The painting is DONE!!!!

Jon has worked SO HARD and finally - the painting is DONE!!! We are so happy with how everything has turned out. We still have the hallway to paint eventually, but we've crossed it off our list of things to do by Christmas. The things he has done all look great.

One of our walls in the kitchen, looking through the arch to our niche - Jon picked out the statue!

Dining Room - dark brown on the bottom and a light beige on top.

Living room - Jon hanging up our sconces.

We've also put up the Christmas tree and decorations. It's been a bit of a struggle to not want to go out and buy a boatload of new decorations to fill up this house we now have. But so far I've resisted and I think I'll do okay until things are on clearance after the holiday. We did finally get to put up our tree that we haven't seen since we bought it half-price the day after Christmas last year.






Jon put the Christmas lights on the house today and they look FABULOUS!!!! I need to take a picture of them -- coming soon.

Oh, and we've both had our first door-busting Black Friday shopping experience. We jumped out of bed at 3 and were out the door by 3:30 all ready to go. Kohl's was absolutely INSANE and we failed by not having a real plan for our day. But we made it through that madness with a few treasures and headed over to JC Penney for a few more things. Overall it was a good experience, and I'm ready to do it again next year! However, Jon is anxious to stay home with the baby. Here's a picture of us before we left the house.

Wow - Time to play catch up!

There are so many things I've wanted to blog about in the last month and a half. I've been keeping a mental list of them, but if you've ever been pregnant, or married to someone who's pregnant, you know how the brain is the first thing to go. I do know that my list consisted of discussing the Big State Fair of Texas, Texas/OU weekend, my birthday, painting....

But now it's Daylight Savings day, and I'm waaaay too tired to discuss any of this. Except maybe painting which we're in the middle of. Jon has completely finished the baby's room, with the exception of the pink or blue stripes that will be painted on, and possibly the wainscotting that might or might not be installed. He's also finished the bedroom which looks FANTASTIC! Two shades of green, chosen completely by him. He did great. Now we're in the middle of painting the kitchen and dining room. I'm not so sure about the colors this time, but we're going to give it another couple days and finish a few more sections before we completely decide.

We've got to have the builders out to inspect the floor this week. We've developed some serious grout cracks and cracked tiles in our kitchen and master bath. And this afternoon I also noticed a crack in the ceiling on the same line. Ahhh... the joys of homeownership!!!

We did manage to get the office a little more put together with all of our books now put away and our new filing cabinet being used in full force. I still have to clean out the junk from the guest bedroom that was transferred there when we started painting the baby's room.

Of course, I will be updating the baby blog. Click here for updated info!!!