Nursery Inspiration and Birthday Shout-Outs!

I have been dying to show pictures of the nursery progress that we have made but I want to wait until it is completed!  Should be a couple of more weeks.  

 

Here is my disclaimer why our nursery is going to be done like 4 months before our baby girl Reese will be here:

1.  I want to have it done before my showers in October

2.  I am really, really excited!

3.  I like to be prepared!

 

Not that I need a disclaimer - but I just thought I would throw it in :) 

Here are some pictures though for the time being from where we got some of our inspiration from - and I say "we" because yes, Shaun had some great ideas for the room!  I am so proud of him :)  and of course he did ALL of the painting!  He deserves some credit!

 

These pics aren't exactly what we are doing but pretty close!  I am very happy with the way that some of these projects have turned out.

 I am so excited to see how it all looks together.  When winter comes, we will hopefully be all ready and done with the projects and we can just relax and do winter stuff ie: watch movies by the fire, drink hot chocolate, wear slippers, watch snow fall....I am not going to lie - I am ready for Winter!!!

On another note - our house appraisal came through last week.  So - the plan is to close on October 6th!!!!!!!

I hope it happens.  I am still thinking in the back of my head that something could go wrong - but I am trying to stay positive and just keep my fingers crossed that nothing does.  I just want to not worry about it anymore.  It is empty, it is clean and ready for its next owner!  I hope she likes it as much as we did :)

Things are going well here.  My Mom and I are settling into somewhat of a routine and I am learning more everyday!  There is a lot to know! She has been very patient with me!  

Shaun likes his job and seems to have a good hang of everything at Condell - which I am very glad for because he really liked his job in Peoria at OSF - so I didn't want him to move up here and not like his job.

Also - 

Happy Birthday to my Aunt Dawn!

and also to my cousin Alison! (yesterday) :)

I love you both!!!

I hope everyone is having a good week so far!

It's a Girl ! ! !

Last week we had our 20 week ultrasound.  Finally more pictures of Wooly Baby!  We were not planning on finding out the sex of our little bean.  Shaun tried to talk me into finding out the night before but I held my ground and said, "No, I want it to be a surprise!"  The next day (Shaun's birthday) we went to our appointment.  While anxiously waiting I said, "Ok, we can find out if you want to ....but we are NOT telling ANYONE!"  Shaun said ok and in we went.  As they were checking out Wooly Baby they showed us her heart, her brain, her kidneys, her diaphragm and finally the tech said, "are you sure you want to find out?"  

Yes!!!!  We do!

"It's a Girl" she said.  For some reason I was surprised, I for some reason always pictured our baby being a boy...not sure why but I did!  We were so excited!!!!!  They said that she was perfect and that everything looked healthy and as expected!!!!  Such great news!

As we were walking out we both decided that there was absolutely no way that we could keep this news a secret!  We were planning to tell everyone!

Shaun said it was the best birthday present ever :)

Onward with the planning!!!  This weekend we (Shaun) are going to be painting.  We have some major plans for the nursery.  Some include: painting the walls, painting the wood floor, restoring/painting an old dresser from when I was a child and various other DIY plans (I need to narrow my ideas down to something that makes sense - I have too many right now!)

Here is a pic of the nursery before the paint:

And this last picture is for Sarah - who has been begging me to post a belly pic somewhere for about 8 weeks now!  Definitely not going on Facebook - but I'll post it here for my friends and family!!!

 We are in love already and can't wait until January 2012 to meet our precious little babe!

Happy Friday Eve!

First Ultrasound

Baby Bean Woolard

Finally!!!

I have officially contacted everyone personally that I wanted to to share the good news with...

So I can now post on my blog that....

We are having a baby!!!


Blogger won't let me post any pictures - so you will have to wait to see our first ultra sound pics!


We are so excited!  Last Thursday the baby measured at 8 weeks.  Due date is January 26th.


My next appointment is set for July 14th - so we will have new pics then :)


Today is a busy day - we are leaving for the Ozarks tonight and we will be there until next Thursday!  We are so ready for a vacation.  


My goal is to blog everyday there - is the internet is working :)


So, stay tuned for Ozark pics with cutie pie Miss Emma!


Happy Wednesday!