Wall decals

The decals I ordered from Etsy are up on the walls of the nursery! It went easier than I thought it would... they came pre-cut and all numbered so it was easy to see where they should go. Our walls have a slight texture to them which made it slightly harder to get them to stick on really well... but it seems to have all worked out in the end.

Our wall also isn't quite as large as a full wall (since there is a closet on the right side) - so we didn't end up using all of the pieces otherwise it seemed like it would get way to crowded with branches and birds.... but who knows maybe we'll use the extra pieces later on or put up an extra yellow bird somewhere else in the room for fun as well.

And here are some pictures of the project throughout the process....

Getting the decals set up and figured out

The finished product! 

More bump pictures

I took these pictures myself with my iPhone (I keep forgetting to take pictures when Matt is around, and didn't want to leave these weeks undocumented), so they are not the best photos with the bathroom in the but oh well.

26 weeks 

27 weeks



New lights

We have some new light fixtures in the house, a new light over our dining room table and a new light fixture in the baby's room. It is amazing how much new lighting changes the feel of a room.

The light over our dining room table we actually found about 4-5 months ago (at Crate & Barrel online) and ordered it. It seemed huge when it finally came in the mail, but I was hopeful it would look great and so we stored it for about 4 months in the basement... and when the wiring was finally done in our attic last weekend we were able to install it! I really like how it turned out and think it fits perfectly in our upstairs.

The baby's room light fixture we got at Ikea (for about $40), and Matt installed this in last weekend as well since all the new wiring was done and we were anxious to see how it would look. We love how modern it looks, yet "fun" for a kids room, and it will go great with our white & grey theme.

Dining Room light

Baby's room light



Nursery updates

We got around to painting the entire nursery this last weekend, and I really think it looks great! My parents came down to help me paint which made it go by pretty quickly too. Overall I love how the shade of grey turned out (just the right medium tone....not too dark or light) and it really makes the white molding "pop".

On a sidenote - it was a little hard to get good pictures that really showed the shade of grey... since the ceiling light in that room is going to be replaced and most the light bulbs are currently burnt out (and it takes a special type of light bulbs... so I have avoided replacing them). We already purchaed a new white/modern looking light from ikea, so that will be installed soon hopefully!

Now I can't wait to put all the furniture together and start with the rest of the decorating.

Left side of the room, with all of boxes of furniture to put together (white crib & dresser)

Right side of the room (the closet door is on the left and bathroom door on the right)

And finally, the old nasty light which we will be replacing soon!

Baby bump pictures

For some reason folks keep asking me to show some pictures of the "baby bump". =) 
Up until about 16-18 weeks I didn't really think it looked like a baby bump... so had been avoiding these. But I think it's starting to look like a real bump now (and Matt assures me it does... because he is smart...).

17 weeks 

19 weeks


22 weeks

24 weeks... Happy Halloween!

New York trip

I have been wanting to do a trip to New York City for a long time now, and for whatever reason we just never got around to it. I think we always found other vacations to go on like Thailand and Egypt... and thought NY would always be an easy place to go later and so we put it off. Well now that there is a baby on the way, I really wanted to do NY now with just Matt and I and see the sights before we have a little one. So this summer I finally planned it and the first week of October we headed off for 4 days in the big apple.

We crammed in a lot during our mainly 3 days there (we got in pretty late the first day and just walked around a bit by our hotel in Midtown) including...

Day 1: Times Square, Rockefellar Center, Central Park, the MOMA museum, the broadway show Chicago.

Day 2: The lower east side for brunch, The New Art Museum in Soho, walked around in Soho for some shopping and cupcakes at the cutest little bakery we found, then we ended up in the Chelsea area and walked along Highline Park which was super cool! (this park is raised up and was built over old train tracks and goes through the city), and finally the Chelsea Market and dinner.

Day 3: Ground Zero, The Financial district, hung out at the park where people get on the ferry for the Statue of Liberty and Staten island (we didn't actually take the ferry over though)... and then back home!

Here are just a few pictures:

Times Square 

The view from the top of Rockefellar Center

Central Park

The New Art Museum



Shades of Grey

Now that we know we are having a little girl... we decided on a theme for the nursery, and it's time to get started working on it! Whether it was a boy or girl, I've known for a while that I wanted the main colors in the nursery to be grey & white.

We already have white molding throughout our house, and white french doors which lead into the nursery. The baby furniture will also be all white which I've already purchased. So I convinced Matt we should paint the walls grey. I don't want them to be too dark though, it still has to be a happy room, so we are looking for just the right shade of light/medium grey. I then saw the cutest wall decals on etsy.com.... that look like white birch trees to put on the walls. 

So we are thinking we will do this, and then add accent colors to the room of yellow (I'm sure this little gal will also have plenty of things in pink... but for the purpose of looking at lamps/wall paintings/pillows and other accents...we will go with shades of yellow). 

Here is the first take at a few shades of grey I painted on the walls with some samples from Home Depot. I think the one of the right turned out too blue-ish, and the one of the left is too dark. The one in the middle might be just right though. =) 

Here is also an example picture of what we are going to try and do after we buy the wall decals, and put these up on the longest wall in the nursery.  You can order the decal with different colors, but I love the white of the trees already, and for the little birds we will go with Yellow! 

(stole this picture from the Etsy site - but giving credit below with the url in case anyone else wants to check out this guy's awesome decals)

http://www.etsy.com/listing/64873620/the-original-tree-wall-decal-wall