Nesting....THIS SOON???

I do believe that I have started nesting! WTH????

Nesting at 19 weeks???

I'm not going to lie, our house is cluttered. We have stuff and not enough space. It sucks. And it doesn't help that I've been so immersed in school and exhausted from the beginning of this pregnancy that I haven't been cleaning. Brilliant B. cleans some, but he's a bit of a pack-rat, so things don't always get thrown away when they should be.

I started today with scrubbing some clothes to get the crayon out of them (we had an incident with a crayon, some clothes, and the dryer a few weeks ago). These clothes have been sitting for a few weeks, with crayon on them, waiting for me to figure out how to get them clean. I managed to get it out.

Then I moved on to my room....or the dump if that's what you want to call it because that is where everything seems to make it to be dumped! I have managed to get all my pre-pregnancy clothes that I was wearing packed into a plastic tub and cleared out all my "skinny" clothes to pack them up and put them in storage. I'm also making Brilliant B. go through all of his clothes so we can either pack up the stuff he doesn't wear or drop it off at good will! Hoping to get the clothes gone through and put in their proper place before bed tonight.

Tomorrow looks like I'll be tackling the rest of the junk in our room and having Brilliant B. moving the furniture around to make room for baby stuff we'll be getting soon!

Ugggggggg, nesting started too soon!!! Oh, well....maybe I'll get everything ready now while I still have some energy!! (secretly hoping for the cleaning fairies to find my house so they can do all this for me!!) Maybe I'll get it all done before the third trimester!!

Boys' room redo: AFTER!!!

Well, hubby and I busted our butts this evening and put the room together.  We moved the furniture around AND put all the stuff on the walls.

Right now, there are some spaces on the walls that are blank, but we did that on purpose.  We did that to allow for adding of posters, paintings, etc. as the boys acquire them.

Without further ado, here are the final photos!

I AM D-O-N-E!!!!

I FINISHED!!!! The room is painted.  It is good enough.  I am leaving it as it is. 

Here is the finished room:

I will put pics up as soon as we get the furniture all put in place and all the nifty little things up on the walls!  

Just thought I was done!

Well, I thought I was done with the boys' room yesterday, but the room had other plans!

I finished painting the trim and it was looking FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!! Then we took the tape off.  That was where the problem began.

THIS is what happened:

IT PEELED THE PAINT OFF THE WALL!!!! Can you believe it???

I guess I have more work to do today!

Update on boys room redo!

Well, I am almost done with the boys' room and it is turning out wonderful, if-I-do-say-so-myself!  Here are some pics of the "during" part:

This one is before I got the gray painted:

This is after the gray was painted:

This is what the room looks like RIGHT now:

All I have left is what is taped off in between the blue tape and that little yellow strip by the green wall and I will be DONE!!!!  Let me tell you--I am so ready to be done!  I will be taking a few weeks off from painting and then I will be starting on my daughter's room.  Her room will be MUCH easier to do.  It is smaller and there are not many holes to patch (just the ones from nails for paintings!)!

I will post the final pics after I finish and we get the room put back how it is supposed to go!  I will make sure and put some pics up after we get all the posters, pennants, and paintings put up as well so you can see the FINAL product!!!!

Boys' room redo: before

We are painting the boys' room and we are in the "getting ready" phase.  We are getting nails out of the wall and are going to be patching holes and cracks (you will understand when you see the pics) tonight to get it ready for paint later in the week.

I spent today taking this ugly trim stuff off of the walls, which now has left cracks in the wall.  You can see it in the pics.....it is the white areas.  We are going to start patching the holes from nails and the door knob and these ugly cracks.  I am so ready to get that done so that I can start painting.  Because the sooner I start, the sooner it will be done and over with!

Without further delay, here are the before pics:

This is the view from the door to their room.  Looking into the room.

Ignore all the junk on top of the bunk bed.  It is sheets and blankets from our oldest son's bed which is now in the shed to make room to paint. (don't worry, he is at his mom's right now, so he has no need for a bed HERE and it will be put back after the painting is done!)  And a little kid couch that was in the way.

See that gnarly hole from the door knob?  That is going to be gone soon!

You see that white strip down the wall?  That had a little piece of trim over it.  IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WALL.  As you can see, THAT is no longer there.  Now we just have to fill in the crevice that was left there.

Now, you can see why the room is being fixed and painted.  That yellow and blue is horrible, I hate it and all the boys hate it as well!  We are going to be painting it the colors of the Philadelphia Eagles because that is our oldest (and youngest) son's favorite football team!  It is a surprise to the oldest.  He doesn't know.  And won't until he gets home at the beginning of July!

Here is an idea of what the colors will be:

One wall will be the green color and the rest will be the gray that is in the eagle head.

Well, that is what is going on.  Will post during and after pics!

Like a kid in a candy store....and other stuff

This weekend we cleared out our yard, brought over my father-in-law's tractor, and tore the yard up.  We did this because the yard was horribly bumpy and had some parts that the soil was so packed that NOTHING could grow in it.  We needed the yard to be most of the way level so that we can put up our pool without it being lop-sided!

Here is my Husband on the tractor.  Before and after I took this pic he had the biggest smile on his face--he looked like a kid in a candy store!  I asked him why he was smiling so much.  His answer?? "I got to drive a tractor."  Ah, men, so easily amused.


I forgot to take a pic of the yard BEFORE we started ripping it up, but you can see those two light areas in the middle of the pic where the soil is compacted.

This last pic is what it looked like after the yard is ripped up and part-way smoothed out.

Right now, the yard looks like a great big mud puddle because we are watering the heck out of it to try and get grass to grow while the soil is loose.

On another note, I made my first appointment with my midwife today.  I went in and they did a urine pregnancy test, which of course, came up positive.  I went to the lab and got my first blood test to check my beta levels and have to go back on Wednesday for another blood draw so that the midwife can check if the levels are doubling like they should.  If they are, I do not have to have another beta level check.  

My ultrasound is scheduled for June 15th and 1:00 pm (mountain time).  That is when we find out if baby is in the right spot!

My EDD (estimated due date) is February 6, 2010. 

This is somewhat of a relief, but I will not breathe easy until the 15th when we find out for sure that the baby is safe and sound.  I will find out what my beta numbers are on Thursday.  Praying for doubling (or more) numbers!