Registry.Registry.Registry

Hi All!!  So I have been very busy with my hubby(to be) registering for the upcoming wedding the past couple days as well as celebrating Christmas with my older brother's family!

Friday, we spent the day at Macy's registering for just about everything that we could.  We are really struggling to find a place to register that we like because we are not interested in registering at bed, bath, and beyond.  SO..despite what everyone else has been telling us, we decided to do our major registering at Macy's.  We really found everything that we needed there except for any furniture, lamps, and decorations.  We have been trying to find a way register at IKEA which does not have registry and found a site called http://www.myregistry.com/ which allows you to put anything from any store on your registry.  You sign up with your own registry and people can purchase online.  Additionally the site has the ability to give you a cash gifton their too.

So while we have it all figured out, it is the hardest thing to decide how to decorate, what colors, how it should flow, what do you really need..so if anyone has something that they for sure know is the best thing they registered for let me know!

Saturday, we went to Chicago to go to IKEA to check out some of the furniture that they had for our apartment.  The biggest thing we have been looking for is a sleeper sofa, which I have to say is really hard to find that is nice, comfortable, functional, and for a good price.  The biggest thing is we ended up buying all of our living room furniture while we were there.  We got a sectional sleeper sofa (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90125722)

We decided to get the sofa in the dark beige and we got a smaller loveseat/chair in this color..

Along with some dark brown end tables and coffee table!  We also found a shag carpet that is orange with lime green, light pink, and purple..and we hopefully will find some pillows that will match with it in those colors and lamps as well!

We also found all this stuff for our bedroom, but I willl post more later once we have decided on what we are going to go with! 

Saturday night we spent time with my brothers family while they opened their xmas gifts together because they are going to Disney World for Christmas and leave in a few days.  We got to play with all their toys, eat spaghetti dinner, etc.

Sunday slept in, did a little shopping with family, baked cookies, puppy, chow, and celebrated christmas with my brothers family at my house!  It was so great to see them play with all their toys and eat dinner with everyone before they leave for Florida.

Well I am headed to bed!  Nite :)