More Renovations

This is long overdue, but I never did share some of the other room renovations that we have worked on over the past year. Although the list of home improvements seems to be growing, we'll have to hold off for a while now with Baby on the way.

Guest Room #1 (a.k.a. the Brown Room) - We didn't do a lot in here but paint, replace the outlets and light fixtures, replace the blinds and installed some new curtains which I sewed. We also had to have a cable outlet installed so that our guests could enjoy a little boob tube during their stay. Here is the "before"....

And here is the "after"....

 

The family room (a.k.a. The Octagon Room) is our favorite room - we spend all our time here. We had the room painted and bought a great new couch to watch TV on. The "before" picture is from the inspection.....

The "after" pictures give a little flavor of our Christmas decor this year!

The second guest room (a.k.a. The Green Room) got a little paint, some new fixtures, new blinds and curtains that I sewed. This room boasts a Sleep Number bed :). Here are the "before" pictures....

 

And here is the "after".....

 

 

The "before" dining room photos give you a little indication of Blair and Nancy Coleman's decorating taste...yummy!

Here is the "after". We painted, got some new fixtures, a new dining room set, and some Pottery Barn curtains. Voila!

We don't have a lot of picture of the living room before we redecorated, but I wanted to give you some flavor for the poop brown accent wall that they had before we got here :).

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Here is the "in process" picture of the painting going on. 

 Here is the "after" pictures, again with a little Christmas flair. We painted, added some accents to dress up our existing furniture and got some new curtains to replace the mauve colored ones that Nancy had - yes I'm sure that went quite nicely with the brown wall!

 

28 Weeks

In just about 12 weeks we'll be welcoming Krystle Jr! She is kicking up a storm and we are loving it! So far I've been feeling pretty good but I'm not taking it for granted - we are trying to get as much done as possible which has been a little bit of a challenge with the holidays. We have most of the big stuff taken care of and managed to get some bedding ordered recently. We've also recently gotten the baby's room painted - but you'll have to wait for the big reveal to see all of it!

Here is the bump pick from this week along with the previous pictures - I can't believe I still have to get bigger!

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24 Weeks and Counting

We just hit the 24 week mark so I thought I would update the baby picture collage. This week, Chris was able to feel the baby kick for the first time which was so exciting. We can see her move every once and a while - crazy!

We're getting more and more excited for Baby to come. We've got the furniture ordered for the nursery, a daycare all lined up, and our registry completed. Before long we'll be cuddling with our little one!

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Thanksgiving, Krusmark Style!

We celebrated another Krusmark Thanksgiving - this time at our house! For the first time, we hosted everyone at our place for the meal and of course, the big cribbage tournament! Luckily we had Chris' cousin Erin to cook the turkey and gravy, as well as many other things. We would have been lost without her! Everyone else contributed as well - no one went home hungry.

Our table turned out so pretty. I was glad we got to use our china!

Here is Leo with his new friend, Gracie. Chris' aunt Karen brought her dog Gracie and she got along great with Leo and Rudy. When Gracie had to go to sleep in her kennel at night, Leo and Rudy cried for her at the bottom of the stairs :).

The girls eating in the kitchen.....

 The boys playing cribbage in the family room....

Uncle Kevin and Uncle Randy carved the turkey. As you can see, we had plenty of appetizers also.

I skunked Jacqui in my first cribbage game this year!

Janet and Sandy playing cribbage in the kitchen.

Chris played with Erin's fiance, Eric. He was initiated this year into the tournament and did pretty well for himself!

This was the winning game - Matt and Randy. Matt won!

Passing the trophy from the 2012 winner (Chris) to the 2011 winner (Matt).

Here is the entire family.

On Saturday we had a shower for Erin and Eric. They're getting married next October in Chicago and we'll get to celebrate our anniversary there with them!

Halftime!

It's about that time - halfway time! We recently celebrated a big baby milestone, the 20 week mark. Here is what the mommy looks like:

Compared to 16 weeks......

And 10 weeks...

And here is what the baby looks like!!

Our sweet baby didn't cooperate at our first ultrasound, so we had a follow up ultrasound to find out that we are having a girl!! We couldn't be more excited and anxious to meet her! Now we can really get into the planning process with the room and the registry. Here is our inspiration for the room (this is decorated for a boy so we'll customize it for our little girl).

Octoberfest

I love a good arts-and-crafts project, so I found a few things on Pintrest that I wanted to try this year for Halloween decorations. They turned out great after a quick stop at Michael's for the supplies. I put some small smiley-face stickers on a couple of medium sized pumpkins and then spray painted them black. Once the paint dried and I peeled the stickers off, I had the most fantastic polka-dotted pumpkins!

I also repeated a project from last year that I found on Martha Stewart's website. Basically you paint glue on some mini pumpkins and add glitter. This year I also added a clear coat of lacquer because I was still picking glitter out of my carpet from last year's project! They turned out pretty great!

The Bump!

Voila - the bump! I haven't been extremely diligent in taking pictures of the baby bump, but I have managed to take a few. I will keep updating!

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Telling Sandy and Brianna - we got them a cookie cake that said "Promoted to Grandma and Aunt"

We told Jeff and Gretchen at Breezy Point on our last day there - they were so excited! We got to tell the grandparents and aunts/uncles the same day!