Our Home: A Construction Site!

Yes, there is still a lot going on at our house. We're counting down the days, weeks, and possibly months of seeing our little baby for the first time and bringing him or her home. So, in the meantime we're still hard at work getting everything ready! If you remember back to our July 15th post, Josh had to put the work on our new railing upstairs to a halt as a leak in the downstairs bathroom (and a subsequent remodel!) took priority. Well, our new railing is now finished! I believe the only thing left is for it to be polyurethaned.

So, work has now been started on the nursery! Now, gone are the ugly blue walls that came with the house when we bought it. Previous to now, we had not done anything to this room, except strip it of the carpet when the rest of the house was being de-rugged!!! We had actually been using it for storage, so everything that could went up into our attic.

Once again, it was a blessing that Josh ripped down the drywall, as he discovered that the window was rotting out and was barely attached to anything. Of course, that also meant that we had to install another window! So, it is currently being spackled and will soon be on the road to being painted!!! Yay!

And although the rest of our house looks like a construction site, the downstairs (until this last weekend!) was starting to really come together. Especially as the curtains that I'd been working on with my friend, Debbie, have finally been completed! Here's a picture of the Roman shades and you can see the other curtains in our last post behind where I am standing. So, that is very exciting!

However, if I took a picture of our living room right now, it would look very different! It is currently taken over with baby things as my family and friends surprised me this Saturday with a baby shower. It was the most lovely shower ever! I just love my family and friends. Thanks to everyone, especially my families who did a lot of work to make it possible!! I love you all!!!

Our BIG Baby!

Here's our newest picture of our growing baby! We got our 2nd ultrasound about 4 weeks ago and then had another appointment last Wednesday. According to the doctor's, we have a very BIG baby so far! At our ultrasound they told us that our baby is currently in the 97th percentile. They said that they usually look for the baby to be somewhere around 50%! Then, last Wednesday, the doctor estimated the baby was measuring around 29 weeks...when I was 25 weeks! Maybe we will see this baby before we know it! I (Jess) know that my body is starting to feel the effects of the strain with a bit of lower back pain. Just for fun, here's a picture Josh took of me before we left for church yesterday.

Oh how I love My life!

Well I'm at it again...

The other week I (Josh) was at work in a major hospital when something electrifying happened. I was working on a snack machine installing this new part. Since the machines were crammed into a tiny room there was no way for me to get behind it to unplug it. So I decided, being the highly skilled technician that I am, that I would just wire it live. Now, it was only 110 volts, so it's not like I was taking my life in my own hands. However, I was on the bottom of the machine all the way in the back so only the bottom half of my body was hanging out of the back of the machine. And that's when suddenly someone PINCHED MY BUTT!! I immediately freaked in surprise and you guessed it. I touched the live wire, bouncing me inside the machine like a pinball. Much to my surprise the girl standing behind me was horrified when she figured out that I was not who she thought I was. We had a good laugh and went on our way. I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one that this ridiculous stuff happens to? Well, hope you got a laugh out of it. Feel free to leave me your good story if you've got one.

The Bathroom Remodel Cont...

So, the bathroom is almost finished.

Here are some different stages we went through already.

Spackle for the drywall...

Then sanding the drywall...

As you can see, this is a messy job!

... even for Diesel, who didn't want to leave Josh's side even

after several times of being told to stay back. We eventually

had to remove him from the area.

Then, Josh and his dad laid the tile floor.

It is now very close to being finished. We have the NEW toilet ...

and NEW sink and light installed!!!

Very exciting!!!

Now we just need a couple more things -

a mirror, baseboard and a couple of accessories.

When it's complete, I plan on posting a before and after picture...

what a difference already! :)