A Little Home Improvement

We have an old, strange, but loveable house.  We've done a lot to it already, but there are probably still hundreds of projects remaining.  When we moved in we had these two "built-in" bookshelves in our living room.  They wasted a lot of space in the room and looked pretty messy when we had them full of books.  We also have quite a shortage of seating, so we decided to take them out!

Mike and Lilly inspecting the "backing" of the bookshelves, which was actually just ancient contact paper.  They also had fish-eye hooks holding up the shelves.  They were a lot less charming than they appear in the picture :)

Shelves are gone!

Walls painted, floor stained, Christmas decorations ready to come out

Our new seating area, courtesy of Ikea and some awesome Christmas presents!  (Our tree was here during Christmas, so we didn't get the new chairs until after the tree was down)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We stayed at home this year, just the three (five) of us.  We missed being with family, but we had a really nice day and had some friends over for dessert that night.  I decided to cook everything we usually have, so we had leftovers for days!  It was fun to get to celebrate in our house!

We got to use our beautiful French tablecloth from Aunt Janis

Our spread.  It was a ridiculous amount of food for three people :)

Lilly checking things out

My little goofball.  Do I look tired?  I was, early pregnancy was wiping me out.

Our little family - I couldn't be more thankful

Happy Birthday Mike!

I like to tell Mike that he's now in his mid-thirties because I still have another few months until I join him at 31.  Some pictures from our celebration:

Breakfast in bed!  Lilly wasn't in a particularly celebratory mood.

We couldn't find a babysitter so we brought Mike's favorite dinner home, complete with oysters.

Mike's birthday dessert pizza!  Lilly "helped" put the fruit on it :)

#2!!!

We haven't had a chance to tell everyone yet, but we're so excited that we wanted to share our news here... we're having another baby!  Rough due date is June 20th and we got to see the baby (finally) today.  It looks wonderful and was wiggling it's little arm and leg buds around - it was so cute!  Everything looks great and we are so thrilled.  We'd had a little trouble this time and I was days away from having to start taking Clomid, so we were just overwhelmed to find out that this one was on its way.

It's sweet little face is looking straight out, with it's head down to the right.

Lilly and Addie and their "Big Sister" t-shirts.  Doesn't Addie just look beyond excited? :)

I'm feeling pretty good so far, other than this horrible cold/sinus infection I've had for the last week and a half.  Some nausea, but not nearly as bad as it was with Lilly, so I'm grateful for that.  We'll keep you posted!