Friday, June 27, 2008

Friday Foto Finish Fiesta!!

I love Friday's because I love to show off and talk about myself. Thanks to Carrie, I get to do that now every Friday.

So, once you are done looking at all my awesome pics (because there is a plethora of them today) you can head on over to Candid Carrie and check out everyone else's pictures. Post some pics of your own and play along too...


Zander's Room


His room is my favorite room in the house. Its fun and detailed and I LOVE it! When I was pregnant I wanted the perfect nursery. But I wasn't thinking pastels. I love all things cow. So, together with my friends, Debbi and Jackie, we recreated The Little People Farm in Zander's room. We started this project when I was about 7 1/2 months pregnant and I literally put the finishing touches on 2 days before he was born. I couldn't stop messing with it. I couldn't stop looking at it either. I would go into his room every night and just sit and stare. I would wonder what it would be like filled with this new little life. Would he like it as much as I do?

Here it is before furniture:


































Here it is now:











So, yes, I know his name shows up a lot in this room. You have to understand that this pregnancy severely affected my memory. What if I forget what I named him?

My friend, Kris, was kind enough to provide me with the letters above his bed. And since, Z and her son, Jaxen, are BFF's they both have to have the same bed (although Jax has the dark wood color) with their names above the bed. Its what BFFs do!

I love his room even more now....because he LOVES it!
He likes to go around telling me what everything is.
And of course the room is even better now because I don't have to imagine how it
would be with my baby in it anymore!



25 comments:

Candid Carrie said...

This is the coolest nursery I have ever seen. Alright, I haven't seen many. I don't get out much In Real Life, but if I did get invited to other people's houses I would bet that this would be the coolest nursery I could ever see!

Lori said...

That room is almost as cute as its occupant!

Lindsay said...

That is one swank nursery you've got going on! I second Lori's opinion!

You really had the nesting drive in your last trimester, did you? :) You put it to some good use, too.

JWilson said...

A girl in my bookclub id her daughters nursery just like that and they even added a swinging screen door on the door frame. It's such a cute idea and I'm jealous of both of you.

ugagirl30 said...

That is amazing. I wish I would have thought of that for my former little cowboy.

Christy said...

His room is too cute! And we have that exact same rocking horse!

Oh, and thanks for the link to the free blogger templates. I LOVE my new look too. I can't believe she was giving them away for free! Actually, I liked your template the best, but decided that you would be mad if I uploaded the EXACT SAME template:)

-Bridget said...

That is so adorable. Great murals, good work!

Judy Schwartz Haley | CoffeeJitters.Net said...

this is the coolest nursery ever!

One Crazy Chick! said...

Want to come over and do mine? Or, my now almost 2-year-olds room since the opportunity for a nursery has passed.

Kaza said...

Wow! What an awesome nursery! Just visiting from SITS, working my way through the latest saucy blogs list! Zander is a cutie pie!

leezee52 said...

I would love to sleep in that room!!!! Soooo cute!!!!

jen721 said...

The time you must have put into that room was worth it. Absolutely Fabulous!

John Deere Mom said...

Awesome room!!!!! My farm lovin' boy has one similar but without the creative painting! That is amazing...and perfect for a little boy!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful, I love it! And the little man, I have to say her is even cuter than the room, and that is sayin' alot!

Missy said...

THAT is too cool! Are you always that artistic? He is such a lucky little boy and so darn cute! My favorite part of the mural are the animals with their happy expressions!

Tam said...

What a ROOM!!! It rocks!!!!

Shelle-BlokThoughts said...

First of all CUTE kid! And I can't believe the creativity...I have NONE of it!

Anonymous said...

What an amazing room! And a lucky little Zander!

tiarastantrums said...

LOVE that room! Wow that must have taken forever to paint!!
We have that riding pony too!!

Anonymous said...

Surfed over from SITS and have to tell you that that is a gorgeous nursery! And what a great idea to use the little people farm as inspiration. My oldest daugthers room was Tinkerbell and has now become Dora. I too remember standing over the girls cribs thinking someday soon there will be a baby lying in there :) Thanks for the memory!

wolfqueen2 said...

Cute room. Zander is so awesome on that pony. He is adorable and I bet he loves that room as much as you do.

Gemini Girl said...

how awesome is that room? Did you paint that yourself?

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Tiffany said...

I love it! That is so cute! Look at you in the 23 comments.. you go girl!

Mary said...

Great job. What a fun child's room. I'm sure it stirs his imagination.