After a long week...the nursery is almost complete.

So on Monday 2/13 we decided to paint the nursery. My mom came over and we painted the bottom half of the wall a green to match the bedding. It didn't take her and Zane long at all to get it all painted twice.

Zane working hard.

Mom working hard.

Both of them posing for me!

Aspen upset that she can't help!

Then Tuesday was Valentines day and Zane and I went out to eat and watched a movie at the house. Wednesday we have church with the middle schoolers. Then on Thursday I cleaned the house to get ready for our 7th grade girls to come over to the house for our in town retreat! Zane painted the chair rail twice and helped clean.

Friday night was when the retreat started and we had so much fun. We go to the church for the sessions and then to the homes to sleep. The girls were great we had good discussions and played spoons. We went bowling and to a local sports center on Saturday. The pictures are really blurry but they are the only ones I took of the whole weekend. :(

We had a blast over the weekend. Zane had a group of guys at a friends house. Sunday morning is when it ended and we were both exhausted by then! We took a nap Sunday afternoon for 3 hours.

Mike and Teresa came over Sunday evening to help put up chair rail. I was still sluggish from the weekend and forgot to get pictures of them actually hanging it up but I do have finished product pictures.

I think it looks amazing! It matches the bedding perfectly!

Monday night my brother went with us to help pick up the furniture! Zane and Jonathan carried it up the stairs. So now the room is filled with boxes and that is our next project is to put it all together! Should be some time this week though!

 I am 22 weeks and 4 days. The little guy has started actually kicking me a lot here lately. I have felt him move but never a punch until this past week. He punched me several times in a row on Valentine's day while we were watching the movie and Zane was able to feel him too. It is such a sweet miracle to feel him moving. We are still working on names for him. We have the list but nothing final yet. It is a lot to think about cause the little fellow will have this name for the rest of his life! We want it to be a good one! ;)

Rocking Chair.

My parents bought us a nice glider rocking chair to go in the nursery. We went and picked it out the week I found out I was pregnant and I picked the exact one I wanted it finally came in the end of January. So Zane and I went and picked it up and put it together that night. It is so nice and I know there will be a lot of hours spent in that chair.

Zane putting it together.

Aspen helping.

Me enjoying the finished product.

Aspen's spot when I sit in the chair! She didn't even try to get up there with me.

The Nursery Adventures!

So around the middle of January I had told Zane I wanted to clean out the nursery before the 1st of February. That gave us a little over 2 weeks and it made me have a plan so we would actually get it done soon! I took a picture of the before and I am quite embarrassed to show it. The room looked like a bomb had gone off in there. It is our catch all room, EVERYTHING goes in that room and it doesn't have a place. I am a pretty organized person but that room I just shut the door and didn't worry about. We worked hard to get it cleaned out so we can move on to the next step of the process of getting ready for our little boy! I am happy to tell you that our first goal of having the room cleared out was a success. Even the pile of stuff that needed to go to Karm was taken by 2/4 so the room was completely cleared out.

Before

After

(the closet is completely empty we just didn't get a picture of it)

Then we have to paint and put up chair rail, buy furniture all sorts of fun stuff left to do! Thankfully I am pleased to say that all of that is done I just haven't posted a blog yet! :)