{hmmm...}

I don't think it's coincident that TERRIER, TERRIBLE, and TERRORIST are so similar...

**I love ALL THREE of my dogs and Kwang equally, but Olive is definitely the most photogenic. Isabelle HATES the camera and runs when she sees it, Gracie isn't still long enough for a picture, and Kwang is just...Kwang.

{final countdown}

In more ways than one! First, we have until MONDAY to get all of the bedrooms done and cleared out because we're finally getting carpet. Hallelujah! Second, I only have SEVEN more weeks until 'D-day'. EEK! It's gettin' real, y'all! I'd write about being pregnant more, but seriously, it's been very uneventful these last few months. Ava Kate is measuring on schedule, I'm measuring on schedule, weight gain is on track, (another Hallelujah!) blood pressure is excellent, and no weird cravings. I just crave food, but who am I kidding, I craved food before I was pregnant! :) There will be TONS of pictures and updates once she's here! Plus, we're in a time crunch to finish this house FOR Ava Kate. Who wants their daughter asking why there's a mattress set in the dining room and why she doesn't have real floors in her room like her other friends... :)

I'm leaving you with the guest room! We're DONE-ZO with everything except the fireplace. We've been tossing around a few ideas on what to do with it and all of them require the help of a qualified professional, i.e., my granddaddy. So it will get done this weekend! Overall, I'm preeeetty please with how the room is turning out. My only beef: Heavy Goose. It dried bluer than I thought, but according to my mom and Chad (who I'm sure just doesn't want to paint again) everything still matches and will look good. We'll see...

The fireplace and mantle

The windows in the back of the room

Curtains, Heavy Goose and comforter

Haha, I'd take pictures of the WHOLE room but we still have a table, bookshelf and a million books stacked in the middle. :) We'll unveil ALL of the bedrooms Monday.

**BIG THANK YOU to Forest, Jamie's beau, for priming all of the guest room, caulking all of the guest room and making life lots easier on us!

{inspiration}

Quick little glance at what I want to do in the guest bedroom. I officially LURVE gray and yellow. I already have the bedspread and curtains for the room AND a color picked out! Heavy Goose by Martha Stewart. Swoon.

I'd like this to go over the mantle:

*picture from Just a Girl

I think I want to make the love sign a weathered white instead of the nekkid wood.

This is what I'd like the bed to look like.

*picture from Classy Clutter. They even give a tutorial on how to make the flower pillow! Since the bedding is gray, I'm going to use a lot of yellow pillows. Squeal! I'm so excited I really can't stand it!

We have a black, vintage, iron bed that we're using in the room which I think will look very nice.

The room looks very good in my head. We'll see how it turns out!!

{nesting}

The nesting instinct is officially in full force. Seriously, last night, I cleaned my parents' kitchen. I hardly did that when I lived there. Right now, my house should go into some hall of fame somewhere. Or maybe I should go into a hall of fame for being Anal Annie??

My floors are so clean you can eat off them and not fall gravely ill.

My windows are sparkly and dog snot free...until Olive hears a leaf blowing across the yard and has to go investigate.

My microwave is SPOTLESS.

You can sit on my couch and chairs, WEARING BLACK, and you will not get dog hair on you.

You need sunglasses to look into my bathrooms.

Our laundry is done and folded AND put up. 'Put up' meaning in the respectful drawer or closet, not draped across the stroller.

I mopped and swept my kitchen floor for the first time in FOREVAH. **Note** Our kitchen floor is straight out of the 70's. I'm talking mustard and avocado floral pattern. The good thing? It will hide inches of dirt and grime. Also, we have 3 dogs and kwang under our feet in the kitchen, so dropped food immediately gets slurped up.

The gifts from my baby shower last weekend are finally off the kitchen table.

Now, I know this will probably last, um, all of 10 minutes until the dogs come in or I cook supper tonight. But for right now, my house is worthy of an unexpected visitor. But please make sure TO TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF!

{on a roll}

I have been on a ROLL this week, people! The guest bedroom is well on it's way to being DONE! The carpet is pulled up, the walls are primed and the fireplace is halfway primed. I ran out of primer. Curses. Let's take a look at the progress!

Before:

I promise this is all of the same room. The angles are weird.

With the fireplace. The chunky mantle met a tragic end when the train jarred it off the wall. It was held up by 3 teeeeenie little nails. Also we live by a train track. One didn't come through our house.

All cleaned out and NO CARPET!! Hallelujah! You might remember this mantle from the baby room.

And the halfway painted fireplace.

All we have left to do is prime the beadboard, trim and molding, paint the beadboard, trim and molding, paint the walls, and GET NEW FLOORS!! This is the last room we have to do for a while! Also, thanks to Big Mom and Big Dad for all their help!

P.S. The pictures with the black border are from my phone and I reeeeally like how that looks! I wonder if my camera pictures can have that too??

{snow dogs}

These are the only pictures I managed to take of my INSANE snow dogs playing in the snow. Most of them were very blurry or they were out of the frame before the picture even took.

Isabelle Gracie
Worn out doggies

Aaaand this is where Olive stayed all day. Literally ALL DAY. I had to pick her up and take her outside to use the bathroom. She pooped and peed in record time and went straight back to her terrier nest on the back of the couch.

{snow pictures}

Looking out my front door

Welcome to Little Mountain, Y'all!

Our humble abode

Hi Scootie!

These are from my phone, so they're a little blurry. I also tried to take pictures of the dogs, but...

Hope you enjoyed the snow as much as we did!

{blizzard of '11}

When you live in Little Mountain, South Carolina, snow is a pretty big deal. And please make sure you buy milk and bread. I don't know why. JUST DO IT!

Right now, as I type, it is blizzarding at my house. On top of the SIX inches we got overnight. It's crazy!!

Isabelle and Gracie LURVE the snow. Olive HATES it. She is not a snow terrier. The snow is so deep it comes up past her belly! Haha and Gracie is a snow plow. She doesn't care how much snow she snorts up her nose. She just has to run as fast as she can with her nose down in the snow. She also loves to munch on snow balls. Isabelle, being the sophisticated lady she is, loves to play ball in the snow but shakes her nose and the ball off to get all the snow fluff off.

Snow pictures next!!

{the transformation}

We have been working pretty much non-stop on the bedrooms, especially the baby's room. We've also made pretty good progress! Our bedroom is waiting on painted baseboards and carpet, Ava Kate's room is waiting on carpet and the guest bedroom is waiting, um, on everything. Ok, not everything. Chad did replace the light socket and switch plate. Check. You've already seen our bedroom, so here are a few pictures of Ava Kate's room! Remember this is just befores and durings. No afters til we're 100% done!

Oh! Hi Scootie!

This was behind the mantle, but don't worry we fixed it!

See?!

Hopefully in the next few weeks I can unveil our guest bedroom!

{the hawkeye state}

One of my dearest, sweetest, oldest (since FIRST GRADE), bestest friends, Jessica, is moving to Iowa. The Hawkeye State (how's that for some trivia). Last night we ate at Hunter Gatherer with Cayce and Jamie (also dearest, sweetest, oldest, bestest friends) for the 'last supper'. I know it won't be the last, but it'll be a while before we can have another! :( But Iowa is a perfect road trip!! She and her daddy are leaving out earrrrrly tomorrow morning, so here's to a safe journey and good travelling weather! Heehee this little Christmas snow we got last week ain't nothin' compared to Iowa snow!

Jess, I know you'll love it out there and I'm going to MISS you! Amers in a half shell!

Also we did take some pictures but Jamie has those! Perhaps she'll post them on facebook??