Current Projects -- WHEN WILL THEY END!

I never did post finished pictures of the bathroom, so here it is.

Look, a shower! We haven't had one of these forever!

I love the cabinets! (sorry it's out of focus)

This is what the baby room looks like right now. SHAMBLES.

What started out as a quick update turned into a total doozy.

Thanks Jared for helping!

Lastly, there is no heat upstairs, so we got this beauty to get a rip roaring firing burning. So baby Stella's room will now be insulated AND heated. Spoiled.

This wood burning stove was refurbished by a guy in Indiana. It was made around the same time our house was built -- about 100 years ago.

On an unrelated note, a chicken flew into our pine tree the other day.

Top 10

Likes:

1. cold cereal

2. Biggest Loser season 10

3. Cat Power

4. sleeping in

5. NPR's Radio Lab

6. Bing Crosby Christmas music

7. employment

8. deer sightings

9. wool socks

10. sauerkraut

Doesn't Like:

1. broken car door handles

2. getting kicked in the ribs

3. dirty dishes

4. home improvement projects

5. gangs

6. using staff bathroom at work

7. mom vs. career thoughts

8. highway litter

9. gift exchanges

10. being pregnant during holidays automatically nominates you to play Mary in Relief Society Christmas program

30 Weeks

So far so good.

January 30th is D-day.

Beehive Bazaar

I found out about this from a

friend's blog (Thanks, Alecia)

and thought it looked fun.

Here is a link to the website.

Happy Halloween!

Our spooky house.

Austin's been cutting lots of wood to get ready for winter.

Who needs maternity clothes with Jeggins and husband's hoodies?

Austin's costume was a big hit at the Halloween Party this year.

Sloppy Joe.

Peter Pan and his Shadow.

Spooky Belchers

Waiting for Trick-or-Treaters.

Blast from the Past

Only Michael Jackson can make street gangs look so girly. Great song, great video. PLUS -- WHERE CAN I GET SOME ROLLER SKATES LIKE THOSE!

And one of my favorites:

Fairview and Scofield

Fairview

Scofield with Blake and Christine - conference weekend

(can't say we didn't try to watch it!)

Finally -- Puerto Rico Pictures

best picture first

vieques island

austin and julian, the sea turtle biologist

cleaning up the beach

sea turtle nest

old military bunker - vieques

some wise graffiti

tourists

beach

hix house hotel - vieques

coral reefs - vieques

sun beach - vieques

hix house. see that cut out on the top right? that was our shower!

red flower

aus at hix house - vieques

eating dinner - culebra island

the ferry in culebra

coral reef from the air

old tank on cloudy culebra

our plane

austin on an old tank

our hotel in culebra - highly recommended

walking in the jungle.

tourists

animal art

view of old san juan from da house

old san juan

fort at old san juan

find all the iguanas - there's 3

outside da house hotel - old san juan

this epitemizes 80% of our trip:

ghetto rent a wreck, random horses, puerto rican hip hop, narrow roads

driving in the jungle

greenery