Abbey's Big Day

after what seemed like 9 years instead of 9 months, on August 29th at 6:39 am. our little girl was born. She weighed in at a whopping 6 pounds 7 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.

Welcome Abbey Jean Campbell.

What a trooper mom was. 9 months of pure sickness, and then 26 hours of labor and an epidural that didn't work and she still looks great.

What in the world did I just get myself into. ( a whole lot of not sleeping that's for sure)


look how small those are.



I was lucky enough to have my dad and brother kyle up that weekend from St. George to see Kurt play a football game up north.

And of course Aunt Jami loves her new little niece. I would have put pics of Bill and the gang but he didn't send me any of those pics. But just to let everyone know, they did come and support us too.

That says it all right there!!!

The Baby's Room fiasco

So I decided to paint the baby's room to make it look like a little girls room as we awaited our beautiful baby. For some reason I thought i'd do light green walls with a plaid accent wall. What was i thinking??? Here's a brief overview of the ordeal I went through.

so first had to measure the horizontal lines, and chalk line them straight. Then I started the taping process .

Taping finished, look at those super straight lines.

Then I started the painting process, reverting back to the old days making sure I colored between the lines.

Took off the tape and my heart stopped... I didn't realize that if you have textured walls the seal from the tape sucks, and that your paint will bleed the whole way across the wall. :(

Close up of the wall Bleed.

So Kari was reading online to help me fix the problem and came across a site that said if you have textured walls you can paint a clear coat over the tape and wall and that will cause a seal. Then paint your colors and remove the tape and you'll get a nice clean line.... so after i RETAPED the whole darn thing AGAIN... I did the clear coat, and when I removed the tape low and behold, a nice clean line.

the finished product. Oh yeah you guys were expecting to see a plaid wall weren't you? Well I really wanted to finish it, but I made an executvie decision knowing that if i did the vertical lines and it didn't work, i'd have to repaint the whole wall white again and start over. For those of you that know me, you know i'd never in a million years do that. So I decided to just let well enought alone and stick with a horizontal line accent wall.

the finished product with the crib, and curtains Kari did. (with help from shelley's mom.. thank you).