{make room for baby: baby photos}

Yesterday, I went to the What A Woman Wants Expo Show with my mom and sister-- it was fun and we got eyebrow waxes and tints, things for nails and some jewelry. But my favorite thing and I think the best deal we got was a photo-shoot for Emmett when he is born through Camera Shy. They have gorgeous pictures as you can see below and they gave us 3 free prints including a 11x14! Grandma Cheri bought it for a shower gift and it was only $89. I am super excited and think it's a great deal!!

{make room for baby: part 1}

So I am officially into my nesting stage of wanting to de-junk everything (3 DI trips in the last 4 weeks) and wanting to start on Baby E's room-- yes we can call him baby E. I originally wanted to paint the walls a light grey but daddy ex-nayed that idea so we played a game and each picked out 3 paint colors and then narrowed in on one...and it was Disney's Cinderella Blue or something dorky like that. I have to say I love it!

Some people might think that it's a tad bit too early for us to start on the room, but Pierce is literally going ALL day EVERY day and I will be thankful when I am too big to help in any way.

Obviously, it's still a work in progress-- like we need a mattress etc. but here is just a peak at before and after!

Here are some "before" pictures that I stole from Pierce's instagram, as you can see it was messy and was just an office.

My sweet husband hard at work painting! (He doesn't know I took this!)

And now, the "After"

{when you walk in}

{another angle of the room}

{the crib minus the mattress}

{Ikea dresser that was once mine, this is where we will put the changing pad}

{the closet- clearly needing some organization still...that's for another day}

{and my office is to the side by the closet- fits great}

So we still have a TON to do but I am happy with the improvements and painting! I think we will do a subtle jungle theme- and I don't even dare to say theme- I mainly want it to be colors but I found the following 2 pictures that we may use! My mom and I are going to make the bedding because I can't find anything I love or exactly what I am wanting. I am thinking Chevron and polka dots for the bedding in some fun colors!

{this awesome elephant lamp from HomeGoods}

{and these animal prints from etsy}

{Halloween}

Pierce usually doesn't like having holiday decorations around unless it's Christmas, but he is warming up to the idea. So he and I have been gathering some super cute and fun Halloween decorations!

This was a candle holder, which Pierce bumped into last night, so he is no longer with us but was cute for the time being haha!
Apparently I have an obsession with sparkles and glitter, so I just had to get a sparkly orange candle!
Our cute little witch!
This little mummy guy is so cute and again I loved the sparkles!
This picture doesn't do how cute this little decoration is, it's a candle holder that's a spider, but we couldn't find a cute candle to go on it and at Tai Pan they showed it with this, which was really cute!
Pierce picked out this ghost and he is super cute and simple!
Gotta have pumpkins!
Lastly, TJ Maxx has the best decorations for cheap, we found this great fall pumpkin that I will be able to use for Thanksgiving as well!

Happy Halloween!

{we've moved!}

So most of you heard that we moved- it's literally like 100 ft. away from our previous apartment. A 2 bed 2 bath came up so we took it! We really like it and I've posted some pictures below, everything is mostly set up the same as in our old place- but it's a lot more spacious and we are really liking the layout!

The dining room area is a lot bigger which is nice, it's a lot of blank white walls right now until we decide to paint or hang some things.
We now have a hallway which is nice, that closed door is our master bed and the open door is where the 2nd bed (office) is!
The guest bathroom (aka Pierce's bathroom). He did red, black and grey for Miami Heat of course! It is across from the 2nd bedroom.
The second bedroom aka the office setup!
The office, this used to be in the dining room but since it has all the utility things on it, we moved it in here for now!
So Pierce was napping in our bed when I was taking some pictures, so I will skip the master bedroom- it's the same as it was in the other place. We have a little bit more space in there though which is great! Here is our walk-in closet!
My bathroom in the master bath! I loved the curtain so did Blue & White.
So welcome to our new place! And we are up for visitors so let us know if you want to come look at it!

{living like kings}

So we recently upgraded our Queen bed for a King!

Here are a few pictures of the bed made the first couple of days while we were waiting for our headboard.

Also, when we first got married, we used all of Pierce's old bedroom things. We had these great nightstands but I personally wasn't crazy about the color. Here is a picture of our old bed and the nightstands....Pierce sanded & painted them antique white! They look awesome!

Next we got this little treat in the mail!

And here is our bed with the headboard! As you can see in the close up picture- it has awesome brads!

We love our new bed and these little guys aren't complaining either!!

{Christmas at our house}

Well it’s that time of year again! Christmas time is one of the only holidays that Pierce thoroughly enjoys. Soooo on November 3rd yes, you read that correctly 3rd, starting buying and setting up our Christmas decorations and getting in the holiday season. So here are a few pictures of what we have so far, I hope you enjoy them!

{the tree} We decided to go with the classic red and green.

Santa's workshop was our theme.

Santas, sleighs, reindeer, bells- you name it!

Our Santa to go on top of the tree!

Here you can see the red ribbon with white pom poms! And my favorite part the "Ho Ho Ho" sign that we put down the front of it.


{Around the House}

This cute little Santa sign we found from TJMAX for a great deal!

Our Advent Calendar that Pierce's mom bought for us! And the candle holder and candle from Tai Pan!

Liz also bought us this little Santa door knob, the puppies love it!

I love this sign, the snowflakes on the top make it soo cute!

Liz also bought all the Walkers these cute signs as well! And I love that they all match our Red and Green theme!

Here are the stockings we ordered offline and they turned out super great!

Also, Liz got this great stocking holder from her neighbor Becky Williams.

Up in my kitchen you will find this, my holiday baking cookbook and Mr. Bobble Santa, he is super glittery and super fabulous!

Last thing in my kitchen is this is my cute kitchen towel I found at Wal-Mart for $3.00!

Lastly, Pierce is in love with villages so we made a deal to buy one building a year and he can slowly collect them. This year he picked the Toy Store! So cute!

Anyway, we hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday season and enjoys decorating their own houses!