House paint and counters

Recently our house has received inside paint and counter tops in the bathrooms and somewhat in the kitchen. They are still installing the kitchen counters. We chose charcoal cultured marble tops for the bathrooms and the kitchen has formica tops called butter rum granite. Once the flooring is in (which we are told should be in the next few weeks) the charcoal in the bathroom tops will look very nice with the tile floors that also have flakes of black and gray mixed with browns and creams. We think it will all be pulled together very nicely.

The walls are two neutral shades, navajo white and antique white for the trim. It gives it a nice warm feel to the house. It is already starting to feel more like our house.

Kitchen during the painting process.

Hallway with a finished paint job.
Master bathroom counter and toilet room door.

Master bed/bath arch.

Guest bedroom closet door showing contrast of trim and wall paint.

The following pictures were taken before the paint job, but I have been slacking on posting pictures of the house. Been a little tired and preoccupied with other things lately.

Another new addition to the house is the front railing on the porch.

Guest bathroom, close-up of the cultured marble counters/sink.

Close-up of the counter/sinks in the master bathroom.

Kitchen counters, not really installed yet but sitting in place waiting to be attached. Formica called Butter Rum Granite.

Another kitchen counter shot. Still need to cut out the spot for the kitchen sink, which is on order right now. It has one large basin and one small basin, stainless steel of course.

Just a small update

On Thursday Feb. 12 Chris and I were able to see our TINY little baby on an ultra sound monitor (well Chris was able to see the screen better then I could) and we saw the flickering of one TINY little heart beating. Since our baby is so TINY the doctor told us that the due date would be changed from September 15 to October 5. On thursday our little one was 0.61 cm long, so tomorrow we are actually at the 7 week mark now that the doctor did some measurements. He says everything looks great and the next appointments are mainly for measuring my belly and doing sonograms of the baby. Next appointment is March 12. We do have a picture of our baby but I am not posting it cause I can hardly even see it on the print out. When we get a better one in the future we will definitly post it for all to see.

Baby Herrbach...coming September 15th 2009!!

Well most of you have been told over the phone or in person that Chris and I are expecting our 1st baby September 15th! I have my 1st full blown OB appointment Feb. 12 where we are hoping to be able to hear the baby's heart beat (or so says the nurse) and maybe have a picture to post. Probably will look more like a little blob then a baby, but its our little blob and we are so excited!!!

People keep asking if we are going to find out if it is a boy or girl....and yes we are. Neither one of us wants to wait to find out. We just don't have that kind of patience for a surprise like that!! I would like to know NOW if that was possible! :)

We have a lot to look forward to this year... moving in to our new house in May (which I won't be able to help much with), both our dads are saying they will be up to visit us, a big baby shower BBQ in August, the birth of our baby in September (hopefully my mom, step-dad and sister can make it around that time :) ) and then a trip in December to Tucson for Christmas where the rest of my side of the family will be able to meet baby Herrbach!

We are so excited to see the blessings that God has given us and that are to come this year! We are truly grateful for everything and everyone in our lives. We couldn't ask for much more. Thank you to everyone for your congratulations and well wishes for our pregnancy!

I will post more updates of Baby Herrbach when we get them. For now it is just a little nausea and anticipation for whats to come. Ha!!

Cabinets

The cabinets have been installed. They are a beautiful natural hickory with arched upper cabinets. I love the calico wood color through out it. Next is for the doors to be framed and hung up in the house. The doors are already in the house laying all over the place.

This is our beautiful kitchen with center island. Counter tops will come later.

Kitchen looking at refrig space and pantry area.
Center island looking towards dining area.

Kitchen looking at where the dishwasher will go. I already have material picked out to make some decorative curtains for this window, blue and white check with little yellow sunflowers all over it. It will be very pretty.

Here is our laundry room.The guest bathroom sink area.

Chris showing how tiny our linen closet is.

The master bath cabinets.

The master bath will have double sinks.

Here are our interior doors that are supposed to be hung this next week.

The doors have decorative arches at the top that match the arches on our upper cabinet doors.

Texture

The walls in our house have been textured and the electrician is starting to install some lights in the garage. We also have garage doors now. This last week we drove to Sparks, NV to pick out all of our flooring. I think they said that this next week they would be doing framing to hang the inside doors. We still need to meet with the cabinet guy and go over the drawings he did, but they are looking very good already.

Chris in the kitchen with our electrician.

Chris and the 2 electricians in the kitchen. They are moving the outlet for the microwave down about a foot. We are getting a hanging micro.
This is where the pellet stove is going to be.

Master bath arch way. We are going to probably put folding doors there.

Our new garage doors are finally installed.

Day after Christmas

The day after Christmas Chris and I went in to town to look at our house and mail out a package to my family. Along the way we got some beautiful pictures of the lake and Mt. Lassen. We also got some new pics of the house, not very different looking just covered in snow now.

Mt. Lassen from Johnson's Grade. Hey Alexsis, I don't think we can hike it now :)

Looking across the lake. The steam is from Collins Pines lumber mill.
The lake is starting to freeze over now.

Front of our house all covered in snow.

The icicles are getting pretty big now.

Chris acting like its a sword. He broke the icicle on my leg just after this picture (that was when I was talking to you Christina).

I think we might need a gutter infront of our back door!!

Looking at our dining room and kitchen.

Our little living room.

I'm glad they got our house done past this point before it snowed. That is our neighbor's house to the right of us. They got started a little late.

Some Christmas Pictures

Merry belated Christmas!!! Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the sledding we did or the opening of presents. I just plain forgot about bringing the camera out then. Chris and I spent the day at his parents house, opening presents with our 3 nieces and nephew, Chris' parents and his sister and her boyfriend. After presents we went home to take a little nap and then back out to the sled hill to do some sledding with all the kids. That was quite a work out, since it had about a foot and a half of very powdery snow. We spent most of the time trying to cut sled trails in to the snow. After about an hour of sledding we went back to Chris' parents house to have a wonderful prime rib and turkey dinner that his mom cooked. Thanks Cathy, it was delicious!!! It was a great day, very tiring, but great.

Close up of our Gingerbread house that Chris and I made.

Our house with Christmas tree and Gingerbread house.
Me at work with my other co-workers Christmas eve. The county snow plow guy was dressed as Santa Clause so we had our picture taken with him. Our getto looking Santa. Left to right: Helen, Santa (duh!), Mary and myself.

Chris on our tractor, clearing his parents' driveway Christmas morning.

Chris headed back up his parents' driveway.

Front of his parents' house. Aren't the trees ginormous?