November already?

With only 6 weeks left in this pregnancy, the pressure is on to finish the nursery. Of course, the time crunch has no effect on Jim, who is always up for taking a little time out to pose for the camera.



Since our last update, the nursery walls have been retextured, primed, and now painted "lime sorbet" in Sherwin Williams Harmony paint which has no VOCs (i.e...doesn't smell!). Jim's put down new Baseboards around half of the room (kept the existing other half) and we've started painting the bead board. Windows arrive Thursday and new carpet next wednesday, so hopefully we'll have a super cute nursery photo in a little over a week!

Meanwhile we decided to also attack the bathroom (why stop at just one project?). We'll post pics of that soon too.

In other news, Jim was the lead singer in an 80s cover band for the college 80s party on Oct 30th. Since that night he's been seriously wondering if 80s cover band singing is really one of his spiritual gifts...and how he could possibly use this special talent more often. I'm just glad that we don't have to listen to Van Halen and Bon Jovi on repeat anymore.

More things we've noticed about Utah:

Fry Sauce. This is a concoction of ketchup mixed with mayo that is served at various burger places. As in, "Could I get a few packets of Fry Sauce with my happy meal?" or "Fry Sauce is over there at the condiment bar." Tastes okay, but I'm still a fan of straight ketchup.

Coffee part 2. The church staff had dinner at Carrabbas, and about 8 of us ordered coffee with dessert. It took a little while for them to bring the coffee out (had to make it fresh...you wouldn't just keep it on hand.) and when Rich asked for a refill, the waitress said it would be a little while, as they were out of coffee mugs and had to wait until they could wash a few mugs (apparently health code prevents you from refilling the glass/mug directly, you have to get a new one). We all pondered the fact that this restaurant only had about 8 or 12 coffee mugs in stock. Fascinating.