Busy Weekend

What a busy weekend...but I am sure that they will all be busy right up until the baby gets here. As mentioned before, we finished the second closet in our bedroom and added a new ceiling fan. We (Daryl-my role is as supervisor!) also finished the installing and grouting the ceramic tile in the kitchen as well as adding electric to the island. A few other random small projects also were finished, but the more we get done, the more it seems we have to do!
Aubrie transplanted her pumpkins that she is growing from their pots to her garden yesterday. Unfortunately we had a major downpour this afternoon, so we are not sure how many actually will survive. Aubrie does not know this as she is in Buffalo for the week with Grammy Lynda. I am not sure what I am going to do with myself all week, but sleep seems pretty high on my priority list.
And Congratulations to my cousin Sami and her husband Zach on the birth of their daughter, Annalise Camryn, last week. That makes SEVEN new babies born to friends and family in the last 4 months...only 3 left to go, all due within the next three weeks.

Closet

We now have a second closet in our bed room, which means that the baby now has his own closet! Yay! All that is left to do is paint the doors and put on the door knobs, but they are both functioning and full of clothes. We also added a new ceiling fan to our bed room, so all that is left to do in there is put up the crown molding.












Aubrie was obviously very interested in the process of building a new closet.

With only 18 days left to go until the baby gets here, it is good to get a few more things knocked off the checklist of house projects. This weekends projects include finishing tiling the kitchen floor, putting some shelves in a few kitchen cabinets, and a few other random projects.

35 Days...

...and counting. My c-section has been scheduled for August 14 at 8 am. Although I am at 33.5 weeks, the baby is measuring a bit big (~35 weeks), so he may show up before then. We have a lot to get done in just a few weeks, including choosing a name. Even though most think that we are not telling the truth, we really have not picked out a baby name yet.

On that note, we spent the past weekend in Rochester and Buffalo, so we did nothing on the house, but we got to see many friends and family. Thursday and Friday were spent in Rochester with Grammy and Papa P. We had frozen custard at Abbots, and went to a parade and craft show. Aubrie got to play bubbles and take long walks with Grammy and Barron.
On Friday night we went to the firework at the University at Buffalo with all of our friends from college. We counted and this makes TEN YEARS in a row that we have gone to the fireworks at UB. Crazy, since everyone is married and starting families. Just think, next year there will be at least 6 kids there. I think this year we spent more time watching the girls play. Suddenly they are more interested in hanging out with each other instead of mom and dad. Guess we're not cool any more.












Saturday was spent in Buffalo with Daryl's family. We got breakfast at Exquisite Taste, my favorite coffee house and then Daryl helped his brother at his new house while I went shopping for Buffalo "things." Unfortunately I came up short in my quest for baby Sabres merchandise, but I was able to find a baby Bills onsie and cap. That afternoon we went swimming at Daryl's Aunt's with his cousins and Aubrie got to play with all of her little cousins in the big pool. Jumping into the pool about a thousand times wore Aubrie out, so she stayed at Grammy Lynda's while we got to go out to Chef's for our sixth anniversary.

Sunday we went to Tim Horton's for our Buffalo doughnut fix and then had our friends over for a picnic. Aubrie got to spend more quality time with her buddies, Anna, Morgan and Riley, whom she misses very much. It was quite the busy weekend.
Monday Aubrie had her "All American" pictures done. If we can get the virus problem with our computer fully resolved, I will post the whole set of pictures on our website.

Unproductive

We had a very unproductive weekend...and that does not bode well for our long list of projects. Daryl was able to apply drywall compound to the new closet, but due to the ridiculous humidity, it has not dried, so he was unable to sand and prime as per our plan. Justin and Jessica passed through on Saturday, so we were able to move our entertainment center downstairs into the family room and out of the living room, so that is one thing off of our list.

Sunday was spent at the hospital with bleeding, cramps and nausea. Some antibiotics and a severe infection later, I was sent home. Fortunately the baby is fine and shows no sign of making an appearance anytime in the very near future. Needless to say, not much was accomplished yesterday.

On a better note, Aubrie started summer camp today. She will be at camp three days a week for four hours. Swimming, arts and crafts, games and socializing while mommy gets a break to run errands, clean, SLEEP etc. She was very excited when we left so hopefully everything goes well.
Next weekend we are heading back to Buffalo to see our friends and family and to celebrate the Forth of July as well as our 6th anniversary. I am especially looking forward to dinner at either Chef's or Ilio's (two popular Italian restaurants in Buffalo). I have not decided which one yet, but both are better than anything we have found in Albany thus far.

Weekend Project

The big push is on. Only seven weeks, give or take, until the baby comes and we have a list a mile long of house projects that we would 'like' to finish before he gets here.

Our kitchen is ~85% done...mainly trim work left, and that is fairly low on the priority level since the kitchen is fully functional right now.

Our projects this past weekend included the initial construction of a second closet in our bedroom. Our house severely lacks closet space and until now, Daryl has used the closet in the nursery for his clothes. Once the baby gets here, we will need that closet space for his clothes and other assorted stuff that comes along with babies. Once the closet is finished, the room will need to be painted and a new ceiling fan installed.












Our other major project is the main bathroom renovation. Our bathroom is strait out of the 1970's, which is not really a big deal. We had planned on doing it next year, but Aubrie's exuberant bath taking (water seems to end up everywhere) has led to a leak in the floor of the bathroom into the room below. The floor tiles are also starting to pop off due to the excess water and lack of grout on the floor. Our decisions now revolve around completing the entire bathroom renovation with new whirlpool tub, wall and floor tiles, vanity, double sinks, light fixtures and paint, or do we do a "band aid" renovation and just fix the floor and put in the new vanity over the new floor. I would prefer to get everything done at once, but again, time is an issue.

Happy Father's Day

We had a very busy Father's Day weekend...

On Saturday we went to Six Flags Great Escape in Lake George for Daryl's company picnic. Aubrie enjoyed all of the rides-the park is very kid orientated and she even went on the log flume, which she compared to going over a waterfall.
Daryl finally got to ride the Crystal Beach Comet, which due to hight regulations he was never able to ride before Crystal Beach closed in 1989!

On Sunday we went to Indian Ladder Farms to pick strawberries and play with the baby animals. Aubrie met baby goats, pigs, sheep, cows, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and rabbits.


Sunday night we went to a free "Pops" concert on the waterfront performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra. The weekend ended with fireworks over the Hudson River. All in all, a very busy but enjoyable weekend.

Aubrie had her gymnastics show at her new gymnastics school yesterday. She did very well, although she was very disappointed that she only got a ribbon and certificate at the end rather than the "beautiful trophy" she was expecting. (They got trophies at her school in Buffalo last year.)