Learning to be a Rebel...or at least how to use one

Monday, August 6, 2012

Triplet Fun

A few weekends ago (in the middle of all our furniture building) my cousin came to visit from San Antonio with her THREE precious babies. Let me just tell you that Carrie is super mom! She drove 2 hours with three 9 1/2 month olds by herself...just for the day...just to visit family!! We haven't seen the triplets since December when they were teeny tiny...they've grown so much! We got to spend the morning/afternoon playing with them, feeding, and trying to nap. Just watching Carrie run around and take care of them made us tired! We had a great visit and can't wait till they come back to visit or for us to make a trip to see them! Here are some of the pictures I got during play time & feeding time! (I hope I label them all right...I could tell them apart at the time but not it's a little more difficult!). Allie and Kate are identical twins and Abby is the 3rd baby of the triplets...crazyness...and yes they are spontaneous twins/triplets!!

Kate watching Justin waiting for her next bite

Allie taking it all in

Abby was kiiind of a mess at this point

But just wanted more!

Allie was determined to feed herself

Super mom in action!

"Come on mom! More food! We're hungry!"

Hunter LOVED the babies...and especially loved helping clean of their hands!

Kate with her toys...resisting nap time haha

Allie and her cute paci

Abby exploring...LOVE her expression!

Kate investigating...notice her hair is wet after her massive wipe-down from getting messy at lunch

Allie is getting sleepy!

Kate is on the move...and slapping!

Allie & Abby

Abby investigating

Ally & Abby

And now a few iphone pics...

Silly Kate

I think Abby wants my iphone

Happy Kate!

Me & Kate :)

Me & Allie!

Friday, August 3, 2012

Bedroom Makeover...Take Two (or is it three?)

I don't like change...it freaks me out and makes me uncomfortable. However, decorating change? Bring it on! We have lived in our house almost three years and you would think the room we probably spend the most time in would be our favorite? Nope guess again. Our favorite room was our guest room - that we NEVER go in. We have slowly been working on our bedroom and I'm so excited how far we've come! Back in November we put in laminate flooring which made a WORLD of difference in all of our bedrooms so that was sort of step 1. Then we did a bedroom makeover which I should have titled step two of ???

Justin and I have been searching for bedroom furniture we liked since we had a bed (no headboard or anything), matching nightstands that we stained ourselves (I'm proud that we did this ourselves AND they lasted 3 years), and the entertainment center that Justin's dad built that was in his living room in College Station. The mismatch never really bugged me but I was starting to want a set that matched because hello I turned 25 this year and shouldn't I have matching furniture?? We have a problem when we look at furniture because A) it's too fancy and SO not us B) we like the most expensive thing in the store C) while I don't like change...we do tend to change our minds on things like this.

We finally decided on a bedroom set from Ikea. I know people have their opinions about Ikea but you can keep them to yourselves because we LOVE Ikea. Our guest bedroom furniture is from there and I've had since my junior year of college...so 5 years and it's been through 4/5 moves and has held up wonderfully. We also liked the idea of not spending a butt load of money and in 5 years wanting new furniture and feeling guilted into keeping it or super guilty about getting rid of it. So off to Ikea we went! Now luckily for you people I don't have any pictures of the ugly assembly of all of this furniture. That is definitely the negative about Ikea...~~some~~ ALL assembly required. BUT I must say I am super proud that we can say we built all of this furniture ourselves and together!! While there was some cussing/throwing parts around...we spent quality time together talking and laughing so I really have no complaints.

I almost didn't even do this post because after I loaded the pictures onto the computer I noticed a few things. The pillows on are bed aren't right...So don't get me started on new bedding and what I went through to get the one we have but let me just say Target and I aren't friends right now. Long story short they don't have king shams for this bedding...even though they SAY they do, so these are standard shams and it bugs me but I'm coping. And yes I know I need some decorative pillows blah blah. So the wall the entertainment center used to be on looks SO BARE. I feel like it doesn't look that bad in person but in these pics holy moly does it look boring. I haven't decided what needs to go there yet so I'm not going to jump to buy/hang something just to be done with it. So basically you are going to see Bedroom Makeover take Twenty by the time I'm done with this room...and then we'll probably have to move.

So now that I have given you my life story on our bedroom furniture and decorating issues...here are the before/after pics!

Before...aka December

After!!

Ew...Before

So much junk!

After - much better...except for that horribly bare wall

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

July Photo-a-Day Part II

#PHOTOADAYJULY

Day 16: Sign

NO Soliciting (Unless you're a kid) - Too bad this sign doesn't work!

Day 17: Your Addiction

Hair products (that almost never work in my hair)

Day 18: Plate

Okay so this obviously isn't a plate - but it's my breakfast "plate"

Day 19: Animal/Insect/Pet

My precious little Lexie all cuddled up

Day 20: Eyes

My eye - it's hard to take a self eye pic...FYI

Day 21: 9'oclock

Jamba Juice on our way to Ikea! Oh Yeah!

Day 22: Upside Down

Hunterbear eating his homemade popsicle...so he wasn't upside down but the pic is:)

Day 23: Mirror

LOTS of mirrors @ Hobby Lobby

Day 24: A Stranger

Okay so Miss Audrey is obviously not a stranger but I haven't seen her in SO long!

Day 25: Heart

Just some of my Heart necklaces...can you tell I'm obsessed with hearts??

Day 26: Sunshine

Beautiful sunset in Pville!

Day 27: On the Road

Austin skyline flying by...or I guess I'm flying by the skyline

Day 28: Cup
My bubba-keg...perfect for staying hydrated at work/pool/home...anywhere...love it!

Day 29: Last Thing You Bought

Dinner/drinks @ Max's Wine Dive...DELISH!

Day 30: Calm

My "calm" place to watch tv at night :)

Day 31: Toothbrush

I <3 my Sonicare toothbrush with the attached sanitizer...another obsession haha

Friday, July 20, 2012

Canvas Pinterest Project

Our guest bedroom is still incomplete and we've lived here almost 3 years (crazy!). Recently I got a new bedspread and I feel like the room is almost complete...yay! There are still some blank walls in this room (if you've seen the rest of our house you know how odd this is) and I've been itching to fill these spaces. This is our "travel room" where I have a lot of vacation pictures hanging up. Last weekend my friend Magan were hanging out and decided it was time for an impromptu Pinterest project so we headed over to hobby lobby and stocked up on supplies! Magan had pinned these fun quote canvases so we decided to give them a shot. I decided it would be perfect to do a travel quote and put in our travel room :)

First I cut the scrapbook paper and the mod-podged the paper onto the canvas. This was more difficult than I anticipated because there ended up being some bumps I couldn't get out. After the mod podge was dry I put my vinyl letters on...luckily you can move these if you don't get them in the right place!

Next it was time to paint the canvas. I used acrylic paint - it was actually meant for patio furniture but I picked it because of the color. I ended up using almost the whole bottle and couldn't cover the chevron stripes completely but I think it's okay!