A Premiere 15 Months in the Making!

Before and then After

At some points of 2009, I was not sure I would ever be able to state it....but....THE UPSTAIRS BATHROOM IS FINISHED! I love to give Josh a hard time for taking at least 6 months on a project, but this one was notoriously long since so many weekends went to family time instead of remodeling time. This was the first project that we had a toddler during each stage. To say the least, Davey was not as much help as he thought he was being!

To say the least, there was nothing that wasn't changed in this little room. Older posts from last year showed the nastiness along the way. All new fixtures, vented skylight, exposed brick wall (part of the original 1840 house), new tile on the walls, in the shower, and on the floor (NOT CARPET! AND AQUA PARTICLE BOARD!), and a heated mat under the tile...soooo nice for those 3 am pregnant trips to the bathroom in the winter!

I know I don't tell him enough...and I give him a hard time about taking so long on projects, but my husband is amazing! He has more attention to detail than even I do and it makes projects come out just breath-taking. But don't worry...we are already talking about the next project to undertake!

Christmas 2009

Davey getting ready to board the Santa Train in Madison.

Our little family after we got the tree decorated.

My present to Josh was a weekend in Louisville. Here we are dressed to the nines for supper in the revolving room and then off to the Nutcracker.

Walking in to the Santa presents. The tent was set up with his new sleeping bag laid out.

His new horse (he calls it "May"). He hasn't put it down since!

New sleeping bag

New movies from the Mount family.

Playing in Rachael's Tinkerbell tent that Sarah made her. Davey wants one now!

Matching hand-made hats for Dad, Davey, and one for the new baby, too!

What a wonderful time we are all having on our Christmas Break. Even Josh has had last week and this upcoming week off. Though we have all had the stomach bug, we are glad to be relaxing at home staying in our pjs as long as possible.

I think our total was down by one family get-together this year, but our total was 5 anyway! Davey did as best as he could with the combination of lots of presents, lots of people wanting to love on him, and minimal nap time. He got WAY too many gifts and he loves them all! Santa brought him his own camping supplies, a 2 foot styrofoam airplane, and play-doh. At the other Christmases he got some fun games (he is playing the Curious George beach game right now with Josh), lots of Little People, DVDs, a helicopter, and soo much more!

Josh and I ate ourselves into a stupor, but man was it good! We cleaned up the tree mess yesterday and started the transformation back to normal. I started rooting through the baby clothes to see what might be missing from the collection. While there are a couple things I will need to buy, we are in good shape for Baby Boy #2. I am also figuring out which small clith diapers to buy to complete my reusable diaper collection. Eigth more weeks until my due date, so I know this time will fly by so we are trying to use our time off wisely!

I finished my first assignment as a standardized test question writer for the Arkansas Biology State Test. I hope they like the questions I came up with because that could be a nice activity while I am home with the baby this spring.