Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Getting ready for Baby

I can't say I have really done anything yet to get ready for baby #2. I'm starting to get a little anxious to get things ready, but I'm waiting to find out if it will be a little boy or girl. We also have had a lot come up in December that made it a very busy and expensive month.
We have our ultrasound on December 31st, which we will be finding out the sex. If the baby is a girl I plan on re-using B's white crib and dresser. We then will purchase a big girl bed for her along with a new dresser. If baby #2 is a boy we will buy a new crib and dresser. Bailey's crib, which is a 4 in one will then be used as a head board and foot board for her big girl bed. I highly recommend spending the extra money for the 4 in one crib. Starts out as a crib, then converts to a toddler bed, a day bed, finally full size bed with a head and foot board. Instead of having a crib that you only use for a few years you can re-use it for many years as a regular size bed.

Our current crib that I love:
It's very durable, cute, and reuseable.


Here is the site where I ordered B's crib. The prices are great and there is free shipping!!
CSN Baby

Things still needed for Baby:

Move Office-- To make room for Baby's room
Paint
Furniture
Rocker
New closet organizer

We don't really need much more then that. Since this is not our first. I still feel like there is so much to do!

Monday, December 15, 2008

When it rains it pours!

Let's just start out saying that "When it rains it pours!" pretty much sums up our December.
So December has been a big financial month for us, not really so much for Christmas. I have had our gifts bought in November, luckily. We have had a lot of things that have come up with our rendals and our vehicals.

Here's the list:

New furnance - Rental
New Frig - Rental
Replace blinker - Car
New Tires - other car
New Door - Rental

Not to mention it's Tax season... So 3 property tax payments will go out the door next week.

Good thing we had an emergancy fund for some of the random things that came up. Bad new's is we have to start again to reach our goal.