It is a bit warm today ... and the house gets so stuffy. :/ It is cooler upstairs, so I went up there for awhile.
We worked on the room some yesterday. I tore off more of the walls and Fredrik took off the last bit of molding and the window frame. This week we hope to paint the ceiling and tear up the flooring.
We are a bit displeased with how the walls look. The texture isn't so great, so we have a different plan of what to do with the walls: add a very thin layer of walling in the entire room. That way we have nice flat, even walls, and we can just paint over that. Annoyingly, the crowning is attached to the ceiling, it is a built-in, fixed thing, and it isn't removable. So, that makes everything a little more interesting.. :/ :)
But the biggest job is still going to be to even out the floors, or make them better. You can just look at the floor and see the slanting.. :/ Farmor and Farfar are coming over on Friday, and we hope to get some tips from Farfar on how to fix the floor well. And hopefully Farfar can help us take out the radiator, so we can paint behind it and then replace it as well.
Updated pictures of the room:
Of course the baby's room has the best view of the lake.. :P :)
Of course after the trees filled in, the view is a bit more blocked. :) But we definately have the best view on the hill. :)
We received a paper in the mail today about our parent classes! That starts on August 13th, from 16-18.00. So, Fredrik will have to come home a bit early. They will go over stuff about delivery, breast feeding and parenting in general. It should be fun. :) Everyone there is expecting around the same time. We will meet 5 or so times. And then start meeting up again after the last baby is born and then continue the meetings for the first year or so. So, it will be a good little play-date for the baby and a great way for us to meet some people and hopefully make some friends. :)
We've been trying to figure out what to do for our anniversary. We both had forgotten about it, and my mom called and remined me about it by asking if they could send us a few movies as a present (which we gratefully accepted). So, we were figuring to just go to a café/restaurant in town or something for dinner. But last night Fredrik suggested we go to Karlstad (about an hour away) and see the new Harry Potter film! And have something for dinner there before the movie. The move time we'd have to go to is the 9PM showing.. :/ :)) The only other showing before that is at 6, and that doesn't give us enough time for him to get home and shower and for us to get to the town and have dinner and get to the movie. So, now we have plenty of time to eat and hopefully look around in the town, and maybe buy the flooring for the room.
Fredrik is slightly worried about me having to go pee during the movie.. :P (2h15m) And I told him I would hold it. :/ :))
Our first anniversary we rented a house a bit farther north in Sweden and spent a week there. And that was a fantastic trip. :) We went fishing and hiking and that was a lot of fun. :) Next year will be the 5th, so we hope to do something nice, then, too. :) My parents will be here, so either they can babysit, or we can take them along for a trip as well. Maybe back up north to the rented house we are "in-love" with? :) Maybe we can talk about that. :) In July, go to Denmark, and then in August a Swedish roadtrip. :)
My parents haven't been farther north than Stockholm! So, we need to take them at least a bit farther up.
Nothing is more beautiful than northern Sweden ... except maybe Norway.. ;) :))
A handful of my pictures from the trip.
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