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With the exception of some crown molding that needs to be painted and a baby in the crib, the nursery is a finished project!! Check it out below...

A big thanks to my dear friend Julie Grant who painted this canvas for me! Also, thanks to Heather for her idea on the fabric!! I lack a little in my artistic ability so I keep talented friends around to help with my ideas :)

25 random things about ME!

Two of my favorite bloggers have done this and I have been meaning to follow in their blogging footsteps!! Read on and maybe you will learn something about me you didn't know ;)


1. I haven't slept through the night in about 3 months!
2. Due to the above...The last 3 nights, I have laid in bed at 1am thinking of random facts about me to put on this post.
3. I lived in Sandy, Utah for about 9 years and am still best friends with Caroline, who lived behind us.
4. She lives in Ohio and we talk almost everyday, sometimes multiple times a day.
5. I still sleep with a "blankie". It is a full size blue electric blanket that Kris calls my "aids blanket" (it's really not that nasty!).
6. I love to count stairs when going up or down them.
7. My parents moved out of my favorite house while I was out of town. I came home and we were living in an apartment!
8. Kris and I drove to Ohio to pick up a motorcycle that was bought on Ebay.
9. I HATE to dust
10. I will NOT touch hand rails on stairs or escalators in public places.
11. I love Target. I cannot go in there and not buy something.
12. I have been to Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. Just to name some of my favs :)
13. I love a good filet (I had one tonight:) )
14. I broke my ankle as a Junior in high school. I had a plate, screws and pins put in to keep it all together!
15. You can still feel where the screws were...ewwww!
16. I used to play the piano and the clarinet.
17. I took clogging as a kid because I wanted the shoes.
18. Kris I got drunk with some Austrians the first day of our honeymoon and I couldn't drink for the rest of the trip.
19. I still have not ordered my wedding album or pictures!! We have been married for over a year!!
20. I actually enjoy going to the dentist.
21. I think pennies are a nuisance. I sometimes throw them away.
22. I check my email about 50 times a day.
23. I don't enjoy talking on the phone.
24. I can make a meal out of white rice and soy sauce...which I do quite often. MMMMM...
25. I have major road rage! Why can't everyone drive as flawlessly as myself?

Believe it or not...I too can get sick!!

There is nothing I hate more than a patient showing up to the clinic with green snot running from their nose, sneezing all over me and my toys, and like today, with the most AWFUL cough I've ever heard come from a child. The best is when, mid session, a child tells you, "I didn't go to school today because I threw up." Lovely!! The parents response is always, "Oh, well that was this morning and they have been fine all day." I actually had a parent tell me ( and show me), at the end of the session of course, about the ringworm that she and her son had. It was spreading like crazy through his classroom, she informed me!!!!

So...as I blow my nose raw, cough up a lung and sneeze myself to sleep, I just wanted to put it out there that...I TOO CAN GET SICK!!!!! I must say, someone will pay if this cough wakes and irritates the "sleeping giants" I have worked SO hard to tame and put to sleep ;)

Elly's new rug!!

I must say that the hardest part about fixing up the nursery has been finding the PERFECT rug!! Finding something in our price range that I liked, with colors that went, that wasn't too "butterflies and flowers" was quite the challenge. After finding "the one" and bringing it home to discover it just didn't work, I was quite defeated. My dear, sweet friend Ali and her mom came to my rescue! As if hosting my baby shower wasn't enough, she said that they wanted to buy me a Pottery Barn rug as a baby gift! I was so excited when she called me to tell me it was in! Check out the pictures below...it sure does make the room if you ask me :)

Thanks Ali and Sandy...you're the GREATEST!!

Sampson approves!