Sunday, March 28, 2010

It's a beautiful day in our neighborhood . . .

. . . so why are we both working inside? Well, you see, we've got projects to do. And Tim can't rest or play when there's a project for him to work on. The sanding on the crib is all finished, the basement has been cleaned and straightened and now the staining has begun. We've had a nice restful weekend at home with not a whole lot to do. Those weekends are rare for us and will become even more so soon, so it's a blessing to get to enjoy one. The weather is really beautiful today; I think it's about 63 degrees outside and it's very sunny. Yesterday was extremely windy and therefore quite chilly, but we got our grocery shopping done nonetheless. We actually had a pretty nasty storm this week that hit Tuesday afternoon and snowed heavily through Tuesday evening. I was fortunate enough to have a "Snow Day" on Wednesday as a result of it, but Tim had to trudge off to work early in the morning as always. The policy of my center is to follow the Poudre School District and close for severe weather if they are closed, which is nice because it really takes a lot of the blame and decision-making off of us. Well, like most school districts in the area, Poudre did decide on Tuesday night that all schools would be closed Wednesday. However, the weather did not continue through the night as was expected and Wednesday ended up being a pretty nice day, with lots of the snow already melting away. Whoops. I admit I felt a little guilty all day about being off, but it wasn't really my decision, was it? I was able to go to Fort Collins in the afternoon and get my hair cut just as planned. Not a bad day, all in all. We're really hoping that will be the end of our winter storms.

Tim and I--never really knowing when to stay and when to go--ventured out into that nasty storm on Tuesday night to pick up the changing table we had ordered at Walmart. We navigated the roads quite well, though, in our 4WD vehicle that has brand new tires. Our changing table is all set up in the nursery now and we rearranged just a little. This afternoon Tim hauled up from the basement one of our old dressers which we're putting in the closet of the nursery for storage.

We did have a bit of a bummer this week when the Envoy starting running very poorly and we had to take it in to the shop. It wasn't there that long; I dropped it off Thursday afternoon and picked it up Friday afternoon. But just to make life that much easier we went ahead and got a rental car for me to drive in the meantime. With Tim working in Longmont the one car thing just is too difficult. My rental car was a little yellow 2010 VW Bug. :) Kinda fun to drive for a day. And $1300 later the Envoy is fixed and running better than before.

We're looking forward to spending Easter weekend at home (I even get Friday off as my center is closed for Good Friday). Then the weekend after that we start our travels with a quick trip to Grand Junction. It'll be nice to see family there and in Montana at least one more time before the baby makes her debut.

Here are some more pictures for your viewing pleasure:

The crib parts are all sanded and ready to be stained! I love having such a handy husband, and am quite spoiled because of it.


The curtains are hung!
Have you ever noticed how in nearly every one of our pictures there is at least one cat? Can you find the cat in this picture?
Modeling my major contribution to the nursery. :)

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Preparing a Place

Welcome to our blog! This is our first official post. We've been extremely busy lately and April is probably only going to get worse, so we'll do our best to update occasionally, especially once the baby is here because we all know that that's really who you care to hear about/see. :)

Spring is officially here and we've been busy busy bees trying to prepare a room for our Little Miss. The nursery is all painted and we've moved in the furniture that we have so far, but haven't hung anything on the walls yet. Yesterday I finished up the curtains I've been making for the room and Tim began sanding down the crib. Turns out the crib project might be a little bigger than we had anticipated, but it'll look really nice when it's done. We're starting to feel the pressure a little bit, since we're going to be busy traveling almost every weekend in April. But as long as Little Miss doesn't decide to come earlier than she is supposed to we should be just fine.


We were glad to have a weekend pretty much free this weekend. I didn't leave the house at all yesterday and Tim only went out to get some more sandpaper (and Peeps for me!).


In other news, Tim continually has more work to do than he has time to get it done. We're still grateful for the job he has, even if it is pretty stressful at times. My director is leaving on a missions trip to Albania on Monday and won't be back to work until Wednesday of the next week. So I will pretty much be the acting director for a week. The powers that be at my center have decided not to have an "Assistant Director" and so I have been promoted to a position that we are calling the "Administrative Assistant". The title describes what I do pretty well; I have been given a lot more responsibility and pretty much know how to do everything to run the center, but I don't have to make the hard decisions about hiring and firing and such. And that suits me just fine.


Tim is sanding like crazy as I type this. This afternoon we will be driving down to Denver to meet Chrisann, Clint and Toby for dinner, so we're looking forward to that. It's so nice to see the sun and we're excited to watch our landscaping come back to life (hopefully). Come on Spring!
I'm posting some pictures of the ongoing nursery project. Hopefully you'll all get to see the room in person sometime soon. Enjoy!

The wainscot goes up!

Here's Tim putting the trim on top of the wainscot.
Tim the painter.



All painted! We moved in our futon and the glider we got from Susan and Ernie.

You can see our stroller on the right and the cradle that Tim's grandpa, Paul, made on the left.

Here's one of the curtains I made. We need to get curtain rods so we can hang them up!

Tim working hard in the basement while he watches Nascar. :)

One side of the crib all sanded and ready to be refinished.


Here's a picture of Jessica and I from our recent trip to Montana. She's about 3 and a half weeks behind me and just found out she's having another boy!