Upgrades

The house has been all up in a tizzy these last few days, getting ready for Sophia's birthday, but also taking advantage of the hired help (read: grandparents) currently staying at the house. Here are just some of the home improvements we have made:

We have added ceiling fans to Sophia's new room as well as the nursery:





We have painted an old bookshelf for Sophia's new room:







We have cleaned out the garage (what a wild task THAT was):



And, the piece of resistance, we purchased a brand new dining room table! If any of you recall photos of our old dining room table, or remember seeing it in person, you know it was a kind of a sickly thing, well beyond its expected lifespan, never intended really to be more than temporarily functional, but we had it for probably 4 years. We finally found a really nice and reasonably priced dining room set that we like for style and everything, and at Costco, no less. I have taken to saying that I let Costco make all my decisions for me, and while it's not entirely true, we do find that we spend way too much money at Costco these days...

So here's the new grown-up dining room table. Shiny, no?