Flowers and Babies and Painting...Oh My!

The weekends with very few plans and responsibilites are the best. That was this weekend. And we loved it. Friday night we started the process of converting Jackson's room from the "Land of Beige" to something a bit more interesting. It was late that night once we got home from dinner and home from Lowe's so we decided to just get the room ready to paint. Bryan had never painted a room so we did a lot of learning.

Here is what his room looked like at the beginning of the process.

It turns out that I am A LOT faster at taping than Bryan.

Claire was not impressed. I think she is starting to get the hint that something weird is about to happen.

On Saturday we had plans to go to the Flower and Garden show at Navy Pier. We stopped at Babies R Us and ordered a crib and a changing table and then headed to the city to see pretty flowers like this.

And these.

After walking around the show for a couple hours, we were really inspired and came home to decorate our dining room like this for some dinner guests.

Just kidding. One can dream though, right?

Actually, we took a few shots from the Pier and then drove around in Evanston for a while and had dinner there. It was a beautiful day to be outside. I didn't even enhance the color of the sky with Photoshop. It really did look like this.
But, about three minutes later, the sky looked like this too. I think we were just lucky with the blue sky picture.

On Sunday, after church, we got right back to painting. Bryan snapped this of his closet. It's a little sad. How quickly can a baby ruin three outfits? And they won't even fit him yet. He has a onesie (thanks Lee and Lea) that he can wear when he's born but all his other clothes are 6 month clothes. Hmmm. That will have to be fixed soon.

Bryan got the fun job of rolling the color on the walls and I had the terribly annoying job of cutting in along the ceiling and trim. Yuck.

It is definitely blue! I still have to paint a mural on one wall. I'm not sure how long it will take me to accomplish that.

I recently got the call that the furniture was in so we should be able to get it soon! Maybe we'll even have it put together before our parents arrive.