The Nursery is Ready!

It was kind of nice just working on one project while we put the Nursery together!  This room wasn't as disastrous as Hylie's 'before' room was.  The biggest pains were patching over the wall that had a dart board and getting all the lovely stickers off of the door, not bad, right?

Here are a few before's:

And the afters with a few details of our "Moon" theme:

It will be fun to add some more decor once we know if it's for a little boy or girl!

Just a few weeks to go! 

Okay, I made the mistake and compared my bump pictures from when I was pregnant with Hylie...It's looking like this baby may be a little bigger than Hylie.  Yikes!

Kitchen Progress

Our Kitchen has been under construction these past 3 weeks.  We are super, super pleased with how everything is coming along so far and are excited to continue to see things move forward.

Geoff took a panorama of the kitchen when it was completely gutted out.

Drywall up and subfloor in place!

Cabinets waiting for the tile floor...

I was amazed how quickly the tile and cabinets were put in place.  We love how it's coming along!

 In the meantime, the remainder of our main floor looks like this:

(sorry the pic is so blurry!)

 And our current 'kitchen' is located in our laundry room, complete with a hot plate, toaster oven, and microwave.

Believe it or not, our temporary set-up is working just great.  We're super excited about this adventure and are keeping our fingers crossed the kitchen will be complete before the baby comes!

Trunk or Treat!

Hylie has been so excited about Halloween these past few weeks.  Not a day has passed where she hasn't said, "Hylie be Elmo for Halloween, and Daddy Cookie Monster, and Mom is Oscar the Grouch!"  Yep, she picked out all of our costumes and has been consistent (and persistent) on her selections as well.  I've asked if I could be Big Bird or Grover (at least someone with a sweeter disposition?) but she would hear nothing of it!  So I sewed our little beanies together, got Hylie some Elmo PJ's and she absolutely LOVED the costumes.

She even practiced saying "Trick-or-Treat" and made sure we understood that people would give her candy when she spouts out that phrase.  We got her to practice saying "Thank you" as well, but when she was at the Trunk-or-Treat event for our ward this past weekend, her shyness (and fatigue--guess who's been refusing to nap!) set in, and she barely made a peep at each candy station.  Thankfully, people were so nice and gave her the goods even if she didn't participate with the Halloween lingo.

She was pretty excited to break into her stash that night before we even got in the car to go home.  I think Hylie's an official fan of Halloween!

I think Hylie's glazed look is a combination of sleep deprivation and sugar coma, Ha ha!