just another thursday

of craziness at work, a kitchen remodel, baby prep, etc.

Kitchen remodel has hit a few snags as expected with an older house. Nothing too crazy and all is manageable. I need to post a pic of the demo and empty kitchen.

Yesterday they patched all the holes, Monday was just good ole' fashioned demo.

Happy 1st Anniversary shout out to Brandon and Kelly and thanks for choosing an easy to remember date- 07.08.09 =) Hope you have fun plans.

Welcome to week 34 little beanette. You've been very active and we think you were trying to flip over last night with no luck. You sure were poking out of mommy's belly though. We love to watch you move around.

bye, bye 1970's kitchen

Well today is almost 8 months in the making. That's how long we've been making decisions on the kitchen remodel. When we bought the house, we knew a kitchen remodel was a must. We ended up spending our house fix-up fund on little things like paining, a new roof and gutters, fixing the leak/flood in the basement from the great floods of Atlanta 2009 and LOTS of painting. That left next to nothing for our BADLY needed kitchen remodel.

I'll wait to post as we go and keep you in suspense to all the decisions. The demo started today and I'm told I'll go home to a bare kitchen.

Here are the before pics:

A whale...almost beached

Happy 4th of July everyone (happy b-day Michael)! We had a fun but busy weekend. We spent most of the weekend emptying the kitchen or at the pool. The title is appropriate b/c I'm feeling more and more like a whale. Normally I would say a beached whale, but I got around okay in the pool this weekend.

Here is a pic from today, 33 weeks and 5 days. Go ahead and say it.... "dang, she's huge". Yep, and I feel it too. I'm getting to the point where it's hard to do many things. I definitely overdid it yesterday, but we got some great pool time in with the nieces and nephews.



I hope everyone had a great weekend. Happy birthday America.

belly games

Beanette and I played our first game yesterday. She's moving around so much and running out of room too.

She was pushing her foot out pretty far, so I pushed back. She gave a little, then pushed back in my finger. I pushed, she pushed. Very cute and to me it was a really sentimental moment. It only lasted a minute or two, but was really special. I already love her so much!

We played a mini version with daddy last night. My favorite thing to do at night is lay in bed and watch her move around. I could watch the belly for hours.

Baby Factory Tour...check!

Scott and I had our first baby "class" last night. Maybe class is a bad category, we started with the hospital tour. This is Northside Hospital in Atlanta. It is a baby factory indeed delivering almost 18,000 babies a year. That's about 50 a day. This gorgeous building is their women's center, all devoted to delivering babies.


They basically walked us through a hospital stay, told us how many folks can be where, when, etc. It got me excited and I feel a little more prepared. Time to pack a "just in case she's early" hospital bag. 7 weeks to go. Yesterday, we hit 33 weeks.

Date Night

I'm a big Twilight Series fan, so today I have a 1/2 day at work. I'm going to see Eclipse with my mom and sister. My boss got me into it (she has 2 teenage daughters that got her in the loop early). I got my mom into it, and I think she's one of the biggest fans there is. I'm excited for a girls night.


On another fun note, I had a 3p budget meeting yesterday that turned into a surprise baby shower. SO SHOCKED! I didn't see this one coming at all. I'm still waiting on photos of the first shower, and we snapped a few yesterday. I've been with my company, Arby's, for almost 8 years so it was fun to celebrate with all my co-workers. Thanks guys!!! Lauren and katrice- thanks for setting it all up and for such a great spread of food. Everyone was so generous and I got lots of adorable clothes and a good amount of stuff from the registry (yeah!).

My favorite cake in the world is Publix cake, and that's what they got for the shower. I ended my day with a far too large piece of cake. It was delicious.

Happy Wednesday!

Baby Allen's Nursery

Green won out over pink for the nursery as you probably saw last week. I'm very happy with the outcome. Pink was the front runner until we put a large sample on the wall. It was just too much.

Here is a pic of the paint color, crib and fabrics.


Now the big decisions are what fabrics to use for the bumper and bedskirt. The fabric I LOVE will be on a window valence with wooden blinds. The outside of the bumper will probably be that same fabric. Here are some of the options we are toying with:
1) Inside of the bumper: polka dots in the middle of the picture; Bedskirt: one of the pink stripes
2) Bedskirt: the dark pink/white seersucker; Inside of the bumper: maybe the dark blue or dark pink solid fabrics
3) bedskirt: THE fabric, outside of the bumper: polka dots with dark blue or dark pink piping on both the bedskirt and bumper to tie it all together

Here's another picture with the fabrics more close up.


If there are any design opinions out there, bring on the suggestions! I think stripes look great on bedskirts, but we haven't found a winning stripe yet. My favorite colors I'm trying to pull out are the darker blue and the darker pink.

I'm also going to decorate cute letters in my favorite colors and hang above the crib. Very exciting. In other exciting news Beanette has started get the hiccups. Daddy actually diagnosed them b/c I couldn't figure out what her constant kicking was. Supposedly they start in month 8. More to come later this week, hopefully I won't be working such late hours and I can post a few times. Sorry I've been so aloof.

Update: Just looked at this post to make sure the pics went up okay. See the orb in the first one? The little bubble near the bottom center? Some people say those are spirits. (Q the freaky music- Do do do do, do do do do)