Visit from Mom and Updated Nursery

So, can I just say how much I LOVE my mother!? A wonderful friend of our offered to give us their rocker/ glider. When we went over there to have a night of Wii playing and pick up the chair, Camille was mortified that while trying to clean the cushions for us, she managed to ruin them! We felt grateful to even get the chair, so we tried to reassure her all we could that we were just thankful and we would figure something out with the cushions. My mom is quite the handy woman and when I told her the cushions were ruined, she sent us out to pick out fabric, told me to send her pictures of the cushions and told me that one way or another, we would get them fixed. A few days later, she told me she was going to come out to Salt Lake, bring her sewing machine (what!?) and re-do them all for us! And that she did!

I tried to get a couple more pictures on here including one of her working her little tail off, but I can apparently only put this many. I wasn't feeling very well while she was here, so I got a couple more hours with her while laying on the couch holding my belly, but she worked hard from the night she got here until the night before she left! She did all of the cushions and even though we told her not to worry about the arm rests since she couldn't do them quite the way they were, she went with a couple options, so now we have a couple to chose from... one with a pocket and one without! She is very cute! Below is the finished product. It was originally blue and as mentioned before, had torn, stained cushions, so it's come a LONG way!

When my parents were here the last time, we went out to Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta and my mom thought it was pretty great pizza for the price, so we took her there again to treat her for being so wonderful to us for a few days. I mean, who comes all the way out here with a sewing machine in their carry-on bag (only bag she could bring!) to reupholster cushions! We had a wonderful time and got to spend a couple hours chatting. Gregg ended up getting a bad headache after dinner, but with some of his meds, he was able to hang out pretty late on her last night here.

There was a window valance that came with the bedding set that we brought, but with the "fancy" student apartment windows, we weren't quite sure how we were going to get it up, but with my genius husband and creative mother, they came up with a plan and it couldn't have turned out better! Below is Gregg painting the paint portion of their project.

They did so good and the nursery is coming along SO well! The picture below shows the valance they put up. It took some creativity, but as my mom said, it takes some of the "industrial" look away from the window. It is VERY cute! The only things left we have to do in the nursery is do some stenciling and painting on the closet doors. Again, I haven't been feeling very well the last few days, but we're going to try to work on it a little tonight. I'm not really able to go out to eat today and we're poor so we're going to eat here and hopefully work on that a bit.

My mom left this morning and other than the fact that TSA took the heavy duty stapler away from her (yep, the same one they let her fly with from Minnesota), it was a wonderful trip. We made out with a pretty chair, a new valance, sloppy joes and rice krispy bars! We were very lucky to have her help. It was nice of her to come out so quick so it's one less thing for us to worry about. Gregg has been super excited to get the finishing touches done on the nursery!

Gregg's family (minus JJ) will be in town tomorrow night to stay with us for the night as they're leaving for Disney World Monday morning! My mom helped us put together some lasagna for the occasion since I don't know how to cook much of anything! It will be nice to spend a night with them before they take off for a week in one of the best places on earth!

It's been a while since I updated, so I'll try to get better. I'll be 30 weeks on Monday and the OB said everything looked good when we were there yesterday! We're rounding the final leg of this! We'll get a 32 week ultrasound on the 17th of April, so we're looking forward to our one last chance to get a look at her before she's really here!