What a nice boy, part II

I have never for a second doubted Keith's value in our family, or his "what a nice boy" designation. But nothing brings to light a husband's true personality better than the first three months of pregnancy. Keith has been such a trooper. I don't think I've had the energy to do more than move from sleeping on the couch to sleeping in the bed in the past few months, and Keith has taken care of everything else. I'm not sure he'd like to admit how much cooking he's been doing. In addition, he's proving to be super handy.

Shortly after we bought our house, the carbon-copy of our house down the street went up for sale, so of course we had to go check out their Open House. For the most part our house is far superior (and bigger, I swear), but in their basement, they had added a wood shelf along the foundation-ledge, which made the room look much more finished, and the wall a little less like an accident. So, I put Keith to work. We had a little frustration with the finishing (our first attempt looked like chunky putty), but the final result is beautiful:

He also built my vegetable garden so I can kill, I mean, grow our own vegetables this summer:
I'm super excited about our garden, hopefully my seeds do well, they are looking pretty pathetic at the moment.

And, remember that bathroom Keith painted yellow to get rid of the smell? Well, sadly, all it did was change the color of the smell. So, we were not-so-happily looking forward to the prospect of ripping out dry wall and re-making a perfectly good bathroom. But before we went down the $10,000 road way, Keith thought he'd try out the $5 solution first. So, he replaced the doohickey in the toilet, and the problem is cured! I don't know what he did exactly, or how he even knew how, but he did it and that's why he's my super-hubby!

And yesterday afternoon, when I came home from an exhausting marathon of maternity-clothes shopping, he'd vacuumed the entire house (which is no small feat in a house this gigantic).

Say good-bye to the polka dots!

I briefly considered post-dating this entry, but it happened so long ago, I can't remember the date any more! So, here you go...

My parents & Jared are heading down to Mexico for the week, so we took this as the perfect opportunity to finally save our family room from it's polka-dot infestation while we didn't have to live in it.

With the baby-on-board, we decided to do the responsible thing and go with the low-VOC, no-fumes, non-toxic, crazy-expensive style paint (Denise would be so proud). Of course, being who we are (naturally lazy), we also went with the paint-plus-primer combo stuff (which, as a side-note was AWESOME, it totally covered the polka dots in one coat with the ivory).

We spent Friday evening moving everything not bolted down (and a few that were) out of the room into the two spare bedrooms. And seriously, painting a large room is so much easier when you have an assortment of more large, empty rooms just down the hallway. No more climbing over the couch to get to the refrigerator for us, no sir.


And in an astonishingly short time, the room was done!
You can still see the outlines of the polka dots, but at least the colors are covered. I think it might take another 6-8 coats of paint (and possibly some time with a sander) to fully get rid of the shape. But the room looks so much better!
Since the above picture was taken, we've also added new curtains, and Keith built a shelf along the top of the ledge, but that's another post.

We have a new Computer!!

Finally! We have internet and can actually check e-mail in under 30 minutes. Now I just might get caught up on my blogging...maybe.