This is it!

Okay I promise no more pictures of the nursery after this, but i just have to share with you the final end result. I LOVE IT!!!!!!! it feels right, it feels good. It is finished! well almost we still need blinds, but other then that everything is where i want it to be. The pictures were taken with the camera phone so they are not the best quality, but you get the idea. What do you think? Be honest, but if you hate it don't tell me :)

Baby Shower

My baby shower was on Sunday and it was awesome. We got so many beautiful gifts. We are so honored to have these wonderful family and friends in our life. We could not do this without you. Thank you to the hostesses of this party, Becky, Annie S., Niki, Harriet, Jennifer, Kelly, and Angela! It was spectacular!!! Here are a few highlights. Worth even got his own present, a beer, from his buddy Morgan. Annie S. made a 5 tier diaper cake with instructions on when I use the diapers. She knows me so well. Plus the cake for the shower was so beautiful and so good as was all the food. As party favors Becky had M&Ms made that said Bella Rose on them. I forgot to get some from her so I need to do that soon before they are all gone! If you ever need a party done right these are the ladies to do it! Thank you everyone. I wish I could put all the pictures online and thank you all individually, but that would be a VERY long post. It was so much fun and we feel so honored!

Nephews

i know we have been pretty girly lately with all the pink and talking about baby so i thought i would do a tribute to all the newphews in our life. see BellaRose is coming to help the girls out. the girls are far out numbered. there are only 2 girls and 5 boys. i will post pictures of the girls later, but we just had a bunch of pictures of the boys so i thought i would introduce them to you. they are all blonde too. so do we think that BellaRose will be blonde, brunnette, brown eyes, blue eyes? this is a hard one. Rocco (the youngest), the 2nd from top is from my middle sister. She is colored like me and her husband is blonde blue eyes. Christian, top is the oldest at 7. His mom, my oldest sister is also dark like me and she married a blonde blue eyed british man.

Below far bottom is Ethan. He is Worth's older sister's middle boy and he is the most blonde. Cameron middle is very blonde and blues and he is my oldest sister's. Last but not least is Noah, he is Worth's sister's oldest. Here is trying to jump his 4-wheeler and is doing a pretty good job. Same story blonde/ blue eyes. So i ask you what will BellaRose be? Taylor my niece is the only one with brown hair and brown eyes.

Remember these pictures? Remeber how terrible it was?

Well look at it now. Isn't it perfect? This is what we did this weekend. We got out nursery together. It becomes more and more real everyday! I put the changing table together all by meself! I am so proud of my self. Of course it only had like 14 screws and allen wrench, but hey I will be 32 weeks tomorrow and putting anything together is no easy task. I am starting to have people ask me about my belly and I really just don't know what to say to them. "Yeah having a baby" is what I say but really what do you say when people say "look at your little belly" and I want to say "yeah look at yours" :). No one has touched me yet, but I hear that happens!

Name in lights

Look how pretty the nursery is looking. Isn't it wonderful! My visions for this room are coming to fruition and it is just as I wanted it. I know that Bella Rose will be thrilled. The trim and the chair molding just brought it all together. The goal is to have the nursery done this weekend. Worth has to finish up some trim and then the crib will go up. I hope to have it all done by my shower on the 25th so I can start "nesting". On another nursery note the lamp came in from my mom. The picture is below in an earlier blog. THANK YOU again Mom. It is going to be perfect! I will have pictures on Monday.

I came home from work the other day and had a surprise waiting for me. It was from Pottery Barn Kids. I was so excited. That is one of my favorite places. Inside was this towel set along with another and a sheet. It is from my boss and his wife and I think that it is great. It is the first time I have seen her name in lights and it is just beautiful. Bella Rose. My sweet Bella Rose! Which brings me to another thought. How should I do her name on her birth certificate? I want her name to be a double first name, so do I connect the 2 names BellaRose? Do I hyphenate Bella-Rose? I don't like it like that though. I like keeping them seperated but then it would seem like a middle name. Oh the dilemas of naming your child :)

On another note it is my Dad's birthday, the original Godfather! Here he is dancing with me on my wedding day. He was not quite sure how to dance to bluegrass, but I would say that this Italian man from Pittsburgh did a pretty good job. Happy Birthday Bucko, I love you!

MARCH MADNESS

This is my house last spring and summer. The weather has just been so unreal here and I want to plant, but I know Old Man Winter is not through with us. I know just when I start getting sure of myself he comes and kills all my beauty so I will look at these pictures and be satisfied for now. Isn't it wonderous? I have big plans for my garden this year, big plans I tell you. You will have to wait and see or just come over!

Rainy is having mental issues right now. She is being needy. I think that she thinks she is fat, maybe b/c we tell he she is fat. Don't think that we are bad parents, we are just kidding with her. Is this how it starts though? Will she no longer want to eat? I don't think so. We are trying to retrain a 7 year old lab. Do you think that it will work? We will let you know. She has become militant in her old age. She wakes us at 5 with a dog food bowl to the head (literally). When we come home she yells at us to be fed. We are trying to change her internal clock. This is what happens when you do that. They become insecure and want to be in laundry hampers. We came home from a friends house and Worth put his puffy jacket in the hamper and Rainy decided that is where she needed to be. She has NEVER done this before. All we could do was laugh and then take a picture!

Atticus is doing fine. Lisser just wanted a picture so here you go Lisser. He is still pretty much oblivious and I so love him for that. He did have another kill this past week. Another rabbit out of our yard. Sweet boy, I think it really shocks him when he finally gets one. Have you ever heard a rabbit die? It is a terrible noise. I don't recommend it!

So I am a little embarrased by our water heater. This is what it looked like when Worth removed the shelves and we were really able to see what is behind it. He found many things, 2 ashe trays (we don't smoke), a phone book, paper cups, pot lids, just to name a few. We fear these have been there since worth bought the house. The back of the water heater was baiscally exploded. I wonder if this could explain all the water damage on the floor? This water heater is now gone. Replaced by a pretty white one that does not leak. It was laying in our yard waiting for trash day, I have to admit we looked pretty trashy, but this family came by and picked it up wanting to sell it for scrap metal. I hope they make money!

Our wood floor is down! No more wood floor to lay. I am thrilled. A lot of the tools are out of the house. I feel like we are getting close, but we are far from it. I have a false sense of security. I need to get over it. We still have to re-trim the whole house. Get a closet built so I have my kitchen table, bakery's rack, nursery, and guest room back. So we are far from done, but look at the progress!

29 weeks

29 weeks, 7 complete months pregnant, in my eigth month. Time is flying. In some ways I want her to stay in there as long as possible and in other ways I am ready for her to come out. I am starting to get uncomfortable, walking hurts a little bit. She has all of the sudden starting growing and my belly is really popping out. This may be the last picture I post of myself because I hated all the other pictures of myself Worth took, put me in a bad mood last night. I know I am pregnant and I have told many people this when they were pregnant, but it is still hard to all of the sudden see a stomach where there was not one before. I also know that something so wonderful will come from this. I also know that this is something every pregnant lady has felt. We are doing great though. I am so thankful that this pregnancy has been so simple!

On to this gorgeous little dress that came in the mail yesterday. This is from my most precious friend Katie who lives in Michigan and we met one summer at camp. We have not seen each other since that summer, but I still feel so connected to her. She made this dress for Bella Rose and it is the sweetest thing that I have ever seen. Look at the buttons. Thank you so much Katie!!! This dress is also washable and dryable. She is one of the most creative people I know. She has always been such an encouragement to me. Check out her blog. There is a link on here for her. I don't know how to make her name the link.

We have 1/2 the hardwood floor down. It looks awesome! It also looks so good with the color that I picked. Worth is doing such a good job. I wish that I could help him more, but I would have no idea what to do so I make him paninis! We have the living room, hall way, and nursery all done. The only thing left is the kitchen for flooring and then on to the trim.

Thank you Mom!

Thank you to my Mom!!! I went to Greenville for her Birthday and ended up with some gifts for Bella Rose. How fun. To the right is the sheepskin rug for the room. I got it yesterday and it is AWESOME!!! So soft. I think that Bella Rose will like some naps on the floor as well as Rainy!

This is the chandelier that I am so excited about. What little girl would not want a chandelier like this. My sister, Angela, has it up in Taylor's room and it looks so good. Thanks Angela for the idea. The fed-ex man just dropped it off!

And here is the bedside lamp that my mom got us as well. We decided on the pink shade. I was going to do the white, but my mom thought that the pink would be better. I think that I agree! This one is on back order until April though. What a bummer.

Hardwood floors are going down in my house as we speak. We are getting there. I promise I will have a belly shot soon. I just have run out of time for that. I can tell you though that it is getting bigger! Went to the doctor and everything is still going well. My iron is a little low so I guess I am going to be needing some hamburgers.

Ya'll have a great weekend. The weather here is terrific so hopefully we will get outside.

All ready Daddy's little girl!

Someone who is living inside of my stomach right now is already a daddy's girl. That someone would be Bella Rose, and that daddy would be Worth. My husband came into work yesterday with the biggest proudest grin on his face and laid these roses on my desk. I was on the phone with a client and did not pay attention to one word the client said. Worth told me that he got the last pink rose. Sweet right, well then he says that the pink one is in fact not for me but for Bella Rose. So the pink flower to your right is Bella Rose's first Valentine's day present. How sweet is that. This reminds me of my own dad and him ALWAYS bringing me a Valentine's. Whether it was chocolate or a stuffed animal it never failed that I had a valentine on that potentially very lonely holiday for a little girl! Thank you Dad.





(this picture is from my wedding day right before he walked me down the aisle)





On another note the kitchen cabinets are white and they are wonderful. So much better then the old stuff. It feels fresh, it feels clean, and I can't wait for the rest to be done!
What do you think?

27 weeks

I have no picture of me to show you, but this is the diaper bag that I saved for and bought. How pretty is that? I am actually looking forward to carrying it. I am 27 weeks today. Bella Rose is moving like crazy. It is still so wild for me to feel her in there. It is hard for me not to think that my stomach is just upset and not that there is a human in there. So wild! We are still doing great. My belly is getting bigger for sure. I am almost out of my pre-pregnancy pants, but the pair of maternity pants that I have are too big. What a weird stage to be in. I don't have that much longer so to buy a lot of maternity clothes seems strange to me.

The house is coming along. I am really excited. We painted the walls a peach color. In the day it looks bright, in the evening it is warm. My neighbor told me he does not like the color, but I won't listen to him. What does he know :). We painted the kitchen cabinets white. They look so much better and clean being white. They were terrible before. You can see that in other picturues. This is the wood floor that we are going to put down. Isn't it awesome!!!! I love it and can't wait for to be all down.

Progress

So we are getting there. I know it is hard to tell, but really we are. So we had the washer and dryer in the kitchen and it sounded like a helicopter was landing when the washer was on spin cycle. Not very condusive with a sleeping baby. So we moved those to the garage and cut a whole in our house and put french doors in. I know that the last picture is hard to see, but those are our french doors!! It makes it so much brighter in there. Now i just need to pick out a paint color. I am having a hard time with that though. I want a peach, but the one I picked looks pink, and I want it to be a bit darker. Any suggestions? I welcome them.

On another note I had a doctor's appointment this week and had to do my glucose test. The drink was not bad, but no one told me about having to wait for an hour. That was a little much. But we are all good. The doctor used perfect a couple of times, so that made me so happy. The weight gain is going well, although I still hate to get on the scale. I know I should not complain though. Bella Rose gave us a flip right before we heard her heartbeat so we got to hear how fast her heart was beating. The doctor again said perfect!

Thank you for loving us!

Welcome

I don't have a picture to post yet, but I would like to say welcome to the world Davis Benjamin Young. He made is appearance a month early and weighed in at 7lbs 12oz (can you imagine if he went full term). The proud parents, Ben and Jennifer Young are thrilled, although they weren't quite ready. Ben is having to put a crib together before Davis comes home. I can't wait to meet you Davis!!!