Three Steps Forward, One Step Back

We have made some real progress in Emma’s nursery!  We bought a dollhouse bookcase, arranged everything in the room, fixed the curtains, made a pillow, AND our beloved chair arrived after over 2 months of waiting.  Sadly, it was the wrong chair!  Right color, but we ordered the recliner glider and we only got the glider.  To say that I freaked out may be an understatement.  Emma is due in 6 weeks and the chair took over 8 weeks to get it.  Do the math people, it isn’t going to end well!  Jeremy took over and talked to the store and they worked some magic and we should get the correct chair in 3 weeks.  Let’s just all say a prayer that it is right!

Everything still needs work, but we are getting somewhere now.

We also found a great deal on a BOB Revolution stroller.  Do you have one?!  We LOVE it!!  This was the one thing that Jeremy was very adamant about getting.  Fine by me!

My sister, Jen, graciously gave us their car seat and bases since they aren’t using them with her boys.  So, we ordered a new set and here is what Emma will be in during her first car ride.

A little less than 6 more weeks to go!  Although, we are praying for 4-5 instead.

Hmmmm

Not much to update with here.  We haven’t done much else  in the nursery because we are waiting on ‘the chair’ to come in so that we can finalize where everything will go in the room.  I did, however, fix the massive long curtains and with the extra fabric I made a pillow to go on the chair (I think…).  That is pretty much the progress that has been made in the room.  I have a running check list of things to do in the room and we hope to get quite a bit done within the next 2-3 weeks.  Well, we better!!  We don’t have that much time!

Hopefully the chair comes in this week and I will have pictures to post!!

Side note… what are the odds that JP and Ashley actually stay together?  I am going to go ahead and say slim to none.  Hope I didn’t spoil anything for the 3 people that read my bloggie!

Side Side note…. can it not be 108 degrees all week?  I am ready to not be so swollen. 

Shower and More

My mom and I made nursery curtains last week and I really like how they turned out.  Actually, my mom did the vast majority of the work, but I did a lot of pinning!  She kept saying that they were really long and I was like ehhh they will be fine.  Oops.

Only about 2 feet too long! HA!  I called my mom and I was cracking up… I am not sure that she thought it was hilarious too.

I also finished the side table that will go buy our recliner that I CANNOT wait to get in!

Last Sunday my sisters and three best friends threw the BEST baby shower ever!!!  The theme was Build a Library and the invitations were ADORABLE!  My sister sells them on Etsy.  I will have to do another post about them.  Here are a few pictures of the fabulous day.

Speaking of showers…. I am off to write more thank you notes.  My goal is to have them done by this week!

Update!

Here is the nursery so far.  We love it and we are so excited to see it come together!! 

Do you love?!

A Plan!

We finally have a vision for our nursery and I cannot wait for everything to come together!  We ordered our crib and we went back and bought the Serena & Lily bedding (Kate Collection) from Baby Bliss.  LOVE LOVE LOVE it!  While we were at Baby Bliss we sat in the most amazingly comfortable chair of all time.  Although, it was amazingly expensive.  Boo.  My mom and I searched everywhere to see who else carried it in store and online and we weren’t having any luck, UNTIL Buy Buy Baby opened up  last week.  Have you been here? It is glorious.  I like it more than Babies R Us, but then again, they basically have the exact same stuff anyways.  They had the chair for over $100 less and then for 20% off!  We ordered it right away and in 8-10 weeks this baby will be in our nursery.

The color is completely different and it is a solid, no pattern.

I also found a wonderful french-style nightstand from a garage sale that I am going to repaint a pale pink and then glaze for by the chair.  I still need to figure out the window treatments and get a loverly lamp to go in that area.

We also figured out wall colors and ideas!!  Hallelujah!  We are going to do beadboard in our white trim colors to add some dimension.  Plus, it is super cute in nurseries.  That helps!  Our room looks nothing like this, but it is a nursery with beadboard, so you get the drift.

Our wall color is not the norm, but we love that.  I didn’t want pink or green or blue or whatever.  So, we thought lets do a chic gray!  Sherwin Williams to the rescue.  Here is a color swatch of it but it looks so much better on the walls.

Jeremy and I love it and we hope to start painting this week and then put the beadboard up as well.  I am hoping this won’t be a monster of a task.  While we are putting that up we will also put up crown molding.  Easy smeasy.  We have done that in a few rooms already so it isn’t super difficult.

I found this bookcase from Land of Nod, but again, I am not paying the price tag.  So, Jeremy said he would make one!  Which I love better because I can make it any size I want.  Oh the joys of having a super handy husband.

My baby shower theme is to help Build a Library so everyone is bringing their favorite book instead of a card.  I LOVE this because I am such a book nerd and I have already started collecting books for Emma to put on this bookcase.  So, above this I want to frame some really cute vintage book covers to add pops of color and make this library her little nook.  My friend, Sara, and I looked for a while online last night while the guys watched the Mavs (WOOOHOOO CHAMPS!!) and here are a few that we loved.

I just love The Saggy Baggy Elephant.  I think he is just adorable!!

As you can see I am getting overly excited and I cannot wait for everything to come together.  Stay tuned for massive pictures!!!

Nursery

Things are actually moving along with our nursery plans.  My mom and I took the day off and went crib and fabric shopping.  We found a great crib at Pottery Barn and went ahead and ordered it!  Check that off the list.

I LOVE the Kate Collection from Serena & Lily so we went looking for fabrics for things that we liked about that bedding.  We found some great pieces and I brought home a ton of samples, but after you add everything up I could spend a little more and get the exact bedding I want.  So tomorrow we are going to go to Baby Bliss and look at the bedding, again, and possibly just order it!  We shall see!

So excited to get everything started!!

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GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We couldn't be more excited!! I am going crib shopping with my mom next week and we will look at fabric to get our bedding made. Inspiration pictures to come! :)