another week!

this past weekend wore.me.out. we spent saturday buying, transporting, and putting together the boys' new beds. doesn't sound like much, but when you are over 37 weeks pregnant it tends to wear you out pretty quickly!

and did you catch that?? 37 weeks pregnant! meaning this baby will be here any day, and at the very latest, in 2.5 weeks! i think i can finally say i am ready. the nursery is done (well, minus a few decorating details ;) and the boys' new beds are up and their toys/closets are organized. this week i'm just going to spend scrubbing the house and spending a lot of one-on-one time with harp (and carson when he is home from school). 

here are pictures of the boys' new beds....they were SO excited about them! 

okay....the nursery. i've only taken a few pictures but i wanted to share anyways...i just want to say a few things about the route we went...we didn't do a typical "infant nursery." why? because this is our third and although the cutesy themed nurseries are...cute, we wanted practical. we wanted color schemes that could work for longer than just his first year. we wanted things that he could grow with. we also wanted things that would "match" the boys' room because several things (like toddler bedding, curtains, rugs, etc.) have been moved from the boys' room to the nursery. 

anyways, i am pleased with how it turned out and we are SO excited about it all! oh, and by the way, my mom did SO MUCH to help me put it all together. when kane was at work and carson was at school, she came over and basically painted everything (walls, bookcase, nightstand, and shelf on wall) as well as helped organize and put together it all!

**i hate the lighting in this picture! it makes the walls/couch look SO off**

*picture frames are empty until baby's arrival ;)

thats all the pictures of the nursery for now! 

crazy to believe, but after i take our car and get it vacuumed/cleaned tomorrow, i'm going to go ahead and install the carseat base and load the stroller in the trunk! so surreal that this is going to be happening so soon!

all for now!

a little bit of everything

**get ready for some REALLY bad cell phone pictures!**

i've spent the past week preparing for baby. i'll be full term in a few days and i would really like everything to be done before i hit that 37 week mark...you know...just in case he decides to make an early appearance :) at 35 weeks i was 1 cm dialated and 50% effaced...and that was just after having a few days of lower back pressure and minor cramping. i've had a LOT more since and i have been so busy on my feet, too. its been gorgeous outside so almost everyday harp and i take long walks (harp-bike ride) around the cul-de-sac/surrounding cul-de-sacs. 

anyways, lets get to the cruddy cell pics. i spent the beginning of last week organizing all of my babyshower gifts! the closet is pretty packed and if you could look closely, we received around 10 boxes of diapers and 22 wipes/wipe refills!  

diapers for the changing table

extra baby supplies 

i've also done some minor rearranging to prepare...we have the swing set up and ready to go in our living room and a cabinet in the kitchen cleared out for bottles, etc.

last saturday we got quite a bit accomplished! we spent the morning just being with the boys-our time as a four-person family is quickly fleeting and we want to get as much time in with them as possible. we went to our little town park where kane taught carson some tricks on his skateboard while harp and i rode the town on his bicycle!

we also went to target to get new bedding for the boys room (oh yeah, have i mentioned i've also taken on the task of redecorating the boys' room?! they are getting new furniture/beds this coming weekend!). we also got them new thinner booster seats that will allow us to fit the infant carseat comfortably between them.

along with working on the boys' room, i'll also be finishing up the nursery. i have everything up and organized, but now i'll be working more on the "decorating" aspect of it all :)

one last thing: i'm taking harper to the doctor tomorrow-he's had a bad cough for quite a while now that he just cannot seem to shake. it's actually gotten worse. i'm thinking they are going to say he has asthma (i had allergy-related asthma when i was in elementary school), but hopefully we will get down the bottom of it! if you remember, please keep him in your prayers!

nursery stuff

**if you stay with me, God bless you. 

so until about a week ago, we had done absolutely nothing with the nursery. which really doesn't seem like a big deal until it hit me that i was 24 weeks along, will be busy with my last semester of school/Thanksgiving, then busy with Christmas preparations, Christmas, Carson's birthday preparations, and then Carson's 5th birthday in mid-January. And then after that? Well that leaves me with about a month before #3 is here. rushing to get a nursery done at 8 months pregnant does NOT sound ideal to me, so i decided that i HAD to make it a priority to get started on it now and work on it little by little. 

last saturday i had kane move out all of the unnecessary furniture to the shed. so the only furniture in there right now is the changing table and a small sofa. 

we are going to keep the nursery pretty simple...beige, navy, gray...somewhere along those lines. The walls all have one coat of a beige-color paint, but need a second coat so we bought the paint this past weekend and hopefully my mom can get started on that soon! ;) 

the boys' favorite past-time is reading and they have acquired quite the book collection and were in need of a bigger bookcase. this past weekend we went ahead and bought them a new one and their old one is now in the nursery awaiting a fresh coat of paint.

(the boys' new bookcase):

i know it doesn't look very big but it is quite a bit bigger than the other one.

off topic, but its funny how excited they were over it...i put their (current) favorites on the top for easy access.

here is their old one in the nursery...i'm definitely going to paint it (not sure what color yet), and go through the "baby" books that the boys don't read anymore and pass them along to the baby. actually, one of my "projects" this next week is to go through their "baby" toys, books, and clothes. as you can see, Elmo Live, two bins full of rattles/teethers, and a couple of books have already made their way over.

i also bought one of these for the closet:

quick and easy access to socks, bibs/burp cloths, receiving blankets, and onesies. 

oh...and last but not least....i'm going to be organizing this terrible mess:

definitely not excited about it.

once all of these things (aforementioned) are done, i'll be working on the windows...curtain rods, curtains, and MOST importantly, blackout blinds! ;)

after that? in search for a couch slipcover for the sofa bed in the nursery that won't break our budget. 

the only thing after that will be adding accessories here and there.

now after boring you to death, i'll sign off....but not without a picture of my cute little guys. Saturday morning we went to Carson's Preschool "Back to School" Bash (cowboy themed)...it was originally scheduled for September but was postponed until this past weekend due to rain. 

have a great week!