unexpected renovations...

SO a couple weeks ago we came home from visiting mom and dad only to find a busted pipe in the basement. The ceiling was soaked as was the carpet. Thank God for homeowner's insurance. We called our ins and they came to look at it the next day. So this week we start EXTRA unplanned renovations... They will be fixing our ceiling, repainting EVERYTHING and new carpet. I'll have to post pics as the work begins. For now. Here's the damage. (I haven't posted pics on the updated bathroom simply because it's still in progress....as are many other rooms)

CONGRATS!!!!!

Just wanted to say Congrats to Daniel and Mindy...
Cecilia Ann was born tonight at 9:13pm weighing in at 8lbs 2 oz and 22 in long. I can't wait to go meet her tomorrow!!!

It's a BOY!

Adding another boy to the family! Maybe Ill trade the dog in for a female pup so Im not so out-numbered?

Our Crazy life is right!

I went to do an update and realized I NEVER posted on this blog about our addition! SO Here you go guys!

For those that may not have figured it out/heard by now... Tim and I are expecting an addition August 3, 2009. So far things have been ok. I had some severe morning/all day sickness for quite a while but that is all gone (Thank goodness!). Recently I have been having some blood pressure problems. One day at work I had to have someone take over my class because my b/p was WAY to high... 160/90..and the nurse was too worried. So we had a little scare and I ended up with a dr appt. It is/was completely job related and my dr put me on some medicine to help avoid going the not working route. So far so good- and I haven't had to take the medicine too often. I am def starting to show and everyone is working on their guess as to what we are having. Tim and I REALLY don't care either way but we do have our preferences as to what we would like first... But we also know we are so blessed to be able to bring a child into this world that boy or girl will make no difference to us! We have already chosen names but do not plan on telling until the baby is here. We go on March 10th to find out what we are having and we cannot wait! We have started working on ideas/gathering things for the nursery but do not have too much yet..Peter rabbit is hard to find! It's definitely going to be a great year! 2 of my best friends are also preg...Mindy is due in April, and Tiffany is due 6 weeks after me! There will be babies all around! I promise to try to update this thing more often but there's so much to get done and we seem to be busy every weekend. SIGH.... I will def update once we know what we are having..and possibly add some pictures later.
(I will get the pictures of the remodeled upstairs bathroom up at some point too!)

More renovating??

*I will post the "current" pictures soon!!*

SO since our last project we started a new one that we are in the middle of (of course its not done! we only halfway do things around here)

While still finishing up the downstairs bathroom we ripped out the upstairs... I'll let the pictures talk...Here are the before:



during:

The renovating continues!

Our downstairs bathroom has gone from a half bath to a full bath... It's almost complete- only some trim work left which in our house apparently means its time to move to a new project... So here are the updates!

This is from before I moved in...

This is from when I redid the bathroom the first time...:


Our new FULL bathroom!!

Now I say renovations continue because we have ripped apart the upstairs bathroom now... so soon pics of that will be up too!

The Holidays are SOO busy!

We have so much going on! School has been going ok, its just stressful and tiring. I am still looking for something FULL time though. We currently have 2 roomies and a "foster" pup until probably late January or February.. Our bathroom is STILL under construction but within days of being finished and then its on to the upstairs bathroom! We do finally have most of the siding on the house and gutters... so the renovations continue. Tim's step-grandma passed away this week so we have services to add to all the craziness that is already going on. I am working on getting my decorations up but the shoulder is still bothering me... probably because I am not doing my at home thereapy as well as I should be. hopefully I can remember how to post some pics up here! We've already had the Christmas dinner at church and I've got some pics from that as well. Its so hard to believe that it is almost Christmas already! I still have some shopping to do, but what is already purchased is wrapped. Mocha helped of course! tonight I am going to start some cookies, and then hopefully next week I can get my family "food" gifts finished! thats in between appts, and Jury duty starting on Wednesday. hopefully they dont want me. my nerves cant handle driving into wilmington daily! (Guess I should be working on sub plans instead of typeing here huh? Well, thats all for now! hopefully I will post more often.