Here is Emily's finished bedroom. Well, really it is still a work in progress. We hope that she really likes this room because we spent a lot of time getting it ready for her and making it just right. Thanks to Marisa and Lori we got the best furniture ever and we got an amazing deal on it. There was a baby furniture show in town while we were on our cruise. So, we left money with Marisa and showed her and Lori pictures of what we liked and had in mind for the nursery and they picked it out for us and Lori talked them down on the price -- thank you both soooo much!! Marisa said it was very very stressful and she is not sure that she would do it again. 
A lot of the items in the bedroom were gifts from my Baby Shower; we were so blessed to have gotten so many things from everybody. Emily is lucky enough to have a walk in closet. So along with both dressers being FULL of clothes so is her closet -- and I haven't even bought that much for her -- I know that is hard to believe. My favorite color is purple, so there is a huge purple presence in her room. We also have pink because she is a girl after all!! I also love flowers and butterflies so there are lots of those in the room too but we also wanted animals in the nursery too.
Here are the flowers and butterflies that Daddy hand painted on the wall for Baby Emily. Daddy is somewhat of a perfecitonist so things had to be just perfect. We bought a stencil for these and they were not turning out like he wanted them to, so he did them all by hand. These are all over all of the walls, so there was a LOT of time invested in painting them there. All done with love by a Daddy who already has his little girl wrapped around his finger and she was not even born yet!! Who knows what else he will do for her -- time will tell, but watch out!!
This is a close up on one of the flowers.
Before Emily was thought of this room was used as the junk room. You know how most houses have a junk drawer, well we had a whole room dedicated for it; and it was full!! There was a lot of cleaning and getting rid of things in order to prepare for Emily. I was on a role nesting and it was very frusting for Enrique -- I drove him nuts trying to get everything ready. By the time I was done we took three truck loads of stuff a.k.a junk to D.I. Matt and Dad came over one day to help take it all down there. Once the room was cleared Austin loved to be in there, especially once we started getting the furniture in and getting the painting done. Austin was always in there like he was helping Enrique; sometimes we were worried that he was going to have paint all over him because he just loved to sit right next to the wall that was just painted.
This is how Enrique taped the flowers and the butterflies in order to paint each one. Notice that it is all little tiny pieces of masking tape arranged to the design. It took Enrique hours just to prep let alone the time it took him to paint them. It is rough being a perfectionist, and when there are two in the house look out!!!!
Enrique always loves to pose for the camera, here he is painting the room.
This was taping and preping for the paint to begin. The whole process was so draining. First there was deciding what we wanted (flowers, butterflies, animals and the list goes on and on) then there was picking colors that matched and would look all right together (we must have come home with at least a hundred paint swatches) then we spent hours holding up the different colors then comparing them to each other and talking about a design. Then there was the prep of the room, then painting, then laying out the design, then painting. And we won't even go to how long it took to arrange the furniture in there just right! Then there was hanging the curtain rod, the curtains, the flower sconces, the pictures on the wall, the monkey on the wall, the cross stitched items on the wall, getting the crib stuff all on, installing the ceiling fan (which Enrique and Matt surprised me with), laying the rug in just the right spot and the hours and hours of folding and arranging clothes!! Thank you to Hilary, Anjali, Lori, Marisa, Sierra, Tayler, Maddy, Katelee, and Ethan for helping with that process.
Mom and I made her blanket for her crib, because I could not find one that had all of things on it that I wanted with the colors and everything. Well, I will be honest Mom really made it and I helped every now and then. I also received a lot of beautiful blankets from customers at work; including a beautful quilt and a rag quilt from Aunt Beth. Emily has lots of blankets to keep her warm, all made for her with love by family and friends.
This is Mom getting the quilt ready and below is me picking out one of our mistakes. This blanket alone took us hours and hours to prepare and make. There were a lot of confusing nights trying to figure out how to make this blanket just perfect for our little angel!!
All things aside we had a great time getting the nursery ready for Baby Emily - we made a lot of memories in the process. We hope that our little angel enjoys her room, Mommy and Daddy worked hard on it for you and we wanted it just right and perfect for you, we love you!!! Enjoy your bedroom Sweet Princess!
A lot of the items in the bedroom were gifts from my Baby Shower; we were so blessed to have gotten so many things from everybody. Emily is lucky enough to have a walk in closet. So along with both dressers being FULL of clothes so is her closet -- and I haven't even bought that much for her -- I know that is hard to believe. My favorite color is purple, so there is a huge purple presence in her room. We also have pink because she is a girl after all!! I also love flowers and butterflies so there are lots of those in the room too but we also wanted animals in the nursery too.
Here are the flowers and butterflies that Daddy hand painted on the wall for Baby Emily. Daddy is somewhat of a perfecitonist so things had to be just perfect. We bought a stencil for these and they were not turning out like he wanted them to, so he did them all by hand. These are all over all of the walls, so there was a LOT of time invested in painting them there. All done with love by a Daddy who already has his little girl wrapped around his finger and she was not even born yet!! Who knows what else he will do for her -- time will tell, but watch out!!
This is a close up on one of the flowers.
Before Emily was thought of this room was used as the junk room. You know how most houses have a junk drawer, well we had a whole room dedicated for it; and it was full!! There was a lot of cleaning and getting rid of things in order to prepare for Emily. I was on a role nesting and it was very frusting for Enrique -- I drove him nuts trying to get everything ready. By the time I was done we took three truck loads of stuff a.k.a junk to D.I. Matt and Dad came over one day to help take it all down there. Once the room was cleared Austin loved to be in there, especially once we started getting the furniture in and getting the painting done. Austin was always in there like he was helping Enrique; sometimes we were worried that he was going to have paint all over him because he just loved to sit right next to the wall that was just painted. 
This is how Enrique taped the flowers and the butterflies in order to paint each one. Notice that it is all little tiny pieces of masking tape arranged to the design. It took Enrique hours just to prep let alone the time it took him to paint them. It is rough being a perfectionist, and when there are two in the house look out!!!!
Enrique always loves to pose for the camera, here he is painting the room.
This was taping and preping for the paint to begin. The whole process was so draining. First there was deciding what we wanted (flowers, butterflies, animals and the list goes on and on) then there was picking colors that matched and would look all right together (we must have come home with at least a hundred paint swatches) then we spent hours holding up the different colors then comparing them to each other and talking about a design. Then there was the prep of the room, then painting, then laying out the design, then painting. And we won't even go to how long it took to arrange the furniture in there just right! Then there was hanging the curtain rod, the curtains, the flower sconces, the pictures on the wall, the monkey on the wall, the cross stitched items on the wall, getting the crib stuff all on, installing the ceiling fan (which Enrique and Matt surprised me with), laying the rug in just the right spot and the hours and hours of folding and arranging clothes!! Thank you to Hilary, Anjali, Lori, Marisa, Sierra, Tayler, Maddy, Katelee, and Ethan for helping with that process.
Mom and I made her blanket for her crib, because I could not find one that had all of things on it that I wanted with the colors and everything. Well, I will be honest Mom really made it and I helped every now and then. I also received a lot of beautiful blankets from customers at work; including a beautful quilt and a rag quilt from Aunt Beth. Emily has lots of blankets to keep her warm, all made for her with love by family and friends. 
This is Mom getting the quilt ready and below is me picking out one of our mistakes. This blanket alone took us hours and hours to prepare and make. There were a lot of confusing nights trying to figure out how to make this blanket just perfect for our little angel!!
All things aside we had a great time getting the nursery ready for Baby Emily - we made a lot of memories in the process. We hope that our little angel enjoys her room, Mommy and Daddy worked hard on it for you and we wanted it just right and perfect for you, we love you!!! Enjoy your bedroom Sweet Princess!
Yeah a new post!!! How exciting! I also like how you thanked Ethan and Katelee! They were more of a hastle but it was fun! Thanks so much for letting us hang out and set up the room!!!
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