note the flowers in a beer bottle on the side of the tub that Babette brought to us.

Ready for beadboard.

Last shot before the final pics.

Here is the finished product. This is a shot walking into the bathroom from our bedroom.

We really wanted to do a glass shower door, but then got some quotes that were something like 10,000 dollars. Not really, but it was something ridiculous. So we opted for the clear glass route via a clear $4 shower curtain liner for now.

Lovin' the double shower heads.

The cubby-holes are one of my favorite parts. I decided to stagger them to bring some funkiness to the solid white.

More rooms to come. Promise.

Bed and Breakfast

This is what we have to offer you at the Royal B&B. It's not much, but hopefully it's cozier than the pull-out couch at our loft was. The renovations in the guest room aren't all that impressive. It didn't take that much. But, it's done... so I thought I would show it.

This is what we started with. Gross carpet and smoke smell. Notice the ancient floor register.

So, we ripped the carpet out and primed with Kilz.


Painted the window trim, removed the old light fixture, put up new sheetrock ceiling, and removed the old register.

Patched the cracks in the walls, removed the old doorknobs

Then we painted the ceilings and walls, refinished floors, installed new registers, installed new fan and doorknobs. And here you have it...