everyone loves a good before and after

we started this whole journey a little more than a month ago

i was very unsure about what we were getting ourselves into

especially right before the baby's birth.

but it was as good a time as any

and i knew it would be worth our efforts

and we are very excited about the progress

and can finally "see the light at the end of the tunnel"

"we are almost out of the woods"...

{can you handle one more idiom?}

just in time "before the fat lady sings"

...and by fat lady...

i mean me

:)

and what else?

we've also been doing a wee bit of remodeling...

on our master bathroom

Charlie has put in his fair share of elbow-grease.

Here he is pouring some cement for the backer board which is

apparently something you need when tiling on a second story.

He also took out our toilet.

Having him do both of those projects saved us in the neighborhood of

$400 clams.

SUH-WEET

Tile will go in tomorrow!

Please note the Whirlpool tub.

I swore I would sleep in that darn thing once it finally arrived.

{there were several back-order issues that held up the whole project}

In the end we didn't get the tub we originally wanted but found a slightly larger

one with more jets. 

Here you can see the paint comparison between our bedroom (waffle)

and the bathroom (water chestnut)

Basically you can say we have come into our nesting season.

Some people might say it's more like nesting "on drugs"

but we like to say we're just thorough.