Another new toy

Here is her other new toy...a great yard sale find! 

A new toy

This is 1 of her new toys....Gotta love ebay! 

Our little girl is growing!

Our little girl is getting bigger and bigger! Here she is in her pretty dress that her Aunt Joanne got her. It really brings out her blue eyes, though you can't tell it in the picture. 

The new family - on Mother's Day

Hollywood!

Great profile of our daughter

 

Another of Daddy & Daughter

Daddy & Daughter

More pics of our little girl!

Our little one arrived Feb 2nd!!

My 36.5 week belly

I just thought I would post a picture of my belly at 36 weeks, 4 days. I feel a lot bigger than I look. I am definitely ready for her to make her appearance.... Come on baby!

Our little one's crib

My in-laws brought over our baby girl's new crib!! I just had to show it off. It is a 4-in-1 so it should last her a while!! It is really starting to look like a nursery....I think it is starting to "hit" Travis that she will be here soon. I think he is getting nervous....I know I am starting too!! I hear that this Saturday (Jan 14th) is suppose to be a full moon....any predictions that I will go into labor??!! I guess we will have to wait and see!

Nursery

One thing is certain...we aren't afraid of color in this house!! Here is the color I picked out for the nursery....it is called "sassy violet". I always wanted a purple room and Travis said if we bought this house I could have a purple room.....here it is!!

Kitchen color

I love this color that we painted in the kitchen. It is called "apple". You can also see our new retro clock that lights up and part of our shotglass collection.

Living room before

Here is a picture of Dad, Travis, Terri (Mom in the pink behind Travis) looking at old water damage in the living room ceiling. It happened in 1995 and the previous owners never fixed the ceiling, but they did fix what caused it...a leaky roof. Dining room is in background.

Living room

This is the living room after we (meaning Mom, Dad, Travis & Howard) painted, ripped up old carpet, etc. I am waiting until after Christmas to get new drapes.

Officially ours!

Well, we closed on the house Sept 12th. That morning I had money, but no place to live and that afternoon I had a house and now I have no money!! Ha!

Travis has been working like crazy, along with my parents and his on painting the inside of the house so we can move in. Technically Travis is already in...well, he has a mattress on the floor, a few clothes in a bag and the cat over at the house. I, along with our dog, have been living with my parents all this week...trying to stay away from the paint fumes, which are not good for me or the baby. My Mom and Dad are still over at the house, as I type this, painting the trim in the living room and dining room while waiting on our new furniture to be delivered to the house....what wonderful parents I have! I took off all next week so I can unpack all the boxes that we will hopefully be able to move in this weekend. I will try to post pictures as soon as I get my computer unpacked so I can upload my camera!! (The camera installation disks are packed too....I would have installed it on my parents pc if I would have had them!)

Monday, Sept 19th, is going to be a good day...I hope! We have our big ultrasound in the morning and will hopefully be finding out if we are having a boy or a girl...depending on if the baby cooperates!!! Then I was hoping to start my registry. We will see!

Friday!!!

rain rain go away, my house needs to get painted today

They started power washing the house yesterday, had to do two rounds of it. Unfortunately it is raining like cats and dogs here so they won't get to scrape the paint off or start the actual painting. Bummer.

Yep, we did it

Travis and I bought a house. We don't officially close on it until September 12th, but we have already started picking out paint colors and are trying to arrange our furniture. We closed on the current house we are in on Monday and will be moving out Sept 4th....."where are we going to stay?" you ask...my parents are letting us move into the basement for that week before we close....hopefully our cat & dog won't wear out the welcome too early that week! We are having the house painted this Thursday (to help with the appraisal and insurance). The house is definitely one you would drive by, the exterior paint is rough looking and dirty, but the inside isn't in that bad of shape. The owners just painted a latex based paint over an oil based paint and it is peeling like crazy. That happened in our current house too so we are used to it. The only problem this time is I can not be around the fumes to help paint (darn!). I guess the whole house will have to be painted (atleast with the oil based primer) before I can move in. That will probably take a few days so I won't be moving in until probably the 17th. On a little side note, something else we have to look forward to this September is our 19-20 week ultrasound.....we get to find out if it is a boy or a girl!!