What a fun ride this year. The big news for the year is that Jen is pregnant. As of this week, she’s 28 weeks along. We haven’t purposely waited to make an announcement, but its been a very busy year, so no online announcement ever really made its way. We first found out in June … Continue reading
Category Archives: Planning
About our planning for the baby – from getting furniture to clothes and everything else.
Nursery update
Well, a lot has been added in the nursery. First, a friend of ours, Hope, came and painted a mural around the window in the nursery. She did a ton of research on flowers, their meanings and colors. The mural incorporates a view of flowers and ivy that spell out the word LOVE. Jen and I … Continue reading
The Nursery
My awesome, artist wife has been working hard on a mural in the nursery. And if I say so myself, it looks amazing! She has been painting stars and a tree for a while and its unbelievable. It looks like something out of a baby decor catalog… She has really outdone herself. The wall behind … Continue reading
An Update…
Ok, yeah, its been a while since a good update. Its been a busy few weeks… no excuse I know. We have been doing all sorts of things, but don’t have much news. Jen went back to the doctor this week. She’s on the every two weeks rotation now. Everything is looking really good. Peyton is … Continue reading
Bin, Bins and more Bins
Well, to add to our newly reorganized nursery closet, we had found 4 green bins at the Dollar Tree. You definately couldn’t beat the $1 each price… So, during lunch yesterday, we had Firehouse and went back to the Dollar Tree to see if they had more of them, maybe in different colors. No luck. … Continue reading
Mission Organization Accomplished…
Well, we spent yesterday evening painting the closet and putting up our system. It actually went fast. It took longer for the paint to dry than it did to put up the closet system. I had to cut down the main bar for the top to make it fit our closet size. That was the … Continue reading
Constructing a Closet: Part 1
Well, we have started our newest baby project. Tonight, we went to Lowes an purchased all the stuff we need to redo the closet in the nursery. We know that baby’s need lots of things and we need places to put all those things… So, we decided to redo the closet with one of the … Continue reading
The Big Pickup
We went to Charlotte yesterday and picked up our nursery furniture. We got it home, but it was too heavy to bring in by myself since Jen isn’t allowed to lift anything… So with a little help from Brett, we got it into the room. We unpacked the changing table last night and we just … Continue reading
Baby furniture has arrived.
Jen received a call from Babies R’ Us that our furniture has arrived in the store in Charlotte. So, instead of going up on the weekend of July 1, we’re heading up to Charlotte this weekend to get the furniture. Jen was really excited to get the furniture and get the room setup. Continue reading
Baby Furniture Mission Accomplished…
Well, this weekend was an baby furniture adventure. We were able to go to Charlotte this weekend to look at nursery furniture and we ended up picking a set from Baby’s R Us. It wasn’t in stock so they ordered it and it’ll be in their store in 7 to 14 days – so we’ll hopefully … Continue reading