Our first baby shower 5.30.09

The day of the baby shower was perfect. First Grant and I got up at 7:00 and did some cleaning and prep work in the nursery. Then my mom showed up at 10:00 and I was kicked out of the house while her, Grant and Haley set up. I wasn't to come back until 3:00, when the baby shower started. So my BFF Tonya and I went to Redding (where there's actually some shopping) and had a fabulous lunch at Olive Garden then hit up the mall for some shopping. While there I got a pedicure, bought a dress to wear for the shower and bought a cute little sign for the nursery that says "Monkey see, monkey do".

When we arrived back at the house most of the guests were already there and the house was all decorated and set up. When I left that morning the nursery was completely empty but when I got back it was all set up (minus the dresser, we still need to paint that and the nightstand).

Notice the booties in the crib? I love them! Thanks Ellen Show!

The color between the pictures look totally different but the first picture is more accurate.

Then the shower began.
First we started off the shower with a relay race. Two teams of 3 guys.

Getting ready for the races to begin

The first guy on each team had to dress a baby doll, strap it in the stroller and run it to the next guy.Our friend Steve and my brother Troy dressing the dolls

Then the next guys had to take off the clothes, change the diaper (it was filled with chocolate pudding), redress the doll, then take it in the stroller to the last guy

Here's Grant and Ben changing the dolls

The last guys had to put the doll in pajamas and tie on a bib, strap it back in the stroller and run it to the finish line.

Jorge and Jack dressing the dolls

Grant's team won!

Then we had the beer chugging competition. Except they had to chug the beer out of a baby bottle. Freakin' hilarious!

Ben, Jack, Jorge, Troy, Steve and Grant

Grant totally beat everyone. The other guys kept drinking after Grant was done but none of them could finish so they gave up and took off the tops and drank it.

Grant kickin' ass and taking names

My brother trying as hard as he could to finish. They tried for several minutes after Grant was done.

Then it was the girls turn. We used punch because none of them wanted to chug beer.

Amy, Sonja, Haley and I. Haley's punch was spiked so she choked a little.

I was the first one done by far. Alexis came in second place and she was still a few minutes behind me. The other girls couldn't finish so they took off the nipples to finish.

Here I am telling Haley how to do it. Sonja is trying to get some pointers too.

Seriously, Grant and I must be naturals. It's just funny how we beat everyone out of the water.

Next they had two groups of 3 girls get together and they had 5 minutes to cut out different baby body parts out of magazines to put together a Carter. Here's what they came up with

This one is scary to me. The eyes look nothing like what I think Carter's eyes will look like and what is up with the mouth?!? LOL!

While this one is still a little scary looking I think it's a little less scary. This was the winner based on the eyes nose and mouth. Check out his hair though, haha.



The delicious cake



All the yummy food. We're still eating the leftovers




Grant and I

Like I said before, we had a perfect shower. :)

35w3d

Got the crib

The crib came yesterday and luckily I was able to fit it into my car.




We didn't have time to set it up last night because Grant worked late and my mom and I were busy sanding and painting the dresser and nightstand. Here's the nightstand;


After the first coat of brown.



I also got the $67 Ambajam blanket in the mail



Oh, and Coco wanted to say Hi







34w4d

Nursery progress

I'm loving the nursery so far. We worked our asses off on Saturday, went out of town on Sunday, then back to work on it again Monday.

Saturday we had our good friends Jack & Alexis and Ben & Sonja over to help. Jack came over at 7:30 am to help and everyone else was there around 5:00 pm or so. Here's what we got done;

The guys attached the tops of the squares on the wall first

Jack attaching the sides and bottoms of the squares

One of the walls complete with squares

Then on Monday my mom and I started the day with priming the wainscoting. Haley joined in after a while and we got done in about 2½ hours. Then my mom and I finished up with the coat of white paint.

The painted wainscoting

Grant was having fun trimming off the closet and trying to figure out the closet doors. Seriously, those directions were jacked up. I don't even know how anyone could follow them.

Grant having a hard time with the closet door. Notice the door handle I installed? Isn't it a beauty?

The closet doors didn't get done but that's okay, it's the painting that I really wanted finished first. We got a little nightstand for free from Grant's mom's neighbor so we're going to repaint that and the dresser. We'll start that little project tonight.

Here's the dresser we're going to paint dark brown. Hopefully it matched the crib somewhat.

What we have left to do:
Hang the new blinds (we did end up getting new ones)
Clean the hardwood floors
Cut down and and install outlet covers
Repaint dresser and nightstand
Hang closet doors
Hang curtains
Install closet shelving (to be done by my Dad)
Clean windows


The crib is on the UPS truck here in Chico as I type. I knew it was supposed to be here today and I thought about bringing the truck to work but I decided not to. Maybe it will fit in the back of my car? We'll see. I can't wait to get it set up.




34w3d

Carter wants out

I think he's been trying to get out.....through my belly button. Yep, he's breaking free. I swear this boy feels like he's about to rip through my skin sometimes. It's a little uncomfortable but I love it. I woke up at 2:00 this morning and holy cow he was pushing his little feet or elbows or whatever out so much it was crazy.

This weekend we have some friends coming over to help paint the nursery. Yay! And one of my baby showers was pushed back so we have more time to get it done. My first baby shower (for friends/younger crowd) is on May 30th and the second one (for mainly family/older crowd) is the weekend of June 13th-14th. We haven't decided on a day yet for the second shower. So that leaves us with 4 weekend left (one of those being a 3 day weekend) to finish the nursery before we have a bunch of people over. We also have our childbirth class scheduled for Friday May 15th, after work from 6-9pm and Saturday May 16th from 9-1. I'm looking forward to that.

So after today I only have two more days of work until I get my little vacation. I usually count down my vacations not by how many days total, but by how many days I have left that I have to wake up early, lol. The guest room is all set up for Leah. She's coming over Tuesday night and we'll be leaving my house about 7:00-8:00 on Wednesday. Our flight leaves at 12:14 and we have a layover then we'll arrive in Burbank a little after 4:00.

I'll be posting the pictures of the progress of the nursery but here are some before pics;

Here's the closet



The ceiling after the sagging sheet rock was taken off


The ceiling after Grant re-sheet rocked it


The two windows (lots of natural light)


The current light fixture (I know you're jealous of this beauty)


And I'll leave with a cute picture. This was taken a few weeks back but I just saw it today. Carter and I love rockin' out to Rock Band.

I always have the funniest look on my face while playing Rock Band because I have to concentrate so hard. I must say though, I'm pretty good on the guitar. :)

Ladies and Gentelmen.....

The nursery is textured. Let me repeat, the nursery is finally textured. Holy hell, how long have we been waiting for this day?!? So this weekend we (or should I say "they") will be painting.

And I *think* we've decided that instead of the beadboard we're going to do wainscoting. I like this look much better but we're going to see how easy this will be to do so we're not sure yet. Here's an idea of what I like.




Also, 8 more days until we leave to go to the Ellen show. I'm so excited!
Here's my latest belly pic, it's from this morning. I can't believe how big I am. I seriously don't feel this big. I guess this is why I'm starting to waddle and why my hips hurt so bad at night. LOL!













30w3d

More nursery stuff

I found it, I found it. The perfect rug for the nursery. I've been looking for a dark brown saggy rug. I wanted 5'x8' or so. Well this weekend when my mom and I were at Walmart I found one. And the best part, it was only $75.00. I thought I would have to pay more for a rug that size. I really like it too. It's the exact color of all the other brown in the room. I can't wait to be able to put it in there.



I also got the other curtain we needed, so now I have both. And we got the closet doors and pulls. We still have a list of things to buy but at least it's getting smaller.

Blinds
Rug
Canvas Boxes (3)
Bead boarding
Base boards
Paint (and I still need to pick a color)
Ceiling fan
Closet doors
Curtains
Bedroom door (maybe, if there's still $ in the budget)

We decided to just use the blinds that we had in there for now. They're in fine condition so that's just one less thing we have to buy.