Dots, dots, galore!

The past couple of nights have been spent working on adding in the dots to the brown stripe in the nursery. We will continue to post as the progress is made since this is going to take us a bit of time to complete. The first picture below shows the first two color dots painted. The second one is how we have been stenciling and shows getting ready for color 3. Ben had already penciled in the dots on the brown paint and then the size of the circle was cut out of the tape (thanks to a scrapbooking tool) and placed on the pencil lining. We are pleased to see how it is turning out.

As we have mentioned before as well, Ben has been working on re-staining an armoire of Gabrielle's grandmother. He has finished the main part and we have moved it into the nursery. Here is a picture of how it has come out so far, the drawers and doors are still left.

Another new thing for the nursery was a beautiful painting that our friend Trish made for us. She is such a good artist!!! It is going to look great.

And finally, as promised in our last post, here are some new belly pictures. The ones in the dress were taken yesterday getting ready for work (22 weeks, 4 days along) and then the ones in the black tank were from today (22 weeks, 5 days).

We hope you have all enjoyed the new updated pictures. We will definitely be posting more as the nursery progresses.

Hope everyone is having a great week and looking forward to the holiday weekend!!

Love always,
Ben and Gabrielle

Lots of painting!

Well since we last posted we have been really trying to get things going in the nursery. Two of the three things we ordered for the crib have come in: an extra fitted sheet and the bedding quilt that we had Camdyn embroidered on. Picture is shown below of the quilt and the sheet. We are still waiting on the bumper, crib skirt, and another sheet, all of which are on backorder till sometime early in July.

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On one of the walls we decided to try and replicate the dotted sheet. Not sure how it is going to turn out..the stripe looks great, but painting the dots to match the sheet are going to be a challenge. Below you can see the picture of the stripe and Ben working on his circle stencils....there are going to be over 250 dots to paint. If the first few don't go so well we will advise what plan B is, however, we like having the stripe there regardless.

The other thing that we have decided to try and do ourselves was to have Camdyn's name spelled out with painted letters. We aren't 100% sure where we are going to put them, probably over the changing table though (once we get one :-) ). The colors all match the bedding and we are actually pretty happy with how they turned out. We took two pictures of them, one on the actual bedding and then one in the kitchen so you can see them better.

Ben is still working on trying to salvage our armoire that we want to use. He has been working hard on trying to re-stain it to match the crib. If we decide to use it we will post that once it is done. So this has all been keeping us pretty busy. We definitely feel like there is a lot to still do but we still have some time. We are going to try and take more belly pictures this weekend and will update if we do.

Hopefully everyone is enjoying summer! It has been great here. We have been able to use our pool almost every day which has been good exercise for Gabrielle as well as very relaxing after a day's work. It is hard to believe that June is just about done. We aren't quite sure where the time has gone!

We hope that this finds everyone well.

We love and miss you all and hope to talk to you soon.

Love always,

Ben and Gabrielle

Half-way There!

Hard to believe that we are at 20 weeks today! Our baby girl will be here before we know it. Time has definitely flown by already. According to our weekly update, Camdyn is the length of a banana and is swallowing a lot more these days.

There have been some requests to post some new belly pictures so here are a couple, kind of hard to tell, but hopefully you can get the idea, we are definitely growing!! These were taken tonight before we went swimming.

We don't have much to report tonight, it has been a very long work week and we are both extremely glad that tomorrow is Friday (though unfortunately a work Friday).

Hope everyone is having a good week and has an even better weekend.

Talk to you soon.

Love always,

Ben and Gabrielle

June is here!

Can't believe it is already June! Florida has definitely not let us down with warming things up already nor has it forgotten that afternoon showers are norm. Not to complain since we love living in Florida for many reasons. We can say that the heat has definitely helped bring Rory in to the house quicker than normal :) The dogs still aren't jumping in the pool though, however, we have definitely started to take more advantage of swimming...we may beat our record for our pool use last year. It has been especially good for exercising with an ever so growing belly.

We have completed more work in the family room as our new wall unit finally arrived today. It had been on back order for about 1 and a half months and finally came in on Friday. We had bought a new TV and needed something to put it in (plus we weren't huge fans of our old one) and we think that it really completes the room! It took almost all day to get everything up and running again but now that it is complete it feels so good to have it done. See picture below.

This weekend Ben also finished his hard work painting the nursery base color for the walls and the baseboards. It looks great!! With the walls painted that meant that we were also able to put the crib together. The room is definitely coming together now. We have the location of the crib decided between two places, you can see those below.

The bedding for the crib was also placed on order Saturday, unfortunately everything we ordered is on backorder until around July 10th so we won't have the bedding for about a month. We are looking forward to that shipment coming.

So that is our progress so far. We will have to update soon with new belly pictures. There has definitely been some huge changes there.

In other news last weekend, we had a wonderful weekend with Matt and Tricia. We enjoyed getting to see them again and eating lots of yummy food! Thanks for a great weekend guys.

We hope that everyone is doing well and staying cool!

We will talk to you all soon.

Love always,

Ben and Gabrielle