Baby girl has a name and a nusery

How we chose the name Kayla Grace...

Since before I was pregnant Daniel and I just knew that our next one was going to be a boy.  I think it is because having a boy is all we knew.  We already had a boy so why wouldn't we have another boy.  Good logic, huh?!  We also knew for a very long time that if we did have another boy we were going to name him Caleb. Two days after finding out I was pregnant our pastor did a sermon on Caleb that really spoke to us.  Whenever we hear the story of Joshua and Caleb it is always focused on Joshua, never Caleb. Daniel felt like that was confirmation for our boy name and for me it was just a reminder that God was going to bring me through this pregnancy with a healthy baby at the end.  As most women do I couldn't help but worry about the baby with all the what ifs but I just felt God was using this sermon to tell me that just like Joshua and Caleb, he brought me to the mountain and he was surely going to bring me THROUGH it as well. 

The day we found out we were having a girl we were totally stumped on baby names.  We looked at our list of baby names and just couldn't decide on a name.  There were a few we both liked but none that we both loved.  I went to bed a little frustrated while Daniel stayed up a little while longer looking at names online.  While I was laying in bed I was going crazy just thinking of names.  I was driving myself craaazzzzzy.  I finally gave up and prayed that God would give us both a name for our little girl.  That night I woke up in the middle of the night with the name Kayla in my mind and I thought, "Wow, that is pretty."  Then I realized how similar it was to Caleb.  I woke up through out the night and just kept thinking about how pretty Kayla was. 

The next morning I called Daniel at work so excited to tell him about Kayla.  When I asked, "What do you think about Kayla?" He just kept asking, "Are you serious?"  He said that he came across that name in his search the night before, really liked it and added it to the list to tell me about it later.  He thought I saw the list and was playing a joke on him but I surely was not.

We both couldn't believe how we went from being totally discouraged with finding a name to being given such a beautiful name from the Lord.

So from that moment on we knew that our sweet girl was to be named Kayla. 

As far as Grace goes, we both just really like that middle name.  I like it so much that I told Daniel that I am not opposed to middle naming all our girls Grace. 

Here are some pictures of her nursery...

Before Daniel left for Basic Training while we were dating we went to Build A Bear and both made military bears.  One sits on a shelf Joshua's room and the other bear is the one you see on Kayla's dresser.  We can't wait to someday tell them all about how Daddy was in the military. 

 

If you look closely you will see a football bucket next to the chair. It has some of Joshua's books. Because he loves to look at books I put a basket of books in all the rooms he frequents. He spends a lot of time in Kayla's room helping me organize things. He also goes in there and just plays by himself a lot. I love peeking in on him just reading in his baby sisters room. I cant wait for him to meet her!
 

We got this crib for $25 from a garage sale before I was even pregnant.  It is in PERFECT condition and when I asked the guy how much he answered clueless saying, "I don't know, $20, $25."  I told Daniel that we HAD to get it.  It was exactly what we wanted, in perfect condition, and super cheap.  I knew we would eventually use it ;)  I told Daniel that we had to wait until we got pregnant before putting it up.  That would be just weird to have a crib set up and not be pregnant.  I think he set it up within a few days after my first ultrasound around 7 weeks.  Yep, we were just a bit excited :)

This is my most favorite thing in her nursery. It is a framed finger painting from her big brother. So sweet!

We can't wait to hold you Kayla Grace!