Monthly Archives: June 2010

most improved?

By jax | Published: June 30, 2010
Don’t even get me STARTED about the living room. Sure, it looks pretty bad in the above photo. But at one point, it looked like this: Yes…if you were wondering, THIS is the stage of the renovation that brought me to “we’re-never-going-to-be-able-to-move-in” tears. Of course, I blame a little of it on the pregnancy hormones. [...]
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house tour, part 2

By jax | Published: June 29, 2010
Next stop on the house tour: the dining room. This before picture doesn’t even show the previous horrendous light fixture and acoustic tile ceiling, which we tore down and replaced with drywall. And by we, I of course mean I didn’t do any of this. But I DID occasionally walk through and make encouraging remarks. [...]
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happy birthday, husband

By jax | Published: June 28, 2010
Yesterday was Nathan’s 27th birthday. That sounds a lot closer to 30 than any of our other ages so far. But we’re not scared of 30. Bring it on, 30. (In a few years.) For his birthday breakfast, I made him this baked French toast from the Pioneer Woman. It did not disappoint. The topping [...]
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door #1

By jax | Published: June 28, 2010
For the first of my house updates, I’m showing off this little bedroom. We’ve decided to make it our combination guest room + nursery for now, with plans to later turn it into a room for both Eli + Sophia. At that point we’ll relegate the guests to the smaller bedroom (sorry, future houseguests). This [...]
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41 weeks

By jax | Published: June 25, 2010
Congratulate me; baby Sophia and I have officially made it to 41 weeks. Besides being psyched out by an entire day of consistent contractions (and on my due date, no less), there hasn’t been much action around here. Being called overdue makes me feel like a deliquent library book, but the good thing about it [...]
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sneak peek

By jax | Published: June 24, 2010
About a week ago, we thought I was going into labor, and we finished up some of the big projects around the house + got it all cleaned up. It would have been a great time to take some pictures for the blog. We missed our window, however … and not only have I still [...]
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