A Few of my Favorite Things

I know it's been ages since I've updated...I've been kind of busy! We're getting into a routine here at the house and then I started back to work this week so it's been hectic! Here are just a few highlights of the last few weeks.

Milo's room: It's mostly done now. Since these pictures were taken I've done a few more things but this is essentially how it looks.

The nightstand in this pic is not the one we ordered...it's a loaner. But that's a whole different post.

He hasn't slept in his crib yet, but I've gotten the blankets and extra diapers out of it and removed the bumper so he COULD sleep in it if we wanted him too. (He's sleeping in the pack 'n play in our room and until he sleeps through the night REGULARLY, that's where he'll stay!)

Milo and Daddy

Sweet boy. He doesn't always take a pacifier...he was this night. He usually spits it out right before he goes to sleep though.

A few other random pics:

And finally, the first OSU game of the season was this past weekend. Milo put on his game day onesie and listened to the game with me:

Go Pokes!

I think that's pretty well it for now. I'll do a post here in a minute with just some random pics of Milo - I moved all my pics from my phone to the computer so there are PLENTY to choose from.

Finally

Pics of Milo's room. :-)

Please excuse the mess behind the door...

And a picture of the sweet boy from last night before our bath.

Spring is in the air...I just had myself a Cadbury egg...HOORAY!

I know I haven't updated in a while - not a lot going on here.


Well, that's not entirely true. We ordered furniture for the nursery - it will be here in 8-14 weeks. Hopefully before the baby arrives! We also ordered the bedding for his room:

I liked this set because it was different than a lot of the other stuff I'd seen. Also, my sweet husband got me this for Valentine's Day:
I know it's hard to tell but the hearts have our initials on them - an "n" on one, a "b" on the other. I love it! He said he almost ordered one with the baby's initial on it but he figured as soon as he did that we'd change our mind about the name (which we have not decided 100% on AND we're not sharing anyway). So we'll wait on that.

Well, I know it's not much but my time is up for now. Oh, thanks to my brilliant friend Mommy M.D. for blogging about baby slings...I was just wondering about this today after I saw something on the Early Show and this helps make some things clearer for me...thanks, B, for the post!

Guest Room/Craft Room Makeover

As promised, here are the pics of the guest room which is now the guest room/craft room. It's not completely finished - I want roman shades on the windows but am probably going to have to make them as we can't find cheap/reasonable ones that we like AND that make the room dark.

Here are the before pics:



And this is the table that I got from my in-laws before I painted it:




And the after pics:

There's the painted table...it's black w/stripes around the top in the same teal blue that's on the walls.






Here's the light fixture which I just LOVE! I told Nathan he better save all the stuff that goes with it because I am taking it with us if/when we ever move!


So, we'll play a little game. Can anyone guess how much it cost to re-do this room? (This is not an original idea - Nester Girl does this often.) Just post your guess in the comments. I'll either update this post or do a new one w/the breakdown.

Halleluiah!

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a dishwasher!



Isn't it pretty? And it works! As I write this, Nathan is reading up on how to load it. He is doing this because he has a gift. He can fit every dish in our house in the dishwasher. He just has to learn how to do that in this dishwasher. :) Next post - the (mostly) finished guest room makeover.

Kitchen Disaster

Just a quick update on the kitchen - Nathan spent last night working on the "situation" and was able to pull up the tile (a little too easily) under where the dishwasher goes, and then we went to Lowe's to purchase a saw and he took off a little of the top board that was stopping progress. Then, after removing one of the legs on the front of the washer (used to level it) he was FINALLY able to fit it into the space. Of course it took him about 20 minutes to get it back out because it's so tight but we're keeping our fingers crossed that the installer guy will be able to hook everything up and make it fit right. Pictures to follow if/when that happens. :)

And if I can ever finish painting my craft table (which will take about 5 minutes) I will post pics of the guest room redo. I am really pleased w/how the room has turned out, especially w/the light fixture in there...kinda wish it was my room! One other project we have going is scraping and painting the Adirondack chair that was left here at the house when we moved in. We found a pretty color of red (that's pretty close to the color of our doors) in the "mis-tint" area of the paint section at Lowe's so for $1 we are refinishing this chair. Can't wait to show you how it turns out! Finally, the patio is pretty well done HOWEVER the yard around it is kind of a catastrophe so I'm putting off posting pics of that until maybe the fall so that we can get some things planted and it won't look quite so scary.

With that, I'm off to get ready for work. Hope everyone has a good Wednesday!

Money Pit

Do you know what this is?

If you said "a hole NOT large enough for this dishwasher..."


...you would be correct. The above pictures are exactly what my kitchen looks like now. And some would say "why don't you just put the old one back in, it fit didn't it?" Well, that would be my answer except that the fine people from Lowe's HAULED IT OFF after finding that the new one wouldn't fit. And apparently the new dishwasher is standard size - meaning there isn't one out there (other than the one that just left our house) that will fit here. What that means is that either we have to somehow tear out the tile that's back in there and/or we have to modify the cabinets/countertops somehow and/or get all new countertops and/or cabinets. SERIOUSLY?!?!?! For crying out loud.

So, we are currently worse off than what we were in that we have no dishwasher (at least not a working one) AND we can't use the garbage disposal AND we had to relocate Kona's food and water bowls, and for those of you that know him, you'll recall that he likes change about as much as I do...here's what he thinks about the whole situation...



In other news, I took quite a fall on Saturday morning (WARNING: if you have a weak stomach, you might not want to see this). I got tangled up in my own feet (don't ask how because I don't know this time any more than I do any other time this happens). I fell over and hit my head on the corner of our house and then bounced into a pile of flagstone we have sitting on our patio and got this:

This is actually before it got worse. It's pretty much all solid black now. Really attractive. And in case you were scared about what body part that is, it's my back.

I promise, pics of the new and improved guest room coming soon. It'll be worth the wait (I hope). Now I'm off to soak in the tub and see if that will take away some of the aches and pains from the fall...getting old is not fun.