30 before 30 #24 - BABY GREEN has arrived

Baby Green was born July 16th after 23 hours of labor and a C-Section! 

Welcome to the world, Quinn Alexander!

UPDATED (40 before 40) - Read some more books......30 before 30 - #13 Read 30 Books

Read 30 books including Siddhartha, To kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, An incomplete Education, Clockwork Orange, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Lord of the Flies, Grapes of Wrath

Life of Pi, Charlemagne Pursuit, Paris Vendetta,  Siddhartha,

 Romanov Prophecy, Catcher in the Rye,

 Emperor’s Tomb, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chelsea Lately My Horizontal Life,

 The Hunger Games Trilogy,

 Genesis Code, The Stonehenge Legacy,

 The Help, Quiet Strength,

The Templar Salvation,
 Belly Laughs, Choosing to SEE,

Wicked, Rules of Prey,

 Shadow Prey, Nineteen Eighty Four,

 The Jefferson Key,

25 - Finally finished An Incomplete Education 3-10-18
Also read:
26 - The King's Deception
27 - The Lincoln Myth
28 - The Patriot Threat
29 - The 14th Colony
30 - The Lost Order
31 - Fifty Shades Trilogy
32 - What to Expect when you are expecting (finished in 2012, why I didn't record it above baffles me)
33 - Gone Girl - I am still mad about reading this, I truly hated the female main character and am still angry about it!!!
34 - Our Altered Life
35 - The Bishop's Pawn
36 - Shaken, Tim Tebow
37 - Origin
38 - Grace not Perfection
39 - Cross
40 - Hamilton

Images found on a Google search.

30 before 30 - #24 Update

So I am nearing the end of this pregnancy and my hubs and I will soon welcome our first child into the world.  It has been a fairly easy pregnancy, no morning sickness, a little back pain, and a moderate weight gain.  I have survived the heat of the summer by not departing our home when the sun is up. 

Here is a pictoral progression of the pregnancy:

Nursery Completed

My wonderful husband finish the nursery and it looks awesome!  Here is how it looked when it was a guest room 3.5 years ago:

Here is the same area of the room but now a nursery:
  

My husband refinished an antique dresser and we added a convertible crib & an awesome chair from IKEA to the room

Kitchen Organization

I am in the beginning phases of nesting and decided to tackle our kitchen.  I have to see things in order to remember them so our fridge has become a catch-all.  My hubby gripes about the mess I create so I decided to do something about it. 

          BEFORE                                                       AFTER

I did some research on various blogs and created a hybrid of what I found.

It is a work in progress but a vast improvement!!!

Nursery - Phase 1

My wonderful husband has been hard at work transforming our guest room into the nursery.  He chose the paint colors and has a design in his mind.  Our neighbor is helping close off the closet so that little hands will not disrupt our heating/cooling system.

Step 1 - painting over the tannish yellow color

Step 2 - adding the darker brown to the top and bottom of the walls

Step 3 - Painting the dresser

Step 4 - ????

30 Before 30 - #24 Continued

I realized that it would be cool to chronicle the progression of this pregnancy for all to see.  Here is the pregnancy so far in pictures:

13 Weeks, though the placement of the picture was horrible with that wicked shadow on the wall.

16 weeks, much better location for picture

22 weeks, plus that shirt enhances the pregnancy look

25 weeks, starting to really feel pregnant

Today, 31 weeks, another pregnancy enhancing shirt.