Whoa nesting! long post....

I have totally been nesting! Matt and I had been talking about how to rearrange things to get the baby's room ready and make the house a little more baby friendly. One of our better ideas, and I think Matt actually came up with it, had to do with our dining room. Up till now, we've had our cool, plastic, outdoor patio furniture serving as our dining room table. And we NEVER use it for anything other than piling stuff on that we don't want to put away. So we decided to take it apart and store it in our attic storage area and move our computer desk downstairs to get it out of Victor's room. We also have a hutch that my grandparents gave us that is next to the desk in the same room. I put a shelf up above the desk as well to give us some extra storage room. We are still moving stuff around a bit and still organizing, but it looks waay better than it did!

Then, I had some old white wood picture frames laying around. I had gotten them for free from Ann Taylor Loft when I worked there 2 years ago, and had just never done anything with them. So I stained them a darker color so they would match our other things and stand away from the walls a bit since we can't paint (the joys of renting).
This is a shot of our living room, kind of, just to show you the one frame I put up in there. I put wedding photos in both of them.

I put the other up in our kitchen. We have this blank wall that I was dying to put something on, so I put the frame up in there, and then decided it needed some shelves so I put those up too. Here is the finished product of that wall.

This is the Before shot of our living room wall above our entertainment center. We had christmas cards hanging here still for the longest time and I just took those down, haha!

This is what it looks like now that I put up shelves. I love shelves! Yes, they are not even, I did that on purpose, lol.

This is the wall above our couch on the opposite wall. I finally put up the wedding pictures that we got months ago. This wall is still a work in progress though, I think it needs a shelf or something....any ideas?

And this is the window in our living room. I just got matt to put up the curtain rod (that I found at big lots for $7) and the curtain ($5) last night. It's amazing how different our living room looks now with just that one added touch.

The sad thing is that we have lived here for a whole year, and I'm just now doing these things. For awhile I was scared of putting too many holes in the walls and then we weren't sure if we were going to be moving or not, and now that I know we are going to be here for at least another year I'm ready to make it look like we actually live here, haha! I figure we can always putty up the walls before we leave, no biggie.

We got our dryer fixed finally too! For those of you who don't know the story, we bought our washer and dryer off some friends about a year and a half ago when we moved in together. She even told me when we bought them that the dryer might need a new heating element soon. We didn't think anything of it cause it worked, you just had to run it a couple of times to get everything all the way dry. Well, a couple of months ago it quit drying completely. I eventually looked up the part we (thought) we needed from the Sears website and Matt picked it up. We tried putting it in, and at first were not successful. We finally got it in and put back together and it still was not working. We were very, very not happy.

We had been without a dryer for about a month by this time and had been taking our laundry to a friends house to do. Every now and again I would wash a few work clothes at home and then just hang them up in the bathroom to dry. Problem was, if I didn't do it early enough they wouldn't be dry by the next morning. Anyway, as you can imagine, this was getting very annoying. We finally figured out that it was the thermostat on our dryer that was busted. I went and picked up the right part on Saturday, Matt installed it that night and Presto!! Our dryer works again!! 2 months without being able to wash clothes in your own home will make you very grateful, haha. Of course, our power bills and water bills went way down when we weren't doing laundry, but I'd rather be able to wash my clothes!!

So I've been doing laundry all day, hooray. Plus I dusted everything I could get my hands on and scrubbed the kitchen counters and the stove top. Matt woke up when I was putting the sheves up above our entertainment center and he started helping me clean. He helped me move all the furniture in the living room so we could vacuum under everything and helped me fold the laundry. I have the bestest hubby :) !! Then after he went to work at Outback and I took my nap, I went grocery shopping at Wal*mart. I got a clorox ready mop (cheaper than a swiffer wet jet for the same thing ) so I could more easily mop my floors. AND, I bought our first pack of diapers :) I figure we'll start picking up a pack everytime we go grocery shopping and then we won't have to buy a ton all at once. I'm only buying a couple packs of newborn size and then getting bigger ones. I figure that we can always buy more small ones, but if we have too many you can't really take them back.

Also I picked up some of those cool storage bags that you vacuum all the air out of and they are easier to store, they are sooooo FREAKING cool!!! I only got 2 of them because I wanted to see if they would work the way I wanted them too, and now I am going to have to buy a bunch more, they are sooo great!!

So our home looks like a home now and while I still have a few things I want to do, I feel better knowing that some things are already done. I have faith that things will get done in time and I love the way our house looks when it's clean and put together!!!

Oh, my doctor's appointment! I had my 24 week appointment on Wednesday morning. The ultrasound our doc did last month was a courtesy one since we didn't have insurance yet, so now that we have insurance, he did another one this time so he could bill it to them, yay! Victor is up to 1lb 10oz, almost 2lbs already!! Still definitely a boy too! He's looking perfectly healthy so far, yay! I did recieve a bit of unpleasant news though. Since I am having problems with back pain and sciatica, making it very difficult to stand, walk or sit for long (pretty much anything, lol) he recommended that I not travel until I'm feeling better. So I will not be traveling with Matt to his parents place for their 4th of July party, I also can't travel to see my sister-in-law like I wanted to at some point next month. While I'm sad that I won't be seeing family, I'm also relieved because sitting in a car for 4-6 hours at a time really sounds like torture right now. I'll miss you guys! But I'll see you some other time, I promise!

I'll be doing my glucose tolerance test at my next appointment, so hopefully all my not eating sugar will have a beneficial effect and my results will be good. I only gained 3 lbs at this appointment so I'm thrilled about that. All in all, my appointment went very well, I'm measuring right where I should be (well, a week ahead of my official due date, whatever) and my BP is good. Victor is consistently measuring 10 days ahead and I measured a week ahead too, but he won't change my due date because he said it doesn't really matter. Victor will come when he comes. Although my doc did say "There's no way you'll go till then, I'm guessing you'll deliver in September." I had pretty much figured the same thing, but I guess you never know!