Thursday, March 29, 2012

Ivy's Room

Ivy's room looked like this last time I logged in to the bloggy world

 and I looked like this:

well now I look like this

  and the room I had  plans to make look like this:




looks like this:

TADAAAAAAAA!
nobody freak out-those pillows are just for show


The letters are cardboard and from Hobby Lobby. All they needed was a couple coats of teal spray paint and some of those sticky poster hangers. They're my favorite part of the room!  I love them so much I had to put some in Gwenies room!

I also bought some for the bathroom-but I digress...

 the leftover fabric from the bunting I made will eventually make its way to these hoops.

I have big plans of embroidering something in one of them too but we'll see how much time I have with 2 little ones...

so you may have noticed the lack of yellow painted furniture-all of you wood enthusiasts will be happy to hear My  Loving Man nixed my ideas of bright cheery furniture-yep took that dream and smashed it...:(

I was however allowed to paint our rocking chair in my beloved yellow


epic. fail.

something was seriously wrong with this spray paint-it went on like water even after roughing up the surface and everything!  I made sure it wasn't the wood with an spare can of white and sure enough-its the paint.


so technically this room isn't really 'done.'   I have fabric to put in hoops and a chair to salvage. It will go in this corner (with those fabulous pillows in it) next to this cute wall hanging my sister in law gave me!


 I really love this space. It makes me smile every time I walk through it-which is often since the only bathroom is through that door.


 But not for long... my husband has been off for 2 weeks and is a workaholic so the back room looks like this:

yeah...good thing I love him

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

She's Here

Our sweet little Ivy was born March 15th at 10:35am




Gwen is so in love with her little sister and I cant say that I blame her!  I love how my heart swells to envelope both my daughters in the love only a mother knows...


Gwen meeting Ivy:)

She was SO Excited

look at that proud big sister!

my labor started at 5:45am. It was hard right away and no wonder since it was over in 5 hours-my body just got down to business- it was intense.

We have home births so she was born in the same place Gwen was 4 years earlier - in the peace and quiet of our own personal space.:)
Labor and birth are such emotional experiences. I'm amazed at how suddenly you go from absolute overwhelming sensation to complete relief when you first look into the face of your brand new little one...


who does she look like? Its always hard to tell at first-She still has that newborn look-but She resembles me more than her Daddy.

Gwen looks so much like Michael that it was pretty easy to tell right away she definitely favors me. She has my eyes, arms, legs. hands,feet lips, but Michael's nose :) oh and she has my dimples!

but straight straight hair-so we have curls and dimples! Such beautiful girls!


We're so happy to add her to our family! Thanks God;)