Life happenings. Lots of pictures with a 30 week bump pic

I am so sorry for going silent for 2 weeks! Between work at work and work at home, I've hardly had a single minute to myself it feels like.

So here is what's been happening:
(dummy me forgot to take actual before photos but here is the den. The 3rd bedroom, not pictured, looked exactly the same with green, stained carpet, and faux wood paneling walls from floor to ceiling with the dark brown stained/shellac trim throughout.) So far we removed all of  the carpet, paneling, trim, and baseboards and installed insulation and drywall. We spent the long holiday weekend taping, muding, and sanding the new drywall and will be hopefully sanding the last coat of mud tonight. We will begin painting the ceiling and walls either tomorrow or Wednesday and then work on refinishing trim and baseboards until the carpet gets installed sometime within about 10 days. Once the new carpet is in place, we just have rehang the trim, and baseboards and install the new bedroom door and closet doors in the bedroom. Then we can move all of the stuff that currently is Elle's room into the den and begin work on the nursery!! The only thing we have to do in there is fix a few spots in the wall and then paint the walls, replace her ceiling fan/ light fixture, finish sanding and painting her closet door, and then just move all of her furniture in. WHICH BY THE WAY, with a little help from Barry on the crib, her changing table and crib are both put together.
I even managed to put the Christmas tree up :) Even though the ornaments are currently buried in the dining room (aka- storage unit) under 3 boxes and behind a 60 pound (+) piece of solid butcher block counter top that we had leftover from the kitchen renovation. So that's no happening until we finish the den and can get that room cleaned up and everything put back where it belongs.

 Den: