pinnable me friday

Once again, I’m linking up with Stefanie from Paw Prints and Pastry Bags for Pinnable Me Friday. Link up and share what you pinned this week!

I really love using things around the house to help decorate for parties, but I had never considered clearing out my dining room hutch to display the food. I just love the way this looks. And obviously this dining room hutch is adorable in that fantastic blue!

Source: hostessblog.com via Erin on Pinterest

Dark kitchen cabinets in grey or black are my favorite and add white marble counter tops and I just think it’s the perfect kitchen. This is gorgeous!

Source: greigedesign.blogspot.com via Erin on Pinterest

This iced coffee from The Pioneer Woman looks absolutely delicious and in the mason jar it just looks cute. I want some right now!

Source: thepioneerwoman.com via Erin on Pinterest

We have two rowdy dogs at our house. And when company comes over, we put our dogs in their crates. But their crates are just so ugly. Look at this built in dog crate. I just love it.

Source: atticmag.com via mCc on Pinterest

this week's highlights!

1. So, girls, my rings have never really fit. I mean they really don’t fit now because I gained 40 pounds and am still holding onto a lot of water weight in my hands and face. But even when I’m not pregnant my rings are snug. I think I was having a skinny day when I got fitted for my ring back before we got engaged.

They always feel tight in the summer time and TC could tell you a story about me trying to tug on my ring on a hot day in the middle of Chicago that almost ended tragically. But, anyway…

I took my rings with me to my parents’ house and one day they fit! They went on so easily! But guess what. They wouldn’t come off. So I decided to just sleep in them and try the next day. The next day, after about an hour of soaking my finger in ice water (to make it smaller), spraying it with Windex (a suggestion from a Twitter friend), using liquid soap and Aquafor, my finger just got more and more swollen. And it almost started bleeding from all the tugging!

I found a jeweler who said they could cut them off for me with the little ring saw. Super sad. Look at my tragic finger after he cut the rings off.

My rings are currently being repaired and resized and I should have them back in two weeks.

2. My sweet Hazer is smiling! It started a little over a week ago and he does most of his smiling first thing in the morning. We had a pretty good night of sleep last night and he was just so happy this morning and wouldn’t stop smiling or cooing. I can’t believe he has already reached this milestone. Time goes so quickly!

3. Hudson had a great time at my parents’ house. We all did, but Hudson is at such a fun age where we can do really fun things. He played outside in the baby pool. We went to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum and he had such a great time. He woke up the morning we got back asking for KK and Poppie. Fortunately, we’ll see them again soon! I think 2 is such a fun age– a challenging age– but a really fun age!

strollers, big boy rooms, and nurseries… oh my!

I’m back to answering a few questions for y’all. But these are all really fun!

What kind of double stroller did you get? Do you like it? What kind of stroller do you recommend for a first time parent?


We chose the Baby Jogger City Select with all of the extra attachments to make it a double stroller. This stroller has so many different configurations and that’s one of the things I like most about it. I also love that it can be a single stroller. Someday when Hudson is too big for the stroller and we just need a single again, Hayes can use it all by himself without having an empty seat. It wasn’t a small investment at all, but I really am pleased with everything that it can do.

I especially like that Hudson can sit in front and face out or face me. So many of the double strollers that we looked at had the older child sitting in the back and close to the ground. Hudson would have been mad at me forever if I had disrupted his stroller time that way!

My only complaint about the stroller is that it’s not really a jogging stroller. It’s very smooth and easy to push, but when compared to the BOB, it’s not nearly as easy to push. But we chose this stroller over the double BOB because I didn’t want something as wide as the double BOB for every day use.

When Hayes is about six months old, we’ll probably go ahead and get a double BOB for exercise purposes. We kept our single BOB because sometimes you just want to go running with one child!

For the first time parent, if you know you’ll need a double stroller at some point, I highly recommend getting the Baby Jogger City Select. It folds up beautifully, it’s comfortable, it’s a smooth ride and you can turn it into a double stroller without having to buy a whole new stroller!

But I’m also a huge BOB fan and highly recommend it for trails and running!

Where did you get the bedding for Hudson’s room? What fabrics did you use?

The bedding for Hudson’s big boy room was custom made, but I can tell you where we got the fabrics. They all came from a local shop here in Columbia called Forest Lake Fabrics. You can also find two of them online that I know of. I haven’t been able to find the stripe anywhere online, though, and I just LOVE the stripe. The green leathery fabric is also from Forest Lake Fabric and I haven’t been able to find it online.

Elmo, Ernie, and Burt are sold separately!

The cars and trucks fabric is by Fabricut and it’s called Traffic Jam Primary

The polka dot fabric is also by Fabricut and it’s called Great Spot and the color is Chartreuse

What kind of crib is in the nursery? What is the paint color? What kind of fabrics are in the bedding? Where did you get the rug? Tell me about the shelves in the corner.


So we just reused the same nursery for Hayes that we created for Hudson. The only thing we changed was the artwork on the walls. Kim from Small Words Art created the Hayes canvas and we just moved around the artwork we had in Hudson’s room. My plan is to frame a couple of Hayes’s newborn photos and put them under the “Hayes” canvas on the wall.

The crib is by Newport Cottages. I ordered it through my mom’s business, but you can find Newport Cottages cribs in so many different gorgeous finishes on Posh Tots.

The paint color is Benjamin Moore “Hay Stack” 317.

The fabrics in the bedding are all Annie Selke fabrics. I am still in love with them. Part of the reason I didn’t do a new nursery is because I wouldn’t change a thing about this nursery. The fabrics are bold and happy and still youthful.

The rug is from Pottery Barn from 2008 or 2009. Not Pottery Barn Kids in case you decide to search for it on eBay or Craigs List.

The piece of furniture in the corner that we use for displaying books and storing diapers is an old pie safe that my parents had. My mom gave it to me a few years ago and I used it in my kitchen before TC and I got married. I decided to have it refinished and stained darker to use in the nursery and I just removed the doors that covered the shelves in order to have open shelving. I love this piece!

Newborn and Family Photos

The amazing and talented Tracy Turpen came to Columbia again to photograph our baby boy and get some two-year photos of Hudson. We love working with Tracy because she just does her thing while we do ours and then she captures it all on camera. It’s always so comfortable to be around her and we are always so pleased with how everything turns out.

She got to see our family in action that day as I was feeding Hayes and Hudson was playing in his room. It was a really fun day and I’m so happy to see how everything turned out.

You can also see these on her blog!

I just love this picture of Hudson in his bed with his Sesame Street friends and his scabby knee! Such a little boy!

And perhaps my favorite from the day… Hudson and TC giving each other knucks!

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...