Mom's Visit

This weekend, my mom was in town. We had a hectic weekend of showing her the town's best eats, finishing the nursery and reorganizing my house. It was awesome to have her in town!

my Oklahoma friends threw me and Bryan a monster themed shower

The baby shower was so much fun, and our little baby now has lots of cute clothes, socks, shoes, books, towels, bath stuff and blankets. Mom was super helpful with taking off the tags and organizing the clothes by size in his dresser.

We spent Saturday shopping in Tulsa for stuff for the baby. We got some frames, some bins for diapers, fabric for the curtains (my mom is making our curtains), decals that we later used for the wall art, a new rug (softer and more fitting), and some adorable clothes from the sale rack at Baby Gap.

The finished nursery is all due to my mom. Bryan and I were slowly moving through the coats of paint and slowly putting everything away. My mom is a hurricane of get-it-done. And she did! Check out the (almost) finished product:

In addition to everything with the baby, Mom reorganized our garage (way more space!), our kitchen and our living room. Everything makes more sense. She also did all of our laundry, scrubbed the kitchen, the fridge, the bathroom and swept all our floors. I couldn't have asked for a more helpful mom! She's amazing!

I am so lucky that she was able to visit and that she loves me enough to sleep on the couch and clean my house. Lord knows, I need that kind of love. I love my Mom, and I'm so excited to share this chapter of our lives with her.

Baby Buckley's Room

Our little baby has a room! We took the office and pulled the computer and other office-y junk into the room formerly known as my closet. Now we have a bedroom, a nursery and an office/Alyssa's closet. I haven't really organized my room, but I will be doing that this weekend while Bryan is in Chicago presenting his newest econ paper at a conference.

Do you want to see the room?

(It's not finished yet.)

It's cute!

Watch us put it together:

After all that hard work, we had a semi-finished nursery:

Super cute, right? I love the white furniture with the wood floors.

The rug is from when the room was an office, and I'm not sure if it will stay. If it doesn't, then we'll get another. I can't imagine a baby's room without a rug.

Obviously, I'm in love with blue. It's my favorite color and boy or girl, I was going to do blue. My dresser looks adorable next to the white furniture. Now we have to pick a color to paint the walls and get some art for the walls.

Bryan has come up with the awesome theme for our boy's nursery: monsters! I want to make some cute monsters for the wall, get him some Ugly Dolls (look just like monsters) and deck it out. EXCITING!!

We are home.

"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule."
-- Frederick W. Robertson