Saturdays.

Well I got quite a bit done today between laundry, mopping, vacuuming, scrubbing down bathrooms & changing out decor it feels good to have a clean home again. Sometimes I really despise doing it though. Probably because I let it get so behind and I would rather spend the day holding Charli or being with my mom and sister.

Charli has been a sweet little girl she has been in her swing for most of the day either talking & playing or sleeping. After she finished eating lunch I decided it was probably time for me to eat as well as I started eating I decided I really should try out the Jamberry nail wraps I got a couple weeks ago. I have been unsure about the whole thing mainly because its something new, was it going to be a fast application, would I really like the final results and a million other things.

I watched the tutorial from Jamberry as I started to put them on and I thought it wasn't really that bad until I had to get my left hand to put on my right hand.. eek. I am not ambidextrous at all. Well I loved the final results. It took be about an hour from start to finish. I had to replace my right pinky because I don't think I should have got up and washed my face right after. So far I love the fun patterns. I love that I don't have to worry about bumping them and ruining my whole hand. It was a simple process and I am sure over time I will get better at becoming faster with them. I think I will continue doing these if I can get it down to a science. I like to have things done quickly.. I also really hope that they will last for the 2 weeks.

Kelly has been gone most the day snowmobiling and so leaving Charli & me at home. Which sometimes I hate but this season there hasn't been much snow so I can't be too mad when he goes all day.

I realized that I am starting to have this fetish with chandeliers. I found one today online that I am hoping to pick up later tonight. I can't wait to start on this next project. It is one that we have wanted to do for a long time and it is one that will take A LOT of time to do but I am so ready to do it. Okay, but I really have to have Kelly's help with it so I have to wait till I can convince him it's time to start it. After all he is the worker bee and I am the queen bee & designer!

Once I found this one I got up and did this happy dance for about 3 minutes. Charli was staring at me like 'okay mom you can stop doing that any minute now'.  She will become a pro at that face by the time she is 15 I am sure. But she also will have a pretty cool house so she can't really complain.

I have to laugh at myself for coming up with all these ideas because I was never like this 3 years ago. But I love turning something that is okay into something even better.

Here's to Saturdays & future projects.

Throwing it out

After being home with a new baby I have realized how much time I can spend on the list of projects I have wanted to do for a long time. Today after eaten no lunch and staring at the messy pantry that I wish I would have taken a before picture of, I decided that it was time to get it cleaned. So an hour and a half later there was a pile of boxes and two bags of garbage.

                                    

Kelly walked in shortly after it was finished and he was shocked to see how organized it was. 

He also was fine with hauling out all the garbage. 

I am planning to get a few more declutter projects happen in these winter months. 

You may wonder how I conquered getting this pantry in order with a 6 week old baby well this is 4Moms Mamaroo swing is a lifesaver until I put her in my Solly Baby Wrap! 

                  

Another Project... Little Miss Nelson Nursery!

Today I have officially conquered something that has took way too long..

After moving everything around I have finally made Little Miss Nelson a room of her own!

I am so excited to finally start putting it together. Sadly, we have agreed on what we are going to do with her room more than we have on what her name will be.

Maybe once its finished we will know her name?! fingers crossed.

I have already got a few things for her room; fabric, spray paint, artwork.. oops.

Can't wait to finally start prepping to paint her room & put it together.

Isn't she a cutie.. 

This was at our 24 week appointment with the Ultrasound Tech.

She gave us so many pictures of her, on top of a super long ultrasound on our dvd.

We are two weeks away from doing the gestational diabetes test. Not so sure how I feel about that but it will be worth it once we get another ultrasound.

We are officially 26 weeks! Wow, almost to the final trimester!

I dare you!

I really do dare you to go through your entire house to move things around different rooms, trash stuff & reorganize everything. Two Words ... it. sucks. I have spent the last few days going through rooms & rooms in our house changing things around to get ready for this baby.

Kelly built shelves in the laundry room for all the food storage we got from his parents for Christmas. I am glad its finally out of boxes and I can start to use it. We also are going to use the shelves for other miscellaneous stuff.

We have a small crawl space under our family room, right now its full of boxes with crafts but I have so much more stuff I will be putting in there from my childhood & who knows what else.

The 'blue dungeon' aka our basement bedroom is going to be turning into the craft room. Which that was a storage room, workout room etc. Moving all of the things out of it & finding new places for everything is a little overwhelming. I am excited to have a even bigger craft room now & have things a little more hidden in the basement.

I am 95% positive our upstair rooms will now look so much better with my craft room downstairs. Mainly because Kelly will not have to see it nearly as often.

Plus it will be weird & exciting that we get to start working on the babies room soon.

I have also gone through all of my clothes and shoes to get rid of things I haven't worn in forever or probably won't ever fit back into. I don't know if any of you are like this but there are somethings that I will be attached to but I know in the back of my head I won't ever use it again. Other days I could throw away my whole house and not feel a bit guilty.

I am going to be so thankful to my sister Marci who will be coming over later today to put her insane organizing skills to work in our house.