How I spent my summer vacation

I have to be back at work this week.  Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are teacher workshops.  I know, I know.  I shouldn’t complain – I just spent 2 1/2 fabulous months at home and taking trips to visit friends and family.  It’s just always sad to see summer come to an end… 

Over the summer Jonathan and I have been super busy doing projects around the house.  I managed to take a few shots of some of the finished work.  We are loving the changes!  It’s funny how you can live in a house for 4 years and talk about all the things you want to change without doing anything.  Then you think about bringing a new person into your home, and everything becomes an immediate issue.  Even if that person won’t notice nor care about any of this, but still…I’m glad Peanut will have a nice, cozy house to come home to. 

Guest bathroom:

Crown molding and new baseboards upstairs:

New hardware on all the interior doors:

New guest bedroom (used to be office):

      Those were the best pictures I could get…the room is super small.  Sorry to all the guest who come visit!  But I think it’s nice and cozy.  It will be even better when I get some lampshades and a picture or two on the walls. :)

The new office (moved into the basement…luckily Jonathan was willing to share a space in his “man palace”):

   

My wonderful husband also surprised me earlier this summer by painting the outside of our house.  The front is white siding, but the other three sides were this ugly shade of yellowish-cream.  We have no idea why anyone would make the front of their house a different color than the rest, but we managed to leave it that way for 4 years.  What is wrong with us?!?  Now the outside is all one nice shade of white (boring, but at least it’s the same!) and the side door has been painted black.  I don’t have pictures, but I’ll try to add some later.  I know, keep holding your breath for those…

We still have several projects we’d like to finish in the next few months – most importantly getting Peanut’s room ready and replacing the yucky carpet upstairs – but I’m so thankful for all the things we’ve been able to do so far.  I feel like we accomplished a lot!  So come visit soon…we’d love to have you try out the new guest quarters!

The Littlest Village Person

  We got to have Judy, Sarah, Dave, Samuel and Joseph over for dinner this evening.  Samuel came over in his Thomas the Train boots.  During dinner he spilt water on his shorts, so he ended up going short-less for the evening.  Then I found this hat in the basement and thought it would really add a finishing touch to his outfit.  We decided he could join the Village People.  Now we just need to teach him “YMCA”…

20 Weeks

I definitely think there’s a baby in there. Either that, or I’ve been eating too much of this:

That’s monkey bread. And it’s delicious. I became totally obsessed with it last week when I went to a district workshop and they served some for breakfast. After that I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I made this gooey delicious goodness and practically ate the whole thing myself. I used to think pregnant girls were lying when they talked about finishing off a whole thing of brownies themselves, but now I don’t judge. Sometimes you just can’t help it.

Other exciting news from this month (as if monkey break isn’t exciting enough)…we’ve felt the baby move! I felt it first, and Jonathan felt it not long after. I think it happened for the first time around week 17, but I didn’t know what it was. Then I got a horrible stomachache (right before the monkey bread incident) and was having a hard time getting comfortable in bed. Once I finally got comfortable, Peanut starting moving like crazy! I had to wake Jonathan up to tell him. It was so amazing. A couple nights after I felt Peanut doing aerobics, I had Jonathan put his hand on my stomach. We were just lying in bed watching TV. We looked at each other at the exact same moment and said, “Did you feel that?” It was such a cool experience to share!

On Tuesday (August 10th), we get to find out if we are having a boy or girl! Jonathan has said it is a girl from the beginning, and so have most people. I honestly have no idea and would be thrilled with either, so I’m just super excited to find out. I’ve had a few dreams that it was a girl, but last week I dreamt it was a boy...so we’ll see! Jonathan’s mom and sister are coming with us for the big reveal, and we are thrilled that they are going to share that fun moment with us. We’ll let you know in a few days! Any guesses?!?