Ryan's Crib - yay!

So the last piece of furniture finally came in - yay! We love the crib but I really just need my mom to come back up here and fix it up all nice. We just threw the bedding on it to get an idea of what it would look like but it needs to be perfected.

Next up is getting hanging pictures on the walls and getting everything washed and ready for little Ryan. 

Ryan's Nursery - update!

My mom came back up this week to help me with the nursery and it actually looks like one now!!! I am so excited and absolutely love it! The last major project we had was to repaint the dresser and nightstand - from black to white.

Here is the dresser beforehand:

And the nightstand:

Two coats of primer and two (possibly more in some areas) coats of paint later:

close-up of pulls

And the nightstand

We had so much fun! And the best news was that the glider also came in - yay! Here are a couple more pics of his nursery. Thanks Yia Yia T for all your help!!! Can't wait for Kevin to get home tonight so he can see all the progress we made. 

 The crib will go against this wall when it comes in - hopefully soon! Can't wait!

This old house

So Kevin and I finished up the walls in Ryan's room last night  -  yay! We were super excited to finally have it all done and it wasn't until we were putting up the chair railing that we realized how slanted Ryan's room is! The pic above is what you see when you walk into his room. His crib will eventually be up against that wall but as for now every time I walk into the room my eyes focus in on the uneven chair railing! You might not be able to tell, but since I know the room is slanted....thats all I see! The chair railing is the exact same height from the floor to where it is on the wall on each side of the closet, however because the house slants down the chair railing on the left side of the closet door is almost half an inch lower! You might think an easy fix would be to raise the chair railing half and inch - well we didn't put enough bead boarding on the wall for that so there would be a gap. We would have to redo the entire wall! We can look at lowering the other side - but that darn light switch is there. Then we would also have to lower the other wall that has been done for the last two weeks. There really isn't an easy fix so I HOPE I can get over it. I am thinking that once all the furniture is in my eyes will have so much more to focus on. Plus when little Ryan is here that uneven-ness will be small potatoes.

On another note here is the other wall - all four walls complete - check! Next task is to repaint the black dresser and night stand that you can see in these pics! We are painting them back to their original color - white!

Ryan's Room

I love this room by Serena & Lily - love everything about it! Don't be shocked if little Ryan's room looks similar :) I think I will end up ordering the bedding from here, but haven't decided 100%.

Picking out paint is so difficult! My mom has been super helpful with finding paints - blue is very tricky. My mom got two blues from Pottery Barn (misty blue & harbor fog) and then we ordered the blue (Air) that is featured in the picture above.

On a side note - the UPS wouldn't drop off the paint sample without an adult signature. Which was difficult considering neither of us are home during the day. I have been so excited to get the "Air" sample and was sad when we missed the first attempt. I was ready for the UPS man to come last night - home by 7, ready and waiting. Kevin wanted to do some gardening so we were all out back when all of the sudden Bob tore off in one of his little crazy barking episodes...then I heard the big UPS truck speed off. Shoot! So what did I do? Well I ran through the house (of course Bob was ahead of me angry and barking) and I had to pick him up to get out the front door because he wasn't going to let me go alone...grabbed the sticky note from UPS that was on the door...and with Bob in one arm and the UPS tag in the other we ran down the street. I imagine it was pretty silly looking considering you can clearly tell that I am preggo now...waving my arm to try and get him to stop all while I am randomly carrying my little Chihuahua. All for my paint sample. Of course Bob growled at him, but he said he was familiar with Bob because he always hears him though the door. Whew - paint secured. So we got back and I went straight to Ryan's room to see what it looked like on the wall.

Here is what they look like on our walls:

The grayish color is the "Air" which is featured in the room above - totally not what I was expecting. We like the blue on top the best (misty blue) - but are interested in finding a blue that is maybe a mixutre of the Air and Misty blue. However, I think we could just end up chosing misty blue because it won't be too over-powering since we will have white bead boarding on the walls as well. Who knew paint was so tricky - well I guess everyone that has painted their walls before does. :)