The Baby Room

So I am not sure if I would consider myself a crafty person but I have definitely come a long way! It all started on my birthday when Matt bought me a sewing machine and insisted that since I was becoming a mom I need to tap into my more feminine motherly instincts. I really had felt certain that I was born without the crafty gene but once I got started it became a lot of fun! So after I got my sewing machine I practiced on a tiny baby skirt just to make sure I remembered how to do it. Then I became way overly ambitious and had my first project be the baby bedding! I am not sure if any of you feel the way I do but I hate all of the prepackaged bedroom sets that you can buy. I don't know, I am just not that into the butterfly, ladybug, hot pink theme. So while I was shopping around at Hobby Lobby I found the most adorable fabric! That's how I got sucked into this project in the first place. I had to have it. I love how Lillie's room is not your traditional out of a magazine room. Most of the things in it Matt and I did ourselves and on an amazingly low budget!! Here is the bedding:

This is the quilt. I also did a bed skirt but still need to do the bumpers.

Another thing that I love and that is pretty popular these days are vinyl trees put in rooms and baby rooms. Well if you have ever shopped for them they usually cost between $80-$100. Well I don't have that kind of money so Matt and I decided that instead of buying one, why not just find the one that we like online and then use a projector to shine it on the wall and trace it. Then we used the left over fabric for the leaves and used the small acrylic paint for the trunk. So this adorable tree cost maybe $1.50:

So Matt and I are kind of into the Shabby Chic sort of look but didn't want to spend a ton of money on a cute chandelier so we decided to make one instead. We went to the DI, bought the most ghetto brass chandelier and spray painted it pink. We then attached our own little jewels on it. The chandelier cost maybe $15 because the beads were kind of expensive. 

The next thing I really wanted were some cute picture frames that had her cute newborn photos in them. Well picture frames can be expensive! Especially the ones I liked were like ten dollars each! So I went to the DI instead (you will soon figure out that the DI is my favorite store) and bought five really ugly frames, but with cool designs, for a dollar each. Then I spray painted them white, and thanks to my crafty friend Nikki Haslam, I put a black glaze over it to give it an antiquey look. They turned out adorable! And probably only cost $20 or less. 

This pink picture frame I did as well with the left over pink spray paint from the chandelier. The picture is a picture of Matt's Great Grandma Lillie. I thought it was appropriate to have her in the room since Lillie was named after her.

Oh and the glider stool I found at the DI and just reupholstered it. It cost $8.

Anyway, the room was a lot of fun and ended up being well under $100 for everything. I love bargains and I am starting to love turning old ghetto things into cute things. So hopefully I will do more so stay tuned!

Oh and just for fun, here is a few pictures of my adorable daughter all dressed up for church:

Best Valentines Day ever!

So I am finally realizing that even if there is a lot I want to blog about, it can be hard with a baby. I am still adjusting to my new life and schedule. Pretty much my life is: Put the baby down for a nap, and then run like a crazy person and do all that you can before she wakes up! I find myself struggling to choose between showering, eating, taking a nap, cleaning up, doing any sort of hobby like blogging, sewing, facebook, those kinds of things, oh and exercise (when am I ever supposed to do that one?) Anyway the baby is asleep now so let me just throw out as much as I can about what is new with us!

We had a great Valentines Day! Matt, who always goes over the top with things, made the evening very special. He made me an amazing dinner of lobster tails, crab cakes, and lemon garlic shrimp! I love seafood so it was a dream come true! He accompanied this seafood feast with some asparagus and a green salad.

Then he topped off the beautiful feast with some delicious creme burlee! MMMM my favorite!!!

We finished the rest of the night the three of us cuddling and watching a movie. It was the best valentines day ever and I am so grateful for both of my cute valentines!

We Are Officially A Family

First, I am happy to say that I am feeling very committed to this blog. I have wanted to have a blog ever since we lived in Logan but have struggled to stay motivated. Now that I have a gorgeous child and want to show her off to all of my family and friends, I feel that blogging is a great way to keep everyone updated! (Also, you're not a good Mormon mom unless you have one).

Even though my baby is now already 7 weeks old, I still wanted to blog about her and the great experience it was welcoming her into the world. If you ask anyone they will tell you that I was terrified to have this baby, both because it would physically and mentally change my life, not to mention LABOR! My mom and sister always tease me that I was the little girl screaming down the hall when you were at the doctors office, so I guess I don't deal with pain easily. So when people would ask me if I was ready to get this baby out I would say NO she is just fine where she is. I think I officially became scared after the birthing video we had to watch in our class at the hospital. I don't know, something about the butt naked women screaming kind of freaked me out. So anyway, when I was at the doctors office on Friday the 10th and he said we could have your baby this weekend I started to become really nervous. He asked us if we wanted to do it Saturday or Sunday. He even said that we could come in later that night! I told him there was no way I was going in that night because I had to mentally prepare myself. So Matt and I did what we always do when making important decisions, ROCK PAPER SCISSORS! Saturday won. So at 7:30 am we went in to have our baby. I won't give too many details, let's just say that it wasn't too bad and epidurals are amazing! 8 1/2 hours later our little baby Lillie was born.

7lbs 7oz at 4:36 on 12/11/10

Well if I didn't believe in love at first site, I did in that first moment I saw her. Nothing could hold back the tears of joy from Matt and I. We were the proudest parents ever!

Since then we have enjoyed all of the wonderful things that any parent would:

Feeding

Bathing

and Changing

Haha, I promise I do stuff even though Matt is doing all three in those pictures.(He is super helpful though for the record). Anyway, we love our baby and think she is the most precious little bug ever! See....

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