The little things.

It rained at our house for about 45 minutes last night.  What a nice surprise.  My flowers and plants enjoyed the fresh drink of water.

Love this pic.  My two favorite guys just watching it rain.  Happy Friday!

Dawson's Nursery.

I'm so excited to show these pictures to you all!  We have been working on the nursery little by little now, and it has finally all come together!  Special thanks to my Mom and sister Lindsay who came to help us paint!  Jack and I are so pleased with the way everything turned out.  Now we will just have to wait for Dawson to make her grand entrance! 

 

Wall Color - Sherwin Williams "Greyish"

Crib - Restoration Hardware

Elephant Quilt and crib sheet - Pottery Barn Kids

English Bulldog in the crib - FAO Swartz in New York

Bedding & Matching pillow in the chair- All white eyelet fabric from Mood.  Beautifully made by Lynda Strayhorn.  Contact me if you would like her info.  She's amazing.

Monogram Initial Wall Decal over crib - etsy.com

Elephant Rocker - Restoration Hardware

Yellow canvas bins in the closet and next to the crib - Pottery Barn Kids Outlet

White Rug - Wayfair.com

Metal Yellow and White Wall Flowers - Pottery Barn Kids

White Shelves - Pottery Barn Kids

Pink and white polka dot piggy bank - Hobby Lobby

DCJ on the shelf - Hobby Lobby.  Originally hot pink, spray painted yellow

Frame on shelf - Hobby Lobby

All the dolls on the shelves - Vintage from Grammy, GG and Great Grandma

Silver Cup - Vintage, Jack's dads silver baby cup

Drapes - Restoration Hardware

Curtain rods - Hobby Lobby

Chair and Ottoman - poshtots.com - Fabric: Links Grey

Dresser - Land of Nod

Changing pad cover - Land of Nod

Bully Puppy in the swing print - etsy.com

Mirror - Garden Ridge

Yellow Lamp - Made by me!

Musical Noah's Ark Pillow on the door handle - Kathleen's Kids

First Golf Set - Babies R Us

Pacifier Jar - Mason Jar with yellow ribbon

Side Table next to Chair - Pier1

 

Let me know if you have any questions on where things are from!  A lot of the clothes in the closet are Baby Gap, Carter's, Zulilly.com and from different Smocked Facebook Pages. 

 

35 Weeks.

5 more weeks?  Am I hearing this correctly?  Actually, it's 4 weeks and 5 days to be exact... but who's counting :)

Things seem to be going smoothly.  I hope I am not speaking too soon!  Jack and I have been working on getting our house organized and deep cleaned so we aren't slamming everything into the week before she comes.  And of course she could always come early, so we want to be prepared.  I actually washed all of her clothes, blankets, towels, boppy covers, changing pads, etc. this past weekend through last night.  Yikes, that took forever.  And everything is soooo small.  Folding a 0-3 month size onesie is quite the challenge.  And then of course you have stuff that says to wash by itself, wash on delicate, lay flat to dry, etc.  It's not just "wash and dry" like I do most of my clothes!

I should have nursery pics up hopefully next week :)  I'm so excited to share with you all!

This week Dawson is over 18 inches long and over 5.5lbs - about the weight of a honeydew (according to BabyCenter).  She's running out of room, so I don't feel her moving around as much as I feel big jabs or kicks.  I am getting more and more elbows and feet in my side than I am fluttery little movements :)  Most of Dawson's physical development is complete and now she will just spend the next few weeks gaining weight.

 

I monogrammed about 10 burp cloths last week for Dawson.  Remember me saying I hadn't really done ANYTHING for her?  Well I am catching up.  I am going to monogram a couple of onesies this weekend and then I think she will be set for now.  I love the little ruffles and eyelet on the burp cloths below:

Jack, close your eyes.  Haha, just kidding.  He knows my obsession with Christmas.  I ordered Dawson a couple of holiday pieces in the past two weeks.  It's going to be very challenging for me to resist a lot of the adorable outfits I've been seeing online.  SO. CUTE.  Here are three I've already purchased -  I can't wait to take Dawson to the pumpkin patch with her shirt on and little skinny jeans and boots:

One last thing - my bestie Nicole had her little boy Wyatt James yesterday morning.  This big boy weighed a whopping 11.1lbs!  So much baby to love.  I can't wait to squeeze his cheeks off.

Identical to his dad :)

A WEDDING Shower.

One of my besties since I was little is getting married in October.  We threw her a wedding shower a few weeks back and I want to share some of the pics!  All of the decor was made by the 4 hostesses and it all turned out so well!

The gorgeous Bride-to-Be!

Another view of the table with the poms and decorated mason jar flower vases.

The mantle was decorated with tissue poms and her future last name.  We bought 99cent wooden letters from Hobby Lobby and then wrapped them in burlap.

Beautiful flowers in vases made by hostess, Jackie :)  She wrapped mason jars in burlap string / twine and added fabric flowers she made.  So crafty.

Another shot of just the vases/mason jars.

Wreath Jackie made for the front door with Brooke's "future" last name initial.  The "O" is a wooden letter wrapped in fabric with fabric flowers glued to it.

The invitations were purchased on etsy.com

Super cute hostess gift idea.  Brooke gave us all personalized serving platters!

(Nicole, Kylie, Jackie and myself)

Shopbop Showing Crimson Love.

"The Finest Reds - Crimson accents add interest to neutrals."

SHOP HERE!

Boomer Sooner and Happy Friday!

Hugging.

I need this guy to come over and give Tank the 411 on how to hug a baby.  

A few pics.

Tank was bunny hunting from our living room last week.  He jumps around on the back of the couch like a cat.  I'm very surprised he's never fallen.  He loves his bunnies though!  There are two in the front yard in the pics below:

I started monogramming stuff for Dawson last night!  Finally!  You would think I had a ton monogrammed for her, but I just haven't had time.  Here's a burp cloth with fabric I did and two little kimono tops for her first weeks.  I have been seeing kimono tops on a lot of mom/hospital check lists so I bought a couple of cheap ones and added her initials for extra cuteness:

Jack put together Dawson's swing!  We are trying to get rid of boxes since our trash service is changing and we can no longer pile tons of crap by our curb to be picked up :)  It was nice getting this checked off the list of things to do:

Dawson's Great Grandma (Mema) collects dolls.  She has a million.  She let me have a little Kewpie doll that is in excellent condition for the nursery:

 

Dawson and Tank just taking a little snooze together :)