nursery progress

 I wanted to share some of the progress on the babies room.  I am working on slowly doing the make over from girl cave to baby boy room.  I made new curtains changed the bar with cubbies and a few other things.

Her is the before..

Here is the after.  The curtains are grey yellow and blue. The white desk went to monkey butt and I will be keeping the drafting table here because I need somewhere to do my stuff and this is really the only place for it.

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 The pictures to the side had their fabric changed to a boy fabric and will have some less girlish saying wrote in. right now the things below will stay there until I order a nail polish wrack or something to house them on the wall out of the way.

 This wall has changed allot.  I down sized all this and bought a book shelf for my room the house all the books.

 Now it looks like this.  It will be a changing table area.  I need to get a changing pad but I have to baskets and cubbies below for diapers, blankets burp rags and crib sheets and what not. The nicknacks on the shelve will be changed out with boy things when I find ones I like.

 this wall is completely empty right now.  I moved th yarn shelve to butt up to my dresser in my room .  The bar above it is the one above the draft table.  I took down all the will art.  (the heat and bond fabric wall art came off great except for the flannel humming bird left a bit of fuzz but I think it will come off with some soap and water) This wall is where the crib will go when we get one.  I have some ideas already for wall art above it. 

This was our first baby purchase.  I had them put this particular one on hold at target because I wanted this one in this color and it was the last one.  It is a rock and play.  It is sort of a cradle that is portable and rocks head to toe instead of side to side.

Here is the inside.  the colors are ones I am going to use for the nursery (grey, bright blue, and pear green).  I was excited for this. 

 Another things that has been displaced was my purses.  I don't have any that are pricey ones.  I most have t.j. max, khols, and target.  I trade back and forth depending on what I need at the time.  I got a hanging shoe wrack from walmart and rolled them up and stuck them on the inside of my closet door.

That is the progress so far.  I will keep you guys posted as we get new things and add them in :)

21 week update

This week has been a roller coaster.  I did my gender reveal got a ton of stuff going around the house, lots of cleaning, de-cluttering and reorganizing, which are all good things. I have also hit that part of the pregnancy where you feel about as sexy and as big as a macys day balloon!  There for I had my first (I am sure hormonally driven) cry about feeling huge and in general hideous. 

We have had two more snow storms, which I for one am absolutely sick to death of.  I finished knitting a pair of socks for monkey butt and started a owl cocoon for the baby.  We made a purchase for the baby which will be up in tomorrows blog post showing the progress made on converting the girl cave over to a nursery.  I also spent last night with zofran and a bowl.  I don't know what happened but I got super sick at bed time :(.  Those were the happenings in the last week.  I am exhausted today and going to read for a bit before I have to start cooking dinner to feed all these people who live at my house lol.  Have a good day guys

weekend haul

 Over the weekend in the cities I had some things I needed to grab (and some that I got whether I needed them or not)  So here are the things I picked up :)  I stopped in Sallys because I needed some combs (mine were on their last legs, and a new top coat.  Polish's were buy two get one free.  So I got out the door top coat (which seems to be awesome and doesn't have the bad chemicals my beloved seche vite has) but it works just as good from what I could tell.  The two orly colors I got are okay but the problem is the formula is not good.  It takes more then two coats to be opaque. I haven't tried the china glaze yet.

 We had a eyebrow waxing mishap with my sister (sooo not my fault my niece and her friend were making her laugh and she wouldn't sit still) but anyway we were looking for a good brow pencil for her.  Our first stop was khols because I had heard the american beauty one was supposed to be amazing but the testers were old and totally dried.  When I would try to swatch them on my hand they crumbled and fell apart and they wouldn't put a new one out to try so...we went to ulta instead.  We found a few different ones that seemed to work.  (the best of which for her blond hair was essence in blond) 

But here is what I picked up.  I had two 4$ off coupons for almay and they were b2g1 so I grabbed a brow pencil for my sis (which she has it was decent too) a eye makeup remover (mine is almost out) and a almay get up and grow, a nyx dewy finishing spray and a nyx jumbo pencil in milk.

 I also grabbed a tangle teezer which I have heard great things about.  I am glad I did because my girls love it.  Fire monster is normally a monster to get her hair done but she doesn't fuss at all when I brush her hair with this.

Then only other thing I grabbed that was beauty related was this soho makeup sponge from walgreens.  It is supposed to be just like the beauty blender but is more like 7$.  I have to say I LOVE it.  It holds more water and is softer and more pliable then any of the other ones I have tried.  Totally recommend this.

That is all I bought beauty related.  The only thing I am not happy with so far is the orly polish's I will stick to a different company from not on (besides my holy grail bonder base coat)

family dinner gender reveal.

 Okay so this weekend we drove up to the cities (twin cities) to have a gender reveal for my side of the family.  After a long day calling all over the place I finally found someone who I could order cake pops from.  I didn't want to make them go through all the steps of making them myself here and try to get them 3 hours away to the cities in one piece.  I ordered from Kendras cakes and creations I wanted them to be very neutral on the outside and they were to be blue on the inside.  She did a great job and they weren't the kind that were just cake inside they had the frosting mixed in so they were not only adorable but delicious.  I loved it.  I had lunch with a few of the knit gurus and shared the news with them then headed back to the family.

 Before dinner everyone ate their pop and found out it was a BOY. 

 I intagramed some pics to share the news.

we ordered a big dinner from gesippes and chowed down and then sat around doing nothing at family dinner like always lol  Here is my sister melissa screwing around with her phone.  (I am not 100% sure she will ever know fully how to work it lol)

 Here is my brother jeremy and amber my soon to be sister in law. 

this one doesn't look like much but calvin is inside the box.   Him and Fire monster played in that box all day.  They had holes poked out for eyes and ran around all day playing in the box (under the watchful eye of zoey the mother hen Weimaraner of coarse)

So there we have it the family knows and I have started planing and purchasing and making things.  I will share as things go but I wanted to make sure and share the rest of this story.  I finally have a day with no kids Even though we had another day of this yesterday..

They did not cancel school for once which is fabulous because fire monster has her field trip today and it has already been canceled once! So she gets to have a fun day and  I can take some pics and throw up some posts as well as bake and try to work on my little boys room and get mine cleaned up a bit, finish my book, swing over to the library and pic up the book I have put on hold that finally came in and start a new knitting project for the baby..  :)  (I have big plans we will see how far they get me lol)  Have a good day guys.

monday mani

I wanted to throw up a quick monday mani.  I actually painted my nails quick today between chores errands, working on changing over the babies room.  The color I did was Orly skinny dip(very appropriate considering we are having ANOTHER snow storm right now this very moment lol.  Just a heads up I am not a fan of the formula of these orly polishes I bought I wanted a china glaze color that was sold out so this way the closest thing.  The formula before the top coat is sorta dull almost matte and even though I did two coats there it didn't give great coverage! I bought a couple of polishes over the weekend (I will try to do a haul of the little bit of goodies this weekend)

Okay I have a hair cut swinging over after work So I need to get ready for that, then it is time to cook dinner for the family and get back to work on cleaning up my mess down stairs and getting things moved over from girl cave to babies room.

its a....

 Now that I did the gender reveal over the weekend I can say its a...

The gender reveal went great and I can finally share with all of you guys. 

 I am very excited.  I have more to share with you tomorrow but I am beat and need to curl up in my nice soft bed and sleep. 

20w 2d update

Sorry this is late.  It has been a crazy week.  We got hit by another blizzard!!!  Yes you heard me another blizzard in the second half of April!!  Pretty sick of snow.  But because we had another blizzard my whole week was sorta turned upside down.  I had to make a last minute trip to Sioux falls to help a girl friend who is almost 37 weeks pregnant return some things before she wasn't allowed to travel that far her window got down to one day due to the storm.  So We pulled monkey butt out a few minutes early from school and made the run.  (she had a defective swing and play pin two things you need when you bring a baby home)

Anyway also yesterday just as I was about to head out for a VERY much needed pedi. I got the call that the kids had been early released due to the storm so had to pick them up (which mean my nails still are gross) We also had to go out and grocery shop last night because we leave for the cities today.  ( We get all kinds of discounts on gas when we buy our groceries last trip we saved 11$) so we braved that.  Today was a two hour late start so once I got monkey butt to school I came home to work on laundry get packed for the trip and throw up my weekly update :)

We had a ultrasound which went great.  The little monkey is moving like crazy.  I posted those pics and some videos of the baby clearly working on some yoga moves in my belly.  After about half a day of trying I found a lovely friend of a friend to bake my 24 gender reveal cupcake pops and I also put a rock and play on hold for my little monkey :)  I am excited for the weekend I will get to see my good gf luann eye and do her hair,  I will see and reveal to my family (who are of coarse great) and I will even get to see a couple of my knit gurus and do a gender reveal for them!  I am very excited about that.

I will try to get some good pics at the gender reveals over the weekend.  But for now I have to feed Fire monster and get finished packing :)