Y'all! I haven't written a post about our best boy since his first birthday. I keep thinking, I should go back and update the blog on Jud, but I thought instead, we would move forward from here. And I'll catch you up on the past few months, too! I can't tell you what a joy Judson is, he completes our family in ways I never imagined we needed. Let's recap what he's been up since I left you hanging at the 12 month post. At ONE year... You visited Disney World for the first time! We left the bottles at home and switched to a cup full-on at Disney. Go big or go home, right? I thought we would have enough distraction, that you wouldn't even notice the missing bottle and I was right on, … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
the kitchen, 2.0
It looks like the big kitchen project is really falling into place. The painter comes on Friday, the beautiful slabs of carrera are waiting at Allen's shop, the tile backsplash is hanging out in the garage, we have appliances coming this week. Let's talk about this kitchen redo, a few of the things will stay the same. I refuse to let go of the Vanilla Bean glaze on the cabinets in exchange for stark white. I thought I'd take you through the process and let you see the changes we are making. I feel like it's going to look completely different, and I am giddy with excitement. The biggest change will be the countertops. We're exchanging the Tropic Brown granite for … [Read more...]
Spreading Cheer All Year
One of our favorite things to do in our house is to send love to our friends and family. Picking up little gifts here and there and sending them the old-fashioned way, through the mail, is one way we love to spread a little cheer and show the ones we love, just how loved they are.We love sending themed boxes for baby showers or holidays and we just recreated these Fourth of July boxes earlier this month and sent them again to a few of our friends. Here's an example of our Fourth of July box, but it's just to get your creative wheels turning, you can create a box for any occasion. We just find a few holiday favorites and throw them in a box to add a little fun to holidays. And who … [Read more...]