kitchen

wow, 3 posts in one night! I'm on a role :)

kitchen mini remodel:

when we were shopping for a home, we looked at the condo we eventually bought in the very beginning of our months-long search. we didn't like it. it had a grody kitchen with yucky/chipped laminate counters and a gross/chipped porcelain sink.... we had high expectations.... after looking and looking, we came back to it and realized, we didn't hate it after all. i think we actually started seeing the potential it had. it was the most space we could get for our budget at the time, and we were ready to move in and make some MAJOR changes. we moved in, made it livable and then started to look into renovating the kitchen. by this time, home prices had dropped so much that anything we spent on renovation, would really not bring our price back up that much. so we decided to hold off.

we held off for years as our value kept dropping until we got this really cute foam baby bath tub as a present and got so excited about giving our little girl baths in the kitchen sink. only problem was that the foam tub wouldn't fit in our sink :( what's a new parent-to-be to do??!!! put in a new sink of course! and you can't just put in a new sink without changing your counter tops to durable and shiny granite, right? so that's what we did. and i think it looks awesome :) now all we have left is getting stainless steel appliances and possibly resurfacing the cabinets.

BEFORE:

in process with plywood countertops and a big hole where the sink is gonna go:

AFTER:

my favorite room in the house :)

it's the brightest and happiest room ever :)

this is what it looked like after the baby shower. thanks to our awesome friends and family, we're SO ready! My parents bought us all the baby furniture (you can't even see the dresser in this picture), bedding, car seats, stroller, etc. so thankfully all of that was already assembled before the room got filled with gifts.

we decided to make our old guest room into the nursery instead of the bigger room that scott has turned into his man cave. we ended up turning the man cave into a man cave/guest room/office cuz it's pretty big and it could accommodate a queen size bed for guests as well as all of scott's music and recording stuff. so now scott's man cave has pretty yellow curtains :) no pictures of that yet but it's dark gray and yellow.... we had already painted the old guest room a light shade of green thinking that we'd eventually turn it into a nursery and wanted to keep it gender neutral. it's a pretty bright room.

it went from this:

to this!!!

my sister and I made this mobil. it took us almost a week! i LOVE it!

baby shower

I'm just gonna put mess of pictures here because I need to catch up on a few posts. I don't want to forget anything...

My awesome family threw me the sweetest baby shower on September 24th. It was perfect! I'm so grateful that our baby is SO loved and so thankful for my family who have never hesitated to go out of their way to make life easier and better for us. Honestly, I don't know what I would do without them!

present from my nephews to Daddy-to-be :)