Sunday, August 7, 2011

Last week of summer break

This past week we have been so busy. We finally have our guest bedroom complete and functional and we are waiting for the furniture to arrive in the baby room (I think it should be in next week). Last weekend we went with my in-laws to  purchase our crib, mattress and dresser! While we were there we spent 2 hours registering- that was overwhelming but really fun!

Stephen took the week off this past week for our 3 year anniversary and so we were able to get a decent amount done. On our actual anniversary we took our rocking chair in to be reupholstered (I pray that it looks good), thirft store hunting (how romantic) and then ate dinner at III Forks. I could have had an entree portion of their beef crustades- they were sooooo yummy. Stephen found a muppets shirt to wear around the house and I found this little gem (new, with tags) for $2. I just had to have it!



If baby Sturge turns out to be a little girl, I will add some pink ruffly pants and a pink bow to make it less "boyish" looking.








Then, the next day Stephen and I set forth to find valance fabric and an anniversary present. But first we toured what will be our daycare come January. As much as I'd like to be a stay at home mom, we just can't afford it. Some perks about this daycare is they offer a 10% teacher discount, on planned weeks that baby can't attend (like spring break, thanksgiving week, etc) you don't have to pay as long as you give notice. Oh! And since the school has a 5 day plan and a 3 day plan... when Stephen has a bank holiday all we have to do is get my mom to come out and babysit the next day and we only have to pay for 3 days, not 5. Not many daycares do that. They also have a webcam in each of their nurseries (which I guarantee my mom will watch all day if given the chance). Over all, we really liked the place and its on my way to work- even better!

After that we went to JoAnns fabric and finally found fabric for our valance. At first I really wanted the greyhound toile fabric, but it was just too expensive, unfortunately. But we settled on this fabric and curtain:


Its not as blurry in person, it must have been the picture. But it has light gray, black and beige cream and then the curtain below it is a matching beige cream color. When baby gets here we can easily add pink and blue accents to it. We were able to get both of these for 50% off so we didn't spend as much as we originally budgeted.












After our JoAnns score we went to Macy's to pick out an anniversary present. Stephen and I decided our first year instead of buying each other a gift, we will buy something "big" for ourselves. We try really hard to follow the traditional or modern anniversary gift guidelines. The first year we bought a HUGE clock to hang above our fireplace in our living room. The second year we bought two place settings of china and this year the gift "needed" to be crystal. Well, considering how much money we have handed over to Home Depot this summer we set a budget of $100 or less because our bank account has dipped below where we would like it to. So, we get to Macy's and we look and look and look. Naturally, the first thing I fell in love with was a candy dish with a $275 price tag- little out of budget. I started to get worried because we found two other things we liked okay but weren't in love with... and we didn't want to buy something for the sake of buying something. Then.. I saw it.. it was sitting right next to the candy dish I wanted (probably why I didn't see it sooner). It was this little tiny Waterford bowl but it didn't have a price tag. We asked the lady working how much it cost and she couldn't find it online nor could she find the original box. Well, since it was similar to a votive they had (which was $65) she sold the little crystal bowl to us for $60. When we got in the car I did a little research and apparently it is a sugar bowl that is supposed to come with a crystal creamer which sells for... are you ready? $165. I think we got lucky!

Here is my precious Waterford sugar bowl:

Here it is all sparkly in my China cabinet (ignore the Christmas China... its on my list of things to put up.. hehe)














Happy Anniversary to us!