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Hey Y’all,

It only took us 10 days from the time we started to when we finished, but we have finally finished painting the nursery! We had to go buy a couple of different paints to make the stencil a little brighter than the original colors, but we love how it looks! 

 

Now that we have it done, all we have to do is get the furniture in, and then start getting things organized. One step at a time right? We also have to get a curtain rod and put the curtains in. Plus there are a couple other things, but we only have so much time to get things done.

~S

Nursery Update

Hey Y’all,

I know many of you have been wondering about how things are looking in the nursery. Well… Those of you who aren’t friends with Darrell on Facebook since he has been posting some progress pictures. But here is the progress thus far with the nursery:

While going through pictures, I realize that I didn’t exactly have a good before photo. So here are two semi-old photos of what the nursery looked like before:

 

We spent a whole weekend in the middle of April moving everything to the front room to make the front room the office/guest bedroom/music room. This is what the front room currently looks like:

 

 

 

 

We aren’t quite done with the room as there are some changes we want to make, but it is close, so we aren’t spending to much time worrying about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, with the Nursery cleared out, it was time to begin to tape. I did this while D was at work. It took a couple hours, but I got it done.

 

Then came time for the first color. We decided to do the blue first because it covered more area than the green was going to.

 

 

 

So after we finished the blue, we waited 24 hours and then we began to work on the green.

 

 

 

 

So once we finished the green, we let it dry again. This time we waited a few days as we were going to be starting the stenciling. I did one attempt at the stencil, and we decided that the greens that came with it are a little to dull for our taste, so we are going to go out and buy a brighter color green for it. Our hope is to get the stenciling done this weekend. No guarantees, but it is our hope. We also took all the tape off of the upper parts of the room. We left the baseboard tape on so that we won’t accidentally drip paint on the white baseboards while painting the stencils.

 

 

 

Here is another couple of shots of the stencil next to the fabric that we got our idea from and the one we are probably going to use for curtains.

 

So that is what Baby Ross’ room looks like currently. Darrell likes that it definitely looks like a kids room. It is nice and bright. We can’t wait to see it finished. If we get our stenciling done this weekend, we are going to contact our friend who is giving us a crib and see if we can get the room cleaned and a crib put in it. Things are just slowly falling together. We have 11 more weeks until our due date unless baby decides to come early. We still have a lot to do, but we are getting there. We haven’t decided on a name quite yet, but we are slowly narrowing down our list. We are hoping to have a name nailed down by the end of June. Just in case baby decides to come early.

Hope y’all are enjoying your friday and that y’all have a fantastic Memorial Day Weekend! Enjoy the 3-day weekend!!!!

~S

 

Here is part 2 of our month of May. The Second half of the Month was busy, but it wasn’t quite as busy as the first half. It just seems that way. 🙂

Darrell had a couple of gigs with the Abilene Pipers, so we went to those. One of them was playing for the Illumination ceremony for the Breckenridge Relay for Life. The photos didn’t turn out all that great, so, no photos for that. The next day, the Pipers played for the Abilene Zoo’s Zoolute to Dyess. It was pretty fun walking around the Zoo and seeing all of the families there. It was probably the most crowded I had seen the zoo with the exception of Spring Break. The picture of the Flamingo’s is in there because the Flamingo in the middle has a baby under it. The other ones are sitting on eggs.

 

Then I can’t go a month without adding at least one photo of each of the cats. Zedd has always liked laying down with his feet crossed and Darrell finally got a good picture of him. It might just end up on the Christmas card (if there is room after all Baby’s photos are on there. :P). And then for the longest time, our towels kept being pulled off of their racks onto the floor and we knew who was doing it, but we couldn’t prove it. I finally got proof that he was pulling them down and then getting them situated for himself. He is always dragging clothes around the house. He really likes to help when it comes to Laundry day. Just the other day, Darrell noticed that their towel from the bookcase was missing and we spent a long time looking for it. We found it when I finally took out the last load of laundry that I had done. I never took it off the shelf, so the only other option was that Poleeko decided it was time to clean it, so he took it to where I would pick it up and throw it in the laundry. They sure are funny cats. 🙂

 

Last but definitely not least: As many of you know, I have quit my job. Today was the last day of the school year, and my last day at work. I am going to just be a stay at home Mommy. I might go back occasionally just to keep my license up and help out when they are desperate. But, since I was leaving, the lovely ladies and gentleman at the bus barn threw me a surprise going away party/Baby Shower. I truly felt loved and appreciated. They did a wonderful job and Baby got some needed items. Many of the girls gave me a hard time because they didn’t know the sex, so they had to pick neutral items. We loved everything they came up with! One of the girls I talk to the most found the cutest little ride along/push School Bus. I absolutely love it and can’t wait until Baby is old enough. There weren’t many photos taken as it was just a get some food after your route kind of deal. It did make me a little sad that I was leaving, and I didn’t get enough time to write thank-yous for everyone, but I will get them out at the beginning of next school year. They just said that I needed to bring Baby by so they could see him/her.

 

So that is what we have been up to this month. I am glad that it is almost over, but our preparation for Baby has just begun. 🙂 I do have Nursery photos of the painting we have been doing, but I think that shall wait till tomorrow.

~S

 

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