Rocker Score!

Guess what I scored on eBay Monday night?!?!

This little gem right hur:

That's right, I found a Thonet style rocker for $125, I'm pretty excited about it!

Bouncing Baby Boy!

Drew and I found out earlier this month that we're having a baby boy!  We found out sooner than most people, there are a few perks to being friends with your OB/GYN's nurse. :)  After our ultrasound visit Drew and I headed to Babies-R-Us to pick our a few thing for our newest addition.  Drew was so funny and sweet walking around Babies-R-Us.  I think all of his Daddy time with Andrew as an infant came flooding back..."Oh man we're definitely going to need this." or "I wish they would have had this when Andrew was little."  Later that evening Drew said he didn't realize how excited he was going to be about finding our what we were having, but when the ultrasound tech said "It's a boy!" I got so excited.  He's such a great Dad I can't wait to raise our son together!  We're looking forward to all those firsts together.

Not exactly modest...of course he gets a double dose of shamlessness from his parents. :0

We haven't really decided on a name yet and when we do I think we'll keep it a secret until our baby boy's birth day.  We know we want to to be unique, strong, and not something you hear everyday.  We're bouncing around a few things but we aren't 100% sold on a full name yet.

Some things we have decided on are colors and theme of the nursery.  Colors: grey, navy, yellow, white  Theme: vintage airplanes 

Here are a few of my inspirations and a few of the items we've purchased thus far for our Baby Day's room.

 I thought these shelves were just adorable, thanks zulily.com!

Yellow knitted pouf also complements of zulily.com

 And this is the Babyletto Hudson Crib we ordered.

And these are a few of my inspirations via pinterest.

One thing I noticed while in Babies-R-Us was that all of the high chairs were huge and bulky and hideous.  So I'm still deciding what type of high chair I want.

This Boon high chair is made without any cracks or crevasses for food to get into and it has a pneumatic lift system, so I'm leaning towards this model.



 We bought extra magnetic bars from Ikea for both Andrew and Baby Day's room so that we could copy this pin.

Love the peg board above the changing table.

I'm also in quite the dilemma over rocking chairs.

I love the Michael Thonet style rockers.  The swirl of the rocker's leg are so whimsical, I just love them!

 My Mom actually had this very rocker when I was little. 

I also love this modern take on the Thonet rocker...too bad it's way out of my price range at $1925!

As you can tell I'm having tons of fun planning our nursery, all while planning our new home!  It's a lot to try and plan all at the same time, but thankfully Drew and I have similar tastes so we don't worry too much about what each other are picking out by ourselves. :)

Ikea Take II

I must say our weekend trip to the Ikea in Houston was much more enjoyable than our 2010 trip.  One because we didn't get robbed and two because we stayed with some of the most hospitable southerns I know, the Truitt's.  Around noon on Friday Drew, myself, and two other couples loaded up and headed to Houston.  Nic and Becca recently bought their first house and Matt and Britt are building just like us.  Drew and I have a design/decorating taste that is a little more industrial/modern than most of our friends so we weren't sure if they would enjoy Ikea as much as we would...but considering we had to rent a 6x12 Uhaul to haul all of our purchases back I'd say the trip was a success!  We stayed with Nic and Matt's aunt and uncle in Houston they were so nice and so much fun to be around.  You know you're around good people when they feel like your own family in a matter of minutes.

Uncle Mike was giving us all a hard time for "driving all the way to Houston for DIY Scandinavian furniture."  Yes it's true Ikea garb comes in a million pieces, it's relatively cheap, and if you're not careful it will look exactly that way...like a cheap craft project.  I thought I'd share some of the things in our current house that are Ikea.

 Anno panel shades

 Foto pendant lights

 Kitchen cabinet pulls

Fintrop magnetic knife/spice rack

 Numerar butcher block countertop, we used this as stair treads which my talented husband stained

 Expedit shelving in our office and magnetic bulletin boards

 Coffee table

 Rug, couch, Maskros pendant light

Mirror, Lillangen sink, great sinks for messy boys!

 Shower curtain.

 Poang chairs.

 Bathroom cabinet pulls

We found plenty of new items this trip, which will remain in boxes until we move into our new house!  I'll have to do another Ikea post then.

Some of the same items we bought that we have now were the Foto lights, the Lillangen bathroom sinks for both of our boys' bathrooms, and butcher block for my potter's bench outside.  We bought plenty of organization items for the boys' rooms.  Andrew wanted a built in desk in his new room so we bought magnetic strips and storage for all of his art stuff.  I also bought more funky lights for my new library.  They come in white, but I'm thinking about painting mine similar to the picture below...we'll see.  Can't wait to get it all into our new home!

Rocky Mountain High

Once a year we try to make the trek to TN (2012, 2011, 2010, 2010b, 2010c geez Andrew's grown up so fast!) since Andrew was off of school for MLK Day this year we decided to scoop him up and head to Pigeon Forge for a long weekend together.  On these trips we let Andrew decide what he wants to do, so we went to the Rocky Mountain National park to play in the snow, we went to the arcade and the country candy store, we played Wii and Clue, and of course we enjoyed every minute of our time together as a family.  I can't wait until my Bud-a-Roo is home for Spring Break!