baby furniture

Well, seeing as Brooke has been doing most of the work thus far (dont act as if that's suprising!), I thought it's time for me to chime in! For my first installment, I thought I'd write about how great my pop is - he's taking a kitchen table from my great grandmother and making a rocking chair for his great granddaughter! Brooke and I are really excited about the gift and look forward to rocking Riley (and mommy/daddy) to sleep. We're very thankful already - and anxious about getting everything moved and set up.

23 weeks and counting

Our apartment is a mess! We are moving on Friday and there are boxes and random things everywhere. I'm excited to be moving, but I hate the chaos... It will all be worth it when we are settled again. I will post pictures of our new place when we get settled. As of right now, I'm 23 weeks pregnant, eating lots, feeling Riley move a lot. (Except on the weekends. She's very inactive on the weekends! Like mom.) Since my last preggo pic was of me at about 20 weeks, here is me three weeks later... Almost 6 months!

Painting Furniture

So we finished the mini dresser and have started on the book case... I never realized how much I hate painting. I need instant gratification. HAHA Well, if that doesn't sum me up, I don't know what does! Here's a look... Ultimately the bookcase will have pink shelves that match the little dresser. 

First Blog!

So, I am on spring break and supposed to be packing, painting, planning or grading papers. So I figured what better time to start a blog! Not entirely too sure what I should be writing, but I wanted to be able to keep everyone posted on Dan and I and our newest upcoming addition.

We are moving in a couple weeks, hence the packing. We found a 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment pretty close to Dan's work for the same rent that we have been paying for our 1 bed, 1 bath. The only downside is there is no room for the cats to go outside and play, so they will have to adjust to living indoors all the time. I'm sure they'll adapt. Living and working in Los Angeles is wonderful, but so expensive! People ask when we are going to buy a house. Haha, part of me thinks never, part of me thinks when we move out of Los Angeles. It's hard loving a place that you live, but finding it almost impossible to get ahead in that place. In order to buy a house, you have to have a down payment. And that is something we do not have! That and our debt to income ratio isn't something banks seem to be too fond of these days. So a new apartment here we come! Hopefully it will be as good to us as this apartment has been! I'm very excited that Riley will have her own room, so I'm optimistic. 

I've been painting furniture this week for Riley's room. We registered for white furniture, but I'm painting a bookcase and smaller dresser dark brown with pink and tan accents. It's funny, I've always wanted an underwater nursery, but we changed it to pinks and browns which I like almost just as much! It's just hard visualizing  what its all going to look like when it's put together. Right now its been a process of painting, not liking it, and then repainting it. I will have to post pictures of the finished product.

I am about 22 weeks pregnant now, forgetting that I'm not supposed to be moving furniture, etc... Feeling Riley move and kick is amazing!  The picture is of me two weeks ago...  I will post more when I'm bigger!