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Thanks everyone for your cards, gifts, and calls for my birthday. It feels good to know that I am loved!

We were pleasantly surprised this spring to find several groups of beautiful daffodils in the landscaping around our front yard.

I don't have pictures yet but there is also a large bush with big red flowers, a bush with gorgeous yellow leaves, and a long bush in front of the house with small red blossoms. A big thanks to the previous owners for leaving all this beauty for us!

This is the project my mom and I have been working on during the past week--painting the nursery! It was really fun to have my mom here to share in the excitement. During the first few days of her stay, we had a really hard time choosing what bedding we wanted and eventually decided that Bart and I would rather have an interesting room than just some cheesy animal print bedding, so we went with painting the wall argyle and looking for plain white bedding. All four walls were painted a light gray, and then we chose the two colors in the argyle pattern based on inspiration from this painting we got in Philadelphia (the lighting is a little off and if you can't tell what the painting is, it's a parent holding a child--TENDER!)


And so the taping began...




We need to put in the dotted/dashed line that will cross the diamonds, but we're still trying to figure out how to make a stencil that won't mess up what we've already done. We're pretty excited about the way it turned out so far!