Ready for Fall?

I know that the East Coast is ready for fall, but the Pacific Northwest is just now starting summer!  The temps are finally kinda hot and there is not a cloud in the sky on most days.  I have  been playing outdoors after work, either watering plants or riding our bikes to enjoy the gorgeous weather while it last!  I had to take a picture Heather because she insisted wearing a helmet when we went riding on Tuesday and in typical Heather fashion, she complained about wearing it the whole time…hhahaa…oh Heather!

Back to the main reason for this post….I may not be ready for Fall weather, but  I am ready for fall fashion!  I love layering light sweaters/cardigans and I love boots!  I have been spending a lot of time browsing polyvore.com admiring all the great outfits that people have put together.  You can create what they call a set…where you can piece a whole outfits together including a purse and accessories.  It is a very addicting and time consuming site and really is just a place for me to go and dream because some of the items are so far out of my price range.  Doug would kill me if I came home with shoes over $500!  The best thing about the site is it tells you where every piece comes from and the price and can even take you directly to the site where you can purchase it.  Here are some of my favorite boards…

Very basic and neutral…

Love the plain but simple jewelry…

I think I have most of these items to pull this look off…

Love the color of this top…

Coral is my favorite color this fall…

I have these boots and I want this jacket, not so sure about everything else…

The first board that I created!  I love the jacket, but out of my price range :(…

I need me some toms…

Another pop of color…

Have the boots and want the papaya colored shirt…

So as you can see I am loving Boots, Cardigans, Scarves and adding a little pop of color when I can.  I am ready to go shopping and see what I can find.  I think I might even go to Target at lunch….

Wednesdays with Wrecks

Someone was not ready to wake up this morning…he sure is not a morning dog!

Pink and Purple

I love hosting baby showers (or any party for that matter) and I was really proud of all of my decorations for the latest shower, but I failed to take any pictures during the party.  So here are some pictures that I stole off of Facebook and some pictures that I took after the party.

I found a lot of the decoration ideas on the blogs that I follow and on my new obsession, pinterest.

I copied the DIY garland from frogprincepaperie.com.  I  sewed all these 1 and 2 inch circles together and I think I might be sewing all sorts of shapes together in the future.  I loved how the garland turned out.

This is from frog prince paperie…

This is my backdrop for the dessert table…

I covered a canvas in fabric and used my Cricut to make a banner that says “It’s a Girl”…

I used a tutorial that I found on you tube to make the tissue/puff balls and I loved them…something else that I will probably always do for decorations…super easy to do!!!

I covered a picture frame in the same fabric and used my Cricut machine to make a banner that read “Oh Baby” over the beverage station…

I made a diaper cake that I placed on the kitchen table.  I used wrapping paper as a placemat underneath.  Next time I might just use wrapping paper that coordinates with the party theme to cover the picture frames and canvas…much cheaper than the fabric.

My favorite area that I decorated was the fireplace and I took NO pictures of it!  Here is a picture of me decorating it…

I took everything down from the mantel and hung a clothesline of sweet little girl clothes.  I hung these pomander balls that I made over the painted/wrapped canvas.  I found a DIY for them over at Pizzazzeri.  Easy to make, but just a little time consuming… (again I didn’t get a good picture of them)

Here is a good picture of the mantle that I found on Facebook…

Here is Doug and Mary opening up Claire’s painting to reveal the name…

More stolen pictures from Facebook…

So glad that I could help host this shower for such a sweet couple!

I can’t wait to meet baby Claire in the next few months!!

From GA to WA…Our Accent Vlog

I am doing my first link up with Jenna's Journey Blog.  I saw her post and thought that we should take her little test to see if our Southern Accents are still hanging in the air.  After reviewing our little videos I noticed that our accents might not be as thick as they once were, but our vocabulary is still southern.

(Please excuse that Doug and I look gross…We just got back from the gym)

Here is the list of words you have to say:

aunt, route, wash, oil, theatre, iron, salmon, caramel, fire, water, sure, data, ruin, crayon, toilet, New Orleans, pecan, both, again, probably, spitting image, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, syrup, pajamas, caught

The questions are as follows:

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on someone's house?

What is the bug that when you touch it, it rolls into a ball?

What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?

What do you call gym shoes?

What do you say to address a large group of people?

What do you call a spider that has an oval shaped body with extremely long legs?

What do you call your grandparents?

What do you call the wheeled contraption you carry groceries at the supermarket?

What do you call it when it rains while the sun is shining?

What is the thing you change to tv channel with?

This was such a fun post!  After being in WA for three plus years I have gotten very good at telling which Southeast state people are from just by hearing them talk.  Even though I get told everyday by my patients that I don’t have a southern accent, I hope that once we get back home it will come back!!!

Wednesday’s with Wrecks

Every Wednesday I am going to try and post pictures of our only child.  And the only reason I have to do is because he is just so darn cute!

And because I am a day late with my new idea…you get two pictures of this sweet little guy.

Doug got a new toy this weekend.  Doug loves his new toy, Wrecks on the other hand runs in the other direction when the guns come out of the safe!  We had to work really hard to get Wrecks to go near Doug to take this picture. 

Claire

Last weekends baby shower went great.  There were about 30 people that came, and the only problem that we had was that the house was burning up!  Out here in the Pacific Northwest it only gets hot enough to need air conditioning about 1 week out of the year, we needed one on Sunday.

I baked a lot of yummy stuff for the shower.  My favorite was pudding cookies.  I will share the recipe later.

At the shower Doug and Mary wanted to reveal the name that they had decided on for their little girl and I was happy to help out.  I painted a canvas with the name on it and they opened it at the shower for all their friends and family to see.

I started with the name (Which I went over a dozen time trying to make it perfect) and worked my way out from there…

Here is the finished product (I probably perfected the letters one or two more times after this picture was taken)…

Everyone loved the name and I am happy that they let me be apart of the surprise.

A lot harder than it looks!!!

A few weeks ago I went to a friends baby shower.  I love giving gifts that are monogrammed or have the baby’s name on it, but because I procrastinated I didn’t have time to order something off line.  I decided I would try my hand at painting a canvas with the baby’s name on it to be hung possibly over the crib.  I bought the paint, brushes, and canvas at JoAnne’s and started on my little project.  I started on the name first because I thought the letters would be the hardest and I painted out from the name after that.  Painting is a lot more difficult than drawing or coloring because it tended to go places that I didn’t want it to go.  Even though Doug told me that it “didn’t look professional”…I still think it turned out pretty good.  I am working on one more and when it is finished I will post it.  Hopefully it will turn out a little better.

Not too shabby for a beginner!

Slave Driver

I wasn’t sure how much help I would be getting out of Doug this weekend, but I was happily surprised.  He marked a few things off his honey do list and also helped me in the yard.  I had let the backyard and the side of the house get taken over by weeds and I have always hated the bark that was in the flower bed.  I made it my mission to take back the backyard and side of the house this weekend.

We trimmed the shrubs in the front yard.

Before….

After…

The last time that I trimmed this tree Ellen was here to help me.  I wish that Ellen was here this time to tell me which branch to cut because I think I got a little happy with the clippers.

Before…

After with some cute purple flowers under it…

The backyard taken over by weeds…

After with no weeds, pruned trees, new mulch, and new flowers.

We rented a power washer and Doug power washed the house.  The back of the house was looking really gross.

I am so glad that Doug did it…it looks so much better.

I don’t have any after pictures of the house…just imagine it without all the mildew