4 years ago yesterday, I married this man:
And even though the last 4 years have had a lot of ups and downs, we are still going strong and are excited to be expecting Edward any day now. Time sure does fly.
So here is to many more years as a disgustingly happy couple. 😛
So.. I said awhile ago that I would post pictures of the nursery. This is what it looks like right now. We will most likely change some things around especially as baby grows, but this is what is going to work for us at this moment in time. We are excited to add the final element to the room whenever he decides it is time. The stuff in the crib is the bag that is packed for the birth center so we had somewhere we could store it and remember what it was for. We might actually move that to the car in the next couple of days just in case. We have been pretty lucky in the fact that the cats don’t get into the crib. They have actually mostly stayed out of the room unless Darrell or I are in it. We still plan on keeping a close eye on them once baby is finally here, but I think the transition will be easy-ish for them.
We have been working hard the last couple of weeks getting our front entrance set up and looking nice.
There are no really good before shots since it was a long slow process until we figured out exactly what we wanted to do. Proceed with obligatory before photos.
This is what it looked like in 2010 when we hadn’t done anything to it:
And this was when we finally realized what we wanted to do with it:
So we got started with Darrell digging out the dirt down about 4″. Then he laid the weed fabric down:
Then the fun part was ordering 2 yards of rock to be delivered. We ordered pea gravel and Mini Cobbles:
We started with the pea gravel for the bottom layer:
After we got the pea gravel in, we put the Mini Cobbles in:
When we finished with putting the first layer of Mini-Cobbles down, we called it a night since it had gotten dark and it was already 9 pm and we were both sore and tired. This is what things looked like when we called it a night:
The next day was the day we finished it all up. We put a second layer down and made sure it looked nice. We really like it:
So we are done with another project around the house. We have quite a few more planned. We shall see how far we get with all of them. 🙂
We did an elongated trip to California that began shortly before Kendra’s Wedding and ended a week after. We had a lot of fun and got to see all sorts of friends. We cannot wait until we are back on the west coast and able to spend more time with friends and family. Hopefully we will be back within the next 12 months. *Fingers crossed*
When we were getting ready to pack, we pulled out our big bag and the cats both know that it means we are leaving, so they took turns on making it hard for us to pack.
After we flew in, we stayed at Ryca and Jon’s house in Belmont. We had a blast hanging out and we really enjoyed their view of the SF area. 🙂
After we hung out with Ryca and Jon, we drove up to Boonville for Kendra’s Wedding.
We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Boonville with family. After Boonville, we headed north to Humboldt. It was the first time in 26 months that we had been there. We both didn’t realize how much we actually missed it until we went back.
We had a dinner at Six River’s Brewery in McKinleyville on Monday night with a bunch of friends. We did the dinner because we weren’t sure where exactly we were going to be on the fourth of July.
Tuesday was spent doing nothing except for wandering around. We went up to Trinidad with Lorna and Steve to have lunch at the Eatery. Then we walked the trail to College Cove and Elk Head. It was green and wonderful!
We decided late on Tuesday that we didn’t really want to get back into the car and do a lot of driving on the Fourth, so we stayed in Humboldt and we enjoyed the Crabs baseball game.
We then wandered around Kendra’s Neighborhood and Darrell and Steve played on the toys in the park.
We spent the night of the Fourth hanging out with Liam, Sigrid, and Kearney and setting off fireworks.
On the morning of July 5, we headed back down to San Francisco with a stop at the Solar Living Center in Hopland. We also stopped at the Marin Headlands to get a different view of the Golden Gate Bridge. (Also to waste some time as we were a little early for our dinner since there wasn’t any traffic through Santa Rosa like we expected).
We had dinner with a bunch of people from Darrell’s days in Santa Cruz. It was fun hanging out and seeing some people we didn’t think that we would get to see.
Then on Friday, July 6, we got onto the plane and said goodbye to California and spent some time dreaming about how it will be when we come back for good.
Overall, it was a great trip and it was much needed for us. We got to relax and spend some time with each other and recover from our grief. The grief is still there, but it is nowhere near as prevalent as it was before. We know we are loved and thought about among our friends and families.
Thank you so much to everyone who made our trip special. 🙂
~S&D
We flew to California on June 27 and had a wonderful 9 days of vacation. The main reason for going was to attend Kendra’s Wedding in Boonville. It was nice to visit all sorts of family at the wedding. Darrell was honored to play the bagpipes for the beginning of the wedding. Here are some of the photos we got.
We got into Boonville in the afternoon on June 29 and hung out for the rehearsal dinner and everything.
Then came the Wedding on Saturday:
Overall we had a ton of fun and we very happy that we were able to make it to the wedding. Congrats to Kendra and Lee on their beautiful wedding celebration!
~S
