Starting New Projects and Finishing Old Ones!

      Sorry I've been neglecting my blog.... I've been distracted. On the morning of January 27th, after my sweetheart left for work, I had a wild hair and decided to take a pregnancy test. Guess what? I drove out to his work with two little sprinkles in an old 35mm film case and had him come outside. I rolled those little sprinkles (one pink, one blue) into his hand and said, "That's how big your baby is."

     Well, that little baby is now the size of a lime, with a loud and strong heartbeat! One week from today I have an ultrasound to see him/her and I'm very excited because this will be the first ultrasound where he/she won't look like a shrimp! I'm excited to see the sweet little face! And better yet, my sweetheart just called to say his boss found out about the ultrasound and gave him the time off to come too!

Here is the little one at 8 weeks (the size of a raspberry):


I'm finally to the point where I don't feel like sleeping or puking all the time, so I've finished my tree painting and started on the nursery. Here is the chronological progression of that tree painting from concept to finish:








I particularly like this:

Soon I'll post pictures of the nursery once I get it a bit further along :)