More Projects: Backsplash & Floors!

Brad and his dad have been feverishly working every Saturday around here to try and get some projects done before Baby makes his appearance.  Goals of things to get done before Baby: install kitchen backsplash, refinished bedroom hardwood floors, and redo the main bathroom.  

Well, they're doing really well and so far we they have: installed the kitchen backsplash, set up the baby's crib, built and installed a closet organizer in the baby's room, AND put new closet doors on in the baby's room.  Brad's dad, Randy, is A-MAZING, and we are so thankful and blessed to have him helping us get all these projects done!

We can't take credit for the fact that the bedrooms all have shiny, newly finished hardwood floors - we hired out for that job!  The one thing we haven't finished is the bathroom.... and it's not looking great.  The two quotes we got back were both MUCH higher than what we were hoping to spend.  So we're on a standstill for now.

Here are some pics of all the updates!

Kitchen Backsplash:

Kitchen was a mess again!

Bedroom Floors:

Guest bedroom before...notice the orange-ish tint?

Baby's room before...

Our room before...

Where do you put three bedrooms worth of stuff at once?  The living room of course!

Oh yeah, and the Family room!

Baby's room after!

 Our room after!

Guest bedroom after!

Baby's Room Update!  The crib is up!

Third Trimester!

Well, at 28 weeks, I'm officially into my third trimester.  It's crazy how fast time has gone!  I think it helps that I've been feeling pretty well.  Lately I've been getting worse heartburn, but it's been fairly manageable with Tums, and I have Zantac on backup if needed.  And if heartburn is my only complaint, I'm doing pretty well I think!  I passed my glucose test and anemia test at my 28 week doctor appointment.  Baby's heart rate was about 135.  My blood pressure was also good!  Now I'm up to having appointments every 2 weeks, which seems crazy!!!

At 28 weeks, baby boy is kicking and moving like crazy!  Brad can feel him easily now, which is fun.  I've also started doing prenatal yoga on Mondays.  It's free at Destination Maternity.  I really like it - it's kind of a pain to make myself go, when I'm tired after work and just want to rest, but I think it's helping me learn to breathe better and relax my body (which will come in handy for labor, I'm sure!).

In terms of the nursery....well, it's getting there.  We just had the hardwood floors refinished in all three bedrooms, and Randy, my handy father-in-law, is working on a closet organizer for Baby's room.  Once that's in, then we can start putting together the crib and really getting some work done.

Here are some pictures of my 28 week bump!

(7 months!)

Christmas 2012

We had another great Christmas this year - we are blessed to live close enough to both of our families that we can pretty easily see them both for the holidays!  We drove to Oostburg on Sunday morning and had Christmas there on Christmas Eve, then we drove to Green Bay on Christmas and stayed for a couple of days.  On Thursday we were back in Brookfield.  It's hard to believe I go back to work tomorrow - the break was SO nice!  We got some house stuff done, worked on our baby registry, and did a lot of relaxing.

Here are some pictures of our Christmas!

Gabrielse Family Tree in Oostburg

 Brothers!

Cooper loved all his gifts from his Oostburg & Green Bay families - 

he got lots of toys and a Packer jersey!

Cooper LOVES to help open wrapped gifts.  He will actually tear off pieces of wrapping paper, drop them, then go back for more.  So funny!

Family pic!

Game night in Oostburg - Headbandz!

Herlache family Christmas tree in Green Bay!

25 weeks on Christmas!

We went out to eat and my mom wasn't feeling very hungry, so she just ordered a pretzel and cheese.... LOL - turned out to be the biggest meal of any of them!

Gabrielse family tree in Brookfield!  (Also our Christmas card picture)

Merry Christmas from our growing family!!!