A Place to Call His Own....

As of this post, his room is now pretty much complete. This past weekend, we finalized the room color, bought the paint and painted his room. Of course, with Shasta being preggers, I was left painting alone. At least she put all the outlet covers back on once I was finished. Along with the painting, I changed the blinds and ceiling fan. I started at 9:00 and was totally finished by 6:00 that evening. Gotta say, it was a pretty fun Sunday.

On a side note....the color we ended up choosing was actually one of our least favorites in the beginning(for those following along it was the middle row left).


First I taped....


Then I rolled...


Next is trimming in....


TAA - DAA!!


The only thing left is the final touches.

Paint, look at all the pretty colors

We have come to another crossroads in our journey to parenthood. That is painting the nursery. The question is what color to paint it!?!?! Here is a picture of the room as it is now:


You probably noticed all the color swatched on the wall. In case you wanted to see them close up, here they are:


Shasta is leaning towards the green, but I like the blue, which is perfect for our little boy! I am sure there will be a lot of back and forth before we nail one of these down. We even thought yellow, but had a hard time envisioning our growing son wanting a yellow room in the future.

As soon as we pick a color, we will be sure to post it here. I hope to have a paint color picked by this weekend so that I can get it on the wall. Keep your fingers crossed!!

Small Step

Yesterday we took another small step towards parenthood. After exorbitant amounts of searching online and retail stores we finally decided on our baby bedding. It took some time and a lot of compromise but here it is!




We will post actual pictures once we get everything in. Now the next big decision is what color to paint his room?

The Bare Necessities

This past weekend Brad and I started our baby registries. Let me just say, it was just as overwhelming as it was hilarious. Our first stop was Target, where we were given a scanner and a “must have “list. First of all, we didn’t know what half of the items of the list were and we were confused why we needed so many of these items. That excursion didn’t last long.

Next, we went to Babies R Us. If you have ever been there, you can imagine how overwhelming that shopping trip was. We were given another scanner and a “must have” checklist and then were set free in this sea of baby gear. First on the list…..bottles. AHHH WHAT!!! There were so many, how could anyone make that decision. I quickly made a phone call to my friend Janna for some advice. She is a new mom, so I knew she would be in “the know”.

We then decided that we should just chill and have fun with this. Well, Brad had lots of fun with the scanner. At times I could not see what he was scanning, but I could hear beep after beep after beep. It was a fun day and even funnier when we reviewed the 11 pages of items we had scanned..ended up with 8 swaddling blankets….I wonder how that happened.

The crazy thing about the baby registry is that it is actually things you need, which is different from a wedding registry that is primarily stuff you want. It is hard to imagine right now how one little 8lb baby will use or need all of those things to survive…or maybe most of those things are to help Brad and I survive.

P.S. Baby is perfect, healthy and right on track. Momma is still feeling great and Daddy is still bragging about his baby boy! Also, Jack is ready to meet his little brother.

Moving in the right direction

Today we picked up the furniture for the baby's room. Here are a few pictures of the furniture and me assembling the crib for my little guy. Next step is bedding, then paint, but at least we are moving forward.









Thanks to the Andersons and the Jaegers for lending a helping hand.

P.S. Still haven't come up with a name yet.

Its official

Its a boy

The Day of Sex

No, its not what you think, although I hate to rule it out!! Tomorrow is the day we find out the sex of our baby (already 19 weeks). Shasta's appointment is at 9:00am and we will be there anxiously waiting by 8:50. We will be sure to post it as soon as we find out, so keep checking!