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Week 20

matt — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:03:48 +0000

So, what have all of you been up to? We bought a house, painted it, moved, sold a house, and unpacked. (Well, we started unpacking. I don’t think we can legitimately claim to have unpacked until there are no more cardboard boxes in our living room)

It’s been a bit of whirlwind, is what I’m saying, so we haven’t exactly been right on top of taking or posting pictures. But the pregnancy continues! Here, at last, are the week 20 photos:

In previous weeks, all of the pictures were taken in front of a neutral or scenic background. We thought for this week it might be fun to take the picture against a backdrop that illustrated what our lives were like when the picture was taken. I think this picture conveys “disarray” pretty well, don’t you?

Things are going very well! Rachel’s feeling good, our house is filling up with our belongings and shiny new furniture from IKEA, and we’re starting to make a big list of the baby stuff we’re going to need. In fact, it’s kind of crucial that we make that list soon, because if we think our house is filling up now…

Painting Party!

rachel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:10:34 +0000

We are extremely lucky to have such wonderful friends and family who came down this weekend to help us transform the interior of our new home from oppressive beige to gorgeous and colorful! This video (every bit as scintillating as the last) gives a little tour of the transformation and Sunday’s work crew.

Many thanks to everyone who appears here, and heaps of thanks to my parents and step-parents, who made up the work crew on Saturday.

We move in 36 hours. See you on the other side!

New House!

rachel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:30:44 +0000

We had our walk-through on our house today — we close tomorrow! Here is a shaky little video tour of the place, for those of you who are interested.

We also had an ultrasound today, and both babies are looking great. We’ll scan those photos eventually, but we kind of have a lot going on right now….