Room Updates

In the past two weeks we have done a lot and had a quite a bit going on. The weekend of July 21 we had an entire David and Rachel date weekend. It was so nice. We spent the whole weekend together just doing home stuff, family stuff and just being together. We started our date weekend with a nice dinner out to eat at Bonefish (we had a gift card we had actually saved since Christmas...thanks for the date Granny!).



After dinner we shopped around and went into Crate and Barrel for the first time. It was a wonderful evening. On Saturday it was time to finish our cradle (I've learned what we have is technically a cradle, not a bassinet). David finished the painting and then I tried my hand at the antiquing process. It was my first time and it went ok. I'm glad that I tried it on a cheap cradle from Craigslist before anything because I feel much better at it now. It was a super hot day, but we pressed on and got it done!





David was mostly the "watcher" during the antiquing...he had done all the sanding and hard stuff. :)



In the middle of the afternoon we got a text from Pastor Steve offering us their Royals tickets in the Diamond Club, so we definitely decided to go! It was AMAZING to sit so close to the field. Even though it was super hot outside, we were shaded the whole time and even had the option to go inside in the air conditioning. There were also waiters and waitresses that would take your order. I'm ruined for Royals games here on out...all I want is the Diamond Club. :)





On Monday of this week David started seeing patients in his residency. So far it's going good. He is working hard to learn the "ins and outs" of the new computer system, managing his assistants and studying his new patients' histories. It's quite a task and I'm so proud of him for doing the program. He's such a hard worker and I know he will be successful...he's already working so hard.

On Monday evening my mom came into town to spend some time with me in the mornings before work and work on some nursery things. A while back we bought a dresser (that was not that cute) with plans to refinish and use it as a dresser/changing table for Abby's room. David and I got started on it on Sunday and got it painted and I got most of the drawers antiqued. I was much better at the distressing and antiquing this time around. When Mom came into town she helped us finish it up. I think it turned out really good and I LOVE it in the room. It's just how I imagined it.

Before...



After!...





Mom and Dad were wonderful enough to contribute to the nursery by getting us a glider! I ordered it the last time I was in Little Rock from a great store called "Pickles and Ice Cream" and it came in, so Mom carted it up here! I love it in the room with the pink walls and think it's a great complementary color to the pink.



Also accomplished this week was AlMOST finishing the old window that I found the last time we went to First Fridays. Mom had the great idea to put some of that wall art onto the glass, which I wasn't too sure of. But then we found a great tree design with all the colors of the nursery and I think it turned out really well. David still has to figure out a way to attach the knobs that I picked out, but after that it'll be done (I basically constantly have a project for David to work on these days).



It was SO nice to have Mom here. I was able to bounce ideas off of her, get her opinion, and really kind of complete some ideas in my mind. She helped so much. I'm so blessed by my family and their willingness to be a part of everything and help us so much. It really starts to come full circle as I think about being a Mom to a daughter. I have big shoes to fill and I hope I can be as great of a mom as my mom has been all these years (and is still being) for me. She even helped me get some basics for my maternity wardrobe. We didn't take any pictures of ourselves, just our work unfortunately. Thanks for coming Mom! I love you!

This weekend David and I are completely geared up for the summer olympics. We LOVE watching them and can't wait for the opening ceremonies tonight. Go USA! Everybody get out your red white and blue and cheer on America! :)

Abigail and her pink room

David finished a HUGE project this weekend. He got Abigail's room painted! Before I get to that I'll write about the other parts of our weekend. This week, I think I wrote on the blog that I was a volunteer for Upward Cheer Camp at LBC, which turned out to be pretty fun. As a thank-you for volunteering I was given a gift card to Houlihan's, so we decided to have a date night on Friday night. We went right up the road and had a delicious meal and really wanted to sit outside at Russell Stover's after dinner. We felt bad using their tables without buying anything, so we bought some jelly beans. :)



While sitting outside, one of my favorite people from work and drove by with her family...Jenny Preston (one of the Kindergarten teachers). They said they loved to drive around the area and happened to see us sitting outside. Then they asked us if we wanted to go to dinner at Pizza 51 on Saturday (right by our house.)

After sitting outside for a while we met our friends Jay and Katherine for a delicious snow cone! We sat outside and talked and caught up on everything going on. Katherine and I are due 2 weeks apart and are both having girls!



It's really fun experiencing it for the first time together and we can't believe we've both been blessed with little girlies.

On Saturday morning we hopped up with a mission...get Abigail's room painted. Before we could do that, we had to make it possible by moving things out of the room. At that time in the room we had the crib, a chest of drawer set FILLED with our clothes, a full bed and a chair. Not exactly a room David could paint in. Our solution was to totally rearrange our own room to include the chest of drawers and chair. We haven't changed our room since the day we moved in and it was quite the undertaking. We had to take apart the bed and slowing move things around until everything fit. Sooie was always around...effectively putting herself in inconvenient spots.



We really like the final product and are getting used to it.





David was finally able to start painting around noon and I caught the first stroke of the paint brush! We chose a really sweet pink color and love doing all things sweet and girly.





David worked like a beaver all day and almost got the room totally done before we went and met the Preston's (my friend from work) at the pizza place down the street. Sorry the picture is blurry, I took it from facebook.



Today, David got the painting completely done! I'm so happy with the color and so is he. Abigail is already so lucky to have a Daddy like David. He's sold out and all in for anything that has to do with a little girl, including spending his entire weekend painting her room. I was a faithful observer, but didnt participate in the painting.



Here's the finished product with just the crib in the room! I realize their is no mattress in the crib, but I like the way it looks with the walls so I put it in. :) David did such a good job and we had a ton of fun moving the crib around the room and starting to think about where a good place to put it might be.





Looking back into the guest bedroom and seeing it be pink is pretty fun. It makes it so much more real (of course my growing belly makes it pretty real too). I couldn't be more thankful for David giving so much time and attention to Abigail's room with me. It means a lot and if Abigail ever reads this blog I want her to know how hard her Dad worked on her nursery.

This week I am only working half days for the first time this summer. I don't know what I'm going to do with my mornings! This is David's last week of "set up" before he gets to finally start seeting patients again. He is ready!

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David's residency has started! It started this Monday and is going really well. Of course he's ready to start seeing patients again and be done with the orientation stuff. :) I of course made David take a "first day" picture...



But hey, you only get one first day as a resident doctor.

On Tuesday of this week we hit the half-way point with the pregnancy. Twenty weeks! I'm finally starting to look a little more "bumpish" and people are actually starting to assume I'm expecting, rather than just full after a big meal. Here's our 20 week picture. I'm feeling great these days and feeling lots of little kicks. Also this week, for the first time I actually saw my skin move when Abby kicked. Pretty fun.



Wednesday was the fourth of July and we celebrated by cleaning out parts of our house and grilling out at Matt and Dianna's house with Mark and Starrla. It was a really fun and relaxing night. I didn't take any pictures. :(

The rest of the week went on as normal until Friday night. My little brother got engaged to his girlfriend Kara on Friday. We knew it was coming and had been keeping it a secret for some time, but we are thrilled that it has happened! They are wonderful together and I we have prayed that the Lord would bring Tripp's "right woman" to him. Congratulations guys! We love you!

On Saturday we went down to first Friday's in the West Bottoms to do some antiquing. I picked up an old window for super cheap and have added yet another project to David's growing "to-do" list. It's going to be used for the nursery in some way (plans are still formulating in my mind), but for now he's painting the visible wood that you can see through the glass, as well as the edges, pink. Speaking of pink...what a joy it's been to think about having a girl this past week and a half.

Also on Saturday we headed to Buy Buy Baby and Babies R Us to get registered for baby showers, which was fun. Unfortunately I let a stroller fall on my big toe, effectively creating some of the worst pain I have ever felt and requiring David to participate in a "blood letting" from under my nail. I'll just say this, I'm thankful for a husband that stays calm and has steady hands. It was TERRIBLE, and still feels bad, but at least the pressure is down now that David let the blood out from under the nail. I'm really hoping I don't lose the nail, but it's quite possible. I did a number on myself for sure. Here are some more developments on Abigail.

Her crib came in from Restoration Hardware and was completely assembled! Unfortunately it wouldn't fit through the doorway, so David had to take it apart and then rebuild it. I'm in love with it and think it's very classic.





Here is the window I found and also a mirror for the nursery that David is going to paint. :) Later I'll post a picture of the finished projects.



I also picked some girly bedding. I love it because it has so many colors I can include in the nursery. Right now I'm not sure which side I'm going to have facing out and in.





Today we had a great day at church and we've worked around the house today. David painted a spot he had to repair in the dining room because of a leak in our roof recently.





This week is going to be pretty standard for a summer week. I'm still working in the afternoons, which I am now hating because of being pregnant in this heat and I am also helping with Upward Cheer camp at LBC in the mornings. So far this summer, as compared with last summer, I have actually only worked half days for two of my summer weeks. All of the other weeks I've had to do something in the mornings. It's nice to be busy, but I WILL enjoy having some half days coming up. Of course, come August I've got a LOT of time off since I'm not going back to work, so it's good I'm staying busy now.

For good measure, here's a picture of our puppy-dog. :)