— my little corner of randomness —
Last weekend we painted a couple rooms in our house. One, of course, was the baby's room. I'll get to that one in a second.
First, we painted the downstairs study. This is going to be an office on the first floor of the house. I think we are both excited to have an office down there.
This is what it looked like before…with all the stuff cleaned out of the room:
The color of the room is the same color the whole house is. We didn't want to paint any of the rooms in the house until we have been here over a year because they would come and do touch-up painting. But now that we are past that, it's time to PAINT!
So this is what it looks like painted:
This color is called “Mother Nature” from Behr. We actually painted the dining room this color at our last house.
We have started moving things down to this room. Chuck brought the desk down there and now we just have to get things organized. I'll be sure to post a picture (or a few pictures) when it's all done.
Ok. So, on to the baby's room. My mom and Chuck's mom came over to help paint these rooms. I snapped a couple pictures of them in action! 🙂
I took a break at one point to do some stretches:
And this is what it looks like finished:
The greens are different in person. Since the green in the study is the same green we did at our last house in the dining room, I already knew I liked it. And the baby's room is a green that is very close to the green in the bedding we want to get for her room. It also reminds me of mint ice cream and I wanted to lick the walls while we were painting! 🙂 It's called “Fresh Guacamole” from Glidden that we color matched in Behr paint.
I want to add pink curtains to the baby's room and other pink things. I thought it would be too hard to do that if the walls were pink, too! 🙂
There will be more pictures to come. I already plan to paint another room next weekend! And of course, there will be more pictures as we get the baby's room more put together! Until then!
One of my best friends and her husband had their first baby in the end of July. Her name is Anne and she is adorable. I was lucky enough to get to go see her the day after she was born.
She was only 5 pounds, 5 ounces when she was born. She was so itty bitty! And I love visiting her! When I saw her a couple weeks ago, she was much bigger and more awake, but still the same adorable little Anne! Her mom, Brooke, tole me that our little girls are going to be the best of friends! I can hardly wait! 🙂
Chuck got to feel more kicks today! I love that he can feel her moving around in there!
I finished this book recently. I wanted to read it because I did watch some of the Hills. But I didn't expect too much.
And it was good I didn't.
It wasn't that great. It was a little like the show, but mostly a bunch of girly mumbo jumbo. I'm not sure I expected anything else, though. That was the same way the show was. But I was quite curious how Lauren Conrad's writing would be. It wasn't too bad.
This wasn't a very interesting blog post. But I like to write something about the books I read. 🙂
A few weeks ago, Chuck and I finally made a decision on a new car. It's a long story, but we were down to one car and needed to make a decision after having one car for a little over a month.
We decided on the Nissan Murano. I love it! It's a great size, tows enough for us, good for kids….and of course, I needed it in gray!
After having it a couple weeks, we still love it and I still call it the “fancy-mobile”! Hopefully, that isn't making my Jetta jealous! 🙂
Today we painted the baby’s room. We painted it a green color that was in the bedding that we want. Chuck’s mom and my mom came over to help paint. It was so fun to see it finally have some color.
I hope she likes green! I wanted to do green walls because I wanted to be able to have pink things in the room…like curtains and such. We’ll see how that goes!
I guess we’re really having a baby! 
We were watching tv one night and saw a commercial for Kraft Homestyle Mac & Cheese. Chuck thought it looked fabulous. So I found some and made it one night.
First, boil water and cook the macaroni.
Drain the macaroni and melt some butter in the same pan.
Then mix in the seasoning/flour mix. You are basically making a rue similar to if you were making mac & cheese that doesn't come in a package.
Then add milk and let the sauce thicken up.
Then you add the cheese. This comes in a pouch…it's not powder cheese, it's a creamier cheese. You mix this all together.
Then add the noodles. It's starting to look tasty!
Mix that all together. The directions say you can serve it at this step. If you don't serve it now, add it to a casserole dish.
But why serve it before baking when they give you crumbly topping?
You can add more cheese to it before backing, but I didn't have any. So I just baked it.
Then serve!
Chuck said it was a little bland. I like bland, so it didn't bother me. I also bought the 4 Cheese blend of this meal. We had it a couple days after I made this one. Chuck said it had more flavor and he liked it better. I didn't add any more cheese to that one either.
I thought they were tasty. I don't usually find a macaroni made with processed cheese that I don't like! 🙂
Now I'm hungry again.
I decided I wanted some new boots. So I have been hunting online for the cheapest deal I can get for cute shoes. Of course, Target came to my rescue yet again. I ordered these:
Aren't they cute?! Here's the kicker…they are kids shoes! So they are even cheaper. And if I bought them online, I got one pair 1/2 off. Yes, please! So I got these two pairs of boots and I am so excited to wear them with everything!
I do have a pair of black boots currently, but they have a pretty high heel and I just haven't been very comfortable in my heels in a while. I have been wearing flat shoes so often that when I wear heels, it just doesn't feel right. So these are going to be perfect. I even got them approved by my very stylish friend, Hillary. If she thinks they are cute, I know I am going to LOVE them!
*UPDATE* I DO love them! I have found reasons to wear them just about every day since I got them in the mail! I have also gotten a ton of compliments on them! Yay for kids shoes! 🙂
We had our ultrasound Wednesday and found out that Baby Hays is a girl! We are so excited and spent the evening looking at paint colors and bedding. I have come to the decision that I am not quite sure what I want! 🙂 Any suggestions for little girl's rooms? 🙂 Everyone thinks I need to do pink in the room (which I think I might), but I don't know if I want the whole room that color….maybe just half of it. Or maybe two shades of pink….so many decisions!
Ok ok….I'll show you some baby pictures from today!
HERE is a link to all of the ultrasound pictures we got. They gave them to us on a cd. This was so nice. The pictures look much clearer than when they print them and then we scan them in! If you click on them, they get a little bigger, too.
These are probably (and hopefully) the last pictures we'll see of this little girl until we meet her in February! Now we have to think of a name for her!
