Belly Picture

So I know a lot of you have been waiting on a picture of my pregnant belly so here it is! This is me at 31 weeks pregnant. I am sorry we have been saying that we needed to take a picture but most days after I come home from work or church I jump into something comfy real fast. So this time we took a picture before church.

The Nursery / Blake's office

I am so excited because we finally are putting together the nursery! We got the bedding a couple of weeks ago and it's way cute. I spent forever looking online for the right crib set and fell in love with this one. We even got a really good deal which makes it even better. My co-worker gave us her crib which was super nice because it is cute and even has drawers. Once we set it up I realized how small that second bedroom really is because we still kept Blake's desk and office stuff in there. So it's a half and half room, but it will work for as long as we are living here.

The Office side



The Nursery side

PROJECTS!

Well we went to our first childbirth class and were talking about different things that happen during the third trimester of pregnancy and of coarse nesting was mentioned and all the guys started laughing. Blake just gave me the you are definitely going through that kind of look. And I really have! But in all fairness I have just been trying to keep busy while Blake is studying. So I started thinking about different projects I could do to decorate the nursery. So here is the list...

Project 1



Last Christmas my aunt gave a blanket like this to my sister and ever since then I have wanted to make one. So after months of putting it together and doing little steps at a time, I was finally able to finish it! Ya! It's not perfect or even close to it, but I was proud at how it turned out.

Project 2


I took our red ikea chair that we got for our wedding and changed it into a girly pink chair that I could put in the babies room. I actually just took a pink sheet and duct taped it to the back of the chair. Blake thought I was crazy (ok let's face it, I am!) but it turned out to look pretty good. I was excited.


Project 3

My ward back in October had a super Saturday and this was one of the projects you could do. At the time I was not sure what I was going to have so I just chose some material and ribbon that I liked and decided to wait to put it together until we found out. So obviously we are having a girl and so I made it pink and green. I loved making this and found out that you can to a lot with a hot glue gun!

Project 4

So while I went on my cleaning frenzy I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this white stand that we had in our closet holding our extra shoes. I was going to just give it to the goodwill but then I found these cute baskets and had the brilliant idea of using them and the stand as a cute storage holder for baby things.


Project 5

I found this idea of a ribbon board off a website and absolutely loved it. So I bought cute ribbon and white material and glued them onto a big piece of cardboard. I also had these hooks and decided to use them on the board to hold the cute bracelets I made over Christmas and other jewelry I get for the baby.

Project 6

I even tried out my bow making skills and was able to find a couple of different websites that had some tutorials. I mean they are not great but I was happy with what I was able to do!








Project 7

I had a couple of wooden plaques and decided to make a name board. I was going to buy vinyl lettering online but then I had the idea to use these wooden letters that I found at Joann's (my new favorite place!) and thought it turned out cute.


Projects 8,9, & 10



I decided that I needed to have some other wall decorations to go above the crib so I came up with the idea of making some out of scrap booking paper. So i bought some white art canvases and found some pictures of flowers and one of a butterfly and printed them out and used them as stencils. Then I glued them onto the art canvases and wallah! Instant home made wall decorations.


























So as you can see I have definitely been busy! And the craziest part is that I still have some more projects in the making. So I will keep you updated.

Blake's B-day

Blake is now 25! He is an old married man now with a kid on the way. Wow how time flies. We were able to celebrate by going out to dinner Friday night with our friends and it was way fun. I felt bad because we ended up buying a cake instead of me making one but I didn't have time to because I worked that day, bummer! But it ended up being a really good cake so it worked out all right.

We shared our cake with our friends so the cake was bigger than this. And we only had one good candle, i felt bad that I was unprepared.







But I did make up for it with presents!