First things first... Make sure the outside looks nice, no one wants to buy a house that has no curb appeal! Just adding a little something is better than nothing!
Monday, September 15, 2014
Stage, Stage, Stage that house!!
Well here we are just one year into our home and we are ready to move again!! As much as we like our house, as soon as we found out we were pregnant with Stella we grew out of this house. So here we are again putting our house on the market and trying to find a new one! The one thing that is so frustrating looking at houses is the fact no one declutters/updates their home! It makes me want to scream when I looking at home online... While I totally get not wanting to take down family pictures because I won't do it either, but please if you still have dark burgundy rooms and brass fixtures, UPDATE to a neutral color and brushed nickel to appeal to more people. If you aren't selling your home do whatever meets your fancy, but sometimes if you want to sell that house you gotta appeal to a broad audience. My home is not perfect, and if I had endless money supplies I would decorate all day long... So I just work with what I got :) Our first home sold one day after being on the market and this home sold after just being on the market 2 days.. I give credit to our awesome relators Chris and Julie Hunt, but I also know we made their job a little easier by making sure our home looked a little appealing to buyers! So here is our house! Thank God it sold quickly, trying to keep it clean with a 2 year old and 4 month old is HARD! Also both homes sold FULL asking price!
First things first... Make sure the outside looks nice, no one wants to buy a house that has no curb appeal! Just adding a little something is better than nothing!
First things first... Make sure the outside looks nice, no one wants to buy a house that has no curb appeal! Just adding a little something is better than nothing!
Friday, June 6, 2014
Stella Kate's Nursery!
We had Stella Kate's newborn pictures taken a few weeks ago and our wonderful photographer captured so many AMAZING shots, not only of her but of her room as well! :) Huge shout out to By Design Creations!
I knew from the beginning I wanted to do navy and pink for her room and I knew we were on a tight budget (I always try to see how cheap we can do things) for her room. Since Baylor decided to become a stunt man and climb out of his crib we moved my old bed into his room and repainted his crib an off white color.
I also found an old dresser on a online yard sale site for $50.00! We repainted it the same color as the crib and I spray painted some of our old kitchen cabinet knobs gold and we put them on the dresser. I wish I could find a before picture but for now the after is all I have.
Her curtains I used Pinterest to find a how to on how to use Walmart sheets and make them look like the cool Anthropologie ruffled ones so I spent like 15.00 on twin flat sheets to make her curtains.
I sewed the baby bedding and I believe I spent $50.00 for all the fabric. :) The chair we ordered from Wayfair for 150.00 and I redid an old lamp we had and used extra fabric I had to do that. :) The pictures on the wall were from our sweet friends as a gift, but the frames were only $3.00 each from Walmart. The wall color is Naval from Sherwin Williams.
I redid a lamp from our old house for her room because I could not find anything that just went with her room. The before lamp is this.
I absolutely adore her room, I only want to do a few more things and it will feel complete :)
I redid a lamp from our old house for her room because I could not find anything that just went with her room. The before lamp is this.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Welcome to the world Stella Kate!
So before I forget I want to write Stella Kate's birth story.. It is always nice to go back and read Baylor's birth story and I want to have the same for Stella!
At my 38 week appointment my midwife had checked me and had said I was 3cm dilated and 40% effaced... I was excited since a couple weeks ago I had only been a 1 and not effaced at all. I had been going back in forth in my head about induction or letting things happen naturally...I wanted to let things happen naturally, but we live so far from the hospital I wanted to deliver at I was nervous about making it in time and what to do with Baylor. So at my appointment we discussed it and she felt that I was favorable for induction and I would go in Wednesday evening and begin induction early Thursday morning May 1st when I was 39 weeks. Starting that next day I knew from being checked I would be sore and have some contractions... Well I was loosing my mucus plug (I know grossest words in the world) and it just kept like that all weekend. Sunday during church I started having some contractions that were uncomfortable and I had to get up during church to see if it could help some, thankfully they fizzled out since I was really excited to have my prenatal massage on Monday while Baylor was in pre-school! We had a good rest of the day just relaxing and I went to the grocery store to grab a couple of meals until we went to the hospital. Monday I dropped my little man off at school and went and enjoyed the most wonderful hour massage a pregnant girl could ask for! I was so excited because I felt so relaxed and it was going to help me sleep! I picked Baylor up from school and we came home ate lunch and I put him down for a nap and I slept a few minutes with him. Well I went to the restroom and I noticed I had my "bloody show" (another awesome pregnancy term) and thought ok, next couple of days we could be having a baby and no induction. I really wanted to avoid pitocin like the plague! Well I laid back down in our room and noticed I was having some light contractions around 2.... by 3:30 I was like I am going to start timing these they are getting a little more uncomfortable...They were coming about every 9 minutes apart. I started thinking well maybe I am in early labor, but this could last days and I don't want to go to the hospital tonight since there are suppose to be some bad storms. Zach got home and asked how I was feeling and I was telling him what I was feeling and how the contractions were 8 or 9 minutes apart, but I would cook dinner first then call the doctor and get her opinion. I called and of course she says if you think you need to come in then you should, but generally rule of thumb is 5 minutes apart lasting 1 minute for 1 hour. Since we live farther I had already planned to come when they were 6 or 7 minutes. So we finished dinner up and took Baylor outside to play and the contractions were coming every 6 minutes and my mom was like you need to go, so I went inside and took a shower and told Zach to call his mom since she was going to stay with Baylor! So while we waited for them to get there we popped popcorn for Baylor and I sat with him and cried a little since he wasn't going to be my only baby anymore. While we are getting things together of course the storms had started a little bit and we had a tornado warning for our county! Of all things to happen a tornado!! Thankfully we didn't get any of and were able to get out the door by 7:45 to head to the hospital... We make it to the intersection at 34 and Zach realized he forgot his wallet! I was like if I miss out on an epidural I blame you entirely! lol! We finally get to the hospital and my contractions are about 5 and 1/2 minutes apart so we get into triage at labor and delivery and I get checked and I am 4cm and 80% effaced with my water bulging (I guess it was thinking about breaking). By now of course my contractions are getting a little farther apart and I am on the borderline of rather to be kept or be sent home so they send me out in a gown and my gold sandals to walk the hospital, my sweet family was there walking the hallways with me and helping me get through some of the more painful contractions. We walk for an hour and then I get checked again and am still just a 4 so they send me walking again at midnight and my parents and Zach were walking with me and the contractions were just getting so uncomfortable...I get checked one more time and I have made a little more progress so they finally decided to admit at 2am! I am so sleepy by this point and the lady drawing my blood is like I can't believe you are yawning through your contractions! It had to be the massage! ;) We finally get set up in a room at 3:30 and got my iv put in and they gave me some medicine to put the edge off and sleep.... I was so sleepy, but the contractions would randomly wake me up and I knew the way I was feeling I was working against my body and tensing up! I tried so hard to relax and just let it happen, but it was awful... When I got checked again at 6 I was only a 5 so they decided to start pitocin to help my contractions get more regular. UGH they got regular and PAINFUL!!! At 8am my midwife walked in and I was so happy to see her because she always just makes me feel better! She decided to check me and break my water, well while she was checking me I had the worst contraction and she couldn't fully check me and thought I was only dilated to a 6... This is when I decided lets get things rolling for an epidural! The fluids began and at 9 something I got the sweet relief of the epidural! Zach almost passed out since he decided to watch and I was so annoyed because it was the same time I needed him to hold my hand through my contraction with some needles sticking out of my back! loL! They decided to check me when it was in and I was already an 8. By the time my family came back in to say hey and see how I was doing I was talking to them and said Oh I am having some pressure in my butt, and my mom was like oh call the nurse! Everyone goes out and the nurse checks me and said well nothing is hanging out so thats good, and then she goes to check me and says well I can see her head! She went and called the midwife and my mom came back in the room to be there too and they begin to set everything up. The nurse said lets try a practice push with the next contraction and I guess the contraction started to push her out and she said lets not do that and Stephanie will be here in just a second. So as soon as she came in she got her stuff on and said ok lets push on the next contraction and I pushed and she was out! Stella was absolutely gorgeous and it was so shocking to see her with SOOOO much hair!! We were ecstatic! I was so happy my baby girl was here and healthy and just amazed at what my body can do! :) Stella Kate said hello and 10:38am weighing 7 lbs 10 oz and 19 1/2" long with a 13 3/8" head!
At my 38 week appointment my midwife had checked me and had said I was 3cm dilated and 40% effaced... I was excited since a couple weeks ago I had only been a 1 and not effaced at all. I had been going back in forth in my head about induction or letting things happen naturally...I wanted to let things happen naturally, but we live so far from the hospital I wanted to deliver at I was nervous about making it in time and what to do with Baylor. So at my appointment we discussed it and she felt that I was favorable for induction and I would go in Wednesday evening and begin induction early Thursday morning May 1st when I was 39 weeks. Starting that next day I knew from being checked I would be sore and have some contractions... Well I was loosing my mucus plug (I know grossest words in the world) and it just kept like that all weekend. Sunday during church I started having some contractions that were uncomfortable and I had to get up during church to see if it could help some, thankfully they fizzled out since I was really excited to have my prenatal massage on Monday while Baylor was in pre-school! We had a good rest of the day just relaxing and I went to the grocery store to grab a couple of meals until we went to the hospital. Monday I dropped my little man off at school and went and enjoyed the most wonderful hour massage a pregnant girl could ask for! I was so excited because I felt so relaxed and it was going to help me sleep! I picked Baylor up from school and we came home ate lunch and I put him down for a nap and I slept a few minutes with him. Well I went to the restroom and I noticed I had my "bloody show" (another awesome pregnancy term) and thought ok, next couple of days we could be having a baby and no induction. I really wanted to avoid pitocin like the plague! Well I laid back down in our room and noticed I was having some light contractions around 2.... by 3:30 I was like I am going to start timing these they are getting a little more uncomfortable...They were coming about every 9 minutes apart. I started thinking well maybe I am in early labor, but this could last days and I don't want to go to the hospital tonight since there are suppose to be some bad storms. Zach got home and asked how I was feeling and I was telling him what I was feeling and how the contractions were 8 or 9 minutes apart, but I would cook dinner first then call the doctor and get her opinion. I called and of course she says if you think you need to come in then you should, but generally rule of thumb is 5 minutes apart lasting 1 minute for 1 hour. Since we live farther I had already planned to come when they were 6 or 7 minutes. So we finished dinner up and took Baylor outside to play and the contractions were coming every 6 minutes and my mom was like you need to go, so I went inside and took a shower and told Zach to call his mom since she was going to stay with Baylor! So while we waited for them to get there we popped popcorn for Baylor and I sat with him and cried a little since he wasn't going to be my only baby anymore. While we are getting things together of course the storms had started a little bit and we had a tornado warning for our county! Of all things to happen a tornado!! Thankfully we didn't get any of and were able to get out the door by 7:45 to head to the hospital... We make it to the intersection at 34 and Zach realized he forgot his wallet! I was like if I miss out on an epidural I blame you entirely! lol! We finally get to the hospital and my contractions are about 5 and 1/2 minutes apart so we get into triage at labor and delivery and I get checked and I am 4cm and 80% effaced with my water bulging (I guess it was thinking about breaking). By now of course my contractions are getting a little farther apart and I am on the borderline of rather to be kept or be sent home so they send me out in a gown and my gold sandals to walk the hospital, my sweet family was there walking the hallways with me and helping me get through some of the more painful contractions. We walk for an hour and then I get checked again and am still just a 4 so they send me walking again at midnight and my parents and Zach were walking with me and the contractions were just getting so uncomfortable...I get checked one more time and I have made a little more progress so they finally decided to admit at 2am! I am so sleepy by this point and the lady drawing my blood is like I can't believe you are yawning through your contractions! It had to be the massage! ;) We finally get set up in a room at 3:30 and got my iv put in and they gave me some medicine to put the edge off and sleep.... I was so sleepy, but the contractions would randomly wake me up and I knew the way I was feeling I was working against my body and tensing up! I tried so hard to relax and just let it happen, but it was awful... When I got checked again at 6 I was only a 5 so they decided to start pitocin to help my contractions get more regular. UGH they got regular and PAINFUL!!! At 8am my midwife walked in and I was so happy to see her because she always just makes me feel better! She decided to check me and break my water, well while she was checking me I had the worst contraction and she couldn't fully check me and thought I was only dilated to a 6... This is when I decided lets get things rolling for an epidural! The fluids began and at 9 something I got the sweet relief of the epidural! Zach almost passed out since he decided to watch and I was so annoyed because it was the same time I needed him to hold my hand through my contraction with some needles sticking out of my back! loL! They decided to check me when it was in and I was already an 8. By the time my family came back in to say hey and see how I was doing I was talking to them and said Oh I am having some pressure in my butt, and my mom was like oh call the nurse! Everyone goes out and the nurse checks me and said well nothing is hanging out so thats good, and then she goes to check me and says well I can see her head! She went and called the midwife and my mom came back in the room to be there too and they begin to set everything up. The nurse said lets try a practice push with the next contraction and I guess the contraction started to push her out and she said lets not do that and Stephanie will be here in just a second. So as soon as she came in she got her stuff on and said ok lets push on the next contraction and I pushed and she was out! Stella was absolutely gorgeous and it was so shocking to see her with SOOOO much hair!! We were ecstatic! I was so happy my baby girl was here and healthy and just amazed at what my body can do! :) Stella Kate said hello and 10:38am weighing 7 lbs 10 oz and 19 1/2" long with a 13 3/8" head!
Thursday, April 10, 2014
It's a...
GIRL!!!! Obviously if you follow me on Facebook we have known this for quite sometime, but I never post on here so finally announcing it to the blog world lol! We found out in November and we could not be any happier on welcoming our sweet Stella Kate to the world in just a few short weeks! I feel like this pregnancy has flown by! (Probably since I am chasing my almost 2 year old 90% of the day!) We have been so busy preparing her nursery and trying to finish up miscellaneous projects the last couple weeks I can finally see light at the end of the tunnel! :) I need to post pictures of the new house and all the changes it has undergone! This house has definitely been more challenging than the last one and I can already see a move in the next few years since we will now be a family of 4! I will a picture of her crib bedding since we did get that done ... I still haven't decorated the walls since I am a little lost on exactly what my vision is!
So this is the bedding! We are using navy, pink, and white with gold and grey as some accent colors... The recliner for her room was delivered yesterday, it is gray and I love it! I just have to figure out everything I am doing, I am so scattered brained this time around! :) Well hopefully my next post will be the nursery finished before I have a baby in my arms :_
Monday, October 28, 2013
Gender Guessing Fun!
Ok, it has been a minute since I have posted, so for a quick update... We are settling into our home slowly, after being here for a few weeks we found out we are expecting our 2nd baby, and now I am DYING to know what we are having... I really thought I would be wanting a girl super bad this time around, but having a boy has been so much fun I would be over the moon to have another boy! I would be so excited to have one of each as well, no matter what I am happy as long as he or she is healthy!! I have been wanting to know super bad, since my sweet friend Jamie just found out she was having a boy, so I am just driving myself nuts wanting to know! So for fun today I have used ever old wives tale, chinese gender chart, Ramzi method, and a diy home predictor test.. Here are the results so far I would love to know what yall think!
Old wives tales-
Wedding band over belly (if it goes in a circle girl, back and forth boy)-GIRL
How I am carrying- I am not really sure yet I feel low and wide which is a little of BOTH lol!
Baby's heart rate above 140 girl below is a boy- GIRL
Morning Sickness- GIRL
How I look (girls steal beauty, boys give)- GIRL I feel not so good looking with all the break outs
Hair growth (boys grow fast, girls stay the same )-GIRL (not to TMI but I had a lot of hair with Baylor on my blonde belly hairs)
Cravings (sweet girl, salty boy)-GIRL
Chinese Gender Predictor is tricky the one on Babycenter says BOY and the one on Parents.com says GIRL...The Babycenter one said girl with Baylor and Parents.com said BOY.
The RAMZI method..I can not tell where my placenta is and I have no idea how they ran the ultrasound so INCONCLUSIVE on that one.
The Baking soda test... You apparently pour some of your pee over a couple tablespoons of baking soda and if it fizzes its a boy, and if nothing happens its a girl... This one did nothing so GIRL
I want to try the red cabbage test because this is just getting humorous! Like I said no matter what we will love and adore our new bundle, in the mean time this mama is having fun guessing! :)
Old wives tales-
Wedding band over belly (if it goes in a circle girl, back and forth boy)-GIRL
How I am carrying- I am not really sure yet I feel low and wide which is a little of BOTH lol!
Baby's heart rate above 140 girl below is a boy- GIRL
Morning Sickness- GIRL
How I look (girls steal beauty, boys give)- GIRL I feel not so good looking with all the break outs
Hair growth (boys grow fast, girls stay the same )-GIRL (not to TMI but I had a lot of hair with Baylor on my blonde belly hairs)
Cravings (sweet girl, salty boy)-GIRL
Chinese Gender Predictor is tricky the one on Babycenter says BOY and the one on Parents.com says GIRL...The Babycenter one said girl with Baylor and Parents.com said BOY.
The RAMZI method..I can not tell where my placenta is and I have no idea how they ran the ultrasound so INCONCLUSIVE on that one.
The Baking soda test... You apparently pour some of your pee over a couple tablespoons of baking soda and if it fizzes its a boy, and if nothing happens its a girl... This one did nothing so GIRL
I want to try the red cabbage test because this is just getting humorous! Like I said no matter what we will love and adore our new bundle, in the mean time this mama is having fun guessing! :)
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