happy halloween!

I love holidays but halloween is not one of my favorites.  I don't really know why though.  I had fun in my early 20's dressing up and drinking ridiculous amounts.  Now I love the door ringing (minus the dogs barking) or hearing 'trick or treat' and handing out candy.  Funny how times change, but good change.  

I started noticing lots of holiday pins on pinterest and thought I'd share a few of my favorites.  Also, I'm going to try to attempt a few of them this year, so we'll see how that turns out.  Some people are so damn creative, I love it.  

Costumes

It's likely that I won't be dressing up this year but if I do venture out, I hope I see some awesome homemade costumes like these.  Homemade is the best.  

 Jelly Bean Costume - more here

Laundry Basket Costume - more here

Party Ideas

If I was throwing a party, I would definitely be trying to make these.  They are so cute! 

Spider Cider/Witchs Brew/Zombie Juice - more here

 Clever Ice Bucket/Drink Holder - more here

Halloween Wreaths 

I love wreaths and these are soooo cool.  I want to make sure our front porch/door is always looking nice and festive.  So this is going to be my halloween project - I'll post how it turns out.... 

Tulle Halloween Wreath - more here

 All of this gets me super excited for the upcoming holidays.  We are having a big Thanksgiving Supper at our house with friends, so I'm sure I'll have lots of photos from that to share providing it goes well!  It's going to be great to experience holidays again with a baby, I think it may make it even more exciting... if that's possible.

cribs, cribs, and more cribs

We are casually browsing at a kids furniture store recently and they tell us that some items take 6-12 weeks to come in plus backorder.  Yikes!  So I guess we need to order something sooner than later.  

The colors that I'm considering for the striped walls...

Zircon 

Pure White 

Still deciding on accent colors. 

College Wood Work Augusta

 

College Wood Work Augusta Dresser (obviously in white) 

Delta Santiago Crib

Delta Santiago Dresser

Zoom Crib

 Lots of decisions to make but I'm hoping we'll have something ordered by next week.  Start painting in October after a fun Thanksgiving Weekend!  Next task, research gliders....

20 Weeks

How far along? 20 weeks 

Total weight gain: 0 lbs

Maternity clothes? Yup! Just bought 2 pairs of pants at H&M last night including some turquoise/mint green ones.  We'll see how much I wear them though I do think they hug my bum nicely ;)

Stretch marks? none.  My skin feels itchy all over though which is irritating.

Sleep: love it!
Best moment this week:  finding out gender (it's a secret), feeling more movement and starting to shop! 

Miss Anything?  umm, my energy and paralyzers.
Movement: yup, mostly in the morning and at night. 

Food cravings: No but I'm more hungry everyday.

Anything making you queasy or sick:  not right now.

Gender:  we know!!!  

Labor Signs:  no

Symptoms:  Sleepy

Belly Button in or out?  in

Wedding rings on or off? on 
Looking forward to: getting started on the nursery! 

No love for the camera

At our anatomy scan last week, the ultrasound tech told us that she could not get a good face photo.  I guess baby is shy!  She was able to tell us if it's a boy or girl though and we are super excited.  We're going to keep it a secret for now (even from family and friends).  

nursery inspiration

Seeing as I can't Pin these on Pinterest because we haven't made any 'Facebook announcement', I thought I'd document a few of my favorite nurseries and pieces here!

I LOVE the chevron print.  And the yellow is so fresh.  Everything about this nursery is amazing!  More details here.

These colors are gorgeous together and I love the prints.  Actually I love it all.  The huge IKEA light is fantastic and the oversized photos of 'close up baby' is so personal.  More details here.

 Love the pop of color depending on gender.  Details here.

 

I really like the photo wall above a dresser as well as the change pad.  So sweet! Details here.

This room is put together really well and a similar layout to ours.  Love the soft pink touches, chandelier, and the grey chair.  Details here.

Still trying to gather all my thoughts and figure out what we want to do.  I was worried that I wouldn't be able to paint (because of the fumes and such) but after some research, turns out paint with low voc is available pretty much everywhere and no problem.  They even have no voc paint - for a few more bucks of course.

Benjamin Moore -  http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/paint-products/natura-waterborne-interior-paint?lang=en_US&role=H#advs=0&tab=2

Home Depot - Behr - http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/catalog/servlet/Search?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&keyword=behr%20zero%20voc&Ns=None&Ntpr=1&Ntpc=1&selectedCatgry=SEARCH+ALL

Sherwin Williams - Harmony - http://www.sherwin-williams.com/architects-specifiers-designers/products/catalog/harmony-interior-acrylic-latex/?referringCategory=interior-paint-coatings/paint-coatings/

Can't wait to get started...

pez is 6.

I can not believe how the time flies.  This weekend my little pup turned 6.  I had big plans to make him a puppy birthday cake (small meatball with mashed potato icing) but got lazy and busy making my 'mexican meal'.

I've spent lots of time cuddling him though and I think he likes that most.  Last year for his 5th birthday he got a treat from the local Pet Bakery, which I let him open and we did a mini photoshoot... which was much more fun for me than him.

A few of my favorites.  And he is a boy but I only had pink ribbon so I just went with it.  They say dogs are colorblind right?

Happy Birthday Pezzo!

plans for the nursery

 As I was measuring out the room that will soon be the nursery, I took a quick photo of our first baby purchase.  I can't believe how small they are and can't wait to put them on baby!

I have a few inspiration boards that I've put together (seeing as I didn't want to Pin things to pinterest before as we hadn't told people).  

The things I know for sure:  

* I want grey and white striped walls (regardless of gender) 

* I want white furniture 

* I want a dresser with a change pad on top instead of a change table 

* I want a glider with ottoman 

Lastly, I want it to look pretty and feel calm. 

Wow, lots of 'I wants'!    

 Can't wait to start getting this all together....