House Update

It's been so long since I posted an update on the house! Instead of explaining what all has happened I'll let the pictures do the talking: 

We had a visitor from up the steet! I really wanted to keep it

Brick was Delivered

Cabinets have been installed- this is my side of the bathroom.

This is Brian's side of the bathroom

Clay trimmed the office, living room, and kitchen in alder wood.

Our fire place and start to the built in cabinets

Kitchen cabinets before the uppers were installed

inside of the guest bedrrom closets

We have two hall closets, one outside of each of the guest bedrooms

One side of the Jack and Jill Bath.

Brian's finished dog pins. Lola gets the center one. Since these have been complete, we have added three dogs to our collection. I will post a blog about them soon! We have Rue & Indie a brother and sister pair of Yellow-Black-Mouth-Cur (I'm probably misspelling that) puppies. Then we have Willie, a plot hound, that I am starting to LOVE! 

Before the brick was added to the front of the house

It rained one day while the brickers were working, so they did the rock fire place in one day!

I also had a brick accent wall planned for the dining area, I was told I wasn't going to get it because we upgraded our insulation, but I was suprised with it anyway! I feel so spoiled to be getting everything I wan in this house!

Clay built and installed a sliding barn door for the office, another addition I asked for. 

Our walk in shower almost complete

Finished rock and Brick outside

We bricked the island too

Tiled guest shower

Brian and his dad added these beams to the area between the kitchen and living room. I think they are Brian's favorite part of the house

Its hard to see, but we stained the cabinets really dark. 

This is one of the walls in my closet.

This wall is the back of my closet- the box in the center is for my wedding dress that I got preserved after the wedding. 

This is the other side wall of my closet.

My samples for the granite. I picked out the darker one, but had to go with the light one after finsing out they didn't have enough of the dark to get it to us and installed when we needed it.

We are moving this weekend! I will post pictures of the final product ASAP! 

Family Baby Shower

My sweet family threw Zoey a shower. It was so nice to see all my aunts and cousins and celebrate Miss Zo.

We played a game where everyone had to guess how big around my belly was, My mother-in-law won.

I took pictures with most of the family that was there when we were about to leave.

 Rhys Man, and Grandma at the shower!

 Mom and I

G-Ma Foxy Roxy Filis

Hallie and I 

Aunt Gina

The Filis Girls: Lauren, me, and Casey. Chloe wasn't shure what to think about Zoey being in my belly!

It was a very special day and I am so lucky to be apart of such a great family!

Spring Break Projects Part 1

This spring break, I thought it might be nice to relax and just enjoy being pregnant…. YEAH RIGHT! We are building a house and moving and having a baby all in less than 8 weeks. I need to get everything ready for the move and make sure everything for Zoey's room is ready for her. 

My first project was to FINISH her bedding. I searched for days and weeks after we found out we were having a girl for bedding that I liked. Everything I found was special order, hand made, and very expensive. I knew I didn't want to spen a lot, but I didn't want to settle…. So my sewing machine came out! 

My mother in law and I went to the fabric store after running a few other errands and found some fabric I liked, and we got started. 

I made the bumper pads using most of the directions on the pre cut "Nu Foam Bumper Pads" found at JoAnn's fabrics. The instructions say to cut the front and back of the "pillow" but I cut one big piece and sewed it on three sides. Adding the ribbon for ties sucked the most, mainly because I didn't look at the directions correctly and sewed them wrong at least 4 times before I did it right. 

Here you can see, I put the ribbon on the out side, which ended up being sewn inside the pillow part, You want to put them inside the fold so they end up being on the outside when your done sewing the seams. 

When those were done I started on the bed skirt. I looked at about 3-4 blogs and instructions and came up with my own way to make what I wanted. 

FIrst you have to decide between a 14 inch skirt or a 20 inch skirt. The 20 inch will go all the way to floor when the crib is at its highest setting, then when you lower it, after the baby grows, you only need a 14 inch skirt. I decided on a 20 inch and I will bring it up to 14 when that time comes. 

I picked out four fabrics I liked, and cut them the following sizes:

Front of skirt: 104 inch long strips. ((You double the length of the length you need to get the ruffled effect.)

Sides of skirt: 56 inch long strips. 

The top layer is 12 inches wide

second layer is 7 inches wide

third layer is 4 inches wide

fourth layer is 5 inches wide.

I gave myself an inch for seams (1/2 on each side)

Then I sewed all four pieces together. Next you want to cut your deck. You can use an old sheet, scrap or left over fabric, or plain white fabric. It goes under the matress so noone will ever see it. I had some white fabric, so I used that. You wan to cut it the size of you crib mattress, standard is 28 X 52. 

Then finally you pin and sew the pannels to the deck! There are several tutorials on how to ruffle easier, but I knew how to pin it and wasn't ready to try something new. 

Here it is pinned to the deck. 

Finally, here is the finished product! I can't wait to get it in her room and on her crib. 

I will use a purple and white chevron fitted crib sheet and purple blankets to finish it off! 

Here are some other things I have for her room that I have made:

Accent pillow with a deer. 

I found this blanket box at an auction and refinished it. My chevron skills need improvement. 

I also got this at the furniture auction. I will put it next to the glider. 

I painted these arrows for some wall art. 

Stay tuned… more to come! I'm still looking for a dresser to double as a changing table and curtains for the three windows in her room.

Lil' Deer Baby Shower

It's finally Spring Break and we started it off with our first baby shower. Some of Brian's family and a few of our friends got together and threw us a couples baby shower. The theme was "Lil' Deer" and it was so perfect. Thanks to these wonderful women for putting it together. 

From Left to Right: Libbie, Genece, Kelcie (AKA Kiki), Marci, Brian and I, Emily, Courtney (AKA Aunt Coco) and Nonna. 

The Wicks made all the decorations. 

Here is the invite that was sent out. 

This deer head and name board will go in Zoeys room. Brians uncle George and cousin Kelcie made it. 

This is a deer skull Brian had, and let me decorate it with flowers. My mom and I wnet to michaels and got flowers from the scrapbook section and hot glued them to the skull. 

We had a "Bow Making Station" it was so fun for people to make Miss Zoey a bow for her to wear with all her cute outfits. 

Family Picture with my Mom and Dad. 

Family Picture with Nonna, Brians mom. 

Family Picture with Jojo and Uncle Q.

Aunt Coco.

The Wicks girls, just missing Stacie, she was home with Cash and a stomach bug.

Family picture with Marci and JD. Marci cooked all the food for the shower and it was all so very yummy! 

We opened presents for at least an hour. Miss Zoey got a ton of very cute clothes and and lots of things she needs while she's a baby. 

Here is all her stuff after we opened gifts. My mom is the queen of organization and she got it all organized and ready to go home. Then we continued the organizing at home. 

Brian and I are so blessed to have a group of family and frineds who want to support us and love us during this exciting time. 

Here are the hostess gifts I ordered. I thought they turned out cute :)