Living Room

We are so excited about these record shelves. They make our living room seem way bigger and obviously more organized. Here are some before and after pictures.

Shades are up!

Today we installed the shades in the baby's room. Here are some photos! Thanks mom!

Baby Shower

Last Sunday we had a baby shower. It was really nice to see all our friends come out to help us celebrate this little guy! Thanks so much to Jamie, Carol Gale, Sara & Katy for planning this and hosting it.

More painting

These photos show the "Cricket White" color we added above the chair rail. It's really hard to accurately show how paint color appears in a room in a blog photo. It looks a little less beige than this photo and more like vanilla creamy white.

Garden

We had to pull out the late blight tomato plants. So we've nearly reached the end with our homegrown tomatoes even though its only early August. We still have one plant that might give us a few, but it will be gone soon. We've got a few cucumbers still growing, but for the most part we have called it a day for the summer crop. Also pulled out the zucchini and the okra to make room for our fall garden. Today I put in a row of carrots and swiss chard. It's so hot that's about all I could do, but we will also be planting some cabbage and turnips. Hopefully this will cut down on the need for grocery store runs in October and November when the baby demands all the attention.

Baby's Room

My mom spent Wednesday and Thursday painting the ceiling and below the chair rail. Here's the before and the current state of things. As I type Andy and her are upstairs putting on the coat of paint above the chair rail. My contribution was to tape things off. The paint colors in case anyone's curious are: Ceiling; Benjamin Moore "Sleeping Angel" (ironic i know, but i swear i didn't choose it because of that). Below chair rail; Pratt & Lambert "Heather Dusk", and Above Chair Rail; C2 "Cricket White".

Organizing

Thanks to Einee for finding a total score of baby clothes and to Papa for shipping them! My mom and I got some tubs and spent the evening with Andy folding and organizing by size. Bring on the spit up and the poop because we've got a stockpile of clean clothes!