St. Louis and back...

This past weekend, Phil and I took a road trip to St. Louis, MO (Christmas gift from my parents). This first picture is Phil driving the entire way there and back. Anytime we take a road trip, I take a picture like this of Phil so I have many pictures of him driving a vehicle. Wendell stayed with Phil's parents so it was a nice get away for the two of us. We talked most of the way down about various things and had a great time "catching up" and remembered what the days were like with just the two of us.




This next picture is of us at the zoo, which was the highlight of the trip. We power walked the whole thing in two hours while it drizzled rain on us. There were a few other things that we could have done but it rained almost the whole time we were there.


We were walking up a hill at the zoo and then this ape (below) just appears, it kind of startles you at first because from a distance it looks real and on the loose. As you can see, he doesn't look very happy either.

And this last picture is what we did yesterday. Phil had taken Monday off as well so we were home most of the day and worked on a few things. Our goal yesterday was to get the old bed out of the spare room and get the new twin bed up there. So here is Phil (and Wendell) tearing apart the old bed so it can go back down the stairs. (When we moved in, it took us an hour and lots of shoving to get it upstairs because it really didn't fit around the corner of the stairs, so Phil decided that since it was old and we were getting rid of it then he'd just tear it apart to get it back down the stairs).

So we've begun the process of getting the room ready for Harli/Harley. It always seems so easy to imagine but when it comes time for the actual work then it always takes longer than expected. We did get the new bed up there but we haven't had time to rearrange much of anything else. I forgot to take a before picture so we won't get to see the full effect of all the work we're going to do. We think we're going to paint her room a light purple and yellow, then we have butterfly stickers to put up. The twin bed will eventually go in Wendell's room and then the crib to Harli/Harley's room... not sure when we're going to make the big switch. We have a bassinet that we can use for a little while before the crib is necessary. It sounds like fun having Wendell sleep in the big bed but I'm guessing there's no return to the crib once we change over to the bed. We'll see, there's really no rush but it would be nice to just have the rooms done/ready and beds where they need to be.

Well, that's all for us. We'll keep you posted on our excitement of "baby preparation". Less than 4 months to go, it seems so slow yet so fast at the same time.