Kitchen Painting and 23 Week Picture

These decorations were on each corner of our bathroom mirror. Yuck.

Here is my 23 week (and 1 day) picture taken on Friday, January 30th...in the past few weeks my belly has popped out a little more and people are asking me if I'm pregnant. I guess before they thought maybe I just had a little too much to eat during the holidays!

This is the "after" of our kitchen wall. We still have one tiny part of the walls to finish up but we'll have lots of leftover paint so we're going to use this color in the nursery too.

Even though you really can't tell in this picture, Melvin somehow ended up with ceiling paint all over him and we're not really sure how it happened. It's a good thing Meiko is great at cleaning because she licked Melvie until he was all cleaned up.

This is the "before" of our kitchen wall. My parents and Martin helped remove all the floral wallpaper that was on there. Under the wall primer, the walls were painted pink....the previous owners really loved pink!

Ultrasound Pictures!

Today we had the ultrasound and the doctor says everything looks great. The baby is 15 ounces and had a heart rate of between 146 - 158 bpm (it was moving around a lot towards the end of the appointment). Martin was trying to convince me while we waited for the appointment to let him find out if it's a boy or girl and he'd keep it a surprise, but I resisted the urge so it's still a mystery. The ultrasound tech was very good about taking pictures that didn't reveal too much. Looking at the leg profile, it appears that Baby Brash is going to have my legs - Martin calls them linebacker legs!

Happy New Year!

January 1st markes my 19th week of pregnancy...the Brash Bun is almost half baked :)

Here's some pictures from Christmas - we spent it here in Bismarck and had a great time. On Christmas Eve the Jacobson clan came over for oyster stew, potato soup, and a few games of Flinch. My uncle and parents stayed in town for a few days and it was nice to have everyone over! Happy New Year everyone!!!

16 Week Appointment

I had my 16 week appointment yesterday - all is well! I was able to hear the baby's heartbeat again (I looove that) and it was going strong at 152 bpm. I can't feel any movements yet but my OB doctor said the baby was moving around plenty because she kept having to find the heartbeat again with the Doppler. In mid-January we go in for an ultrasound - yea!!!!

The beginnings of a baby belly...

Today marks 15 weeks - here's a picture of the little Baby Brash Bump!

Thanksgiving Weekend

I hope you all are enjoying your Thanksgiving weekends. Thanksgiving marked the end of the first trimester so were especially thankful! We spent it at my uncle Tubby's house and had a good time, even though my dad was under the weather. It seems to all be getting back under control and he has some follow-up next week with his doctor in Bemidji.

I've posted some pictures of our kitchen renovation - the "before" pictures are on our other camera so I'll have to add those later. We took out our apartment wall oven and stovetop and just put in a slide-in appliance to give us more countertop space. The kitchen, countertops and tile backsplash are also all new. As you can tell from the guest bathroom shot, the drywall needed to be redone so we still need to repaint that section before putting on the mirror. We totally gutted the bathroom and started from scratch. Now there's a 4 ft. shower in there and additional shelving - much more functional for our guests! The kitchen is almost done - just some finishing carpentry work needs to be completed. Enjoy!