Nursery Room

Okay so this post is about 8 months overdue. BUT I am moving in a little over a week....so before I tear this room down I figured I would FINALLY take a few pics (not the best I know) BUT this will have to do...so here is the room, and now I get to RE do the room...fun right? NOT really. Not sure if I should just redo this room or start a whole new color scheme for when he's a toddler...

This is a picture of the room from the door. The room has really high ceilings so I chose to do a paper lantern mobile. Took SO long to put together but Deklan loved to stare at it from his crib. :) I had the beding made so I stuck with grays, aqua, and yellow. His name I Painted the back bigger letters and then covered the smaller letters with yellow yarn. Again- took forever! I made the ribbon trees and and the burlap banners.

I also painted this canvas and bought the vinyl lettering on etsy. The vinyl doesn't stick the best so I MAY have to redo this :(

I am obsessed with his rocking chair- I spent SO LONG finding the perfect one! It rocks and reclines and is SO incredibly comfy! BEST purchase ever!

I will miss this MASSIVE closet- still unsure which room will be Deklan's in the new place.

I got these awesome barnwood frames at hobby lobby for SO cheap! So there ya have it! FINALLY posting pics of his room. :)

8 months old....WHAT????

I am seriously tripping out about Deklan growing older. How has the time gone by so fast??? And on the other hand, I can't imagine life without this little munchkin anymore. He brings so much life into our home! Poor baby got sick the week of Christmas, but is doing much better now. He is always such an easy baby so him being sick was a new challenge for me.

A few things about Deklan:

-Rolls all over the floor
-Eats and LOVES his homemade baby food twice a day and then eats 7 ounces of formula every 5 hours- sometimes longer because of teething
-HE got TWO TEETH a few days ago!!!!! On the bottom- they are just breaking through!
-Sleeps through the night (usually 9 pm to 7 or 8 am)
- Smiling and laughing ALL the time
-Seriously the BEST baby
-Says mama, dadda, obama (ya I have NO idea how that started) he loves to talk babble to me all day, he says ggg and bb sounds too. Cracks me up
- Looks like he will crawl any day now but still won't do it.
-Can finally walk all around the house in his walker (he pushes the trash can down and my decorations on the floor- officially time to baby proof!)
-Wearing all 9 month clothes pretty much!
-He is going through a screaming phase that does drive me a little nuts. He screams at the top of his lungs JUST because he likes the sound of his own voice.


This is his ALMOST crawling position :)

 And him SCREAMING...

 His constant smiles :)

 And his "I'm so innocent" face

I am already starting to plan his first birthday party- it will be a huge bash in our new home! :) He is 8 months and getting SO big!!!

Happy New Year!

This is officially my 300th post- whew! Wishing all of you a Happy New Year! If you want to see my last year in review I posted about that on my other blog HERE. I am beginning to wonder if I should just join the two blogs....

I love bringing in the new year with 1,000 resolutions of things I want to do to better myself...and then I love to hate myself when I fail at them. I have read a few people taking the ONE word challenge. I love this. One word to sum it all up! Something to strive for and motivate, but not be discouraging when I'm not perfect. So, I set some goals to cross off and one word for myself to remember. Instead of being mad for "missing" a day of prayer, or working out- I have the year to complete my goals. For example, I am going to run 200 miles this year. I have lots more that I will be working on and adding to the list.

So my word this year is balance.

Meaning mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behavior, judgement, ect..

If you know me well, you know I have major anxiety issues. SUCKS pretty bad. I don't sleep well- mainly because I am pretty good at obsessing over doing a thousand things and stressing myself out to the max. Not this year. I want my main focus to be finding balance between church, mommy time, wife time, family and friends, and time for me. This may mean saying NO more often. Or maybe just learning to calm down about saying yes. I just want to be better. Not saying that my life is stressful- because it SHOULDN'T be. I somehow choose this. So that's my goal...be better. Be balanced. 

REALLY hoping this works out better than the normal goals I set for myself. What are your resolutions for this year?