Maddy's room finished, for now

Last pic is the real color, other three are with the horrible light on and no flash...

You're Turning Violet Violet!

Our arrangement with Madeline was that if she gave the baby her room upstairs that she could pick the paint color for her new room downstairs. Which was kind of melancholy since I had only a few months before painted this room blue. Such is the way of things. Justin's busting out the paint skills and painting her room purple as we speak. She's going to love it. :P

I Love Lamp

Ok, so contrary to my blog's title, sometimes you DO have to spend a little money to get something awesome. However, in the case of the baby's nursery I've decided to try and keep us under the $300 price tag that usually looms over crib bedding and acessories.

White lamp shade: $7.99, Paper: Had it in the house, Paper punch: Had it in the house, Toile Ribbon: $2, Green Ribbon: Had it in the house, Mod Podge glue: Had it in the house.

I think I win this round. Stupid lamps for nurseries are like $40 online!!! NO WAY Jose!

This is the blanket I made for her last week. Cost me $20 total. Baby crib blankets online are roughly $100. And look! My lampshade matches!! YAY! (Wrinkles are because the glue was still wet, as it dries the moisture is removed from the paper and the wrinkles are smoothed out.)

Snow

Tobogganing this year has been challenging, since we've not had much snow till now. Here is the celebratory "Jump" picture. If you look closely, you'll notice that only Justin's Bottom is in contact with the snow jump. Everything else is in the air. Good Form. :)

Gender Scan

Oh yes, we found out allright. YAY! A baby sister for Madeline! We are THRILLED!

Ahead of the Gun

Stockings are hung, wreath is up, one of my garlands is up. Fall stuff is starting to dissappear. Hey, Canadian Thanksgiving was a while ago. :) Not my fault American Thanksgiving is so close to December. :) 17 weeks 2 days pregnant today, gender scan on the 23rd of Nov!!

Halloween

Here are just a few of our Halloween experiences, starting with the Annual Pumpkin Carve at the Mothership house, where Brad and Amanda who were up visiting from Canada got to carve their first pumpkins in years! Then on to Halloween Trick or Treat night (The saturday before Halloween here in Utah due to Halloween falling on a Sunday) and Madeline's awesome transformation into a Vampire!! It was a rainy chilly night, but our vampire still made off with two bags of goods!







October was a BUSY month!