Finally!

It only took me 11 months, but I finally finished decorating Payton's room!  For months we had some very nice wall hangings, but either haven't had the time to hang them, or kept forgetting about hanging them.  It's amazing what you can get done when you put it on a to-do list.  Here's our progress:

On the shelf, the left wood shape says Smile and the right wood shape says Dream.  The middle are ABC blocks.

 

The wall hanging on the left was made by a close friend of mine.  It's of the ABC's.  The "O" is comprised of an owl.

This wall hanging was made by my MIL.  It's a deorative birth announcement.  It lists Payton's name, birth weight, length, birthday and time born.

I'm sorry for the crappy photo quality.  I took the pictures with my phone.  We all know I'm too lazy to take the pictures with my camera, hook my camera up to my computer and then upload.  This was way easier.

Wedding!!!

Last week was my first week back to work.  It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, or as it could be.  Definitely glad that we took Pays to daycare the week before.  I think if we didn't do that, it would have been a hell of a lot harder to part with her last Monday morning.  Each day it got a little easier.  Whenever I would get sad from being away from her, I would just look at her picture I have on my desk.  It sits next to the sonogram picture I still have from when I was pregnant.  It's weird to think that the fetus in the sonogram was/is Payton.  Kind of a before and after shot.

My work week was a little lighter since I took Friday off.  It made my first week back at work easier I think.  But I didn't take it off to hang out with Payton, although that would have been amazing!  We took her to my parents house so they could bask in the glory of having Miss Payton.  This last weekend was Heath's brother Brent and his fiance Saranne's wedding in Cozad, and what a beautiful wedding it was!  Saranne made a beautiful bride, and Brent made a handsome groom!  Congrats to the two of you on the beginning of married life together! 

Friday night while we were in Cozad we went to Big E's bar.  Best. Bar!  I had a beer this size:

This thing was huge!  I tried to do a size comparison by standing the sunglasses next to it.  Heath thought it was equvalent to three tall boys, I think it was a little more.  Your arm definitely gets a work out carrying that thing around.  Apparently Friday was arms and back!  We only had time for one beer so I made the most of it!  While we were at Big E's I also noticed this:

Yes, that's a dog...in the kennel.  What kind of place is this?!  In the back behind a closed door was a rotwieller.  Apparently, later that night there was another dog walking around the bar.  Maybe it doubles as a bar/dog shelter.  We had a great time this weekend.  Congrats again Brent & Saranne!!

I decided to take today off so that I could spend the day with Payton since I didn't get to see her all weekend.  Too bad Heath couldn't take the day off, too.  But he spent all last evening with her on his own and bonded with her while I unpacked and did some things around the house.

This last Saturday was also my grandpa's 82nd birthday.  Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!  I'm glad Payton got to spend it with you!