Playing catch up

Growing up I LOVED photo albums. I spent hours in my college sorority crafting fancy photo collages in albums to capture every single event we had. What happened as I got older? Somehow I lost that drive to keep up on my photo albums. I guess with the digital photo age it got easy to just load the photos on the computer and think of that as your album.

Well, I've decided to play catch up and update our family album. I am behind...I mean really behind. Aside from a couple of photo purchases for gifts, I have not had photos printed in a long time. Yesterday, I sat down for an hour and picked out pictures to order. I had no idea where to start..so I randomly just chose to start with pictures starting with my daughters 2nd birthday (she's 3 now). I ordered 208 pictures yesterday!

I am not even going to put them away in the photo box....they are going straight into the albums. I also purchased some extras to send to the Grandmas for Mother's Day. The other project is that I want to do some in frames (I like the Pottery Barn Gallery Frames) for the house because I realized the only framed photos we have in are a couple from our wedding and one of our cat!

Bye, Bye Bassinet

We are saying good bye to our baby boy's bassinet. He has never seemed to be comfortable in it so we are switching to the good ol' pack and play. Then once we move our girl into her big girl bed, baby boy can have the crib.

Now what to do with this extra piece of baby furniture? It is not going to take up space in our garage. I'm taking it over to a local kid's consignment shop. I can sell if for a small profit and use that money for the baby boy's new crib bedding!

Paint Samples

In keeping with my room swap/babies room project, today we (babies in tow) went to the Home Depot and got samples of paint. I maybe a little behind the ball on this new way of choosing paint but I love that you can buy samples to try out. They are so worth the couple of dollars! We came home and my assistant (who happens to be 3 years old) helped me "try out" 5 colors. So far, Martha Stewart's Ballet Slipper Pink is in the lead for one room.

Bunking Together

Our move has been postponed but that doesn't stop our new little one from growing. Our baby boy is ready to move onto the crib which is currently occupied by his big sister. And the plan was that they would each have their own room in a new house by the time this took place. But it looks like we are going to have to get creative here in our little house and the siblings are going to be bunking together. Boy, do I have another big project on my hands. This possibly means switching around rooms and then putting my organizing and decorating skills to the test.

I have some layout ideas but I am starting with decorating and thinking of bedding for the two of them. Something that works together but isn't matchy. So far, I love the "Preppy Turtle" from Baby Gap. Then I was going to use the green in that to go with something for my daughter. Land of Nod has some cute mix/match bedding that has a similar green. Off to the drawing board!

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