Nursery Progress

Slowly but surely we are getting there! This week Thad was out of town for a few days so I used the evening time to work on refinishing the old dresser/changing table. This is a bit of a family heirloom. My Aunt used it with her two boys, who are both in their twenties now, and I used it with Andi and Sammy. Because I didn't buy it I hesitated painting it, but I finally did it this time around and I think it looks great. The crib will be painted to match as soon as we get a hold of a sprayer and Thad has some spare time. Here is the before, back when it was in Sammy's nursery.

And here is it today, awaiting a new changing pad for the top. Better yes?

Bedding

Well the crib bedding is done. It is a bit wrinkled in the picture because it had just come out of the dryer, and it's not displayed properly on a crib because I haven't painted and set it up yet, but at least the bedding is done!

There is a dark brown skirt to go with it, and tan sheets. The crib and dresser are going to be Ivory and I'm so excited for the finished product. I also love that this bedding was 100 % free. I didn't even have to buy batting for the bumper pads because I had a bunch of left-overs from random projects.

I had a 31 party last night (http://www.mythirtyone.com/CallieClanahan-Horn/), which was a lot of fun. Mostly it was a great excuse to have friends over to the new house, and we all got some super cute purses as a bonus! Here is Andi at the end of the night modeling all of the bags and totes at once.

We are still on the name hunt for this baby boy. But now it's down to the middle name. It's making me crazy that we haven't decided yet!

Snow Day

So we've had rain pretty much all week, which made the kids a little stir crazy. And this weekend we had a ton of little things to check off our list, like oil changes, and a few last minute fixes to the old house to get it ready for out renters to move in. But we took a few hours to drive up the canyon to find some of the new snow that they got this week. It was totally weird to be playing in the snow in April, we should have been playing in the pool! This was Sammy's first time in the snow and he had a great time. Of course our last minute decision to go meant the kids had no snow cloths that fit, but we made due and they lasted a good hour before they were cold and wet enough to get back in the car.

Eating some snow.

Building a snow man/eating snow.

Andi's sad/scary one eyed snow man.

Mid crash. Sammy fell off already and is back in the trail.

Sledding with Daddy. You can't see him, but Sammy is squished in there between Thad and Andi.

It was a quick trip, but a nice little break from all the work we've been doing around here. I'm almost done with the crib bedding. Then all I have to do is get the crib and dresser painted and we can get the nursery put together.

Easter Fun

This has been one big Easter party week. Monday I took the kids to a play group Easter party, where they made bunny ear hats and got their faces painted like bunnies. Tuesday we had an Easter princess picnic in the park with friends from Andi's dance class. They both came home with baskets overflowing with candy eggs. Wednesday we had some friends over to play. And no, of course I did not take pictures of any of these things. The weekend was dedicated to tidying up the yard and house because we hosted both sides of our family for Easter dinner. For the first time ever we had room for all 15 adults and 9 kids to eat inside the house! But let's back up. Sunday morning the kids enjoyed their egg hunt before church, followed by waffles and a little bit of candy.   I don't know what's going on with their weird smiles.

We enjoyed church, and Thad gave a wonderful talk on the atonement.

Then it was back home to finish chopping up all the salads for dinner. I know Easter dinner is traditionally ham and potatoes, but the thought of that was making this pregnant lady want to vomit. Thad of course wanted to BBQ tri-tip, but even that sounded yucky. So I made the most delicious chicken Waldorf sandwiches, with a broccoli salad, and fruit creme salad, and a spinach and strawberry poppy-seed salad. Totally hit the spot, and even the boys didn't notice the lack of meat too much. Then we had another egg hunt with the cousins. I did manage to take a picture of the kids enjoying their spoils. The rest of the evening was spent between croquet, bocce, and eating brownies and ice cream.

In non Easter related activities, I made Sammy a new quilt this week. It is probably my least favorite quilt I've made, and if I had my way it would have gone a totally different direction, but Sammy has been begging for more color in his room. You may think that weird, but really, the 3 year old was running around the fabric store picking out every neon striped multicolored fabric he could find. Then Andi found some fabric with rocket ships on it and he was in love, but he still wanted "rainbows" on it too, so I found some striped fabric with the same colors and he loved it. Like I said, I don't love it, but when I put it on his bed he got the biggest smile on his face and said "wow, it's all rainbowed!" and he keeps going in his room to look at it. So he loves it and I guess that's more important than my original room decor plan.

But since I loved his old quilt so much, and it really is not that old, and since I can't seem to find nursery fabric that I like; this weeks project will be to disassemble his old quilt, and re-assemble it into a crib quilt and bumper pads.

Moving Right Along

We are still moving along with projects around here. I painted Sammy's bookcase a couple of weeks ago, and last week finally found a dresser for his room, so that got painted too.  Here is what that corner of his room looked like a few weeks ago.

And here is the $20 Craigslist dresser I found to replace that sad little stack of rubbermaid drawers that his clothes are too big to fit in.

Ya, it needed some help. So here's that area of his room now.  It's coming together.

Thad also jumped up in the attic to run some wires for the TV and internet, so we no longer have them dangling down the wall from behind the TV which is super nice.  I had to get a picture of his attic gear, this is serious business.

I have been slowly working on painting the dining room, and this weekend we finally got the painting done. We still need to add the chair rail and the trim boxes that are going on the bottom area of the wall, but the trim can't go up till the new floors are in because we are going to have to move baseboards and all that fun stuff. For now though, I love the contrast and if I squint I can see the finished product.

Thad also started putting the swing set back together this weekend. He got the tower section with the ladder and slide back up, and hopefully by next weekend we'll have swings and monkey bars as well.  He managed to get a nice sun burn on his back while working on that project so the kids have had to do without some of their rough housing time with Daddy. Andi tried to give Sammy a horsey ride in his stead, but Sam climbed on and she couldn't move. I think he might outweigh her at this point.

We did relax on Sunday and enjoy conference. The kids actually did pretty well this time, and we only had to send them away for the last half of the second session. Big improvement. Now to enjoy a party filled, school work-less spring break week.