No Time For A Nursery

Pretty much every morning Mark and I take a walk before we go to work. It gets us goin' for whatever lies ahead. My bad ankle has been acting up, so this morning Mark was on his own. I always enjoy our little morning shenanigans through our neighborhood (we usually find a bit of money on the street or sidewalk, and I have no shame in admitting that sometimes people really do throw out perfectly fantastic things) but we've been doing a lot of work around the house and Mark is so much more the morning person, so I thanked my bad ankle for getting me out of it this morning.

When he came back from the walk he told me he saw a pregnant woman walking and said to himself "That could be Nichole!". I have to say that I think it is so incredibly attractive when he talks about us starting a family, BUT there are a few things that have to happen first. Laughing, I held up my left hand and pointed to my ring finger. "See this finger. There's something missing on it." "Oh yeah," he says, smiling ear to ear (he loves to talk about this stuff, but he is taking is sweet time with all the preliminaries!!!) "Yeah," I say "something that sparkles!" and then we are both laughing. It was a pretty cute moment. LOVE the idea of us being Mommy & Daddy, but still waiting for that whole husband & wife thing... 

Besides, I have absolutely no time to decorate a nursery right now! (Though, let's face it, if I really had to then I'd have Mark's butt up in my mom's attic getting down my baby crib faster than it would take our theoretical pregnancy news to make headlines on all of my family member's Facebook accounts... and that wouldn't take long at all!) I have enough painting to handle just with our bathroom and kitchen. Speaking of which...

Our friend Rob spent a bit of time with us this past weekend while his lovely wife was out of town visiting family. He had a super fun time with us too... installing our new kitchen tile! 

Mark and Rob worked super hard ripping up the old floors and laying the new tile. We let it sit for the night once I had dinner made (pizzas for the guys, chicken tacos for me, YUM!) and sat downstairs to watch a movie - at which Mark and I kept falling asleep, completely boring our guest. Sorry Rob! In the morning, the tile was grouted and Mark took probably a little too long to figure something out with the dishwasher (I don't even know what, I just know he was getting annoyed at the thing, ha ha) and then we ate waffles with fruit and whipped cream (and even bigger YUM!!)

It took two days to paint the walls in the kitchen... just the walls and ceiling. The wall tiles in the kitchen (currently a yellow color) are still needing to be painted. I really want to get this done before party day, but who knows at this point. The kitchen was painted in two colors: almond and orange. My sweet man had painted it those colors when he moved into the house in an attempt to match the orange, brown, and yellow 1970s vinyl floors. You gotta give him credit for that! ha ha BUT thank goodness he met me and we're finally getting our sweet little home updated to better reflect me us. Orange is not my favorite color.

Here is what the kitchen looked like BEFORE:

 

Here is what the kitchen looks like as of last night 

(Well, half of the kitchen, I'll post picture of the other side once I get the wall tiles painted):

It's MUCH better :) The trim, walls, and ceiling are all painted in Popcorn by Martha Stewart. (You should have heard the conversation Mark and I had previously about the different shades of white... HILARIOUS!) The ceramic tiles are a little dark, but that's why we chose white for the walls. It brightens the kitchen up brilliantly. That ceiling light has to go, though. Not sure what we are going to do there yet. The really sad thing about that light is that I can stand right under it without hitting my head. 

It's AMAZING what a little paint and some new tiles can do. So happy :)