One more animal in the menagerie

I went out to grab myself a late dinner tonight and as I walked out the front door, I found a little tree frog hanging out on the side of the house. And when I came back, he was on the other wall. So there might be one or several. This is why I get to hear them and the crickets at night. I like them as they remind me of home. And while I was driving, there was a beautiful orange crescent moon hanging low in the west.

Office Organization

Here's the shelf I built yesterday for our office closet, but I couldn't post the picture yesterday. I have to build the other one today and then get it organized. I've already almost filled this one.

Updates to baby room, guest room, and office

Gene and I had a busy labor day weekend working on the house. We built the crib and tested out the ladybug bedding which is a keeper. Here's some pictures:

While we don't have a mattress yet, you can sort of see what the bumper looks like

She now has a full closet of clothes that Gene's jealous of (just the amount, not the color or style!)

We also picked out a new bedspread for the guest room. While it has some burgundies that I wasn't sure would work, it actually seems to accent the purple quite well.

I also made one of our closet organizers from Target today. Now I just have to make the other and actually organize them. But I was able to already unpack two boxes that I hadn't gotten to yet. That's my goal by the end of the weekend to have all the boxes gone. Fingers crossed.

Moving into Fall

Today feels like Autumn in Duarte because it's a nice 73 degrees and I can open my windows and feel the nice breeze. It's refreshing after getting back from my trip to Indiana.

Since I have been out of town, not much has been happening at the house, but getting back I've been working on filling the baby's room. I got quite a bit of help from the showers back home. (Thanks, everyone!) Gene's pretty sure that our kid's wardrobe has outgrown his own. So now she has a full closet and I picked out a ladybug bedding set that goes with the green in the room. Now we have to see if Gene likes it!

I also ordered our crib online and it will be coming in the next week. It's crazy to start getting ready for her. It makes the reality that she's coming in a few months that more real. I also have the car seat and stroller base sitting in the living room ready and waiting.

I'll work on more pictures soon!

Floors Complete!

After having to rip up the yellow office floor due to water (flooding from the air conditioner), we've finally finished both the yellow room and green baby's room. Can you believe there'll be a baby in there in four months? We have a lot to do to get some baby furniture in there.

But, here's the work we've done in the past week and a half:

First, the baby's room with the hardwood floor. And, yes, baby clothes are already in the closet.

While it looks like we have two different color greens in there, it really the light and sun that makes it look more lime green in the second picture.

We also got the guest room together more and have a white metal framed queen bed in there and I found a great silvery gray bedspread at Ross.

A close-up view. It needs a little ironing or steaming to get out the wrinkles.

And we also put together a white dresser in the guest room as well. Now I have to stop using it to hold stuff and actually decorate it with some silver candlesticks and a silver mirror above. And of course fill it with some extra clothes.

Here's the completed office once again. We've started moving the computers and printers in, but it also became a catch all for our extra chairs.

The new and last kitchen counter with our full dining room set.

Now that most of the big work is done, I have to work on unpacking all of the boxes and putting it all away. Then paint a few closet doors to hide all of our stuff!

Updates over the last two weeks

With the long weekend, we were able to get quite a bit of work done. We're in the final push before Gene heads to Atlanta for awhile and the housework is left to me. Here are a few updates of things that have happened in the last few weeks.

Right before we left for Alaska we got our dining room table and three chairs. We're supposed to have six, but three had scratches on them so we're hoping that we'll get replacements when I take these back. But here's what the kitchen/dining room looks like now.

We also were able to get in our long butcher block countertop in the kitchen.

Also, here's what the finished purple room looks like. Ignore all the boxes it's holding for right now as we finish the floors in the other rooms.

We were also able to paint the baby's room:

And finally we were able to get a queen boxspring for the mattress that our friends gave to us. While at the store I also found some cute lamps.

Living and Working in the house

While we're moved into the house, we still have a lot of unpacking and work to do. We got our countertops in so that I can now cook meals at the house and wash the dishes. Here's a few pictures of them.

Unfortunately, we had a setback last Sunday night when we noticed that our floor in the yellow room was squishy. That's right, there was water under our new beautiful hardwood floor. So we had to move all of the boxes we were storing in there, rip up the floor, and try to figure out the leak. We eventually realizes that it was our air conditioner (with a little advice from my dad) and there was a pump at the bottom to get rid of water that wasn't plugged in. A simple solution, but now we'll have to redo the floors in there--but not until we figure out a several ways to protect ourselves from water again.

However, we did get our guest room painted purple last night. Here's a few pictures of that:

More to do today to get our stuff put away and get ready to lay more floors in the guest room