Austin's Room

We've had a little bit of drama surrounding Baby Austin's room the last few months. Before it became his room, it was the room we NEVER went in....like EVER. It was pretty much storage for Christmas stuff & random extra furniture & stuff so when we were cleaning everything out to get it ready for baby, I was SO upset to find out that BEHIND a bookshelf...BEHIND the wall, the roof was leaking & had been for a while & we found some mold. YUCK! If it had been anywhere else in the house, I would've seen it but of course not. That's not how it works. So, Adam (with all of his impressive man skills...) took care of it & ripped out all the drywall & insulation & stuff & this is how my sweet babies room looked.

So, after about $350 of roof repair & help from Ben (our hero..thank goodness he knew how to do drywall) & Adam...and a little sanding and painting myself, it looked like this...

 I was driving Adam CRAZY cause the Blain's gave us a crib & dresser & stuff for Austin's room & I was DYING to start decorating & putting it together. So much so, that he was out with the Elders one night & came home to the crib completely put together...yep. I'm awesome (or just really impatient). 

 I still have a couple things to do but after Adam got the paint up...I went to work.

So, here is the finished product so far.

The Beautiful Crib...

My favorite thing ever. Meggan made Austin a BEAUTIFUL quilt with all the exact colors I wanted &it is so beautiful. He is going to love it. It matches perfect & took so much time & effort. And then Cortney helped her accessorize all the other bed linens to match. It turned out SOO cute!!

Rocking chair...

 Futon...for sleepy mommies later...And I LOVE the rug that Leslie got to match.

 And this is the dresser. 

After that night, I sat in that room for an hour almost just taking it all it. It is totally real now.

It is my favorite room in the house now. I even caught Adam in there the other day just sitting in the rocking chair when I got home. We could not be MORE excited to meet our little guy!
Adam is practicing with our nephew Charlie...so funny.

We can't wait to be parents of sweet baby Austin.

April & May...

We have been quite busy the last few months with work & life & our callings. We are having so much fun getting ready for baby too...more of that to follow! Here are some of the big things we've been up to. I've still  been doing lots of couponing. Since the baby is coming, I felt like I definitely needed to get back into it. These are a few shopping trips I've had fun with. 

I ran out of room with our one shelf so I couldn't even fit everything or put things away. 

 So, Adam bought me another shelf to go in our laundry room.

 And here it is...already filled that one up unfortunately. haha. But, I'm not stopping...no way! haha.

I've got lots of baby wash & about 60 things of diaper wipes now I'm just waiting for a good diaper deal to stock up on those. It's funny to me. I've noticed that when I coupon, we always seem to have money (especially now we're saving everything for baby) and I am WAY more frugal in all areas of my life, but when I don't coupon or I stop for a while, we seem to be living paycheck to paycheck. Lame. So, I really do love it. It makes me happy to have things we need for our family for pennies. 

Next, in preparation for our sweet baby, we decided we needed a new car...We had 2 cars & were still making payments on one that we couldn't even drive because it had so many problems. 

And neither had AC. Lame! I couldn't very well put my new baby in a car with no AC with our sweltering heat in August...so we traded both of them in & got this beauty!!!

2009 Ford Edge with automatic locks & windows (it's the simple things really...) and AC!! Woot woot! So excited...it rides so smooth & I love it tons!

I have been having so much fun with my calling. I love my Beehives. They are awesome. 

It's about to kill me being 8 months pregnant & having to do things like go to trek a couple times...

I was really bummed that I had to buy a pioneer dress that would fit my belly just for 2 nights of having to go but Meggan & Heidi were so sweet to come with me & Meggan totally made it fun trying on crazy clothes.

 She is WAY more flexible than me...Can you imagine me trying to get my leg up this high with my belly? She's freakin hilarious. This was the finished product. After a long day at work, sweating outside in a pioneer dress is the last thing I wanted to do but I sure do love my young women.

We also got to go to a Le Bonheur Zoo night with Adam's mom & his family. We had to run to Josh's championship game afterwards, but we were able to snap a quick shot. haha.

 It's been a fun Summer so far!