Well, her room's pretty much DONE (except me cleaning some more of my scrapbooking stuff out of the closet).
Here's pics!
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Emily's room is ready - now we just need a baby to go with it!
Well, her room's pretty much DONE (except me cleaning some more of my scrapbooking stuff out of the closet).
Here's pics!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Nursery's almost complete!!
Well, I'm definitely a Type A personality... I'm not due until mid-March, and the nursery's about COMPLETE! LOL! It looks so completely awesome!!! I'll post pics of it after Christmas when I move the recliner in to her room so it's totally complete.
I'm so proud of myself; I did EVERY part of it myself (by choice - I love doing this!). I put up the drapery rods/drapes. I put the crib together (probably a no-no, but I did it on the sly while Tim was at work - LOL!). I picked out, purchased, and put everything in there together. And it looks divine! I decided not to go with too much pink (just hints of it throughout the bedding and room) since Ally's room is already so pink. I didn't want half of our upstairs to look like someone puked up Pepto Bismol! :-)
The walls were already a great color so I didn't need to paint (bonus!) - they're a warm yellow. And the bedding is mainly sage greens, blues, some yellows and hints of pink. The drapes are sage green. I found a lady on etsy who paints (and then prints) pictures that match Pottery Barn Kids bedding sets. I found one with trees, birds and owls on it (the PBK collection that I have) and ordered the prints. They were SUPER cheap. Then I got some nice white frames from Michael's (half off! yay!). I still wasn't liking the frames, so then I got some pink grosgrain ribbon and made a horizontal stripe at the top and bottom of the thick white picture frames and BAM! They look expensive and polished! Since a girl NEEDS to have her pink, I also got a cute, cheap pink side table from Target to put beside the recliner. And I got a pink flower wall light to put next to the changing table for late-night changings. We had these same Ikea flower wall lights in Ally's room and they're FABULOUS! Just enough light to do what you need to at night. And a GREAT Ikea price!
Other than that....
ALL of us have been well for a couple of weeks now!!!! HALLELUJAH!!! Evan's off of preschool for a couple of weeks for Christmas break, so I've been trying to keep the kids as entertained as possible with fun Christmasy projects/crafts. If Evan gets too bored, it spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E really fast! He was in time out about 6 times today alone; it's gonna be a looooong couple of weeks! (insert dramatic eye roll here)
Even so, I am very much looking forward to Christmas. The kids will get LOADS of stuff from Tim & I (and Santa) but luckily not too much from other family members, which is fine by me. We now draw names among the kiddos in my family, because there are just too many to buy for otherwise. I'm hosting my family's Christmas at my house this year, but it'll be a small gathering because my brother Steve, his wife and his kids aren't able to be in town. My brother Jeff, his wife & their 3 kids aren't coming because... well... that's a whole other story. LOL! So basically, it'll be me, Tim, our kids, my mom, my step-dad, my sister, her husband and her 4 kids. And that's it! For my family, that's a pretty small gathering. Then on Sunday after Christmas (when Tim's sister and brother and their families are in town) we'll head down to his parents' house to celebrate Tim's side of the family. I always look forward to that.
I'm so proud of myself; I did EVERY part of it myself (by choice - I love doing this!). I put up the drapery rods/drapes. I put the crib together (probably a no-no, but I did it on the sly while Tim was at work - LOL!). I picked out, purchased, and put everything in there together. And it looks divine! I decided not to go with too much pink (just hints of it throughout the bedding and room) since Ally's room is already so pink. I didn't want half of our upstairs to look like someone puked up Pepto Bismol! :-)
The walls were already a great color so I didn't need to paint (bonus!) - they're a warm yellow. And the bedding is mainly sage greens, blues, some yellows and hints of pink. The drapes are sage green. I found a lady on etsy who paints (and then prints) pictures that match Pottery Barn Kids bedding sets. I found one with trees, birds and owls on it (the PBK collection that I have) and ordered the prints. They were SUPER cheap. Then I got some nice white frames from Michael's (half off! yay!). I still wasn't liking the frames, so then I got some pink grosgrain ribbon and made a horizontal stripe at the top and bottom of the thick white picture frames and BAM! They look expensive and polished! Since a girl NEEDS to have her pink, I also got a cute, cheap pink side table from Target to put beside the recliner. And I got a pink flower wall light to put next to the changing table for late-night changings. We had these same Ikea flower wall lights in Ally's room and they're FABULOUS! Just enough light to do what you need to at night. And a GREAT Ikea price!
Other than that....
ALL of us have been well for a couple of weeks now!!!! HALLELUJAH!!! Evan's off of preschool for a couple of weeks for Christmas break, so I've been trying to keep the kids as entertained as possible with fun Christmasy projects/crafts. If Evan gets too bored, it spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E really fast! He was in time out about 6 times today alone; it's gonna be a looooong couple of weeks! (insert dramatic eye roll here)
Even so, I am very much looking forward to Christmas. The kids will get LOADS of stuff from Tim & I (and Santa) but luckily not too much from other family members, which is fine by me. We now draw names among the kiddos in my family, because there are just too many to buy for otherwise. I'm hosting my family's Christmas at my house this year, but it'll be a small gathering because my brother Steve, his wife and his kids aren't able to be in town. My brother Jeff, his wife & their 3 kids aren't coming because... well... that's a whole other story. LOL! So basically, it'll be me, Tim, our kids, my mom, my step-dad, my sister, her husband and her 4 kids. And that's it! For my family, that's a pretty small gathering. Then on Sunday after Christmas (when Tim's sister and brother and their families are in town) we'll head down to his parents' house to celebrate Tim's side of the family. I always look forward to that.
Monday, December 7, 2009
WOW, I need to catch up!
I haven't posted here in a loooong time! Our household has been plagued by one illness after another for so long that I've been completely overwhelmed.
I'm praying that things are going to settle back in to some semblance of normalcy soon.
Anyhow, I went for an elective 3D/4D ultrasound a week ago & WOW!!! It was so amazing!!! I was able to see Emily nonstop for about 25 minutes and what a precious gift that was! She was sleeping - or trying to - most of the time. She kept putting her hands and arms over her face as if to say, "HEY! Can't a girl get some sleep around here???"
She already seems to have Ally's features, from what I can tell. Her cheeks are a little round and she's got my side of the family's round nose. It was such a treat!
They made a DVD out of the session, and I played it when I got home. Ally kept asking to watch the "Baby Emily Show"!! LOL!!
I've been making a lot of progress on her room. I was lucky and didn't have to paint the room a different color than it already was, because it matched the bedding really well - WOO HOO! I'll post pics of the nursery at a later date.
Tonight, when I (literally) had 3 minutes to myself, I went in to her room, shut the door and just stood there imagining what it will be like to have a new baby again. I'm feeling pretty blissed-out thinking about it at the moment! I know the reality of it all is H-A-R-D and treacherous at times. But the bottom line is that this is what we've wanted. This is our final child, that we've been SO incredibly blessed with. And I can't wait to hold my precious baby in my arms.
I'm praying that things are going to settle back in to some semblance of normalcy soon.
Anyhow, I went for an elective 3D/4D ultrasound a week ago & WOW!!! It was so amazing!!! I was able to see Emily nonstop for about 25 minutes and what a precious gift that was! She was sleeping - or trying to - most of the time. She kept putting her hands and arms over her face as if to say, "HEY! Can't a girl get some sleep around here???"
She already seems to have Ally's features, from what I can tell. Her cheeks are a little round and she's got my side of the family's round nose. It was such a treat!
They made a DVD out of the session, and I played it when I got home. Ally kept asking to watch the "Baby Emily Show"!! LOL!!
I've been making a lot of progress on her room. I was lucky and didn't have to paint the room a different color than it already was, because it matched the bedding really well - WOO HOO! I'll post pics of the nursery at a later date.
Tonight, when I (literally) had 3 minutes to myself, I went in to her room, shut the door and just stood there imagining what it will be like to have a new baby again. I'm feeling pretty blissed-out thinking about it at the moment! I know the reality of it all is H-A-R-D and treacherous at times. But the bottom line is that this is what we've wanted. This is our final child, that we've been SO incredibly blessed with. And I can't wait to hold my precious baby in my arms.
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