While most of the weekend was spent doing this:
I made some time today to undertake my first nursery endeavor: hanging an awesome print!
Yes, this is 3d! Don't you just love those little butts? Thanks Adam!
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Pre-Baby Frito To Do List
9/25/09
As promised, here is our list of pre-baby things we want to get done on the house (and to increase the impending sense of urgency, my latest belly shot (+17 weeks):
Summer/Early Fall
Screen Porch
- Finish Sill
- Make Door
- Install Flooring
Kitchen Windows
- Pull out sashes scrape & paint
- Rebuild 2 and restring 2 weight boxes
- Insulate weight boxes
Doors
- Order new kitchen-to-porch door
- Get new insulated glass for other door & install
Shed
- We need this to store the lawnmower and other things we had been keeping on the porch.
"Stage" downstairs junk room for guests at thanksgiving.
Fall/Winter
Combine offices
- Paint busty lady w/ gun room
- Install blinds, new desk & shelves
- Finally make marc share the 20" monitor with me. :)
Get wood burning insert for fireplace
Paint Living Room
PURGE!!
Get closet systems for 2 closets
Oh yeah and do a nursery too!
p.s. Plus, I might bribe my dad to "accidentally" plumb a toilet in the downstairs future bathroom.
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organization
Knuckle Deep BBQ Fest 2009
9/24/09
It's that time of year again!
This year’s new additions include a Home Brew Competition, live football broadcast on a big screen all day AND the roasting of a whole pig for all to enjoy. Pig comes off at 3pm and competition BBQ at 4:30pm. Run for the Rib 5k is at 10am!
If you will be in the Asheville area and are interested, leave me a comment with your email and I'll send you the info and a map.
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fun stuff
Baby's First Blue Ridge Relay
9/16/09
It was my second, but Baby's first Blue Ridge Relay this past weekend. The relay is a 211 mile race that starts in Virginia and ends in Asheville affording racers runs thru some of the most beautiful parts of Appalacia. I was part of an amazing 12 person team. I did 3 legs over 24 hours that covered 17.5 miles.Even pregnant, I beat my average times from last year. (Due to the fact that I actually trained this year!) Marc served as an excellent van driver and support-giver. I think we even convinced him to run it next year.
September is going to be a pretty lean renovating month as we have almost every weekend booked up. I do have to say that the donated/lent nursery/baby items are piling up and giving me slight nursery motivation. :)
(The upper photo is one of my teammates with a cute little dog that followed her for her entire 5 mile leg!)
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Long Weekend of "Practice"
9/8/09
Marc and I had a long weekend with two of my three nephews. We were so busy tiring them out by walking them around the Asheville area, we didn't even have time to make them sweep up bugs.
As you can see, Quinn's little legs needed some breaks, which Marc provided like a nice Uncle.
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fun stuff
Indigo is a neutral, right?
9/4/09
In about 25 weeks, the guest room is about to get a pretty permanent guest!
Hope this helps explain the lack of posts lately. I'm starting to feel better now, but for a while there it was all I could do to choke down some saltines and whine in bed.
We have made a very realistic list of things that we can get done pre-baby. I'll post that in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here's the most frequently asked questions and answers:
-I'm 15 weeks along, so 3.5 months. Firmly in the 2nd trimester, 37.5% done. :)
-I'm WAAY impatient and so we will be finding out if it is a boy or a girl on October 12th. (I'm on team boy, Marc is on team girl.)
-No cravings yet. Only stuff I can't eat. Seriously, it would take $300 to get me to eat a burrito. Yuck. I have been eating pickles like it is going out of style, but I did that when I wasn't pregnant.
-Yep, I'm planning to go back to work. I mean, let's face it, Marc is the more nuturing person. Even the cat prefers him and she was MY cat. (I'm not bitter, NO!, not bitter at all.)
-I am still running and playing hockey. Yes, my doctor cleared them both. Actually, her exact words were: "Good luck on your marathon!" (Even though it is only 14 miles next weekend.)
So, we are pretty excited. Not so excited about the renovation state that the house is and will be in, but hey, infants don't have that great of vision anyway right?
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cracky house
Porch Update: It is getting close.
So I promise that I will start posting more now that my life has calmed down a little. Marc and I have actually worked in a couple of good days on the back porch. Screen is all in, soffit is done and sill is flashed. Now we just need a door and the wood floor and it is all done!
Here it is with 1/2 of the white primed skirt board in place. I'm thinking brown for the skirt board and Marc is thinking green..
Here is the metal and sticky flashing in place. (Great job Marc!) You can also see the unpainted wood soffit at the top in place. I need to paint that.
A little detail of the inside with the wood wall and door painted and the door frame ready for stain. At the top, you can see how we tricked out the attic which needed to be vented. Those a green slat boards with and black-painted frame behind with screen on it. Helps keep the attic area above the kitchen cool.I'm watching the older 2 of my nephews this weekend, and have the perfect job for them. (They never visit without me putting them to work. Last time it was helping Marc edge the other 1/2 of the front walk.) This time, I found the perfect job for them: vacuuming up all the dead bugs that got trapped on the back porch!
So those little guys you see are regular sized bees and bugs and the big guy in the center is possibly North Carolina's biggest bee. It is HUGE!
Of course, the completion of this project necessitates another project: Operation Shed. When the back porch is finished and all nice, we really can't store the lawnmower and gas out there, so we are going to built a small 6x10? 8x10? shed.
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