Thanksgiivng In SD

Babymoon At Lake Arrowhead

Dustin and I had a GREAT time at Lake Arrowhead this weekend!! We've been on a lot of vacations, to a lot of wonderful places... but this was one of my favorite trips, and it was practically in our backyard (only 2 hours away)! As most of you know, we were supposed to go to Europe in October, but I was still having some issues with morning/all-day sickness. So we canceled our Europe trip and decided we would take a weekend getaway once I started feeling better. Obviously, Lake Arrowhead is no Europe, BUT we had an awesome time!! We stayed at the Lake Arrowhead Resort, which was amazing, and basically just spent the entire weekend relaxing and enjoying the fall weather. The trip was exactly what both of us needed- location was convenient, weather was great, resort was beautiful, food was amazing and company was perfect.

Dustin's Projects

Dustin has been working tirelessly to finish the kitchen cabinets and they are looking AMAZING!! This ended up being a MUCH larger job then either of us imagined... but they are soooooo worth it! I guess that's easy for me to say since I'm not the one doing all the work. But don't they look good??!! We're getting close to "the end" - Dustin thinks he can get them finished by his company's Christmas party, which is going to be at our house on Dec 12th.
















In addition to the kitchen, Dustin has also been working on our new office. He's built four built-in bookcases already and is working on a desktop that will put Bob Villa to shame. It's a little hard to describe, but I'll try. He ordered this special type of "bendy wood" that he's cutting into thin strips and then molding each piece to the circular shape of the desk. So the end result will be a stained, red-oak, curvy, "butcher-blockish" desk. It's going to be awesome. Here's what everything looks like now. I couldn't get a picture of the desktop because that is being worked on in the garage and is currently covered in clamps and all kinds of other "woodshop" contraptions.

Nursery

We started the nursery project last week and it's looking awesome. I must have changed my mind on this project about a hundred times, but now that I'm seeing everything come together I know we made the right decision! For those of you that have been to our house, the new nursery is the room that used to be the office/master retreat (right off the master bedroom). It was basically a 4th bedroom that was set-up as a master retreat (missing the 4th wall). So we are adding that missing 4th wall and installing french doors- so this room will get lots of light and can be used as a "retreat" or playroom later on. We're only on Day 2 of construction, but I thought I would go ahead and post some before & after pics :-)

Before

















Day 2 Progress

My Growing Belly

Lesson Learned

I learned a valuable lesson today... Don't try to fit into your favorite pre-maternity jeans when you're 6 months pregnant. I thought "I bet I can still do it- I just won't be able to zip or button (that's what bella bands are for)". WRONG.


If I hadn't just gotten a new pair of True Religion maternity jeans and some Habitual "Knocked Up" jeans... I'd be crying my eyes out now. Nothing makes a girl feel pretty like a perfect pair of jeans... especially when they are stretchy and comfortable.