Finally the basement is done!

This week went by fast! With help from Les and Vickie (Aaron's parents) Aaron finished painting the basement and laying the carpet. We were able to move things down stairs from the office to the new office so to get a start on the Nursery. We were both busier than we thought so we are still moving stuff downstairs yet. Last night we primed the wanes coating for the baby's room and will start painting the actual room tomorrow! I think once we just get it to an empty room it will go by quickly! Doc said as long as it's well ventilated I can paint....so finally I can feel like I'm doing something!! The bathroom is yet another story...once again, the vanity top had to be reordered...for the 4th time! Maybe I'm not meant to have a new bath?

Anyways....last Friday we went to an anniversary party for a couple of friends of ours at the lake. The weather was great as well as the company! Aaron's already planning a fun anniversary party for us....i didn't say anything....his brother Adam did...'need to buy a ring first :~)' First things first...or in our case...baby then first things first :~)

My parents were out of town last weekend so their dog Rudy stayed the night Saturday. He's a golden retreiver but surprisingly he and otis are buddies.

I officially started my classes to work toward my RN degree on Monday! Very part time for the first year and will take more on starting next fall. We figure between the baby and working full time....we'll see how this year goes :~) But, I'm planning to have my LPN by June 2010 and my RN June 2011! Isn't there a statistic that says we change careers 8 different times in our lives? This will be #2 and I don't want a #3 unless it's called retirement :~)

Otherwise...tonight we have my nephew Blaine's last supper, he's leaving for college tomorrow! I can't beleive he's already that old! He's just like his auntie...he's attending St.Cloud State University. The rest of the weekend will be spent working on the house and studying (wow...never thought that would happen again!).

Hope everyone had a great week and has an even better week!
Chow!

In a nut shell

Where to begin! It's been about 2 weeks since the last blog so I'll catch up quick. We (meaning Aaron) are working on painting the basement at this time...planning to be done by sunday so we can lay the carpet sunday afternoon! Then we can move the office and extra stuff downstairs to begin on the nursery and my bathroom!!! I am really excited! We have the paint for the nursery as well as her furniture set and bedding set....pink of course :~) We are sort of at a stand still as far as my bathroom goes due to our vanity top/sink having to be reordered for the 3rd time!!!! So this last time they put a rush on it and it should be in by Monday at the latest!

Last weekend was the annual Girl's Weekend with my college girlfriends. Mel decided to host this time around but first I headed to Krista and Presten's for Friday night. Krista and I spent the night catching up and made it a later night considering we were up early Saturday...Vada is an early riser! Presten made a great breakfast for us and Jaxson opened his early birthday gift before we headed out shopping. Jaxson and Aaron share the same birthday...easy for me to remember both this way :~)

We surprisingly ran into our friend Kimmy at Motherhood Maternity so we all shopped together and did lunch before making it to Mel's. This baby shopping thing is really fun! I love that we know she's going to be a girl so I know exactly what to pick out! Such cute stuff!

Erin was at Mel's when we got there. We all cought up for a while then headed out for supper and desert at this amazing little cafe in Uptown! It was soooooo delish!!!!! We spent the rest of the evening at at comedy club laughing having a good time. Before taking off Mel made blueberry pancakes for us...yum yum!

On the way home I stopped in Mankato at both Home Depot and Menards to get more things for the house. I was ready to go postal when I finally figured out what I wanted and what was going to work and headed home!

Sweetcorn was waiting for me when I got home for supper! I love this time of year!

Hope everyone is doing well! I'll post pictures probably this weekend :~)

August Already!

It's been another busy week and a half! Aaron returned home from New York Friday evening. I wanted to post some pics from the trip, however we're waiting for the pics from one of the guy's camera. They had a great time and were able to watch the Twins vs Yankees at Yankee Stadium as well as the Mets play too. Aaron says there are just people everywhere! The subways wasn't his cup of tea...very hot and crowded...so he bused or taxied it the rest of the time. They went to Time Square and a David Letterman show as well as a great comedy club one of the nights...he said that was one of the best parts! Flights went well and he arrived at my parents by 7:00 pm Friday night to join in the Johnson Family Reunion/Auntie's b-day party just in time.

It was great to see much of the family again. We're growing so much that's it's hard to get everyone together so looks like it will be Christmas again before seeing everyone. Sounds like it'll be at the Currie Bowling Alley this year...I better brush up before then to get my form back :~) I think there were like 20 kids under the age of 8 there! Pretty soon we'll be contributing to that number :~)

Saturday we decided to go to Sioux Falls to find some baby stuff. We ended up finding the bedding we liked so that is on it's way to our house...they didn't have any in stock so it was ordered in. We also got lucky and found the nursery set we liked last weekend too, so I'm heading to Le Sueur to get that this afternoon.

We should be able to start painting the basement and laying the carpet by the end of next week. We have the "princess pink" paint for the nursery too so we'll start on that next :~) Everything seems to be coming together.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!