Belly Photo 33 weeks - yikes! 

Latest Belly Photos - About 33 weeks. 12/30/06 

I know that everyone is probably sick of seeing home improvement projects on my blog but I can't resist putting up our latest undertaking. This is the baby to be's room as we started painting it. We have a somewhat ambitious plan that involves, 2 wall colors, changing all the trim and window to white, installing a chair rail where the 2 wall colors meet, and painting the doors. Here are some photos of the work in progress. 

After painting the walls (day 1) 

The room looks so much cuter, and more girly with the white trim don't you think? 

The rooms current state with it's new occupant (still in my belly). 

Baby Shower Group - Beth and Jan hosted this nice shower to help Tighe and I celebrate our pending arrival. 

Christmas in Chicago: Tighe and I visited his family this year in the Windy City. It was nice to visit with the Hawkins and Walsh Clans. I really feel for Tighe living so far from the rest of his family and I like it when we are able to go and visit with them. Here is a photo from Christmas Eve - all three girls are dancing to a Christmas CD. Notice that Ceci is playing air guitar. She is quite the little muscician and is always singing. 

By the glow of the Christmas Tree 

Katie and I, the twins are so cute. It is very difficult to tell them apart as they look so much alike. They both loved to be picked up and read to, when they want you to do this they say the phrase 'uppie, uppie' and you can't resist them :-). 

Ceci and I doing the High Energy Pose, she looks so pretty in her Christmas dress. 

Here's Tighe reading to little Maddie (I think this is Maddie :-)) 

Granite Countertop Install. On the 22nd before heading to Chicago we finally had the last major kitchen project completed. Here's the stone slabs as they arrived in the truck. 

Here's the crew from International Stone in Woburn actually working on the installation. I didn't catch any of these guys names as they didn't speak much English, but I was trying with the little bit of Espanol that I can speak. Anyway these guys did a great job, I was pretty surprised at how heavy the actual slabs were. There were 3 guys and it looked pretty challenging for them to carry it into the house. 

And the other side 

View of the Kitchen from the sliding door. 

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Last of the kitchen cabinets are up. This project is almost over, yay! After having a birthday/christmas pasta dinner at my parents last night Tighe and I woke up and worked on our kitchen some more. Today we fastened together the last of the wall cabinets and Chris Morse came over to help us lift/hang them. Project manager Jeff Sougnez couldn't make it today but mom and dad both stopped by this evening and gave their approval. I think they look quite good don't you think? Now all we need is the countertop install and to plumb in the sink. The granite 'verde papillion' is scheduled to show up on Friday morning and I'm looking forward to seeing how it will look.
One thing I noticed today was that I'm feeling more and more pregnant lately. As we were working on the cabinets this morning I would get tired and need to sit down for a bit. I was reading that a woman at this stage of pregnancy has 50% more blood volume than usual which makes the heart have to work harder just to be at rest. I'm feeling fine, just winded a bit, and lightheaded sometimes. Well thats it for now. Merry Christmas everyone! 

Tighe with tools :-) 

Watch out for drill man. 

A view of the new kitchen from the living room archway. 

Worker Tighe. 

View of the pregnant woman and the newly installed cabinets. 

Kyle Sanborn's first birthday party - pampered chef slash respitory therapist extraordinaire Stacey Sanborn (previously Olsen) put on a great birthday party for her youngest Kyle. Check out this photo of the kids decorating gingerbread men. Messy but fun. 

Here's Tighe taking care of our new nephew Lincoln.  

Kari O and Scott - Kari and I have been friends since like junior high. I miss her much now that she lives in CT. Scott her brother is a great guy, he does puppet voices with cabbage patch kids (kari will laugh at this comment). His little twins (a boy and a girl) are really lucky to have such a funny dad.