The Best Times

I love fall.  It's the best.  I don't know why, but it always gets my creative juices flowing.  And in the last week I've finished distressing a barrel for my photographer friend Holly Allred with The Photographers, Inc. and then I painted this ugly side table that I bought at the thrift store for $4.  I needed a table for our sun room which is currently EMPTY except for my swing chair that Josh got me for my birthday, and I think this one turned out great.  I want a comfy space that everyone wants to spend time in and so I want fun & casual furniture.  This turned out great, I was really pleased.  I've still got a very large empty sun room, but I'm getting there.

Today I got to spend time with my cousin again.  This time it was to register for her baby shower.  Believe it or not, even though I have a 2 month old I've not been in Babies 'R Us in a long time.  It was so much fun.  I got to go through everything with my cousin and enjoy shopping for baby girl stuff and I also got to buy my littlest guy a few things.  It was the best of both worlds.  If I was loaded I would have bought 1/2 the store for our kids today.  Oh my goodness, having kids is so expensive and it's only that way because us moms can't help buying all the cute and cool stuff!  Ha!

Here's a couple of pics.  I love to watch them grow...

Time Flies

It just doesn't seem like it's been two months since I gave birth to my sweet little Owen.  He's grown so quick.  It amazes me the rate of growth a human being goes through in one year of life.  If you count conception until their 1st birthday it's just mind boggling.  According to the Mayo Clinic, from birth to 5 months of age a normal baby can grow a 1/2 - 1 inch per month and double their birth weight (in the first 5 months).  It seems like even nature doesn't want to let me keep my little man as a tiny baby!

This is my last week of maternity leave, and Josh has been gone on some training (blah, blah, blah) at Ft. Leonard Wood so I've tried to enjoy my little bit of quality time that I have left at home...which of course means I've got to start a new project.  This weeks project was painting the hall bathroom.  It was the room Josh wanted to paint first, but of course the boys' rooms had that honor, so I have just now gotten around to it.  With a little help from my sweet sister Audrey.  And it looks much better I must say... (don't worry, it's not YELLOW, the lighting was just really crappy.  The color is called Sunkissed Sand)