Mother's Day 2012

There wasn't a whole lot of relaxation this Mother's Day weekend. With the birth of baby #2 not too far off, we spent the weekend trying to squeeze in a few projects.  We had the basement textured and primed on the Friday before Mother's Day.  My parents came to town for the weekend and tackled a whole bunch of yard work including getting our garden planted.  We ran out and got all of the plants Friday evening and they planted everything on Saturday.  On Sunday, we squeezed in a little fun time at the park and on Sunday evening Dan's parents came over to help us move our buffet back into the kitchen, hang some shelves, move our new buffet (purchased on Craig's list) into the dining room, and re-fill it with our good dishes. We need as many storage options as possible in this kitchen!



Taped, mud, sanded

Textured and primed

Digging up weeds before tilling

First bonfire of the year- and 2nd annual burning of our Christmas tree

Rylie had Papa keep moving back until they were almost at the fence

We are lucky to live near an awesome park and playground. They have a baseball field, jungle gym, swings and a splash park.

One more item to checked off the kitchen list
Yet to do: hang pendant lights and get new window trim/window treatments

37 weeks...little did I know I would meet this little lady 2 days later!

May so far...

 

Rylie's first Brewer game this year...somehow I ended up at 3 in one week!

35 weeks

Silly in the sandbox...it was a gorgeous day!

Rylie's first ever hair cut...just a trim though



Getting french braids...followed by glitter and a bow

 Basement: taped and mudded

Basement...some progress...finally

I can see a very faint light at the end of the tunnel.  While we had planned on having the basement project pretty much done by the time the baby arrived (ha!), it's very clear this isn't going to happen.  Now that I am 35 weeks (yikes!) I am now trying to focus on getting the baby's room ready and the first level of the house completely clean with all areas usable. Which means we only have to get enough done down in the basement to be able to get all of our storage items out of the dining room and back downstairs  Then a door will go up to keep the dust down there as well and we will spend a weekend scrubbing the entire first floor.  We just might be able to make this happen.  A good start to this goal: having drywall installed!!  And since these pictures were taken we now have tape and mud and all of the scraps are out as well. We should have texture by the weekend.   Here are some before and afters...

Just a reminder that my dining room still looks like this...and has since October

Before:

We are switching things up a little.  This used to be a closet under our steps,
but we are now going to mount the TV in this area.

The bathroom

After:

Rylie calls this "her hideout"