7 Days to Go...that's enough time, right?

So today is officially one week from our shower. I woke up at 7:30 this morning. I know I need to be crossing things off my list but there's not much I can do until next week. Here's what my list is looing like:

Cirque Du Bebe Things To Do
*Put shower playlist on Antz iphone (today)
*Decorate onesie for guest's sample (I think I'll do that today *I haven't felt so creative*)
*Give her a map and menu/go over food pick up with his sister, Debra (Sunday)
*Order rentals (I called Pico Party Rents yesterday to revise my order so waiting on email from them and Monday before I see Gilli I'm going to pay for the order in person)
*Order PF Changs catering (After acupuncture I'm going to see Bill to place/pay for the order)
*Order Starbucks coffee / buy giftcards (Monday after PF Changs)
*Assemble feather centerpieces (We will do this Tuesday night when he gets home from work)
*Order Sprinkles (I am doing that online Wednesday)
*Clean our house!! Wash curtains, bedding and rugs (can start this once garage is finished so we can put all the storage back into garage and clear the clutter, Pushing for Wednesday)
*Get a pedicure (Thursday, yay!)
*Put pencils through the Bebe Wishes paper (have to wait until Thursday night so the paper doesn't get folded or bent, I don't know how we will store them without the pencils marking the paper)
*Pin celeb photos to corkboard (Antz has a corkboard at work his has to bring home on Thursday for me to use for this game) *it's larger than the foam board*
*Finish menu (Antz wants to affix it to the post before I write on it and I don't want the chalk to fade or get smudged so Thursday I'll write out the menu)
*Purchase flowers for house (Friday morning at downtown flower mart)
*Rental delivery (Friday TBD)
*Cut zebra fabric to fit Gift table and caricaturist table (Friday after delivery)
*Take cash out of the ATM to pay for (caricaturist, starbucks and flowers Friday before Vons)
*Buy ice for drink buckets (Friday when I go to Vons)
*Pick up cupcakes/ Assemble towers (Friday afternoon)
*Change bedding, dust, de-clutter house (Friday)
*Charge camera batteries (Friday, I always forget to do this!)
*Drop off Maxwell at Story & Chris's house (Friday night)
*Put apple juice in bottles for bottles up game/put in fridge (Friday night)
*Wash/style my hair (Friday night)
*Leslie picks up coffee (Saturday @ noon)
*Place the linens, put cushions on the chairs, set the tableware, centerpieces, favors, drinks and dessert table (Saturday)

This is what Antz list is looking like:

*Finish grouting/repairing fireplace hearth (He's working on that now)
*Fix Pink frames (both of the frames need stands to prop them up, today)
*Sew Liz's dress (I just need a few stitches, today)
*Print sign for front gate (today)
*Build bassinet (today)
*Borrow table from his Mom (today)
*Take wood and debris downstairs to throw out (today or tomorrow)
*Put up post for menu board (Sunday)
*Put car seat in my car (Sunday)
*Give her a map and menu/go over food pick up with his sister, Debra (Sunday)
*Assemble feather centerpieces (Tuesday)
*Touch up cracks on outside wall (Wednesday once the garage is finished)
*Put all the tools and garage stuff back into garage (Wednesday once they finish)
*Clean out our cars (we are both holding garage stuff in our cars, Wednesday)
*Help clean, move furniture, wash floors (starting Wednesday)
*Sod, mulch backyard (start on Thursday when our gardener comes and finish Friday when he picks up sod from Lowes)
*Paint our front door (Thursday)
*Hang wreath (Thursday)
*Bring home corkboard for celeb game (Thursday)
*Wash backdoor and windows (Friday)
*Bring trash cans to the backyard (Friday)
*Set up electrical outlet for the portable speakers in backyard (Friday)
*Assemble flowers (Friday)
*Drop off Maxwell at Story & Chris's house (Friday night)
*Pick up balloons (Saturday)
*Hang (2) posters, (2) canopies and balloons (Saturday)
*Set up candles in fireplace (Saturday)
*Place the linens, set up chairs, set the tableware, centerpieces, favors, drinks and dessert table (Saturday)

As you can see these lists are quite long but I am hoping nothing is too tedious. Antz keeps telling me the stuff on his list each takes less than an hour to complete. Nothing can stop me from worrying *stressing* that the crew won't get the garage finished on time. They are working all weekend but we have another inspection coming up and that may hold us up *gasp*. I really have to stick to this timetable so Friday and Saturday we aren't running around too much *as if we aren't already*. My Mom and her friend Patti dropped by last night and they got to see the nursery and our maternity pics. I was pretty embarrassed on how cluttered and dirty our house was. Tonight we are picking up Antz Mom and going to an art show my Mom is playing drums at in Downtown LA. We have a prenatal appt. this Wednesday and we are meeting our pediatrician, Kristen Chapman, the same day.
So yesterday I uploaded Olivia's nursery photos on Project Nursery. I have been trying to submit the photos to Ohdeedoh but I keep getting an error message, I think the photo sizes are too large :(
Looks like the busiest week ever!! Hope I have time to post anything.

8 Days!! Are you kidding me??

How did our shower countdown get into single digits?? I have been dreaming of this baby shower for close to a year *just as giddy as I was on my wedding day*. I have a better sense of everything getting done in time. Particularly because the garage has made big progress

Today's progress

Today I need to run errands and most importantly I am going to look for some new couch pillows!! The ones we have now are so yawn!

Sorry not the best pic of the pillows but they are sad lumpy Ikea pillows and I don't feel like they look good. I can't wait until the garage is ready so I can clean our house! Tonight my Mommy is coming by with her friend Patti to drop off a new floodlight for us and check out the nursery. Thank goodness there is one clean room in this house.

A Finished Nursery

This morning we were woken up by a buzz at our gate at 7am! It was the crew with the iron guy and they have been happily working for the past 2 hours drilling holes for the iron posts.

I think we are having an inspection today so *fingers crossed, rubbing rabbits foot* I am holding my breathe we pass. It's such a relief that they are working again but there are still some obstacles and the crew has to reinstall our floodlight *my Mom is bringing us a new one from her house in Apple Valley*, fix our garage sensors, the garage won't close because they had to move the sensors so it needs to be re-configured and put back a part of our stair railing. If everything keeps going like it is, they have 5 more days of work so it's a tight deadline.

8 Months of hard work!

My honey bunny took some pics of the nursery with the SLR this morning which look much better than the ones I took last night with the Canon powershot. Voila! Our finished nursery!!

Buying Guide:
Paint: Martha Stewart Living Interior Matte Flat Paint in Reed/Tailor's Chalk and White from Home Depot
Furniture: Classic crib, changing table, dresser and hutch - Oeuf NYC (we found ours brand new on Craigslist for waaay less than retail)
Rug/Doorknob: Dream Menagerie Rug / Junco Doorknob from Anthropologie
Curtains/Tiebacks: Canvas Grommet Panels from Pottery Barn Kids; Leaf Tiebacks from Urban Outfitters
Poster: Sasquatch! Music Festival Giclee Print from Invisible Creature
Glider/Bassinet: Luca Glider/ Ninna Nanna bassinet from Monte Design
Footstool: Moroccan Leather Pouf from Tazi
Small Bookcase: Expedit Shelving unit from Ikea
Desk: Fredrik from Ikea (pre-owned)
Mattress/Crib Bedding: Naturepedic Organic Cotton Classic 150 Crib mattress; Litto Kids Magic Garden Crib Set from Modern Nursery
Artwork: My husband!!
Mobile: handmade by my husband
Ceiling fan: from Restoration Hardware (pre-owned)


We are going to email these to the lovely woman who sold us the Oeuf furniture from craigslist today. She is preggers with her 3rd child and she had 2 boys and she really wanted a girl but she was having another boy. Which is why we scored such a deal on the Oeuf furniture.

Today I am going to World Market to buy some pretty pillows for the couch. I also need food for Maxie. I still need to find an electrician to fix the light in the closet and the kitchen. Tomorrow my Mom is coming to LA for her art show Saturday. YAY!

*HOLY SHIT UPDATE!!*
I just found out we passed the first rough inspection!! I can't believe I am actually hearing good news. Whew! Now they can finish the railing to and the next 2 days they can start working on the roof. SO RAD!!

The chick who sold us the furniture wrote back:

You guys are the cutest. Thank you for sending the pictures and the nice words! I love the orange--so happy. As for us, we are figuring out our new family dynamic with Zac. It has been fun but hectic. Bryan and I send our best wishes to you 3. May you have as much love as your hearts can bear!

Song

Awww, tear! I can't believe we got such a deal on the furniture *saved $700!!!*

Lowes and Target

We went to Lowes and Target pretty late, didn't leave the house after 8:30 and didn't get home until after 10. Antz got all the supplies he needed for finishing the fireplace but he may wait until this weekend to work on it. He doesn't have that much more to do. We picked up more ink and glossy photo paper from Target. Antz vetoed buying the topairies because they are too tall for his truck and maybe too tall for our front porch and they are too expensive. Boo!

I was burning hot and sweating in Lowes, I guess I was having a heat flash. I am kinda panicked because I haven't been feeling Olivia move so much today :( She should be totally turning flips because I finally got her glider and I will stop stressing about her room being finished on-time. Antz finished putting up the artwork, her "O" and his Neopets plushies.

The chair is much bigger in person. Antz is printing the preggers and maternity photos for our scrapbook now. I'm glad we bought new paper because it prints much clearer and sharper than the Epson paper we were using. I have the major yawns so smell ya later!

Happy Stinko De Mayo~

There should be a celebration today because this morning the crew came and started working, I scheduled Best Buy to come out to fix our refridgerator *for the 4th time* because it isn't getting cold enough and I got a call from the delivery company that our glider and bassinet should be coming today between 12 -3pm. All makes me totally happy but I am still bummed because David is saying the city wants him to take up the roof he has already put down and use actual deck material on our roof which is more expensive and takes longer. He is going to fight it today but I don't see how successful he will be. This nightmare will never end. I have so much anxiety about this repair not being finished by next Wednesday. It really sucks that it is my happiest time in my life and it's ruined by drama from the stupid city inspector. It's always something!!

Well yesterday I didn't get anything done, I paid bills, made important phone calls but haven't crossed anything off my list. Antz printed a few things for me last night but he couldn't print any maternity photos because we ran out of glossy photo paper. I would love to go to Target today but I have to wait for the delivery and Best Buy. I cooked dinner last night and I totally impressed myself and Antz. I am disappointed that Antz Mom called us last night to let us know his Aunt and cousin from Mexico can't make it to the shower, BOO! So as far as rsvps go, Gail, his cousin Chrissy and my godfather, Leon are the only ones who are still pending. Monday I am placing the rental and catering order so I am crossing my fingers I'll hear from them by then. I so need a vacay!!

What a busy day!! I was anxiously awaiting 3 major things, Best Buy coming to look at the fridge to see why it's not getting cold, the delivery of our glider and bassinet and word on David getting the permit from the city. Well, good news, great news and BEST NEWS!! Around 2:45 Geek squad *chick* came and of course the fridge was colder than ever. She is still ordering a part for it and she is coming back to install it on the 17th. At the exact time the Best Buy chick was leaving, a huge truck was pulling up in front of my house. I was jumping up and down like a flea, they brought it right up the stairs no problem! I am still nervous it won't fit through the nursery door but once it's out of the box it should be ok. I was considering building the bassinet myself to surprise Antz when he gets home but I am worn out.

Now on to best news, David texted Antz to say he got the  permit and the inspection is scheduled for tomorrow. The workers are starting on the fire wall today.

We are going to Lowes when he gets home to get more cement, grout and I want to buy the topairies *if they are still there*. So tonight he's going to finish the fireplace. I can't wait to take pics of the finished nursery. What a great day, I am getting conditioned to not enjoy great days like today because I feel like it's inevitable that I will have a bad day in the future.
Antz is home now and he had to take off the nursery door to squeeze the glider through. He got it in place and it almost was too big because it was blocking the dresser drawers. It's now in place and he put up his artwork.

We still need to find a home for his Radiohead poster but I keep second guessing if I want it in the nursery. Now we are going to Lowes and Target.

FLASHBACK: This day in 2006 we were preparing for our Cinco de Mayo fiesta

Viva Fiesta!!!