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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

We Started Riley's Room

We started Riley's room today!

We HAD chosen Baby Bee Yellow. We'd cut in all of the corners and started the first coat on one of the walls and realized it was just TOO bright. We had thought it was a soft, muted yellow. NOT! So, back I went to Home Depot. This time I came home with a color called Clam Chowder. It's perfect! If any of you are familiar with Stampin' Up! colors it matches, almost exactly, So Saffron! That's great news for me as it makes it much easier for me to match colors when making paper craft decorations for her room.

Yesterday I went shopping! I bought some of the wood pieces I need for her room. The main thing I got was the wood block letters for her name. They're such a cute cut (font)! I'll hopefully be able to start painting and decorating the letters next week. Some of you may be wondering what in the world I'm talking about. Below are pictures of the BOO I did at Halloween. I'm doing the same thing with Riley's name but of course the colors won't be orange, black, green and purple.

We get our new fridge and stove tomorrow! Yippee!
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6 comments:

Casey said...

I spent some time last night catching up on your blog and I have to say, I am SO glad you are starting Riley's room. I think it's hugely important. Riley is your daughter. Your child. No matter what may or may not happen. She deserves to be celebrated and I'm thrilled for you that you are finally letting yourself block out the doctors voices and celebrate your daughter!

Clam chowder sounds like it would be a great color. And a big congrats on the new fridge and stove. I always say that I know for sure that I'm a grown up when new appliances make me happy! :)

February 27, 2007 at 7:53:00 PM MST
K J and the kids said...

Lovin the Boo sign.
Did you use paper or is it material.
I'm super glad that you were able to match her room up with stampin up (said very sarcastically)
Only you Dee :)

We want to come Saturday just to see all of your new stuff ie..bed, stove, fridge, paint, boo sign :)

P.S. Did I ever tell you how hard I laughed at the song on my blog. That was DAMN funny.

February 27, 2007 at 11:17:00 PM MST
Dee said...

Casey:Thank you for your comments. We agree! It's time to celebrate her. She may still be in the womb but she's already on this earth. No more waiting!

Karen: I love to make things on wood letters. Like the Boos sign. I painted the letters black. Then modge podged different paper on the letters. I then finish it off with some accessories and ribbon. I can't wait to get Riley's done. Oh, I'm glad you loved the song. It cracked me up thinking about it. Since then I can't get the damn song out of my head! Shelly's about read to knock me down!

February 28, 2007 at 7:49:00 AM MST
hotomiky said...

I'm so exciting for you! Hope you will post pictures of Riely's new room.

February 28, 2007 at 1:07:00 PM MST
tifferny said...

LOVE stampin' up! Ok, so from what you just explained, I think I am going to LOVE Riley's room :))))

yellow...yah well...I had a feng shui expert tell me that my "buttercup yellow" guest bedroom had to be repainted at ONCE simply because the color yellow vibrated too much energy for one to feel comfortable in a room. humph.

i repainted to plain ol' white at once...much to my utter dismay. since then, i haven't decided what color to go with so it has remained plain old borin white. my "since then" guests have commented on how much they miss the yellow. lol

i love yellow, but OK, whatever. :) i DO love the color you have decided on for riley's room. so great! can't wait to see the final pics : )

p.s. - sorry to be MIA so long on my blog. i so love you for being worried about me. : ) mwah!

February 28, 2007 at 1:25:00 PM MST
Merr said...

Cool I can't wait to see pictures!

March 1, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM MST

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Our Conception Story

After eight years together we were pretty sure we'd spend our life with our four legged kids, doing lots of camping, and traveling the world. On August 12, 2004 that all changed with the birth of our God Daughter Tate. We immediately fell completely in love with her and soon began to re-think our decision of not having kids.

In October 2005 we began the process of trying to conceive. As soon as we started trying Shelly began having very erratic cycles which made the process that more complicated. After four tries over six months we decided to schedule a consultation with the a Reproductive Specialist. We were desperate to conceive and on a limited time frame since Shelly had just turned 41. Dee was 35 at the time but not able to conceive due to a medical procedure.

Our first appointment with the Repro Man was May 2006. He suggested we try IVF using Dee's eggs and Shelly as the gestational mother. He felt this scenario would give us the highest chance for success of a healthy pregnancy. We spent a short amount of time weighing our options and decided this was the best choice. We began our first IVF cycle in August. They did the Egg Retrieval and Fertilization on 8/31. Three days later, 9/3, they transferred three embryos into Shelly. Then the wait began.

Shelly promised not to begin the home pregnancy test too soon. Dee had to travel out of state for business a week after the transfer and asked Shelly to please wait to test. BUT, the wait was too much for her and she started testing after a week. At first there was no line. But after a couple of days testing a faint line started to appear. When Dee came home from her trip Shelly told her, "I know I'm pregnant." Dee didn't believe her and insisted the line wasn't dark enough so she tested herself to compare. There was absolutely no line. She began to believe Shelly was pregnant but still had doubt. Dee went to the store and bought another brand of testing strips. After five home tests, we were convinced we we're pregnant due to all positive results. A blood test at two weeks confirmed it; we were going to have a baby!