Day 4- Nursery time!

Today Andreas painted the top half of the full walls haycorn brown. It's all coming together now! Can't wait for the finished product. 

Day 3- Nursery time!

This is day 3 of nursery painting. The last 2 walls were painted another shade of pink, but don't worry- we aren't finished yet! Hopefully it won't look too too girly by the time we are done with it. Tomorrow and the rest of the week will be painting the brown parts of the big walls and the stripes on the partial walls. Then we get to do the stencils! Yippee!

Nursery time!

Andreas and I started painting the nursery today! Yey! Actually Andreas did the painting and I did the cleaning and taping. As you can see, he's got a butt crack that rivals the best of any plumber's butt crack. I think I'll dub this, painter's crack. Sometimes you miss out on really cool things when you're preggers... next time though. So we've finished up with the bottom half of both full walls (the light pink you see here) and tomorrow we will start on the other two partial walls. We'll give updates on our progress. Fun times!

7 years of happiness

July 12, 2008- Our 7th year anniversary. Ah, time flies by so fast. It feels like just yesterday that we met in Perth on a 12 day adventure tour. We decided to celebrate by going all out on an expensive dinner at Ruth Chris Steakhouse. The food was incredibly tasty, and I'd say unforgettable. The baby's favourite part was the flourless chocolate ganache cake- she started doing the jig!

A bikini shot

I can't believe I'm doing this... but since my mother took the photo, I feel compelled to use it. I swear I have only gained weight in the stomach region (yea right!). This is me at 23 weeks and a bit.

US Independence Day!

The 4th of July- a great holiday spent with the family.

Gap Fire in Goleta, CA

Here are a few photos we got from our friend to show you what the Gap fires near our house looked like (1st photo- black smoke over Goleta, 2nd photo- the many spot fires in the mountains). They were about a mile away or so from our apartment and covered over 9,000 acres. Out of 335 fires currently burning in California, our fire was number 1. Arnie finally declared it a state of emergency on the 5th day of burning. Check it out when it was at its worst. We wisely took refuge in San Diego for the worst of it.