tomorrow!

We start painting tomorrow! I'm so excited... I prepped everything on Sunday, taped around the ceiling, door, closet and window...

And I drew the hills and castle on the wall, and I LOVE it... I really hope the paint part turns out well, because so far I'm loving everything. I'll take lots of pictures tomorrow as we're painting and afterward... then we'll move the furniture in and I'll take more pictures! :)

starting the paint on thursday

I'm drawing the hills and castle on the walls today and then on Thursday my father-in-law is going to come up and help us paint. I'm so excited about having everything done! Then on Friday or this weekend we can move the furniture in!

After thursday I'll definitely be back with lots of pictures! I can't wait to see how it turns out!

nursery update

We built the crib yesterday and I worked on the nursery some more... I pick up the rest of the furniture tomorrow which I'm very excited about, and then next week we're painting the room and then we just have to wait until the baby shower to get most of the rest of the stuff :)

here are some pictures: (I still haven't figured out how to make it show all of the horizontal pics, but if you click on one of them it will take you to my photobucket account where you can see the whole picture)

the crib all put together

where the glider is going to go-

I also put up the blinds-


the closet (with way too many clothes already... there's also a drawer full of onesies in that plastic thing :)

Alexis already has a nice collection of stuffed animals :)

some of her toys on the bookshelf-

nursery furniture!

We found furniture for the nursery! woohoo!

I originally found them last week on craigslist, but they were "sold".... anyways, I got another email today saying that the people never came to pick up the furniture, so we get them! yay! It's a changing table with hutch and a dresser, and they're both the same color wood as the free crib we already have :) hooray!

here's the pictures that were on craiglist, we're picking them up on Thursday:)






Also, we picked out the glider we're going to get... it's actually just a recliner, but they can add a swivel and glide option, so it glides instead of rocks and it has a 360 degree swivel... it's SO nice, we probably won't get it for another couple months, but I'm excited that we have it picked out... I'll post pictures when it comes :)

the nursery is started!

Shopping yesterday went really well... we decided to stay in Rome, so we went to Broad Street and I got some cute stuff for the nursery and the bathroom (which is being redone in Target's frog theme) I got TONS of cute clothes (I know I shouldn't be buying until after my shower, but I couldn't help it... everything was on sale!) The consignment shop on Broad Street was having a "bag sale" where you filled up a plastic bag for $5... so I got a bag full, and some other stuff from inside their store... a really cute 12 month outfit that's embroidered with an "A"... how great is that? And then we went to the mall... and Belk was having a sale, most of their baby stuff was 40% off, so I bought some cute little dresses with frogs on them! yay! (If you didn't know... I like frogs)

Enough talk about yesterday... now let's talk about today!

I've been working on clearing out the nursery for the past few weeks, and since the garage sale last week it's pretty much cleaned out.

A couple days ago I moved the stuff we've been storing in our room into the closet... clothes, etc.

And today I installed the light fixture! I love it! And I'm super proud of myself for installing it, all by myself :) I'm not very handy at all, but after this I feel like I should be featured on HGTV haha... here are some pictures (I don't know how to resize them... so just use your imagination to fill in the other half of the picture haha):
here is the fan that used to be in the room:

the ceiling with nothing on it:

the lamp all installed:


and the light turned on... isn't it cute? I love it!

shopping

I'm going shopping tomorrow... yay! haha, I'm going with my friend Melissa, who's also expecting her first little baby (also a girl), so we're going baby shopping. I'll be picking out the glider I want from Babies R Us and hopefully finding a cheap dress to wear to my baby shower in June.

It'll be a nice change from today, which was spent cleaning all day... but it's nice that our house is clean! Now I must go fix dinner. Off to the land of casseroles :)

productive day

Today was a very productive day for Andrew and I. He had the day off, and usually on those days we just hang out and do absolutely nothing. We normally end up destroying the house if anything haha.
But today we slept in, which was nice and then we went to Taco Bell (and I DIDN'T get terrible heartburn... woohoo!) for lunch, and then to Wachovia to do a couple things- 1: we needed to get our house closing documents out of the safety deposit box because it's got some info we need for our taxes on it 2: Andrew needed a new debit card, so we ordered that and 3: we signed up for Wachovia's "way to save" program, which puts $1 into your savings account every time you use your debit card.
After our wachovia trip, we headed to the thrift store in Rome, we're on a hunt for furniture for the nursery... we've got our crib, but furniture is SO expensive, we doubt we'll get a dresser for a gift, so we're trying to find one at a garage sale or thrift store. Not much luck at the thrift store, but I did buy two cute little onesies for 79 cents each... heck yes!

Then we headed home, and Andrew played some video games while I went back out to buy dinner. Andrew fixed some fantastic hamburgers out on our grill (and we ate outside on our patio furniture!) I fixed some yummy potato salad, and even though I halved the recipe we still ended up with WAY too much haha, and I also fixed some yummy fruit salad, but we were too full from our burgers and potato salad, so we're saving that for a little later tonight (probably after American Idol:) )

So, this weekend I'm going to a rummage sale that a local bank is doing as a fundraiser for Relay for Life... Walgreens is doing one in 2 weeks, so I'll be going to that too... hoping to find some great, cheap baby stuff! And then Saturday night we're going to a wedding which should be lots of fun... I've got lots of stuff going on in the next couple of months, and I have a feeling they're going to FLY!

Wedding this weekend, wedding in May, baby shower in June and my baby shower sometime in June too... lots going on :) And then in August... *drumroll* baby time!