Gettin Ready for Lil Miss

The last couple months have been a lot of fun!  We have been able to spend a lot of time with family and we have been doing some fun things to get ready for the baby!  We loved spending the weekend in Kaysville for  General Conference.  I have had two awesome baby showers, one from Nate's family and one from my Mom's side of our family and we were so blessed with all sorts of wonderful gifts!  We have amazing families!  I still have one more shower to go, with my Dad's side of the family, and I am so excited!  It is such a fun time of life!

I decided that I wanted to make everything for the nursery for Lil Miss!  I have been workin my little tail off to get all sorts of sewing projects done, but they are finally complete!  Here's a little peek at what I've done!

We scored a free carseat from our Sister-in-Laws friend who had twins!  Thanks Katie!!  Nate saw a carseat one day when we were out and about that was covered in Minky and he thought it was way cool.  So he "encouraged" me to cover ours!  It turned out better than I expected and I am excited that it will keep Lil Miss warm up here in the Frozen Tundra!

This is one of my favorites of everything I made!!  I accidentally didn't buy enough fabric for it so I freaked out and panicked (As I always do when crafting!!)  and then it ended up cuter than it would have been if I bought enough of the gray flowers!  I love the stripe and the little trim I found!  I bought the pattern here and it was great, so easy to follow and so cute!

Everyone says Boppy Pillows are a must!  But they are so expensive!  So I found a pattern and this ended up being the quickest and easiest thing I made!

I made this fantastic nursing cover (Nate refers to it as the Hooter Hider) that has a hidden pocket on the inside!  Sorry bout the wrinkles... everything is a bit of a mess right now!

Next comes the crib bedding!!  I am obsessed with this stuff!!  I made sheets that were so simple and will match better than anything I could have found in a store, a ruffled crib skirt that almost put me over the edge (HUGE shout out to the Gammy-to-Be, my sweet momma helped SO much with this and kept me from throwing my sewing machine at the wall), the circle quilt turned out better than I could have thought!  I was so nervous to tackle the quilt because I have never done anything like that before and I am such a perfectionist when it comes to crafts!!  But I did it all by myself and I am SO pleased with the results!  Hopefully Lil Miss will love it for many years to come!  I also made crib bumpers, but forgot to snap a picture of them!  I was so nervous about them because of the piping, but it was much easier than I expected!  I didn't think I liked them at all, which I was way bummed about, but once I got everything done I loved them!  It was a lot of work to do all of that, but I loved it!  I am so happy that Lil Miss will have all these cute things that no one else has!  I love the colors and it is exactly what I wanted!  Nate is just happy to have the kitchen back.  It was a long couple months as it doubled as a craft room!  He is such a trooper and will be a great Daddy!

Over the weekend we got to go pick up our crib!!  I was extremely excited to say the least!  The crib makes everything feel real.  We picked out the one we wanted months ago, but decided to wait until things got a little closer before buying it.  (Huge THANKS to Nate's parents for helping out with the crib!! This baby is spoiled already!)

Last night for Family Night we put it all together!!  It was a really fun night!  The only time in our whole lives we get to set-up our first baby's crib!  Yay for first time parents!!  Nate keeps laughing at me but I want to remember all these little moments.  So here it is!!

I am so happy with how it all turned out!  I absolutely love it and I can't wait to lay Lil Miss in her adorable bed!  Nate even said "cute" in our dinner prayer when thanking Heavenly Father for our blessings to be able to do all this!  We truly have been so so blessed.  I keep waiting for something to not go just perfect because that is how it has been all along!  But we just keep sitting back in amazement at how many blessings we are receiving.  Big thanks to all the family who have helped us get ready for our baby and many more thanks to a loving Heavenly Father who sees fit to bless us so abundantly!

We've got just over six weeks to go and are getting more excited every day!  I keep waiting for one of us to feel nervous but we haven't yet.  I'm sure it will be overwhelming and hard, but we are not nervous!  I am still feeling pretty darn good!  I truly have been a lucky one as far as pregnancies go!  There are definitely times when it is hard or uncomfortable (and let's be honest, I have definitely had my share of ridiculous meltdowns!!), but I'll take it!!  Nothing beats the feeling of my Lil Miss moving inside of me!  And I can't wait to hold her and feel her on the OUTSIDE of me!!  Yay for babies!!

**I hope I gave credit where credit was due for all the patterns and How-To's!