Joey put the crib together this week and the cats had a fun time “helping”. I helped hold pieces and I took some pictures along the way. We bought the crib from a friend for $50. Don’t worry, I did my research and there were no recalls for this model.

Here’s the crib in pieces:

Coco loves to climb on things and the crib was no exception.

Pumpkin even decided to join her in the climbing:

They also decided to jump in the crib and test it out. I think we are going to be in trouble when the baby needs to sleep in it.

Here it is all put together without any cats in it:

I am looking forward to getting the nursery all put together but we are quickly running out space. More pictures to come as we get more things.

I have been wanting new blinds for the windows for a while and we were finally able to spend the money and get some nice ones. Well, actually, I convinced Joey to let me spend part of our tax refund on new blinds.

One of the families I see referred me to a guy that does free estimates and installs the blinds for a pretty good price so I gave him a call. He did a great job and even cleaned up after himself. If you are looking for someone to do your blinds (and you live in Utah), I can get you his information.

Here is a before picture of our windows downstairs:

The blinds stayed closed all the time because I had such a hard time reaching the wand to tilt them open. Plus, light still came through the blinds so it wasn’t a big deal if they stayed closed. Kind of a sad looking room.

And here is what they look like now:

They are easy to open and they really shut out light when you close them. I couldn’t be happier! Joey even said that he likes them

We also replaced the ugly curtains in the stairwell with venetian blinds since our cats like to sit in the windows. Here is a before picture:

And here is what they look like now:

It will take the cats some time to get use to them but it really makes the stairwell look better.

Now that the blinds are done I can start working on the nursery!

On Friday February 26th, I had an ultrasound and we learned that we are having e a baby boy!

It was so fun to see his heart, his stomach, kidneys and even his brainstem. Pretty amazing stuff.

Here is heart:

Here he is saying “Peace” with his hand:

A profile picture:

Here the technician says “I’m pretty sure it’s a boy”:

I wasn’t okay with a “pretty sure” but a few minutes later we see this and she says “Do you believe me now?”:

So far I have been feeling great (minus a nasty head cold I had for 2 weeks) and have only had some swelling in my feet and hands. A month ago my family commented that I finally looked pregnant.

Here is an Easter picture of Joey and Me:

and a close up of my belly: