20 weeks down, 19 to go

Big project....

So my big project of the day was cleaning upstairs. We recently put our extra crib together in Amelia's room in preparation for Adeline to move up there before the baby comes. We had given my sister the dresser that was in Amelia's room for her baby, it was a dresser my dad had made long ago and we've been moving it all over the place, so thought it was perfect to give it to Amber to use. We bought the girls a new dresser at Ikea for their room. The bedroom was in complete disarray this morning when I started, I should have taken before and after pictures. We hope to replace the windows upstairs this summer, so Amelia's room has temporary blinds on the windows. We took her closet door off for the carpet before we moved in and just left it off as it didn't latch real well, so over the weekend I bought her a super cute curtain at Ikea for her closet "door". So now we need to get a bar or something to hang the curtain with over the door and I also need to hem the bottom so it's not so long. I may have to wait for my mom to come visit! Just kidding, I'm sure I can figure out how to hem it! Here are some pictures of my end product from today. When I walked into her room this morning there was furniture and toys EVERYWHERE!

Amelia and Adeline's new dresser with their new night light I made them.

Adeline's side of the room
*we're hoping to move her upstairs this coming weekend

Amelia's bed with her old bedding from our old house, she had a full size bed up until about a month ago, so now she's back to a twin. This bed is temporary, it's the trundle bed from Paul's bedroom, we just need to go bed shopping for her.

Layout of their two beds.

I'm happy with the progress I made, I'm also very excited that I can see the floor again! Amelia agreed that she'd help keep it clean....we'll see how long that lasts! I feel like I'm nesting already, I am wanting to eliminate extra clutter around our house, don't be surprised if you drive by our house and see a bunch of free stuff on the curb! Haha!

Beautiful weather.

With all of this beautiful spring weather we've been having, we've been spending a lot of time outdoors. We've had a few meals out on our patio, since we can finally enjoy it. We poured our patio last August and it seems like it rained every day after we poured it. Well not really, but just about, so we didn't really get to enjoy it last summer/fall. We bought a new patio set this spring, so it's been nice to be out there and enjoy it all.

Amelia and Paul with their cheesy smiles, they opt to eat at their little picnic table for dinner!

Addie enjoying her dinner

Cruisin' away in Pauly's jeep!

Lookiung forward to many more nice days to enjoy the patio and our backyard!

DIY Projects...

The last time I was at Crafts Direct (2 years ago) I saw these glass blocks with lights in them and I've been thinking about them ever since, I thought they looked really cool. Since we're in the process of moving Adeline upstairs to share a room with Amelia, I thought I'd make them a nightlight for their room. This is how it turned out, I think I'm going to still mess around with it a bit and try to adjust the lights inside it better and I may do something else for the bow on the outside, I haven't decided yet and I love the vinyl saying I picked out for it, it fits the girls perfectly.


I made this for my laundry room to cover up a hole that remains from the vent from the old water heater. Kevin's grandma use to have some random Home Interiors thing hanging there that just wasn't my style, though it remained until we remodeled the laundry room. I had bought another laundry room hanging a couple of weeks ago at Gordman's, I got it home and decided I don't really like it and it doesn't really fit my style, so I'm going to be returning that. So I've been searching for that "perfect" thing.

I found this vinyl saying at Craft's Direct, I really liked it and thought it'd fit well in my laundry room. But I was scratching my head on how I could use it, then I saw the 12x12 piece of canvas and decided that I'd paint it, apply the decal and hang it over the hole in the laundry room. I think it turned out really well. This is the end result.

Girls overnight...

In honor of Amelia's fifth birthday, I thought she needed a special gift or outting. So my best thought was a girls overnight to include both of her Grandmas and her aunt/Godmother Amber! Originally I wanted to take her to Chicago and stay at a hotel and go to American Girl and explore Chicago, but after looking into it and realizing how much it would cost, I decided against that, since originally we had been planning to go to Florida for the space shuttle launch in May, which we are no longer doing. Then I thought we'd get a hotel in cities and go to American Girl at the Mall of America and after careful consideration, I decided that she was too young to get an American Girl doll. Maybe in a few years. So we decided upon an overnight in St Cloud. It was a great meeting place, as it was about half way for us as it was for my mom and sister.

We left Friday morning and got home around 8 last night. We had a great time, did lots of shopping, enjoyed some fun dinners out and time relaxing at the hotel pool and hot tub. I didn't get a lot of pictures, but I did get a few yesterday after our 2 hour adventure at Craft's Direct, I LOVE that store! I could spend all day there I think! I got a few things to do a couple different projects (that'll be my next post!). Overall I think Amelia had a great time, it was great for her to have all of the attention on her.

18 weeks down

...21 to go. This pregnancy is flying right by! Hard to believe that I'm this far into the pregnancy already. Only four more days until our ultrasound, I can't wait! According to babycenter.com the baby is the length of a green pepper and weighs in at a whopping 7 ounces. Here are my most recent belly pictures.

Easter

We spent Easter weekend up north. We went to my mom and step-dads on Friday night and to my Grandparents house on Saturday night. We got home late last night. It was a great weekend, the weather was gorgeous and for the first time since I was a kid we actually got to have our egg hunt outside! The kids had a great time.

Pauly hunting for Easter eggs!

Adeline's first egg hunt

Amelia showing off how many eggs she got.