*Warning: This post tends to be a little long itself... hopefully I can start shortening them :)
Okay, so we have started the awesome process of working on sweet baby J's nursery and I am beyond thrilled and excited!!!! I have been looking forward to this point in pregnancy for quite some time. I like to consider myself a planner (whether my husband would agree or not is a different story :) ), so in my down time (what's that?) over the past year or so I would always find myself just looking at baby stuff and trying to pick out what I would do. Of course I am sure we all know what nursery stuff I started automatically looking at first... GIRL stuff, DUH because it is so much cuter :). When I had all of "her" stuff picked out (I knew everything I would do for "her" -bedding, wall color, decor, rugs, etc) and was bored again I would check out the boy stuff. I never really found boy bedding that made me say "AHHHHHH." I had debated on whether or not to do a themed nursery. I liked a construction (all-boy, tools, saws, hammers, etc) theme as well as a lil' deer/wildlife theme, but I still never REALLY loved it.
Anywho- fast forward to April of this year... I was just a few weeks pregnant and came across some boy bedding that was THE BOMB beautiful. I automatically fell in love with it and knew I could not pass it up. Even though I had NO clue what Baby Ballard was at this point, I still knew it was the deal of a lifetime and I just had to get it. If Baby B was in fact a Barbie Jr, then we would have stored it in the attic until the time came. BUT since Baby B did turn out to be a boy, I was thrilled because I already had the bedding (and some of the other stuff) picked out. Thanks to our awesome friend, Pinterest, I was able to create a "baby board" and whenever I would find something I liked I was able to store it there and check it back out a later date.
In the meantime, I was also anxiously waiting the arrival of Jaxson's furniture. I must say, KUDOS to JcPenny on their awesome delivery times. We ordered it (cleaned out one of the spare bedrooms completely) on a Tuesday and 2 weeks later, that Tuesday, his nursery furniture arrived (AHHHHH). I felt like a kid on Christmas, literally. Just the site of those big cardboard boxes made me grin from ear to ear! As soon as the front door shut behind the last delivery man, I rushed upstairs to check it all out. Of course, I knew I couldn't lift anything or put anything together, but I just had to open the boxes and sneak a peek inside. On all 3 pieces their was no such luck because they were wrapped up like your Grandmother's China in that box so I couldn't see a thing-due to all the bubble wrap and thick plastic wrap. (I am still trying to figure out how people say their furniture got damaged by delivery people :) ). Short story long, as soon as Jon got home that evening, I greeted him at the door with tools in hand and was ready for him to get started :). He was such a good sport and a little later that evening, Jax had his crib up and ready to go. Since we hadn't done his walls yet, we had decided to only put his crib together, this way I could get an idea together and see the color of the furniture in person. Here are a few pictures of the proud papa putting it together.
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| Getting the crib out -with LeRoy's help :) |
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| Taking all the wrapping off the crib...this took just about as long as it did to put the thing together :) |
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| Almost done with the assembly :) |
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TA-DA..the finished product! We love it!
**SPECIAL THANKS to our amazing parents Granny** |
We still weren't sure what we were going to do for his walls yet, so I began researching this to find something soon because I wanted to start on the fun stuff- the decorating :). I also want (and intend) to have it finished before I go back to work so I can enjoy it. I would find images of walls I liked/paint/etc and show Jon, but he liked NONE of them. THEN FINALLY- I came across an idea (half stripes and half wainscoting) and he liked it just as much as I did (YAY!!! It was about time too because this pregnant woman was getting impatient :) ) So, that weekend, we went to Home Depot and got all the supplies we would need to paint. I had a piece of the bedding with me and was able to match the paint perfectly. Jon came up with the idea of adding the thinner white stripe in between the 2 colors and luckily we already had some of this at home. His awesome Dad came up to help him and they knocked that sucker out. It didn't take them any time to actually paint...the time consuming part was of course measuring out the stripes. Luckily, they had this super cool 'lasering' tool (that I had never even heard of) and it reduced the time spent on measuring tremendously. And later that evening, Step 1 was complete. I am in awe of their work and can not believe how perfectly it matches the bedding. It seriously looks as if they were made for each other and I now consider my husband and father-in-law to be professional stripers (with 1 P...not 2 :) ).
Check out some pictures and see for yourself.
So, thats where we stand so far. I am in love with it and find myself "magnetized" to his room. We are having our first yard sale this Saturday (yay.. hopefully we will do good- had to get rid of some things/junk to make room for Baby J) so we will not be able to resume Project Nursery until next weekend. That's all for now; thanks for reading!
