With the addition of the crib, I feel like the baby's room has taken leaps and bounds!  It will be a fairly neutral nursery since I've decided that painting anything in this house is just too much considering we're only here for 2-2.5 more years and there's just SO much to paint.  So the nursery will be white with accents of color.  

I posted some nursery inspiration images below that I've been looking at and also some items I've decided to purchase.  The room will slowly come together over the next couple months.  

My hope is to just have some fun colored accents. I've purchased plum colored drapes and the bedding I've registered for is a lavender color.  The rug is from Ikea and just kind of goes with everything.  I'm hoping to find a fun colored dresser or maybe even painting one.

I've picked out the three prints below from The Animal Print Shop and hope to order them this month.  I'll hang them over her bed.  

I'm also loving the book ledge idea.  I've registered for a couple from Pottery Barn Kids.

My mom and I are going to try to make our mobile  based on the image below.  I'm excited for our little craft project.  I think I like the below felt colors from Crafty on Etsy.

More to come!

Literally...

I've waited to post this anywhere, and have still yet to post anything on Facebook myself, but wanted to finally say that Jason and I will be adding a new addition to our family this Spring.  Our little girl is due at the end of April and we couldn't be more excited to meet her!

With the recent kicks I've felt, my growing belly, some initial purchases, and some of the super sweet gifts we've received - its starting to feel more and more real!  We built and put together her crib last week and I keep walking by the room and just staring at it.  Its not a fancy crib, but I like just the sight of it.  

We have two names in mind and have pretty much decided on one, but have decided to keep it a secret until we can meet her ourselves.

There won't be any belly photos on here (sorry!) but I thought I'd share some photos (they're mostly iphone shots because they've all been on the fly!) of some of the gifts we've received and things we've bought so far.  While I'm back in the US I'm having two baby showers, one hosted by my best friends and cousins and the other hosted by Jason's mom & sister.  I can't wait to see everyone and celebrate.  

Please keep us in your thoughts in the next couple months that everything keeps going smoothly.  We have no reason to think otherwise, so far everything with the baby has been healthy, but you just never know.  

I'm really looking forward to our new life in 2014!

Also, to my sweet friends - this by no means is all that we've received so far.  We're so lucky to have such good friends that have thought to send us stuff.  I just didn't think to take photos of everything! 

Towards the house anyways... 

We hung a few more things with Jason's new power tool (a concrete drill - picture Tim the Toolman doing his Argh Argh noise).  

The giant boxes that contain our Ikea wardrobes are still in the middle of our bedroom floor, but these new shelves in our kitchen were a nice check off the list!  Fingers crossed the mugs don't come crashing down in the night!

We have our first house guest coming on Friday, one of Jason's old classmates from Georgia, so our goal is to get the wardrobes built sometime this week!