The Nursery

I had thought about how I would decorate the nursery for a long time. Even before we found out we were expecting I would see pictures of other people's nurseries and get ideas. Since our wedding I have had a love for pink and green. Growing up my favorite color was purple, but once I started planning our wedding and registering I kept picking out green things, so I guess that is a close second to purple.

So when Matt and I found out we were having a girl I knew I wanted to do a pink and green theme. We kept going back and forth on whether to paint the room a light pink or green. After going back and forth we decided we didn't want it to be so much pink, so we would paint it a light green and have lots of pink accents. I searched online and in many baby stores to find the bedding.

I had seen a nursery done with bedding from Pottery Barn Kids, and I remembered it being different shades of pinks and greens with some white as well. I searched their site and found that they still carried the bedding and decided that was the one I really liked.

We went to look for baby furniture within the first couple of weeks after finding out the gender. With the pink and green color scheme I thought white/off white furniture would go really well.

After going to 4-5 baby furniture stores in the area we ended up back at the first place that we looked, and purchased the set that we originally looked at.

We had an old glider and ottoman we had bought at a garage sale, and as a gift to us Matt's parents had it re-covered with brand new cushions. The glider was ready just in time for my Atlanta shower and I used it to sit in and open my gifts. We had a white bookshelf that was in our guest room and got paint to match the antique white furniture, and painted it so it would fit in well. After adding wall decals above the dresser, and many other accessories the nursery was finished! We were very pleased with the final result.

Sandra and Seth's Wedding

Sandra and Seth were married on October, 2, 2010 at Ridge Valley Farms in Maryville, TN. They had an outdoor ceremony under a pretty white gazebo and the weather was perfect. The place they were married was so pretty and the reception was held in this indoor converted barn and had huge windows throughout. It was all very pretty and the colors were green, navy and yellow, something different that I had not seen before.

One of the things that Matt and I thought was so cool was the groom's cake. Now Matt and I have been to about 30+ weddings together and seen so many different styles of cakes, but Seth's grooms cake was definitely the most creative. Seth and Sandra are veterinarian's and Seth works with pigs. So his cake was a pig cake with red velvet in the center!

After the wedding Sandra and Seth enjoyed a honeymoon in Costa Rica!

catching up

So it's been oh about 8 months or so since i have added anything to the blog, and I figured I would try to get caught up on some things.

here is a list of things that I'll try to catch up on:

Snow

Auburn visit with Roomies

Small Group annual get together

NYC!

Oh yeah, and We're Expecting!!

Dusty's wedding

Beach Trip

Indy Trip

Courtney's wedding

Sandra's wedding

and All things baby...

Courtney and Stephen's Wedding

Courtney and Stephen were married on August 21, 2010, at Callenwolde, in Atlanta. It is a tudor style mansion, that is a fine arts center, and a very pretty location for their wedding.

The colors were deep red and purples, and had an Italian theme as Courtney has a love for Italy.

It was fun for the 4 of us- old college roommates- to all be back together again. Our other Auburn friend Lauren came as well, so that was nice for all us to get to hang out and catch up.

The food was great and lots of dancing at the reception. After the wedding Stephen and Courtney headed to where else- Italy, for their honeymoon.

Half Way Mark

I reached the half way mark, 20 weeks! Here are some pictures of me during this second trimester. This was definitely the best trimester as I was feeling very good and not in the uncomfortable phase. I really grew a lot between week 15-20, as you can see in the pictures.

Megan and Wes' Wedding

Over 4th of July Matt and I headed up to Indianapolis, for Matt's cousin Megan's wedding. We headed up a couple of days before the wedding which allowed for some extra time to hang out with Matt's extended family.

We don't get to see Matt's extended family very much so it was nice to have everyone together.

It was quite rare as every member of his moms family was able to be there, including all 16 cousins and little cousin Lauren. I am not sure if we have all been together at one time, since Matt and I started dating.

The rehearsal dinner was held at the home of a friend of the family, in their backyard, which sits right on a lake with gorgeous landscaping. It was very laid back and all of the family was invited.

Megan and Wes were married at the Indianapolis Children's Museum, which made for a very neat venue. They had a large ballroom type setting and this even allowed for the guest to walk around and look at some of the displays, including this huge blown-glass sculpture.

It was a fun time and a good trip.

It's a Girl!

Matt and I decided we wanted to try to find out the gender of the baby a little earlier than we would at my dr.'s office. They will not do the gender ultrasound until 20 weeks, so we decided it would be neat to have a 3D/4D ultrasound done. I had seen pictures of those types of ultrasounds and some where when the baby came out he/she looked almost exactly like the ultrasound had shown. I found a place where we could have the u/s done and they would also allow family members in the room, and I thought that would be really neat to have them there.

My parents and Matt's parents and sister went along with us.
We had talked about first just the two of us being in the room, when we found out the gender, then having our families come in and find out. The nurse started the u/s and searching for about 15 min. but the babies was so low and turned over where all you could see was a great shot of the spine. She said she wasn't sure if she would be able to find out or not. So we decided to go ahead and bring our families in at that point, and she would keep looking. After much pushing and moving on my belly she was able to see what she needed to see. We finally heard the words, "It's a girl! " My guess had been right, it was mother's intuition.
After we found out pink gifts were already waiting to be given, from our families. Her first of many pink outfits. We went out to eat afterwards to celebrate.
Little did they know we had the name already picked out and we had typed it up and hidden it in an envelope. We revealed the name and everyone was excited to find out. It was a great day!