Sunday, May 10, 2009

Painting the nursery....green!!

After all the shopping excitment on Friday, the baby fun continued on Saturday. I was completely prepared to pay the guys that painted the rest of our house to also paint the nursery. But our neighbor and good friend Jenny requested that we not have the painters do it...apparently she considers painting therapy and persuaded me to let her paint the nursery. So, Jenny and I had 3 hours of therapy on Saturday afternoon....

Clearly Jenny was enjoying her work and we were careful not to let Jay observe her unorthodox painting style!

Jenny was the brains and the detail work and I was just the cheap labor. The color is Lime Granita...
Sitting down on the job! Oh and please be sure to notice there are no pictures of Jay painting. He enjoys it even less than I do and managed to check in just about the time we finished up :-) But I should give him credit, he was doing plenty of work in other parts of the house!
Taking a cookie and coffee break after the first coat before doing the final touch up. Notice when cookies are involved, Jay mysteriouly appears. And Shauna was gracious enough to come down and put some cookies in the oven for us...and much like Jay, manage to avoid all the manual labor :-) But the cookies definitely hit the spot! Oh and maybe you can tell in this photo...the kitchen is now green, that work was done by the professionals!!

Jay comes to survey the finished project and to help us clean up.


Of course Scout had to get in on the action...he is making sure that the nursery is comfy enough for his little sister!
Baby Girl Johns' dresser and hutch...

And her crib!! We plan to do some design work on the walls in some fun accent colors. Ok, maybe I should say, Jenny plans to do some design work :-)

Friday, May 8, 2009

Mama to be at 21 weeks...

So...the fun begins, here is a shot of a very happy Mama Laura in her frist day to work in a maternity outfit!!
Jay and I spent the day in Sugarland on Friday so I could expand my maternity wardrobe and so we could study the aisles at Babies R Us...needless to say, we were completely lost!!
No pregnant photos are complete without the profile shot!! That's my baby girl in there!

Friday, May 1, 2009

New Bedroom Color

Jay and I had the house painted recently and after MUCH debate we did manage to pick new colors for our room and the kitchen. Here is a shot of the gray we chose for our room...