4th of July Shopping

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!

For the past few months we've been looking at all of the standard places for baby furniture: Babies R'Us, Sears, JC Penny's, Burlington Coat Factory, Stacy's Furniture. We finally narrowed down our selection and decided that today was the day that we would order the furniture!!! So this morning we drove over to Burlington Coat Factory and decided to place our order for the set that we liked. Little did we know that this whole thing would turn out to be such a fiasco!! Despite finding somebody quickly to take down our order, we went to the cashier to check out and it took her 45 minutes to figure out how to place the order. The lady was so incompetent and rude. I've never been so relieved to leave a store. Then after going to lunch we discovered that instead of ordering a crib and a dresser they ordered two cribs!! On top of that they said that the items wouldn't be in the store until late October. We decided to go back and get our money back and go else-where.

One of Chris' old work buddies said they found some great furniture at a reasonable cost at Stacy's Furniture, so we drove over to their Allen "Oh Baby!" Store. We found a great set that is supposed to last for a very long time. We are both really excited about the furniture. It is going to look great with the nautical theme. My favorite piece is the chair. It rocks and swivels but the fabric is what makes it so great. It feels like a teddy bear because it is so warm and fuzzy. I just love it. Here is a photo of the furniture set (without the chair) from the manufacturer's website (http://www.westwoodbaby.com/cypress_point.html). We picked out the dresser/hutch and crib.The other objective for today was to finish Marshall's baby registry. What is so convenient is the fact that we don't physically have to go to the store to register. (I LOVE THE INTERNET!) This works out well since we've been so busy at work the past few months. Despite the time constraints; I'm nearly finished with our registries at Target (http://www.target.com/gp/browse.html/ref=nav_registries/601-0736601-3536105?ie=UTF8&node=306498011) Pottery Barn (http://www.potterybarnkids.com/index.cfm) and Babies R'Us (http://www.toysrus.com/registry/index.jsp).