Showing posts with label New Baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Baby. Show all posts

Friday, February 26, 2016

Life lately

Hi! It's been a while! I'm still here, just very busy. While I really enjoy blogging it's been nice to take some time off. Id like to say I'll be around more often but I can't promise that, especially because we have no computer and this is really hard on my phone. If you're wondering though,  here's what you missed this past year: (50 first dates-anyone?)

We finished up our kitchen remodel almost a year ago and I apologize for keeping you hanging (if you don't follow me on fb or Instagram). 







Halfway through our kitchen remodel we got some exciting news! 



Morning sickness + no kitchen + sharing a bathroom with contractors (even if they are really good friends) was not as exciting though!




A few months later, in July, we found out that baby # 4 was a little girl. After having three boys, most everyone thought we'd have another. I, however, knew from the very beginning that this baby was a girl. Not many people believed me and to say our family was shocked when she was in fact a she, is an understatement. We made our closet into her nursery since we're running out of bedrooms upstairs. :)






In August for my 30th birthday, my parents helped pitch in for some built ins in the living room. We bought the base cabinets, plain old upper kitchen cabinets, on a local garage sale site. My brother in law then built the top/shelves from a sketch I made. 








They turned out amazing! I've rearranged them a few times now but I think I'll be sticking with this most recent neutral palette.

On December 7th, after a very long and complicated pregnancy (that included many late night hospital trips and bed rest) we welcomed our daughter Jemimah.








We've had a long road the past few months with complications from my third c-section and issues with breast feeding. Things are finally starting to settle down and we're finding a rhythm. She is such an easy baby and has all of us wrapped around her finger!



Right now I'm working on updating our master bedroom. It's true what they say about that being the last room you work on! I painted one wall three years ago in preparation for moving the older two boys into there together and haven't touched anything since then. Now our  oldest has his own room and we switched rooms with the younger two boys. They have the actual master bedroom since their bunk beds fit in there better and we took over their room. Last week I finished the painting, trim on the curtains and yesterday found a great carpet remnant we'll have bound. I wasn't planning on doing this room anytime soon but we made a big adult purchase (new mattress!!!!) and figured why not do it all now. Here's the rug, curtains and trim and beautiful Suzani I got to recover our headboard. We also snagged these night stands and dresser (which is in the boys room) on Craigslist. They're vintage Thomasville and in pristine condition. We've never had matching/nice night stands so I'm really excited about them!












I'll be posting bedroom and life updates  on Instagram if you care to follow along, sorry if this post is all screwed up, trying to do this on my phone is a nightmare!   



Friday, April 12, 2013

Updated nursery and a feature

First off, thank you all so much for the comments and emails about my last post. You guys are so sweet and made me feel so supported and loved! His new job is going really, really well and things at home are great. It was a little strange the first week getting used to his new hours but now I feel like everyone is on the same schedule.....and it's SO nice! He used to work from about five or six am until three or four pm, depending on what was going on that day. Now he's a eight to fiver, which means I can get up early, workout and then cook breakfast for all of us before he leaves in the morning. Hooray for family meals! :)

Anyway, this morning I was checking my news feed on Facebook and saw that I was featured over at Young House Love today. Total surprise and shock! I had actually forgotten about sending the email. So head on over and check it out if you haven't already and a big thanks to John and Sherry for featuring my ever-evolving living room!!

Speaking of ever-evolving, we rearranged Isaac's nursery while the hubby was off a few weeks ago. We were in the process of painting our master bedroom (I promise I'll have pics soon, I'm still working on reupholstering the headboard) and didn't want our little chunker breathing in paint fumes so he slept in his own room. Gasp! I know!! The best part? He slept great, it actually worked.

Once we figured that out and decided to keep him there we had some work to do.
Isaac just started crawling and can sit up great on his own but because he's so big  he ends up rolling over in his sleep and whacking his head into the crib sides all the time. The crib we have has closed ends on the sides. They're solid and not rails, which is a pretty popular style these days. The problem with that is that you can't use traditional crib bumpers because you don't have any rails to tie them too. On top of that, bumpers aren't very safe and almost no one makes cute ones them anymore. However, since he is completely able to get himself around and can crawl and sit up on his own I'm not worried about it.

I bought these bumpers from WalMart for $20. They come in four pieces, two long ones for the front and back and two short for the ends. I just recovered the long pieces and added new ties. The added bonus is that his binky's don't fall through the rails now. If you have a crib like ours with the solid sides and need a bumper alternative you should try this one, super easy and very cheap!

Ok, onto the pictures.










I would eventually like to add one or two of these acrylic shelves under the window and a mobile, but it'll do for now. :)

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Monday, July 30, 2012

What I'm loving right now....

Hello from the land of breast milk, dirty diapers and sleepless nights!

Just popping in to say Hi and share a few of my loves of late.


1.These curtains, which are GORGEOUS in person.


Like so gorgeous you could make a wedding dress out of them- no joke!




2.This nursery from the Traditional Home Hamptons 2012 Showhouse by House of Honey ............I don't have words for how fabulous it is.





Although I could do without the butterfly......








That rocker, the wallpaper and paint color, the rug, the styling.......it's all SO good!!



3.This rug which is for sale on Craigslist very near me and would be fab in our living room......anyone want to buy it for me?


4.This vanilla bean cheesecake with chocolate crust and salted caramel looks so good!




However, seeing as how I have lost 38 pounds since having Isaac six weeks ago (YAY me!!),  I'm gonna pass and keep up my diet. But somebody make it and eat some for me!


And of course I'm loving these munchkins.








Happy Monday!!!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Slowly but surely...

I will be back to blogging like normal.

Soon.

Cross my heart!

After Isaac's scary start, which kept me from holding him until he was almost a week old, I can't seem to put him down. I'm not one of those Moms who "wear" their babies and hold them 24/7 but I can't help myself!

So stinking cute!!!



Needless to say not much gets done around here right now. On top of falling behind on laundry, cooking and who am I kidding....showering, I have hardly been online.

I actually had 154 e-mails this morning. Yikes!

While I've been baby busy I've missed some pretty sweet stuff on Pinterest, check it out.


Source: decorpad.com via Katie on Pinterest
Source: amazon.com via Katie on Pinterest












































Just lovely!

I've also been helping with the design of my cousins room, she just turned 13 and is getting a grown up bedroom for her birthday. She is in Italy and Greece for a few weeks so my Aunt and I are scrambling to get it all done before she gets back.

After a paint disaster we are back on track and I'm so excited to see it all come together.

My cuz picked out some gorgeous bedding from Anthro.....


 but most everything else is a surprise so just in case she is checking in I won't spoil it for her.


Well, I'm off to snuggle my little man........be back soon!