The Nursery

I finally took pictures of the nursery.  Caden's room is the 3rd bedroom in our house and up until March of last year was used as a room for storage.  I had always hoped that room would be the nursery.  It was the only room in the house we hadn't repainted.  We were kinda waiting for the day we could paint it for our child.  After years of infertility, we decided to go ahead and just clean the room out and paint it.  Mitch picked this blue color and I cried while I painted.  I felt like I was giving up on a dream.  Mitch said he was hoping that, like in the movie, Field of Dreams, that if we "built it, he would come."  And sure enough, he came :) What a perfect color for our sweet baby boy's room.

This is the quote that we ordered from Enchanting Quotes and thought it was the perfect thing to go over his crib.

For this child I have prayed and the Lord has granted the desires of my heart. 

I Samuel 1:23

Caden's Room

 Cute decorations from several people and the diaper bags.  One from the hospital and one from my friends in Sunday School.  It's a Thirty-One bag that I picked out and had personalized.

 This is the dresser that my Grandpa Whitney made for Mitch when he was a kid.  We thought it would be neat for Caden to have some furniture in his room that his great grandpa made. 

 My aunt Nancy bought us his crib bedding and had my mom give it to me on Mother's Day.  She lives in Utah and thought that Caden's crib needed to be dressed.  Thankfully she had the idea to give it to me early because I was able to get it all put together in the few days I was home in between hospital stays.  It made me feel better to have his crib ready even though I knew he wouldn't sleep in it for a while.

 This was the glider I got for my highschool graduation.  "Grandma" Ruby recovered it for me so it would match Caden's bedding.  On the back of the glider is the blanket I started making on bedrest and another blanket that Sheralyn made us.  The bear is from our friend and neighbor, Amanda.

 Thanks to the Bunko girls for the crib accessories!

 These are the shelves and baskets my mom and sisters got for his room.  While I was in the NICU with Caden, they were busy putting his room together for me.  It was such a blessing to come home from the hospital and have it all set up so nice!  The books are from my church friends.  We had a storybook shower and the guests wrote notes on books in the place of a shower card.  Such a fun idea!  We've been loving to read them to him.

 I couldn't post a blog update without a few pictures of my cutie!