Summertime Beach Bum

Back in July we found out we were expecting our first child! I was in total shock since we had just moved in and just started trying, but i guess now is when God had planned for us.  I shared the news with Mark the next day at dinner. I had wrapped up a Patriots onsie (seen below) in a tiny little box. The only thing he could see at first was the Patriots symbol. Then he pulled out the onsie. He was like "what is this?" "this won't fit me." He was just as shocked as i was, but then excitement set in.  August 15th we had our first ultra sound apt. We got to see the little bean bouncing around and saw the heart beat. It was too early to hear it. Mom and Mark were both at the apt with me.  Next apt was August 29th, i went by myself. I was 11 weeks, and we were trying to hear the heart beat with the doppler but it was too early, so we did the ultra sound just to make sure all was well. Same thing, the baby was bouncing around.  Yesterday Mom,  Mark an

The dinning rooms was one of the worst rooms when we moved in. There was a light with an awful circle thing around it, a coat rack glued to the wall. The ceiling was painted yellow and then the walls were yellow with an orange sponge paint. AWFUL So after i finished the living room the dinning room was next!  Here is the room before we moved in. Sponge paint and all...you can also see the light and that weird circle thing in the photo Besides removing the coat rack from the wall, we wanted to remove the circle and the light. Well we now know why they put up the circle thing. They cut a hole in the ceiling and decided instead of fixing it, lets just cover it! So we got the job of fixing it.  After everything was sanded, and Mark (husband) had painted the ceiling white. The room was ready for a fresh coat of paint.  Another view of the room. We did realize why they sponge painted it...because they never fully removed the wall paper, so the texture hid the natural

I have decided to go room by room in our new home and make it our own. This was something i didn't do in our last home.  I want to make this home our own.  First i started with the paint color, which made a HUGE difference in the room.  After that i worked on two pieces of furniture that i re did. Here are all of my pictures.  The living room the day we moved in...a mustard yellow  Move in day Here is what it looked like with what we were using for furniture...a love seat and recliner  The after with the nice color grey that we picked out. It looked much better! We have since replaced the couch with a very nice brown sectional.  An old desk from my grandparents house. It needed some love!  The desk after. Fresh coat of paint which was called "coral bluff" and its more pink than coral, oh well. New hardware as well.  The Mr & Mrs letters i made for our wedding by covering them in hundreds of tiny pearls, so i placed a bunch of p