A Weekend Well Spent :)

Here is the result of my ENTIRE weekend, though I have to say, it was well worth it! I will take better pictures when the lighting is better. Please, tell me what you think!

The Final result!

Finally!

I think I finally have a hold of my registry! Man, that thing takes a LOT of review and knowledge to complete. I mean, I am not only thinking about what it is I want, I have to think of what Lauren will need. But alas, I have a good handle of it and it can be viewed here: http://www.toysrus.com/registry/index.jsp

Gotta Do This....

I am going to Jazz this up with the color in the room and they will be hung with ribbon above her crib.

Paint Colors

Here are the colors that match the bedding set. So the top part of the wall will be the Beige color, then about 1/3 of the way up from the floor I will do a 5" stripe going around the room to give the illusion of a chair rail and then the bottom will be the pink. I have some fun ideas to do with the top portion, but you will just have to wait and see what those are! Stay tuned!

22 Weeks, 2 Days Pregnant

Not only am I visibly pregnant, I have now started the maternity wear. So many women are afraid to wear maternity, but I come on… IT IS SO VERY COMFORTABLE! I can breathe and I bet Lauren isn’t crammed in there like Aaron thinks she is when I have “normal” clothes on!

Here is a picture to update “the bump”

Chagin' it up!

I have decided that while pictures of my ever growing belly are highly entertaining for some, I needed something else to add to this blog. Thus, I am going to show you all the progress that is being made on Lauren's room. Though I have only started cleaning it out, I will then need to clean, prime, paint and fill it with all of her things that are taking over the seldom used dining room.

So follow me on this journey... here are the before pictures.

It's a Girl!!!

Lauren Brynn will be here around October 22, 2008 and we couldn't be more thrilled! While the idea of a girl had to grow on Aaron, I think he might be more excited than I am now, which is hard to accomplish but we are loving it so far!

Though we only got one good "shot" to know it's a girl, the tech is 100% certain that she is in fact a she! I will also have the new 3D/4D ultrasound pictures taken (hopefully) over the 4th of July weekend.

Here she is!

After we had our doctor's appointment, we were off to Babies R Us to start registering. This is going to take A LOT more time than one would think and many changes will be made until it is finished, I will keep everyone posted. Then on Saturday, Aaron and I spent the afternoon in Monroe, more specifically at the Carter's outlet where we spent some $$$ on the little one. But I have sworn to Aaron that I will not purchase any more clothing, in mass quantities, but I will splurge if it's on sale ;) Thus why this was not posted sooner!

Also, here is what I looked like at 20 weeks.

The BIG Day!

Today is the BIG ultrasound! I thought this day was never going to get here! I can't wait to find out what we are having! I'm still feelin' it girl, but that means it's going to be a boy. Either way, I could care less, but every woman wants her girl and every man wants his boy, so that is where we stand.

I am just so excited to finally know what has been growing inside of me for 21 weeks and 3 days. Only 18 and a half weeks left!

"Pre-Baby Shower Gift"

This is the furniture that Aaron and I purchased yesterday along with my mom. I originally wanted a dark brown and Aaron, being true to old fashioned form, wanted white, we decided on the dark brown. After extensive searching for dark brown, matching baby furniture – crib and changing table – I couldn’t find ones that didn’t cost an arm and a leg. Finally, I found the best website for matching baby furniture – http://www.simplybabyfurniture.com/ . I would highly recommend this website to anyone looking to decorate a nursery. Anywho, after looking at what they had, I found a crib, but then found out it was a mini-crib! I decided that 26” wide was not going to cut it even if it did turn into a twin sized bed! So the search continued… I then came across a crib at Wal-Mart of places, and I fell in love with it and Aaron fell in love with it (my words). It is what we both wanted; white and chocolate brown, and is absolutely gorgeous! Here it is: Since we are re-doing the “den/office” as the nursery, we have a white lacquer bookshelf in there now, and I am planning on keeping it in there, so the crib is a great addition as is this changing table:
I plan on incorporating chocolate brown baskets into the three openings as well as the same baskets on the bookshelf to complete the look.

Please everyone let me know what you think!

"Burrito Belly"

That's what bird called it. Now I call it a baby belly :) Sorry the clarity isn't all that great, I will post a new one tomorrow in place of this.