Maybe it would be easier to just build a new nest...

Okay, so no pun intended, but this nesting stuff is for the birds.  I just don't have the energy to keep up with the 20,000 things I want to get done before the baby is born.  I was really counting on the almost 500 chances we had from Ben's office pool to win those Mega Millions.  Then we could have just hired someone to do everything or bought all new stuff.  Stupid lotto.

Anyway, we were actually VERY productive this weekend.  It was beautiful weather and that allowed me to get my new frame outside to be painted.  I bought this frame off of a group I am apart of on Facebook.  It's basically like Craigslist, but all local.  I was so excited when I scored this frame for $15:

Years ago, when Ben and I first got married, I got a frame off Ebay that held 4 8x10s and I loved it.  But after 2 moves and 2 kids, it was falling apart.  I had wanted a frame similar to this for a long time, so when I saw it posted I scooped it up.

I just wasn't crazy about the wood finish on it.  

So, I went out and got the spray paint that I keep seeing rave reviews about:

Honestly, I wasn't that impressed.  It kept clogging up on me!  If I stopped spraying for 5 seconds, I would have to wipe the tip off and jiggle it around to get it to work again.  I will say that the end result was very nice though.  Nice even color and a pretty gloss.

See?

I am so happy to be able to show all of our pretty pictures again!

So, while I was doing that, there was apparently some child labor going on upstairs

Ben had the girls cleaning the baseboards for him so that we could FINALLY get started on the painting.  I wish I got as excited about cleaning baseboards as they did.  I need to get them working in the rest of the house and ride this bandwagon out!  :-)

When we went to Home Depot a few weeks ago I thought Ben was crazy for buying the 2 gallon thing of Killz. Turns out he was right on. That room sucked up the entire bucket of primer!!

Years ago when we painted our first house in Chester, we didn't prime a single thing.  Lesson learned.  We are priming fools now.  Usually we get the primer tinted the same color as the paint, but since we were doing 2 different colors in this room and were painting something that had never been painted before, we opted for the white.  It did a great job and the paint went on very smoothly.

If you follow me on Facebook you know I have been very nervous about the colors the girls picked.  It's not that I don't think they are beautiful colors, it's just they are very....colorFUL I guess you could say.  When Ben started putting the purple on I did breathe a sigh of relief though.  Honestly though, there isn't really anything purple that I don't love!

I think it's a pretty color.  And the girls LOVED it which made it all worth it.  

When he started the pink, I started to get nervous though.  It is VERY pink.  Like a wild strawberry type color.  Once again the girls love it and I think once we get everything in the room and add all of the accessories, it will actually be very cute.

Honestly, I would have LOVED a room like this when I was little, so I am happy that we can do it for them.  We still need to do all the cutting in, trim work and doors, but we are making progress!  

On top of all this work, I was able to clean our linen closet, start switching the girls spring/summer clothes over and even play outside!

Oh!  And Ben agreed to stain our kitchen table, so hopefully that will start soon!  

That is all for now....this little birdie has more nest readying to do!

I was wrong....

THIS is madness.  Last week I posted about how when I am pregnant with summer babies, I apparently get March Madness.  Last week (or was it 2 weeks ago?), I thought I had gone mad because we were talking about moving the rooms around and painting.  I was wrong.  So, so wrong.  Talking about it is one thing.  Actually doing it....that is the maddening part!  We dove in on Saturday cleaning out the "guest room".  I use the term guest room lightly.  It's more like a junk room.  Yeah, I clean it when our parents are coming to visit, but most of the time it's the "Oh crap, people are coming over, throw everything in the "guest room" room"....as is evident by these before pics:

I mean really....who lives like this?  Apparently we do.  I wish I could lie and say "it only looks like this because of.....", but sadly it looks like this until a day before we get out of town guests and then I manage to tidy it up for a weekend.  

Notice the big computer monitor?  Yeah, that's circa 1998.  It has now been properly recycled at a near by computer shop.  

How we have so much crap is beyond me.  It's not like I'm a hoarder.  In fact, I can't stand clutter.  I guess out of sight out of mind though, because I can close this door and not worry about it.  Well, I could...until the madness hit.

So anyway, we started cleaning this room out and finally throwing stuff away, making donation piles, etc.  and as of Saturday evening, we got it to this:

Progress right?  We thought so and were pretty darn proud of ourselves.  The next day we worked even more and decided it made the most sense to get Allie totally moved out of her current room so that we could transfer the guest room into there.  We crammed Allie's bed and dresser into Emily's current room:

Clearly, the madness is starting to get to them as well, as is evident by the facial expressions.  Actually, I don't know who I am kidding...faces like these are a daily occurrence in our house! :-)

We were then able to move the guest room furniture and my sewing stuff into their new home:

So....phase 1 is complete!! 

The room over the garage is now pretty much empty and we have chosen paint colors.  We hope to start painting in there for the girls this weekend and have them all moved in soon.  Then it will be onto the nursery!  It is slowly but surely coming together.  

Stay tuned!

Well, hello there....

It has CLEARLY been a long time since I have updated this blog!  I am once again a SAHM with a baby BOY on the way!  We are all very excited here at the HipHickChick house.  Because of our new little addition and my insane nesting, there are many projects either underway or about to get started.  Stay tuned to follow the progress!