The Perfect Rug.

The closer it gets to the time Mr. Brady is supposed to arrive, the closer we get to having the nursery finished! This weekend, our big feat was to find a rug! I know it sounds so morbid, but I wanted a "moo moo cow" rug, so Jeff went on a mission to find one that was affordable. When we went to the store in De Soto that Jeff found online, they only had the "beef" cow hides... not exactly what I had pictured. I felt really terrible because the old lady there was incredibly sweet and helpful, and so proud of her 'hides', but they just weren't what I had in mind. So when we were leaving, I picked up a pillow that they had on one of their pieces of furniture and told her I was looking for a hide like the pillow.... and as it turned out, they had a whole bunch of those in the 'back'! They just normally don't sell those kind as hides! So we got incredibly lucky.

I was kind of worried about Georgia being upset at another "animal" being in our house, but she hasn't seemed to notice. She likes to walk around on it though because it kind of makes a funny noise, like a drum beat, when she does. She loves the nursery and has definitely picked up on the fact that something is going on. Sometimes at night when I get up for one of my four potty breaks, she goes into the nursery just to check it out one more time and makes a really soft "ruff" sound and then comes back to bed. I would LOVE to know what is going on in her mind!!

What is Mardi Gras Anyway?

This weekend we had a fantastic time going to our first ever Mardi Gras celebration. It was the Quick "Mystique" Festival and Parade down at Victory Park in Dallas. It definitely was an adventure! The Dallas Morning News says that there was supposedly 35,000 people there and I think I saw every single one of them.... and some of them, I saw too much of them! It was such a great time and I think it is so neat that Dallas is starting to do stuff like this!
It was like crossing the Red Sea of People to get out of there! Justin was in the parade and we all had hoped to catch a good blackmale picture of him in his green tights, however all of our batteries in the cameras ran out before we got to see him! So no pictures of that! We sported our Mardi Gras masks and had a great time watching the Grambling band in the parade! I definitely do not think we will be going to New Orleans anytime soon to celebrate Mardi Gras though, Dallas was racey enough for me!

Project #1 is Finished, Onto Project #2!

We stayed up late on Friday night (or should I say that JEFF stayed up late on Friday night) to finish our first nursery project... the covering of the letters! It ended up being a lot harder to maneuver it all than we thought it would be and I couldn't work the staple gun very well because you had to push really hard on it. So whenever I was trying to do a letter, Jeff would have to stop doing his letter and come help me on mine! :) So all in all the only letter that I really did was the "B" and Jeff did the rest of them. He did such a great job! I keep telling him how "craftsy" he's becoming!! He loved using the staple gun!

So now we're onto our second nursery project... the "art" for above Brady's crib! We decided that we really wanted to get all different sizes of tin stars and paint them to match the colors of his bedding. On Saturday we went to an iron shop in downtown Frisco and found all sorts of fun stars to put in his room. We're currently testing out the different arrangements we could do and trying to figure out what the colors will look like and where they should go! I'll post an update when it's all finished!

We Have Curtains!!!!

We have a new addition to our nursery... these beautiful curtains that Darlene made for us!! I can't believe that she made them herself! My favorite detail are the little tab tops with the buttons!! Thank you so much Darlene!! We love them!