Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Where's Bea?


Is she playing with her toys in her nice dog bed?

Is she sleeping on her soft purple blanket?

Is she chewing her bone on the couch?

There she is - sleeping on a nice soft pillow. A spoiled dog at her best!

Unlike Where's Waldo, it's never difficult for me to find Bea in our living room. As you can see, I go to great lengths to protect our furniture from her constant sleeping/sitting on it throughout the day. I try to cover every possible furniture surface with blankets or towels. But Bea does not respect my efforts... She always picks the one spot in the room that happens to be uncovered. Is a fleece blanket really that uncomfortable to sleep on?? On this particular night there was one pillow uncovered that must have been calling her name. Oh well... At least she's so cute!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Nursery Progress + Big Mistake


This past weekend Tim and I made some major progress on the nursery. The nursery was previously our guest room, so we had to clear it of all the old furniture. We kept some and sold some on Craigslist, which by the way is super easy and convenient. Furniture sold the same day and someone came buy to pick it up for us! On Saturday, Tim re-painted the room because there were several areas where the paint had chipped from our previous paint job. We decided to keep the color as chocolate brown. I like that it's neutral and will let us do whatever we want with the colors in the room. We bought all of the nursery furniture (crib, armoire, changing table, other cabinets) at Ikea on two separate trips, one to Chicago for Christmas and one more recently to Atlanta. All Ikea furniture comes in flat cardboard boxes and requires a good bit of assembly. At the store, you find the boxes yourself in a warehouse-like room based on the location on the display tag. Enter our big mistake... We were so excited to get the boxes out and start assembling on Saturday only to find that the two boxes that we thought were the changing table were actually a chest of drawers from the same collection. This was soooo bad because we had driven twice to buy all of the furniture and shipping from Ikea usually costs twice the amount of the piece of furniture that you want. So, now we are changing crib-less and have one extra chest of drawers that cost $250. If you want to buy it from us, let us know! It is in brand-new condition. Maybe this will be our second Craigslist sell. Anyways, the rest of the furniture looks great and we can't wait to arrange it all and start working on decor, etc. Here are some pics of the furniture so far.

Armoire

Cabinet

Armoire and Cabinet with empty space for missing changing table :(

Sheepskin Rug

Crib

Friday, March 19, 2010

Post Numero Uno

Well I figured having a baby was as good a reason to start a blog as any... I am currently 22 weeks pregnant with our baby boy: Shepherd (middle name TBD). This is our first baby and we are so excited to be adding to our family. It already seems like we have one daughter with Beatrice, and I'm sure she will have some major adjusting to do when her new sibling arrives! We're starting the blog to keep friends and family posted on the daily happenings of our lives. for now, here is a picture of me at 22 weeks. Hard to believe I've got 18 weeks of growing left!