Kirtland and the Nursery

Last week Cameron had a few days off from work during the week so we decided we should make the quick trip out to Kirtland. We have been wanting to go since we moved here, but we moved in the middle of winter so that wasn't a good time and then we just never found a good day to go. We wanted to go at least once before the baby was born so we picked one of the cooler(still high 80's and high humidity) days and headed out early in the morning hoping to beat most of the heat. It is really not a bad drive from our house. I think it took about 45 minutes to get there. We got there around 9 and started with a tour of the church-owned sites which include the Newel K. and Elizabeth Ann Whitney Home, Newel K Whitney Store and John Johnson Inn and then we headed over to the temple and took a tour there as well.

This was really cool. The couple giving the tour said that most of the furniture and things in the house were just time pieces, but not actual artifacts from the houses, but this table was the actual table in one of the upper rooms of the Newel K. Whitney store. This was where Joseph Smith did tons of translating and received many revelations.

The School of the prophets room. It was a lot smaller than I had imagined.

Us sitting in the front of the room. President Monson was just here recently and taught several missionaries in that room as well. We thought that was cool.

The Whitney home

Newel K. Whitney Store

Looking out from the saw mill. It was really pretty there

The saw mill

The temple

The tour of the temple was really cool and informative. We were able to walk through the first two floors and around the grounds.

Both tours were very well done and had some interesting stories. We are excited to have scoped it out so we can take family there when they come visit!

Since we only have two weeks (or less) until the baby comes we wanted to make sure the nursery was all put together and in order. We had ordered several things online and were waiting for those to come in the mail until we could completely assemble each thing and put it all together how we wanted in the room. We were surprised when we got literally 5 huge packages on our doorstep in one day, so we decided that was the day to sit down and put it all together. I am glad it is finally all done and we're ready to bring the little guy home.

The Nusrery

The crib and the jungle animal appliques we found on clearance at target. We had fun putting those up and they actually match the bedding set really well for buying them at different times and places.

Closer up of the wall. Cameron really enjoys the monkey...if you can't tell it has a hat on and is juggling. (: I told him our child will grow up thinking that's what monkeys do and will be so confused when he sees them for real in a zoo or something.

The crib and bedding. It is an ABC jungle animals set that my parents bought for us. The fitted sheet has ABC's on it and everything else has the animals with the name of each animal on it as well. It is very cute.

The other part of the applique set on the opposite wall. Also, the rocker and little table with the lamp. We actually already had the table and lamp from when we were first married. We had them in our bedroom in Rexburg, but don't really need them here and thought they looked cute and would be useful in the baby's room.

The last corner of the room. This is the dresser/changing table(with the diaper bag on it in this picture). Then there is a Baby's First Year calendar hanging on the wall.

We really like how the room turned out in the end. We weren't quite sure what look we were going for at first except that we were for sure on a budget and we wanted to keep it gender neutral so we can use everything again even if we have a girl next time. I think we did pretty well with both keeping it low-budget(but looking nice) and cute/neutral colors and patterns.