It was shortly after Jenn and Spencer announced they were moving to Rexburg when I had the idea. I wanted to surprise Jenn with something special for their new baby coming in a couple months. Jenn has done so much for Cortney, and instead of buying clothes or cool toys I thought a small nursery would be a great idea. After a couple weeks of thinking about it, I let my mom in on it and together we came up with this!
We arranged it so that when we arrived in Rexburg it would be lunch time. Since Jenn cannot really move anything anyway we planned that she would go pick up lunch, with Ryan (whose mission was to distract her) and Cortney, to make it take longer. We got to Rexburg, and when Jenn left to get lunch she left with an empty house, we had not even backed up the moving truck by the door yet, and when she came back, the room she wanted for the baby looked like this!
Can I just say how kind of difficult it is to find things for a red, white and black nursery? But between me and my mom and our craftiness we pulled it off!
The changing table and rocking chair were originally different colors but we spray painted them black to match each other and the nursery theme. Gifts from many people filled the changing table and small 3 drawer rubbermaid container
I even took some of the pictures from the photography session we did earlier this week and put them up. It is kind of hard to see but I made them all black and white, unless there was something pink in the pictures, like the elephant or shoes - I kept those pink!
A combined effort from my mom and me lead to this chair being finished! It is a nice glider chair with a matching ottoman. When we first found it it was a light oak color, and the fabric was falling apart and looked dirty, so we reupholstered it, and painted it, and we are excited about how well it turned out. The fabric actually matches a blanket my mom made for the baby - it is on the 3 drawer thing by the other wall I even made a fancy pillow to put on it! PS - the blanked on the ottoman was a gift I knitted for the baby too!
This was under the window. The bench was made by Spencers grandpa, and we put a couple of stuffed animals on it that she had, but we did buy the bear in the middle, and put the little ribbon on him.
We also bought baby hangers - something Jenn was super excited about I guess, again thanks to a lot of different people they have many clothes and things to help when the baby will come!
Just another view. You may notice the lack of a crib, and the reason for that is, every baby in our family - for generations now has slept in this crib, that was still in storage when we took the pictures. Cortney even slept in it when she was a baby. Kind of amazing, I love that we keep that tradition going!
It was so hard keeping in a secret from Jenn, but we were so excited to show it to her yesterday! We are so excited for Jenn and Spencer to move to Rexburg and start a new chapter in their lives, and excited that we could give them something to help out! Love you Jenn! Glad you liked it!
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