This is a really late post, as of late it seems like Daniel has been working late and I have been busy getting ready for baby. I know that those are good things, but they aren't very interesting to post about.
The last Saturday of June, the ladies in the ward threw me a baby shower. It was lots of fun, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have the best dressed baby in the whole neighborhood! It was fun to see some friends from the old ward as well.
Since then, I've been trying to figure out the last few things I want to get ordered/bought before baby comes. I think the list would be shrinking, but I keep coming up with more things! I finally picked out a car seat which also arrived last week; now, if baby comes early we can now take her home!
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Last Week of June
This is a really late post for this last week. We didn't do much around here. We did finally pick out and order a car seat (just in case baby girl decides to come early to the world) which came this week.
Daniel has been hard at work trying to get things on his project in a state that he won't feel bad about taking paternity leave when the baby comes. So, he has been super busy with work stuff.
This last week was girls' book club. We read Laughing Without an Accent. I really enjoyed it. So, if you are looking for a light, funny read this might be the book you are looking for!
Daniel has been hard at work trying to get things on his project in a state that he won't feel bad about taking paternity leave when the baby comes. So, he has been super busy with work stuff.
This last week was girls' book club. We read Laughing Without an Accent. I really enjoyed it. So, if you are looking for a light, funny read this might be the book you are looking for!
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Keeping Busy
Well, Elissa's at a Relief Society activity tonight and it's probably about my turn for a blog post anyway. I've been keeping pretty busy at work and don't remember a whole of interesting things that we did this week, but let's see ...
On Saturday we went to a labor preparation class (basically we learned all about the things that can and/or do happen when you're having a baby and your options, etc). We also got to see their post-partum rooms, and I have to say I don't think they're roomy but I feel like you could fit two of the IHC rooms I'm familiar with inside one of these, so that's kinda nice. We also got some "free stuff" (we did pay for the class), so that's always cool (it was baby bottles, etc).
Not sure there's been a whole lot else besides spending time with each other and trying to get ready for the baby.
On Saturday we went to a labor preparation class (basically we learned all about the things that can and/or do happen when you're having a baby and your options, etc). We also got to see their post-partum rooms, and I have to say I don't think they're roomy but I feel like you could fit two of the IHC rooms I'm familiar with inside one of these, so that's kinda nice. We also got some "free stuff" (we did pay for the class), so that's always cool (it was baby bottles, etc).
Not sure there's been a whole lot else besides spending time with each other and trying to get ready for the baby.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Elissa's Birthday Present
I know, there are some of you out there saying "you got a light fixture for your house for your birthday?" Yes, I totally did. We bought this house and loved most everything about it. We have even kept the original paint colors, but there was one thing that we both agreed that we did not like at all.
Behold! Our old hanging dining room pendant light. It didn't light our dining area well, and we thought it was pretty silly looking. (Silly looking, unless you want to buy it from us for hundreds of dollars. If that is the case, we obviously think that it is an amazing, quirky piece of Americana that just doesn't fit our style :P ) Fortunately, it was a fairly inexpensive change, and Daniel was really handy in hanging up the new one.
Saturday we went downtown to see the Austin Civic Orchestra do a free concert. It was their pop concert with the theme of "you just missed it." They did anniversaries that they just missed last year like John Williams birthday, Paramount pictures 100th birthday, and Cats among others. Admittedly, I was excited because they did a Star Trek themes medley. Since we've been watching the shows I've wanted to hear the themes one after another.
This week we also visited the doctor, and as far as I know Baby Girl is also healthy and happy. What I know for sure is that she likes to snuggle more than she likes to kick; which is mostly fine with me!
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Baby's Room and Birthday
Baby's Room
We have been slowly working on the baby's room. You all got to see my changing pad covers a few weeks ago, and last week we did lots of decorating around the rest of the house. Today we thought we'd work on the baby's room some more. We aren't quite done yet, but we are getting really close! We just finished hanging the peel and stick letters I bought for the bears and letters 'theme'. It looks pretty cool!
Awesome Panoramic Picture! - care of my sweet patient husband
We had already hung up the bear and hearts rug, and I had already found a way to mount up my baby blanket from my grandma. (as seen in the picture above)
Birthday
This last week was my birthday, I'd like to thank everyone for their birthday wishes! In case there was any doubt, Daniel took the day to spoil me. He got up and made me a breakfast cake in the morning. They he let me pick all the things that we were going to do all day.
We ended up going out to eat (Free birthday food, and hand dipped ice cream bars at Costco), and we ordered my birthday present! (It should be getting here this weekend!) We'll post pictures of that once it comes and we get it all set up. I told Daniel that the real gift he was going to give me was the fact that he could and would set up my present when it got here.
TV
We also, finally, ordered a TV. Daniel earned a bonus at work for doing hosting. (They do a point system, and he saved up enough points to get a $200 gift card.) He really, really, wanted a new tv for our living room upstairs. He wasn't too crazy because for a long time our only TV has been a 22" monitor. So we picked out the TV set we wanted. (A real upgrade to 39"!)
I told him we had to wait to save up the rest of the money we needed for the new TV, and at the end of last month, I had almost saved up enough.
Luckily, I was looking up the TV during the day, and I noticed on Google that Kmart was having a sale on the TV set that we had decided to buy. It was $40 off the price we were planning on paying! This happened to be the middle of the day, and I told Daniel that I had found it on sale and that I was going to buy it.
I put it in my Kmart online shopping cart (after going through Shopdiscover for the extra 5% cash back), and it told me that they were out of stock. No more in the warehouse. I was a little sad, but I decided to chat with their customer service representative online and see when they would be back in stock. She wasn't sure that they would ever be in stock and asked if I would like a different model. I said that we had decided on that one.
I was about ready to give up, and she told me that she would check on their "partner company website" (read: Sears.com). She came back a minute later and said that I could order it through the other website. (Conviently, Sears.com gives 10% cash back from Shopdiscover). Apparently, they had the power to tell an actual kmart store that had the product in stock to send it to us even if they were out of stock at the warehouse. We were very excited!
We have been slowly working on the baby's room. You all got to see my changing pad covers a few weeks ago, and last week we did lots of decorating around the rest of the house. Today we thought we'd work on the baby's room some more. We aren't quite done yet, but we are getting really close! We just finished hanging the peel and stick letters I bought for the bears and letters 'theme'. It looks pretty cool!
Awesome Panoramic Picture! - care of my sweet patient husband
We had already hung up the bear and hearts rug, and I had already found a way to mount up my baby blanket from my grandma. (as seen in the picture above)
Birthday
This last week was my birthday, I'd like to thank everyone for their birthday wishes! In case there was any doubt, Daniel took the day to spoil me. He got up and made me a breakfast cake in the morning. They he let me pick all the things that we were going to do all day.
We ended up going out to eat (Free birthday food, and hand dipped ice cream bars at Costco), and we ordered my birthday present! (It should be getting here this weekend!) We'll post pictures of that once it comes and we get it all set up. I told Daniel that the real gift he was going to give me was the fact that he could and would set up my present when it got here.
TV
We also, finally, ordered a TV. Daniel earned a bonus at work for doing hosting. (They do a point system, and he saved up enough points to get a $200 gift card.) He really, really, wanted a new tv for our living room upstairs. He wasn't too crazy because for a long time our only TV has been a 22" monitor. So we picked out the TV set we wanted. (A real upgrade to 39"!)
I told him we had to wait to save up the rest of the money we needed for the new TV, and at the end of last month, I had almost saved up enough.
Luckily, I was looking up the TV during the day, and I noticed on Google that Kmart was having a sale on the TV set that we had decided to buy. It was $40 off the price we were planning on paying! This happened to be the middle of the day, and I told Daniel that I had found it on sale and that I was going to buy it.
I put it in my Kmart online shopping cart (after going through Shopdiscover for the extra 5% cash back), and it told me that they were out of stock. No more in the warehouse. I was a little sad, but I decided to chat with their customer service representative online and see when they would be back in stock. She wasn't sure that they would ever be in stock and asked if I would like a different model. I said that we had decided on that one.
I was about ready to give up, and she told me that she would check on their "partner company website" (read: Sears.com). She came back a minute later and said that I could order it through the other website. (Conviently, Sears.com gives 10% cash back from Shopdiscover). Apparently, they had the power to tell an actual kmart store that had the product in stock to send it to us even if they were out of stock at the warehouse. We were very excited!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Decorating
Over Memorial day we decided that it was time to do some decorating around our house! We have been trying to decide what to hang where, but we focused on 3 rooms for decorating (living room, piano room, and bedroom) and 2 rooms for cleaning (storage rooms upstairs). Here are some pictures of the results!
Living Room Pictures
Living Room Pictures
Piano Room Pictures
Bedroom
Our other rooms are just clean and organized so I didn't take any pictures. It was fun to decorate and clean up our house and put things away. It definitely looks more like we are moved into our house now.
This week Daniel and I both had book club. My book club read Divergent and Daniel's book club decided to go watch the new Star Trek movie.
This week Daniel and I both had book club. My book club read Divergent and Daniel's book club decided to go watch the new Star Trek movie.
Monday, May 27, 2013
New Adventures
This last Monday we decided that we would try out our local disc golf course. They just redesigned and rejuvenated it (Which we didn't realize until we went to print out the map of the course.) The course was really busy. Probably, because it was a beautiful Monday evening, and the course had just reopened two days before with a tournament.
Daniel did all the disc throwing, and I just walked along behind holding his bag and a water bottle for me. I decided that an excuse to walk around and get exercise, as well as spend time with Daniel, was a good reason to do disc golf for our family home evening activity. (Plus, I was promised orange julius for a treat if I came along and had a good attitude. Who can say no to a homemade orange julius?)
This week I also decided that I would make a diaper change pad cover for Baby Girl's room. I looked at the pricing and it was mostly a equal that way, but Daniel said "it will give you something fun to do while I'm at work and that is worth something." So we ran down to Jo-Ann's and picked out some fabric. I have the hardest time picking out fabric -- we were probably at the store for an hour before I decided.
These are the pictures of my project. As you can see, I picked out a pretty, but safe little pattern for the fabric. Fortunately, they turned out cute and perfect for a baby girl!
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