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Happy St.Patrick's Day!

Since I've been basically getting death threats... (ahem.... Vinnie!) I guess it's time to post another prego pic. I took a picture a week and a half ago, but since I procrastinated putting it up here I took another one after church this week so it would be more recent. (And yes...my hair and clothes were exactly the same two weeks in a row.) I know, I know, I'm awesome. Do you notice a difference between the two weeks?

29+ weeks

30+ weeks

We had another busy weekend and got more done around the house. We painted the fireplace brick white, and it looks great! Though Nick did want to give up about a million times since it was a major PAIN to do. (Thanks honey... I really appreciate all your hard work.) The bricks themselves have little ridges in them, so it was super hard to get paint into all the little cracks and crannies, and probably took Nick 6 or 7 hours to do. I've decided that with the light tan color on the walls and the white and brown curtains, I'm going to stain the mantle dark brown to make it 'pop' more. I think it will look really good, and hopefully it'll get done in the next few days so i can update with a picture of the finished product. Now I just need to start figuring out what I'm going to put ON the mantle, and what to hang above it!

I also finally got Nick to help me hang a few pictures and I bought a few frames that I'm going to hang in the nursery. Yay!

Nick's Grandpa's birthday was this past week, and since Nick's is on Monday we did a joint birthday dinner at our house on Sunday. It was actually really fun to host it and since most of his extended family hadn't been over to see our new house yet, it was fun to show them around.

Happy Birthday!

And just for fun I figured I'd include a picture of Nick after we watched team Canada win the Olympic Gold in hockey a few weeks ago!
Such a good game to watch!

A Little Redecorating

I have a few goals for our house that I want to get done before the baby comes. They really aren't that pressing... but I just don't want to have any projects to do once there is a baby here to take care of. Okay it's that, and the fact that I hate procrastinating! It's already been killing me that we've lived here for 7 months and everything I want done hasn't been completed yet. (Don't get me wrong, Nick has been quite a big help so far and we have already finished quite a few odds 'n ends things that I wanted done.) These are the last few items of business...

#1 Repaint basement bedroom and move spare bedroom furniture from upstairs, downstairs. This project is almost finished! We got everything cleaned, painted, moved and somewhat decorated last weekend. All I need to do is find a curtain and hang it up!

#2 Turn upstairs spare bedroom into nursery. (It's already painted a nice tan color, so I'm just going to bring some "baby" color into the room with the decorations and bedding.(Lime greens, chocolate brown and a bit of baby blue.) Since we're still waiting for our crib, dresser and glider to arrive, this project has yet to happen. But I have aquired the crib bedding and quilt, and I have a few ideas for decor.

#3 Finish living room fireplace. Nick isn't working this week, so hopefully we can get it done in the next few days (or atleast make some substantial headway).

#4 Hang a few more pictures around the house that I've been meaning to get done for awhile now. Why does this seem to keep getting post-poned....? It is SOO easy to do! Ugh.

Here's the proof of our labors

Downstairs spare bedroom before (In general, I love the color red, but this was just TOO dark for such a small room, and there were too many knicks in the paint!)

closet before

Nick's Dad came to help paint and was muchly appreciated!

Spare bedroom after (I love this color of green we picked out.
It's so relaxing to me.)

Please don't focus on the fact that the bed is not centered on the wall/under the pictures and wall sconces....I am well aware :( Unfortunately if I center it properly, the door hits the bedframe. (And just now, I realized that my series of Italy pictures on the wall are out of proper order. Oops. haha I'm an idiot!)

Spare bedroom closet after

Living room curtains - I'm really loving them tied this way
(sorry the lighting is crappy)

Living room fireplace before (I can't wait to post after pictures!)

All we've done so far is added part of the new mantle, and I'm already so excited. I'm 99% sure I want to paint the brick and the mantle white, what do you think? (It's either that, or white brick with blackish brown mantle)