Kali's Turning Two!! A Sneak Peak at Our Birthday Party Prep....

Hello friends!  I hope you've had a good week and are coasting into the weekend....yahoo....tomorrow is Friday!! :)

Have you ever had one of those days where you had a million things on your "to do" list and yet somehow you find yourself doing EVERYTHING BUT what's on your list?  Yep....that's me today.....Ugh.....why do I do this to myself? 

Oh well....everything will get done.....or it won't.....either way it will be ok.

I am getting pretty excited though....our house has turned into Party Planning Central!!  We are now at T-50 hours to go until the BIG birthday blow out at our house....LOL!!  My baby girl is turning TWO YEARS OLD!!  I seriously cannot believe it!!

Today they celebrated her birthday at her "school"....her teachers made her a little cake with candles and everything....it was truly precious.....and her teachers are an absolute God send!!  We LOVE them :)

SO....now we've just got to get everything together for the party at our house.....

SO....we are definitely not ready yet, but I thought I might share a sneak peak of a few of the details coming together......

First....here is the adorable invitation for the party....this was designed and ordered through Shutterfly.com.  They have SUCH awesome stuff!!

Source:  www.shutterfly.com

I thought they turned out SO cute :)

And last night I pulled together this....

Ahhh.....super cute!  And super cheap and easy to make.....I promise to give the details of how this was put together in a future post :)

Here's a couple more pics just for fun....

And around midnight last night I finished up these guys....

A little "bling" for the millions of juice boxes that will inevitably be consumed during the party :)  Again....I promise to give the skinny on how to make these juice box personalized labels in a future post....they were also very easy to make....but I did cheat a little and started with a kit.....

Here's another look.....

I sent one of those in baby girl's lunch today, so she would have a special juice for her lunch.....

And one other little project that I finished up yesterday was these tiny chalkboards that we'll use to label all the goodies on our party table....

They aren't perfect, but I was happy with how they turned out....more to come on how to make these little guys too....

SO....we are getting there....so much more to do.....but it is coming together!!  I probably won't get a chance to show anything else until after the party, but I'm looking forward to showing you guys all the finished details :)  I think this party is going to be FUN!!

Better run....I need to get on that "to do" list.....

Until next time....

XOXO-
Kristal

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The Making of the Nursery

Well...to say that this post is a wee-bit late would be an understatement, since my daughter is now 1.5 years old!  But anyone who knows me well, knows that I am chronically late...I know...that's awful...and I'm not proud of it...and it literally drives my husband crazy....but...well...that's just me...maybe someday I'll make a change...maybe....I really want to....really....but anyway, this post is not about my shortcomings...I'm sure I could do a lot of posts on those....so back to topic...the nursery....

If you've had a baby of your own, then you know that there are a lot of really exciting things going on during that first pregnancy.  Of course, loving home decorating, putting together the nursery was one of the big highlights for me.  I wanted it to be perfect for her!!  I was SO excited!! 

We started out with this...

Well...sort of....actually we had already moved out the exercise bike and painted the room blue (ha, too bad we weren't having a boy)....and we had put a daybed on that long wall.  Unfortunately, I can't find a picture of the room in this stage.  But who cares...we are all really here for the after pictures anyway....right?....so....

The next step was to paint the room.  My Mom, Dad, and Sister came for the weekend to help with the painting...but as of Saturday morning I still hadn't picked the color....so I decided to go with a "neutral" and add the color in with the accessories.  So after the room was painted it looked like this....

Next, furniture....wow...baby furniture....is....expensive....who knew??  But it was fun shopping...we decided to go with something that could grow with her, so we got the crib that would convert to a toddler bed and eventually a full size bed.  I hope she likes it, because she's going to have it for a LOOONG time!! 

Here is the hubs working hard on getting it all put together:

And here's the furniture all put together....

And yes...that is a TV over the chest of drawers....it was a birthday present for me from the hubs....I think he knew how much time I was going to be spending in there and he wanted me to maintain some sense of sanity (thanks babe!). 

The furniture was purchased at Baby's 1st Furniture in Houston.  It is made by Munire and can be found here and here.  It looks really nice and is actually very modern.  I really only have one complaint...the finish on this furniture comes off quite easily.  We had only had this furniture a few weeks and noticed that our changing pad had rubbed off some of the "finish" on the changing table.  Ugh!  Also, I noticed the other day that our daughters little teeth had made a few marks on the crib.  Oh well...you can't have it all...but you might want to buy the protection plan if you decide to get similar furniture (we didn't....darn....).

I also fell in love with these letters...

These were purchased at Baby's 1st Furniture, but I realize now that I could easily have made something similar (but this was before I stopped working...back when I was much more into buying something than DIYing something).  But these letters really are cute...with an adorable glittery lavender color.

Of course our "first baby"....our dog, Drako....had to make his presence known as well, so Drako and Daddy came up with a gift for the new baby...which led to this....

It is actually a canvas with some super cute pics of Drako...oh how I love that little (60 lb!!) dog!!  We had someone that we found online make this for us, but I am thinking that anyone with some photoshop skills could probably do the same....

And perhaps most importantly...I got this....

It is a glider / recliner...and...I...LOVE...it!!  All Mommy's should be allowed to get one of these!  You spend so much time in the baby's room...having a good chair is a must!!  Seriously, if I could go back and only get one thing...then this would be it!  Rocking a precious baby to sleep is a priceless moment and even better when you are in a great chair.

The chair is made by Little Castle and the fabric is called Chocolate Check (great to hide milk stains, etc).  We bought it at Baby's 1st Furniture, but I believe you can now get some Little Castle chairs through Babies R Us (but they aren't called Little Castle on their site)....the one shown above can be found here.  The chair at Babies R Us is a LOT cheaper, than what we paid!!

Ok, so finally...here we are....with the complete finished Nursery...ready for our precious girl....

I hope you love it as much as we do!  It is such a cozy place and perfect for getting some precious snuggles from our little girl!!

Until next time....

XOXO,
Kristal