Patrick spent most of last week home sick. Although, he spent too much of it working and not resting imo. Soooo, kiddo and I are now sick. I feel like complete total sh**, sore throat, runny nose, congested, headaches ..the whole gamut. Of course I feel worse for my little man then myself. I’d be sick any day if he didn’t have to be. I feel helpless for him cause I know he’s not feeling good. He’s so clingy, whimpers and is a very fussy lil man. I am trying to baby him as much as I can but that doesn’t seem enough at times. I’m keeping him hydrated, have our humidifier on, giving him saline drops for his nose (which he hates). Not much else I can do but hope we get us both over this cold asap.

Here are a few pics of the wall we just painted last week and it turned out pretty good. I’m slowly trying to get pics of rooms that we are almost done with or done with. (of course we are leaving some areas just untouched until we figure out how we want to do them / buy new furniture in the future etc) I had a few rough days of my web page. Upgrading my gallery to a newer version was a pain in my arse to say the very least!!! I got it working but not exactly how I want ..but it’ll do for now!

Enjoy and hope that everyone else is feeling ok and not coming down with this crud. I think half our block has it or just got over it.

Kitchen nook area: (someday replacing that table for a nicer nook table, we used this in our old apt. way back when but we do have our nice dining room set to use for more formal things)

Munchkin is 6 months old as of this last Saturday. We had his doc. appt. yesterday, got himself 4 more shots Never easy that’s for darn sure!

27 1/2 inches long - 90% (tall and skinny like his dad)
just short of 15 lbs. - ~15 % (dropped a little, to be expected doc said as they start becoming more active ie. crawling)
16 something head - 25 % (staying the same %)

He’s a healthy little man and eating solids happily. I’m still making his own food and have quite the mixture in different freezer bags atm: sweet potatoes, avocados, applesauce, bananas and have carrots in the fridge ready to go.

The doc said that if he didn’t know better, he’d have thought this was a 9 month visit because Braysen is meeting all his 9 month developmental milestones already!!! He’s crawling / cruising, he’s sitting up by himself straight / getting to sitting by himself, and the big shocker really is he’s pulling to a stand against furniture by himself. (something the doc was really shocked by!)

All in all a good visit. I take him in again Nov. 2nd for a flu shot and then won’t be seeing him until 9 months.

Life at home is chaotic to say in one word. Patrick is sick and working too much imo. Kiddo is going through a growth spurt and his eatting / sleep routines are a nightmare. We are in the process of a few different painting jobs, hanging up things still, getting stuff unpacked, trying to clear space for the cars to park in the garage, getting ready for a housewarming party and a whole slew of other things. We are also watching his parents dog for 2 weeks while they are up visiting his brother in Wisconsin.

~sigh, need to get kiddo from the swing into bed

heather

Almost done! We still have things..quite a bit of things actually…left to do in his room but you can see the beautiful crib that we finally got to set up. We also got his little alphabet cards up on the wall. We have yet to get touch up paint from our builder so our striping isn’t as clean as we’d like it but we’ll fix that once we get the paint. I’ll take a pic of the full nursery once we get the rest all done!

We have another coat to do on the top green and then touch up to smooth out the border some (textured walls suck to paint nice clean edges with i’m learning, the paint runs under the damn tape!) After that it’s time to do our stencil quote in the spot above his crib, finish up the ceiling with clouds and see if my animal stencil things will work for his border or not. Thennn we might just have a nursery out of this whole process!! (better late then never I keep telling myself, although it’s still sad I’m doing this after he’s already here and didn’t get to do it before he arrived!)

This is of the nook area where his changing table dresser thing will go. You can see the different greens and then the ceiling is a pretty blue that we’ll paint clouds on here soon!

Next weekend my best friend from KC arrives. We just had company leave today that stayed with us for the weekend, was good times and great to catch up. We went to the little girl down the streets b-day party briefly on Saturday to give her our gift. She’s a cutie named Isabella and turned 2! Stopped by to see the in-laws yesterday, had a glass of wine and picked up some things they had gotten us at Costco! Busy days I tell ya!

more to come in the future!
heather

Well our approval stuff came back and it looks like our closing date is July 25th! (we thought it was the 27th but we were wrong.) The ironic part is my mom is closing on her new house in Montana on the 24th. We both were renting while selling our houses in other states. She was selling hers in Colorado. Our offers came within a few days of each other and our closings of our sold houses happened within a few days of each other and NOW we are closing on new houses just a day apart.

So i’ll walk ya through the house pics! It isn’t done yet as you’ll see in the pics but it’s getting closer! (underline words are obviously links to pics)

As you look from the street you can see houses in one direction and then the other direction up the hill is the clubhouse with pool, fitness & business center.

Now entering the house you’ll see a hallway with arches to the left. If you looked above while in the foyer you’ll see the upstairs landing. There is a formal living room, which will be our library/study/reading room where we someday will put a little game table for chess/checkers and reading chairs. This room is connected to the formal dining room which has another arched opening. This is the view from dining room to the nook/kitchen. You can also see a linen closet & where the powder room will be. The next arched room is the great room with the fireplace (mantel will be installed later). Off to the right of the great room is the nook and kitchen. The appliances aren’t in yet but are black (wanted stainless but these will match our stainless fridge so np!) This is a close up of the granite (I would’ve liked something with blue or green in it but hey it’s still pretty and Patrick likes it better then black.) and then we have some glass front cabinets that are really pretty! This is a pic of the wood floors that are from the entry thru the hall to the nook / kitchen. There is a granite counter top ledge in an arched opening between the great room and the kitchen acting as a breakfast bar where we will put some stools. Off the kitchen is hall to the garage and the door to the left is a nice walk in pantry that will have the glass front door. You can see how the stairs go up in the middle of the house here also. It’s kind of an interesting view from below looking up and looking down.

As you go upstairs you’ll see the upstairs landing. There’s a loft area which will be Patrick’s office / our computer area. Hopefully we’ll be able to do some built in corner desk unit at some point. The laundry room is upstairs also and i’m going to get cabinets put in once we get our new washer & dryer in. The bedrooms are in the 4 corners of the upstairs which is kind of cool. One of them will be Braysen’s room, one will be a guest room and the last one will be a future kids room but in the meantime will be our workout room with our elipitical and weights. There is a nice hall bath with 2 sinks.

Our master bedroom has a fireplace in the corner that will have the tv hook ups above it and they’ll install a mantle yet around it. This is the other window that will be above our bed (I kind of think it’s cute!) We have a long wide walk in-closet that isn’t done yet. Here’s our master bath with a separate shower and a soaking samish spa tub. The samish tub has little things on the bottom that you press a button and it bubbles up. It’s not a jetted tub *sighs* like they have in some of the models but it’s definitely better then my old small tub! They tiled the bathroom floor and the counters which are both pretty neutral colored. They added this faucet / fixture package to the house which to my suprise I love and it looks so elegant. In doing so they changed all our light fixtures to match and they are SOO pretty. We walked the house yesterday while signing more papers and they had the lights installed this time and WOW WOW!! The entry lights, dining lights, bathrooms lights …wow, all were just stunning! They had our carpet in yesterday too which is a neutral color and will work. They have still a lot to do but it’s only 2 weeks away..EIEIEIE I have to pack up this apartment all over again! Yuck!!! I feel like we’ve just moved and moved all over but this is definitely worth it!

This is our backyard, it is huggge for the area we are in (trust me on this)! We have a small covered patio too that hopefully we can extend someday with a deck or something to entertain on. We are wrapping our fencing / landscaping and ac into the loan though so our backyard won’t be a pile of weeds. They sod, sprinkler, mulch the borders and plant 12 bushes/plants so at least that’s a start. I have HUGE plans for the backyard.

We aren’t going to do much to the house as far as paint and other things. Partially because the house already has the upgraded craftsman trim package with 2-tone paints in the rooms etc. but also because well we are saving money. We are going to buy our new washer & dryer, thanks to Patrick working for GE, the discount more then helps us out. We are going to buy my glider/rocker/swivel chair though for the nursery that i’ve been waiting to get although we aren’t sure on which color yet!!! The one room I will be painting immediately is guppymans room!! I’m going to do it in a green tone of some sort to be neutral in case we have a girl next and this will remain the nursery and he’ll go into a big boy room when that time comes. I also am going to buy some chalkboard paint to have fun with. We are kind of on the plan “we’ll decorate as we have money and we find out what we want to do with all the rooms!”. I’m somewhat more excited to plant some pretty flowers / bushes / herb garden and do walking stones with pond & waterfall in the backyard then do the inside yet. Not that the inside isn’t fun but that’s stuff i’ll do in the winter! This house is one we’ll be growing into for years and years so we’ll have plenty of time to figure out how we want rooms to look.

Well this was longer then I thought but I was so excited about the house so I had to share!!! Enjoy the pictures. There is a ton more on my gallery if the boredom or curiosity hits you.
~heather