Happy Mother's Day!

I have a new appreciation for mothers. Pregnancy really sucks! Bravo to all the women who have made it through it!

14 weeks
14 weeks
Today Chris made me breakfast and got me some pretty flowers to put in the pots on the front porch.

Mother's Day flowers

We also started to prepare the outside of the house for painting. 

Power washing the house
We don't know why part of the back of the house is covered in plywood instead of siding
The paint is currently in really rough shape. Chris used a power washer to start to remove the worst of the peeling paint. Ultimately, we'd like to replace the siding but until then we are going to do our best to clean it up.

Peeling Paint
what we're dealing with

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