Baby's Room Phase 2

We are finally "done" (it will always be a work in progress) with baby's room. I've been nesting like crazy because everyone keeps telling me "any day now..." and I don't want to leave for the hospital in the middle of the night and have to come home to a messy house. I think Ryan likes this part of pregnancy... besides the chores he has to do.

Here is baby's crib... the quilt on the end was made by Ryan's mom (more on that in a future post)

The changing table... Ryan made the shelves and I'm currently trying to make baskets for the cubbies, but a horrible tutorial has gotten the best of me and I had to take a break.
The view from the doorway.Baby's bed in our room sitting on the dresser. Our room is too small for a bassinet so I found this awesome bed. I'm in LOVE with it. Serene on the inside, fun and funky on the outside. It is really soft and cozy too. When I opened the box everyone said "oh Lula is going to love that". I haven't given her the opportunity to try it out, but if I leave it lying around I know she will cozy up in it.
OK baby, were ready... you can come out now.

Baby's room phase 1

The baby's room is almost ready! I had good intentions of taking a before picture, but forgot. I was going to take pictures of us working away... but I forgot. I was also going to take pictures without the furniture...but I forgot to do that too. OOPS

Well here is the nursery phase one, kind of. I'm really happy with how it turned out. Ryan (Mr. I don't care) had to have a chair rail so we compromised on the paint and I gave into the chair rail. I must say that it looks much better than I expected. Our brother-in-law John helped with the painting and turned a three day job into a 5 hour job, and made it look much better than we could have. It is hard to tell in the pictures but the bottom color is a light sage and the top is a mint green. I love that its gender neutral but doesn't say "baby's room".

Here is the view from the doorway.

And the view from the closet.


The crib & changing table are from Ikea and a gift from my parents. We got a lot of accessories from Ikea as well like the blue blanket, white fur, curtains and more. The glider was a steal of a deal and only cost me a few hours of babysitting. The curtain rod is from Land of Nod clearance for $10 for the whole set with shipping!

I have a things that are going on the walls, but I haven't decided if the furniture will stay in its present location so I don't want to put up the wall stuff just yet.

Thanks for visiting! only 9 more weeks!

Shopping SPREE!!

There are two people in my life that I would NEVER choose to go on a shopping spree with, my husband and my dad. We all know Ryan doesn't like to spend money (unless he is the one spending it) and if you are shopping he is hovering wondering when we are going to be done. And Dad, well he just doesn't like to shop, ever. That all changes for both of the them when a shopping trip includes IKEA! and the apple store.

Ryan and I along with my parents made the 6.5 hour drive down to Salt Lake City over President's day weekend. I've heard sitting for that long while pregnant isn't fun, but I though "heck I sit on my butt all day at work this should be fine." Six months pregnant and I was not fine. My back hurt, my feet were swollen (a first so far) and I was exhausted, I even walked around every time we stopped.

We spent the first 2+ hours of our Saturday in the apple store. I thought these guys didn't like shopping? We hit up Mimi Maternity (expensive, but nice) the California Pizza Kitchen and of course the apple store again. :-) Ryan then found a Nordstom's Rack via his blackberry and decided he wanted to go there too (I promise he really doesn't like to shop). We then made our way over the the Cheesecake Factory for the three hour dinner wait! Yikes! We broke up the three hours with a trip to Babies R Us, but it was a long day. After dinner we were beyond stuffed and exhausted.

Then on Sunday we got to go to IKEA! Our plan was to spend 2 hours in IKEA and get on the road by noon because Ryan wanted to hit up the Patagonia sale in Dillion (I really really swear he doesn't like to shop!). 4 hours later, 1 shopping cart and 3 flat carts later we walked out of IKEA. I guess Ryan and my dad do like to shop! We loaded up the back of the truck and headed home with empty wallets and exhausted bodies.
As you can see we got a TON of boxes. Only two...yes two of those boxes are for the baby!

Stay tuned for photos of our new bedroom (hence all of the boxes) and hopefully project pictures of the nursery.

Thanks to anyone who is still actually reading this really really long post :-)

crafty nesting

I've always been a little bit crafty (I have 5+ unfinished quilts in the closet upstairs to prove that is just "a little" crafty) but being pregnant sparks up your craftiness. I started knitting last spring when Carli and Stephanie were pregnant, but they got the "just starting" hats and they needed some improvement. Thanks to youtube I was able to figure out my errors and gave it a try for our baby. Its my best one yet and it only took a little over 3 hours. I knitted it back in December when I was screaming for something to take me away from the computer and proofing during the Christmas rush.

Last night I finished sewing a sock monkey receiving blanket that took longer than 3 hours! It was pretty frustrating for a simple blanket, but I'm a perfectionist when it comes to sewing and I was trying really really hard to make it perfect. Its not perfect, but its done and I hope baby loves it. It is a flannel blanket and brown inside is made to look just like a sock monkey. Christy and I found the fabric at Reproduction Fabrics, an online store based in Bozeman. I have enough fabric to make a second blanket, but I need a break... hopefully the next one will be better :-)