It's Friday!

 

Happy Friday Everyone!!! I dont know about you, but I am loving the new Blogger dashboard. So much easier to use! Anyways, this weekend we are going to enjoy the cooler weather together as a family! We plan to assemble our patio set, let Brynn play in the new grass a little and enjoy some wine outdoors! We might even try to hit up a pumpkin patch this weekend to get some cool pics with Brynn for fall. Love weekends with very little plans. Lets us relax and play every hour by ear. Hope you all have a great weekend and now that there is this new blogger, I will probably be even more motivated to do the post on the headboard. 

Cheers and Happy Friday!

Cheers to the freakin weekend...

Haha love that song. And once again, its been to long since I've blogged.

I honestly think about it all the time, but lately I just really havent felt like writing! There is so much to say but once you get so behind you feel like you cant catch up with these things!

So starting FRESH.

Can you believe our sweet girl is going to be 7 months this weekend??! I cant! She is getting SO big. Things are really moving to fast for my liking. She started crawling full force at 6.5 months (a little advanced for her age, thats for sure) and is now pulling up and wanting to stand on everything. She is quite the rascal. When we try to change her diaper it takes about 10 minutes most times... bc she wants to roll over, crawl and escape from us! It is aggravating some times but usually it means I get to see her cute lil butt cheeks! Not only is she fully on the move but she is getting her own personality perfected. She is quite the drama queen at times! She fake coughs and cries... and knows exactly what to do to get attention! Most of the time we just laugh at her or fake cry/cough with her so that she knows it ain't workin. She usually smiles back, just the diva in her! She has been on solids now for a while and she loves them and she doesnt. I started making my own food which started out great... but as time went on, I realized, she really doesnt like MY food. When we went to Michigan we bought a few jars of food for the trip, and she ate those down with no problems at all. I guess thats the American in her, we like the stuff that ain't necessarily good for us. Not that its bad, but I like the idea of my food being raw and not sitting on the shelf. Sooo we have been playing with both my food and some jarred foods. She also has been having a hard time going potty so we have to only feed her foods that start with P! And also giving her pear or prune juice in the mornings and night to help her little tummy work through these solids. Poor thing! She cracks us up on a daily basis, still loves to snuggle on me sometimes (which of course melts my heart), and can make any bad day, better. I dont know what life was like without her and I dont want to remember life without her, because she just always makes it better!

Our house is really coming along and we are almost done with the beginning stages of it being "done". I feel like our house will never be "done" because we will constantly make changes to it I am sure, especially as our family grows. But as far as moving in... and getting settled in, we are almost there. A few more things to do and we will be good. Then I can really start getting crafty! We are getting our backyard done next week and I cannot wait to see what it will look like with grass, trees and rocks back there! Maybe I will open my windows more often ;) We are having our housewarming party on the 15th so I need to buckle down and get things moving!!!

Ryan and I... well we are great as always. Love my husband more than anything as he is my support, my rock and my best friend. I wouldnt want life to be any different than where we are right now!

Oh and I promise, I will post how I made our headboard... SOON! Hopefully this weekend... if I can find the motivation :)

TGIF!

Michigan Bound!

Tomorrow morning we are headed to good ol' Michigan! I am SO excited. This will be Brynlee's first airplane ride, and I am getting pretty anxious about it! She is such a great baby so I think she will do great, but I just hope what I think, becomes true!

Some things I am really looking forward to...

• Seeing all of our family... Nana, Nonno, Grandpa Jim, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins etc etc
• Seeing our friends... Pete, Kay, Dave, Dee, Nick, Emily etc etc
• Cooler weather, supposed to be in the 60, low 70's ALLLLL week!
• Hot tubbing with my inlaws... we always have the best time just hanging in the hot tub, drinking some wine, good conversation and bonding! We are bringing Brynn's monitor so we can hot tub while she naps and sleeps at night, woo hoo!
• Jimmy & Tiffany's wedding! They are getting married Saturday and Ryan is in the wedding of course. I cannot wait to witness their special day... and to get Brynn all dressed up of course too, she will be a highlight of the night I am sure!
• Shopping in downtown Royal Oak... LOVE the shops there and hoping to find some cool art for our house and maybe some goodies for our cute little muffin, B, too!
• Seeing my in-laws new house! They remodeled their house from a 1-story to a 2-story and I cannot WAIT to see the progress and how its coming together!! Oh and we get our own bedroom this time, woo hoo!!

All in all, I am looking forward to a great week! I will of course miss our best friends, Bre & Mike & Cash too, who we have just so been happening to be seeing EVERY weekend. Now that we live close it rocks and the babes love to play together. We have good times, every single time with them. Never a dull moment and always a good laugh!

While traveling if I can get wi-fi I will do the post on the bed frame too, sorry its taken me forever!! If not, I will do it as soon as possible!

Pics to come from our amazing trip!!! :)

Brynlee's 6 Months!

I cannot believe my baby girl is 6 Months!

My oh my has she changed in 6 months and I cannot believe we are already halfway to her first birthday!! Some of her latest tricks are fully sitting up on her own unsupported, holding her own bottle and knowing exactly what it is. I swear, she see's it and whines till it's in her mouth, cracks me up every time! She is trying and VERY close to crawling. I am so proud of her since she is such a young crawler! She lunges forward and has reverse action down like it's nobody's business. Oh and rolling over and over and over and over again until she can't roll no more. The girl I tell you... is crazy. She cracks us up on a daily basis and always has a way to put a smile on my face. I was sick for a week in August and for some reason everytime I was around her, I felt perfectly fine. She was my medicine. There is nothing better than picking her up from daycare and seeing her smile and put her arms out for her mama. She know's it's me and thats the best feeling in the world. I am hers, and she is mine.

I feel like it was yesterday we were heading to the hospital as my water broke and knew our baby was on her way! I will never forget that moment and wish I could relive it 10 million times over! Time goes incredibly too fast. You blink your eyes and they go from being this snuggly little newborn to almost crawling, eating baby food and sitting up, in the just 6 short months! I dont even know what a year will bring but I am sure within 6 months, I will be running after Brynlee! :)

And this blog title finally makes sense to me... Let them smile, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle... they get so big so quick and life is too short! I strive every day to be the very best mom to Brynn. She has my entire heart and I would do anything for you baby girl!

Look at our little peanut at 1 week old... Love her little chicken legs here!!!

And now she has transformed into this crazy little girl that I am so in love with...

I love you Brynlee Madison, cannot wait to see you continue to blossom into a little girl. Love you to the moon & back...

Quick Update...

Hey guys! I told you it would be a while, didnt I? Well we are all moved in (kinda sorta)... the house is coming together but very slowly. I have been trying to unpack and organize at the same time so I dont have to go back and reorganize once it is all out of boxes. Therefore making this unpacking a PROCESS. The good news is, is my hubby got our new desk, dining table and entertainment center assembled and the DirectTV is installed, sweeeeet! Now that the furniture is put together we can slowly start putting the rooms together, but again were not moving at a super fast pace just to rush through it.

This house is HUGE. Well, so much bigger than what we were used to. I almost dont know what to do with all the space. I am sure I wont be saying that in about 5 years when we have 2 kids running around and all the closets are packed to the max. But for now, I am enjoying the extra storage space and it actually not looking cluttered with stuff. It actually looks like our house is somewhat "clean" when in reality its not... that part is goooooood about the new place!

I will post pictures soon, just too embarrassed right now to show you the mess of the new place... but I promise, once I start hanging some art or get some rooms "completed" I will post for you guys!!!

Until next time ;)

Closing in 6 Days!

Sorry I have been MIA for a while. Things have been busy as usual and I often want to blog and then never find the time to do it.

Its official, we are closing in 6 DAYS! We will move in next Friday but we have our final walk thru and closing on Tuesday! It cannot come any quicker and I could not be more excited to be in our home!

We have lived with my sister and Jeff now for almost three months and we cannot thank them enough for opening their house to us and letting us live in their space. But let me tell you, I cannot wait to have my own space back! It's crazy how much you under appreciate your space till you loose it and your living in just a tiny room and out of a suitcase, literally! So we will be moving in on Friday, our packrat unit gets delivered Thursday sometime and the movers come on Friday morning to help unload the heavy furniture. We hired them for 2 hours and once that 2 hours is up, all the rest is on us! Hopefully they can at least get all the heavy pieces upstairs, without damaging the walls or our furniture haha!

I recently bought some nightstands on Craigslist 2/$25 dollars, couldn't pass it up! I am hoping once the weather cools down some and I can stand to be outside for more than 10 minutes, I will refurbish them and our bedroom makeover will be on! I plan to DIY a headboard, refurbish the nightstands, and go from there! The color scheme in the bedroom is a mustard yellow, with taupe, brown and gray accents. I hope everything pulls together just right!

Building a house has been such an amazing process. It feels like we have been building forever but when I say we are moving next week, it sounds like it went so fast! I never thought at the age of 24 I would have built a house! We plan to raise our kids in this house so we are preparing to be there for at least 15 years! This house is going to withstand a ton of memories, good and bad. I am so excited for the years to come in this new chapter in our life.

We are going to have a housewarming party probably in October so I have lots of unpacking and decorating to do until then!!!

I might be MIA again for a bit till we get our internet up and running in the new house and I can find some spare minutes to do a post, but maybe next week after the walk thru and the house is sparkling, I can post some pictures of the final product!

Until next time... :)

Things I can't wait to do to our new house....

There are SO many things I cannot wait to do to the new house... There is an order of importance though, or I guess an order of where we want to start... What better way to write them down then to share my ideas with everyone!

#1. Paint Brynlee's room- Painting the entire room a soft pink again. Then I am going to get all crafty on you guys and I am going to Stencil for the first time ever!! We are going with this pattern:

We plan to accent one wall with that pattern to incorporate the other colors in her room. It will consist of hot pink, lime green, and brown. This should tie the entire room together! I am super excited to stencil and I hope it turns out good. This is a really cheap way to spice up any wall and a lot cheaper than wallpaper. And the best part? You can paint right over it if you mess up or have a change in decorating heart down the line! We will end the painting spree in her closet, which we will most likely paint a soft lime green. Not a neon lime green, but a more subtle green. I got inspiration on another blog to paint the closet and it really pulls the entire room together so I am excited to try it in Brynn's room!

#2. Next thing on the list... Kitchen Backsplash! I will give you a sneak peak to what we have in mind... :)

We have never done backsplash ourselves so keep your fingers crossed!! :)

#3. Change mirror in downstairs bathroom, possibly do a stencil design (depending on how Brynlee's room goes!!), and decorate.

#4. PLAYROOM! We are going to make the extra bedroom upstairs Brynlee's playroom until baby #2 joins us. This way its an easy transition into a future nursery! Think gray with a white wainscoting... and bright accent colors!!!

#5. Master bedroom makeover. Lots of stuff in the works for this. I want to either DIY a headboard or buy a reallllly tall headboard. New nightstands, and dresser. We need a new look! This will be a work in progress for sure!

#6. The backyard! We are pool hunting right now. Talking to some pool companies, getting bids etc. The last house had a pool and we loved it and decided we cannot live without one. Especially with 2 kids down the road! Once the pool is in, we can landscape. No sense in landscaping before the pool just so they can dig it all back up again. We are hoping the backyard is finished in the first year, thats my goal! My hubby think I am ambitious, but I disagree :)

#7. The office... No idea what we want to do in there yet. We got a new desk... but have lots of extra space... ideas ideas?

#8. The loft! This will be the official game room. We are using our old table up there for games, crafts etc for the kids. There will be some framed pics of us at Red Wings games, Tiger games or in Tiger gear, and of course... MICHIGAN!! This room will just be FUN to decorate, cant wait!!

And my list goes on and on and on.... the first two things on the list we hope to finish within the first 2 months... then we will decide the order of priority. Clearly this house is a heck of a lot bigger than the last one... so lots more room for inspiring rooms and decorating... this girl cannot wait!!! :)