We finally got the keys to our house and have made a ton of progress already!
We closed last Monday and got the keys on Tuesday.
We had our first meal Tuesday night.
Cafe Rio of course!
We are doing updates before we move in and have been working every night on the house except for Sunday.
That was a nice break.
Wednesday we went and and I started in our guest bedroom.
It had amazing white with purple and pink flowers all over.
I started to pull it off and noticed another color...
They had more wallpaper under the flowered wallpaper!
I got started with the steamer and it took me two days to finish that room.
While I was doing the guest room, Dee started with the fireplace :)
I had to take many breaks to watch him.
In the dining room, on the back wall, is was a floor to ceiling fake fireplace.
They had a real one sometime during the houses lifetime but it was replaced with a fake one.
Why they did that?
I don't know.
But it made things easier when taking it out.
Anyways, we bought Dee a sledge hammer :)
You can image the fun he had with that thing!
It was so funny to watch him hit the bricks, the bricks would fall down, he'd turn around and look at me like he got caught with his finger in the cookie jar and smile.
It was awesome!
It took him until Saturday to get that finished.
He had to go to the dump and my Dad and Brother-in-law came over to help.
The next room I started to work on is Little Man's room.
It has the worst wallpaper to take off with a steamer.
It was such a headache!
Dee and I finally went to home depot to get wallpaper remover and that helped a ton!
I don't know why we didn't know that from the start.
Probably because my arms are dead after the first five minutes.
You have to "score" the wallpaper with this tool.
It pretty much pokes holes in the wallpaper to the remover can get underneath and release the glue.
Then you use a really sharp scraper to scrape it off.
That's the easy part.
To get the rest of the glue off, you spray with the remover and then take a ruff sponge and scrub it.
Then you wipe it off with clean water and clean sponge.
It is seriously a lot of arm work.
I skipped the cleaning off the glue part because I'm dead after scoring and scraping.
That's ok.
Dee will sand it all off when he sands the other walls to get ready for me to paint :)
Dee started taring up the carpet and the floors look amazing!!!!
WOOHOO!!
That means we don't have to buy floating wood floors or carpet!
We will the original hardwood floors throughout the entire house!
Except for the kitchen and the bathroom.
That will be tile.
This house looks completely different from what it looked like when we first looked at it.
And I can't wait until it's finished and is completely ours!
***Don't worry. I will get pictures up soon. I have pictures all over the place right now***
On the baby side....
This Little Man sure does love to move!
He kicks and punches like crazy!
He wakes me up more and more during the night with his punches but I love it.
I know he's ok until I get to see him again.
Oh yeah...I have now moved to every 2 week appointments....
I can't believe we are that close to meeting this little man!
Only 12 more weeks!
AHHH!
I'm excited yet nervous at the same time!
My life will change forever once he's here!
Another reason I know it's getting closer...everyone that was due before me are having their babies!
This AMAZING girl I grew up with, Natalie, brought her little boy into this world about 2 weeks ago.
My friend Emily brought her little girl into this world a little over a week ago.
My friend from school got to hold his little girl early this morning!
and there are many more that have already had their babies that I haven't listed.
the list would seriously go on forever if I kept naming people.
I get butterflies, both nervous and happy ones, as I think about having my little man.
Good thing I have the house to keep me preoccupied until then :)
I did get to see my little man "chew" at my last appointment.
It was sooo cool!
And he's starting to chunk up!
He has cute round cheeks!
It is seriously amazing the love I have for this little man already.
Same with Dee.
He loves my belly and will lean down to kiss his baby and talk to him.
It is the cutest thing.
It will be the cutest thing to see Dee hold his son for the first time in the hospital...
I can dream...
for a few more months anyways. :)
First things first:
Finish house
Halloween
Thanksgiving
BABY!!
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