I DID IT!

The first Monday of the New Year!  I'm not one to make resolutions, it seems like I put too much pressure on myself and then I go all out and get burned out too fast.  So my goal was to just start the P90X program this morning, no matter what!

I got my butt up at 4:30am and did the Chest & Back and Ab Ripper X, yay!!!  I feel great right now sitting her chugging my protein shake (I HATE protein shakes), but they do make a HUGE difference in your body recovery after hard workouts.

Day 1 - Check - 89 more to go :)

Progress!!

I have to admit, I got further on the playroom than I thought I would this weekend.  All we have left to do is put up the white trim that will go on the walls separating the color sections (that's why it looks sloppy instead of a nice line where the colors meet).  My brother Matt is a life saver, he is going to come over sometime soon to help us cut the trim, he is an amazing carpenter and it will go much quicker with his help :)

I am awaiting my order of the clouds that will go in the blue section of the wall.  We are also awaiting another order that will showcase the wall we will use to display Bella's artwork, I'm so excited!!!!

We have just one panel of the dry erase board up, it was hard to get up!  First of all I got the wrong kind of adhesive and Kyle and I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't hold.  Well I got the adhesive that you have to brace the panel for at least 24 hours, oops.  So we made a trip to Lowe's this morning for the trim and the right kind of adhesive.  It worked much better, but was like a huge work out to get it to stay flush on the wall, we'll get the rest up sometime today :)

The final step will be to rip out the carpet and put in the rubber floor tile which we are doing in the tan color.  I'm just so happy to be so far along!

We have been keeping the door shut so Bells can't see what's going on, but this morning it wasn't shut all the way and she saw it.  I have never seen so much glee in her face, she was so overly excited and it gives me all the more reason to hurry up and finish it so she and her toys can move in!

Our Weekend

I have been working like a mad woman on Bella's playroom, and it has paid off :)  But in between my hard work we have had quite a bit of fun, and of course gotten some pictures of Bella AND Tybalt :)

Bella LOVES to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, she loves to count everything the caterpillar eats.

Tybalt just hanging out and looking like the majestic boxer he is ;)

Another one of Bella's loves, ELMO!

We LOVE his squishy face :)

We LOVE the beautiful princess we are so blessed to have :)

Finally....A Play Room For Bells...Coming Soon

I FINALLY really got started on Bella's playroom.  The day I was deathly ill at one point I was watching HGTV and was motivated to draw out sketches of the walls for the playroom.  It was like it took me to feel deathly ill to get the design set in stone and know exactly what I was going to do.

Yesterday morning I took Bella to the doctor for a check-up on her tubes, they are perfect and everything is wonderful :)

I then took her to school and ventured out to Menard's, Best Buy, Stuff, and Lowe's, I got ALMOST everything I needed but need to hit Lowe's one more time today.  Once I got home I couldn't decide if I wanted to blast the ITunes from upstairs (I really need to get a dock for my IPod), or would there be something worth while on TV?  The TV is in another room so it had to be something I could just listen to all day, and wouldn't you know The Travel Channel had a marathon of No Reservations.  Those who know me best know that I have a strange attraction to Anthony Bourdain, I was so HAPPY to listen to him on his adventures all day while transforming the playroom :)

I have a few photos of the progress so far, although no photos yet of the painting I have done on the walls.  It took me a while to get all of the trim painted white, taping off the walls has actually been really fast and easy.  I LOVE the new blinds and we will be replacing ALL of the blinds in our house eventually, but I must keep my mind on the playroom!!

The room was just very plain, it was still kind of messy when I took the before photos, Milo was checking everything out :)

Tada!  I LOVE the difference it made painting the trim white, and I love how the new blinds look.  The walls will not be white......keep checking in for hopefully more pictures today :)