New Microwave!

You know you're a grown-up when you are excited to get new appliances! We've basically needed a new microwave since the day we moved into our house. You have to touch the buttons several times before they register. Earlier this month the handle broke off and we decided enough is enough! We trekked to Home Depot and found a microwave we like the GE Adora. The sales associate told us it would go on sale starting 3/17-3/23. So last week we finally purchased our new microwave and it arrived today! Hooray! Trevor took out the old one and Home Depot hauled it away. Trevor and our awesome neighbor Stan installed it. It's so fantastic having a microwave you only have to press the button once and it works!

Goodbye yucky old microwave!

Hello beautiful new microwave!

Nursery Update

Last weekend Mom and Dad Cajas were up visiting helping us get things together before baby arrives. We got a lot of stuff done yay! Including the nursery. The decorations are up. The closet isn't quite finished yet but it's getting there. 

Unfortunately the stickers don't stick well on our textured walls. I took a picture before we took them down. 

We're planning on adding one more piece of art above the bookshelf.

New Phones, Monthly Baby Photos, Shower Remodel

It's been quite the eventful few weeks. Here's what we were up to 3 weeks ago:


Trevor went down to Phoenix on February 26th for our friends Callie and Bart's welcome baby party. He took the Friday before off so we could spend some time together and get some things done before he went down to Phoenix for the weekend. Our new phones arrived the day before (Thursday), so we fiddled with those. We love our new phones! We got the HTC Incredible. The best feature about our new phones is the Google calendar feature. Gone are the days of reminding Trevor of upcoming appointments/classes/birthdays. They are automatically sent to his phone via my Google calendar! Yay! I'm very excited to use the Baby ESP app once the baby arrives. Hopefully it'll be as useful as it sounds.  

We also ran some errands around town. We went to the grand opening sale at JoAnn's. I got a yard of 7 different fabrics for around $30. Not too bad. They were all on sale and I had a coupon for an extra 20% off all sale/clearance items! I want to use the fabric for monthly baby shots. I'm hoping the pictures will look something like these: Making it Lovely, Young House Love, and Fresh Mommy Blog. I really like the idea of having something constant like a chair or a stuffed animal to compare the baby's growth over time. I just haven't figured out what yet. She has a Vulli Sophie Giraffe that I'm thinking of using but I'm not sure if it is big enough.

On the Saturday before Trevor left for the Welcome Baby party, we went to H&R Block to do our taxes. We spent 3 hours but were very successful! We received a nice refund that's going straight into the bathroom remodel. This past Friday (March 11), we actually meet with a ReBath representative and started on our shower remodel. Yay! It won't be done before Baby arrives, but it'll be before I return to work. 

Nursery Update

On Sunday, we finished arranging the nursery and bookshelf and started arranging the closet. Here are some pictures of the room.

 

We got the cute snow globe, piggy bank, lamp and come of the books from our baby shower. Thanks everyone! The bookshelf looks great!

We have this switch plate in our music room too. Love it!


Still a work in progress.

Haha! We put the kitty in the crib. Hehe. It was so cute.

 She couldn't figure out how to get out.

I don't think we'll have a problem with her getting into the crib. I don't think she likes it.

Nursery Update!

We've been hard at work the last couple of weeks getting the nursery cleaned out. There were tons of office and crafting supplies, old school work, and books. All the stuff that was in the nursery don't homes yet (except the books and bookshelf), but they're at least in the right rooms now. 

This is the nursery last weekend:

Here it is yesterday:

Hooray everything that doesn't belong is out!!!

 As you can see we started moving the rocking chair in.

Trevor hard at work putting the crib together.

Kitty loving every minute of the transition!

The crib is all put together. Once the room is arranged how we like it I'll post more pictures!

Art

As a part of our preparations for Baby Cecelia, we are doing some home improvement projects. One of which was changing all our gaudy 1970's switch plates to more generic white ones. We did this a couple of weeks ago. It's a small change and probably barely noticeable to anyone else, but they were definitely annoying to look at. 

The other home improvement project we decided to tackle this month is hanging up art in our music room. We accomplished this one, this morning! Go Team Boone! Trevor did most of the work, but I gave artistic direction. Here are some pictures from our morning:

The painting our friend Nancy made for us as a wedding gift

 This beautiful piece we bought during our anniversary vacation this year in Sedona at Eisenart Innovations. Is it by Isa Cooley and Axel Soldwedel, a German couple, that creates these beautiful metal work pieces. We want to start a tradition of acquiring a piece of art on our anniversary; we'll see how that goes.

 This piece if from a local Flagstaff artist that we got over a year ago from the Open Studios tour.

This piece is from Z Gallery. Trevor got this when he was in junior high as a birthday gift.

All in all, a wonderful successful Saturday morning.

Weekend Cleaning Spree

This past weekend we were busy cleaning our yard before bulk trash pick-up day and the impending snow season. Trevor mostly worked on that. I did help by sweeping the front porch and back deck. While Trevor worked on the raking and the gutters, I worked on putting away our summer clothes, taking out our winter sweaters, washing some laundry. I also had the pleasure of packing up my scrubs. My new job provides and cleans my uniforms for me! Hooray! Here are pictures of our successful weekend clean...

I did not take pictures of the summer-winter swap. It's embarrassing how many tubs of clothing...mostly mine.  

Something Wicked This Way Comes 2010

So we pretty much kept the decorations the same as last year but added a few more lights and some craft pumpkins (which we have yet to carve) in the house that will go outside to light the stairs Halloween night.

Here's a close-up of the planter. My awesome husband was able to maneuver the pumpkins into their proper positions.

 The kitty looks like our kitty.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!!!