I'm Still Here...

Hey everyone, I am still here, just been busy. This pregnancy hasn't been as easy as Sophie's but our baby will be making an appearance any week now. I am 35 weeks and 5 days now..Sophie showed up around 37 weeks so we shall see how things go!

 Sorry I never told what we are having!..we are having a little BOY!!! His name will be Joshua and we are really looking forward to meeting him! Yesterday we were setting up the bouncer for Josh and we had to put Sophie in it for fun...here is a photo of her in it when she first came home from the hospital,and then now. ...so funny! Check out the belt! hahaha

Trying Cereal

Again, I'm sorry for the lack of posts..life is just busy!

I'm ALMOST done with my french chairs, woohoo!

They've been a nice challenge for me and I'm so happy with myself because I'm almost done!

It's just taken a while because of being busy with our little cutie.

Sophie tried cereal for the first time this past Saturday so I thought I'd 

share some photos from the occasion :0)

We sat her in her purple bumbo and gave it a try...

It started off well enough...and then..

hahaha, ...she likes to eat fast so the spoon is too slow for 

her i guess, so she gets MAD!

I'm mean and was laughing while she had that face on, hehe.

I can't believe she will be 5 months on Valentine's Day!!

Thats just crazy fast!!

I will post more pics soon and also reveal the french chairs!

Introducing: Sophia Joy!

Our sweet baby was born on

September 14, 2010

@ 6:52 pm

6 lbs 4 oz. - 19 inches long

This is what she first looked like;

our little chipmunk, lol:

Here's how she's looking now :0)

She gets more and more beautiful every single day!

With Grandpa

Here she is with Daddy..

Just chillin ..I loves those little feet poking out!

We are so blessed and thankful to the Lord for blessing us with our 

beautiful daughter. 

We are also looking forward to someday having more sleep! haha

Tissue Paper Pom Poms

My mom and sisters are throwing us a baby shower this Saturday,

So I've been having fun making some of these..

Tissue paper pom poms.

I really love them!

They are so cute and fluffy :0)

We used to make tissue paper flowers for fiesta time back home,

so these are a breeze.

You can find instructions here though:

http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/tissue-paper-pom-poms-how-to?backto=true#slide_0

I can't choose just one color, so all the colors are involved in celebrating Sophie!

We are also doing different sizes. I'm so excited to see these hanging.

I also made a little banner.

well, gotta go play with tissue some more :0)

Hope everyone's having a great day!

Sophie's Cradle

Finally as promised, are pics of Sophie's new cradle.

Handmade by daddy :0)

It's made of cherry wood and has an amber shellac finish.

We couldn't really find any that we loved, so

we decided to just go ahead and design our own cradle.

I actually drew it out during a little drive up to Mt. Charleston one day,

and we worked out what we liked and didn't like in the design.

Here are some photos of the cradle during the building process.

~lots of slats~

~completed sides~

It's really great, it glides on ball bearings so it's nice and

smooth and will rock for a very long time with just one push!

We both hope Sophie (and future siblings) will enjoy her little cradle.

The bones of the nursery

Sorry it has taken soo LONG to share these pictures!

This is what the room that would become the nursery looked like before 

it got it's face lift.

We inherited these yucky, stained blinds when we bought the house.

I think the previous owner sat and smoked all day long and didn't know how to 

open their windows or something!

We are getting rid of all of them, and have applied plenty coats of Kilz paint on our walls, lol.

( the closet wall )

( plain ceiling )

( more ceiling lol )

The first thing I did was paint some clouds for Sophie (and me) on the ceiling!

I used a soft grey-blue for the base so they didn't really stand out against 

the blue green color that we had on the wall.

Up next was adding all the wainscoting, window trimming, fresh, 

crisp white semi gloss paint, and crown moulding:

Looking brighter already!!

After that -and why things take so long- came the hardwood flooring.

Which we make ourselves. We love it but it adds to the time it takes 

in finishing everything. We do save cash though, lol!!

Here we are with freshly painted walls ( "beige glow" from kilz) ,

a new rug from Overstock -which I LOVE- 

and beautiful walnut floors.

The clouds really stand out nicely now that the walls are lighter and calmer.

Next we hung a chandelier that I already had, 

 then I made some curtains. I decided to remove the closet doors and hang curtains in that doorway also. 

The closet is going to be  housing  the computer soon.

To hang the curtains we used my brilliant idea of using metal conduit

instead of over-paying for rods!

excuse the bad pics, we need a new camera.

So there you have it! This is what Sophie's room is looking like now.

We have also  finished the cradle, her dresser,  the hot air balloon lights, and made a frame for the "ballooning 

over Paris" print- so I will share all that with you soon!

A Peak at Sophie!

We will be naming our new bundle of Joy:

Sophia Joy

We went for an ultrasound yesterday and finally got a peak at her cute face!

We are so excited and can't wait to meet her, (minus the delivery on my part; haha)

Here are some more shots:

Visiting San Antonio was great, we had a lot of fun, visited family, 

had a really nice baby shower, ate a lot and then came home

for a real, lounging around vacation for 5 days LOL.

It was lovely spending so much time with Sher.

Sophie's cradle is finally done and I will share it with you soon; her dresser is

a lil more than half way done also :0)

This is  a pic of Sher when he was a cute little boy, next to the face shot of Sophie.

So cuute...

This week I'm hoping to finish up her hot air balloon night lights! I'm 

looking forward to sharing those- it's been a labor of love. 

My birthday is also coming up Friday and I'm getting to go see the 

Beatles LOVE show!! I'm so excited, I've been wanting to see it for years!!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!!

Nursery Inspiration

These are some photos that have been inspiring me

as we put together our nursery, :0):

We are redoing the room I was using as a computer & art room

into the baby's room. So, it's totally getting redone

from floor to ceiling!

Here are some of the things we are thinking about including in the space:

I'm designing a crib inspired by these beds. It will be made of cherry wood

and will probably have a natural finish that will naturally age and darken over time.

 

This is a quick sketch I made of what I'm going for:

Then we want to make a beautiful little commode for the baby

which we will then make a removable changing table/tray that can 

be placed on top of it, and later removed.

It will look like this:

I really LOVE the legs!

I will be moving the computer in to the closet which we are going to build

up by adding bookshelves and shelving so that I can store all of my craft supplies, etc.

Since we are doing that baby needs a little closet space so

we will be making something that looks similar to this piece, except it will be bigger 

and have drawers on the sides instead of the doors in the picture.

Perhaps in this color?:

Next, we need somewhere comfy to sit:

~ or ~

Lighting would be nice! For some reason it's hard to find a home here

that's wired for a central lighting fixture (so dumb).

So Sher already wired us up and we are thinking of using this chandelier:

This will be the wall color:

Along with lots of white on the wainscoting and trimwork.

The draperies have already been sewed out of this fabric:

This will be the rug that sits on top of the hardwood floors:

I really love these colors!

We've also chosen the bedding already which will be from the 

cottontail friends collection:

Phew!, Well that's what we got going on so far!! 

I can't wait to see the room put all together...I still have to come up

with art and a few other things. 

I'm in love with this print though:

If we go ahead with this print I'm thinking of making a few hanging night lights

that will look like hot air balloons..I'm so excited, lol.

I also want to make a handmade from Mommy pillow out

of this fabric that will spell out the baby's name.

....if you look closely you'll see there are hidden animals in the letters.

It's so pretty!!

We are so excited and happy about our sweet blessing and working on the room 

is a labor of love. 

We'll share our progress with you soon!

~AND~ 

Our last ultrasound revealed that our baby will be a little girl!!!

It's so exciting!! We were happy to have either a boy or girl!

With all of our hearts, we thank you sweet Lord!