Coastal Bathroom Progress

Remember back at Thanksgiving when my husband took me down to Bayou La Batre' to collect oyster shells. 

Well I have quite a few projects planned for these shells so stay tuned!! 

One incredibly heavy storage container FULL of shells= LOTS of projects.

The mirror in the kids bathroom desperattely needs some sprucing.

The oyster shells were bleached and sundried for 2 days.

I had so much fun sorting through the various sizes of the shells to figure out what would work.

To attach the shells we used clear drying, all purpose construction adhesive

Took maybe an hour to select the proper shells and attach them to the mirror.

here you can see the adhesive underneath and I knew it was dry once clear.

I am going to go back and attach a small rope to the inside rim of the mirror to finish it off. 

Took about 5 days for all of the adhesive to fully cure. 

Then two of the shells werent attached well, so I had to take it back down and reattach.

Potty training....

sooo potty training was a NIGHTMARE with our daughter. LIKE i cried every day nightmare. 

i have asked every walking sole i have met what their tips are and naked seems to be the way to go...

we have been unofficially potty training since november. some days we do great... others not so much. 

but... he is pretty much hilarious while "trying"

he will kill me for sharing these when he is older. hahaha.

any pointers?

Modeling: The Travelin' Trunk

Recently The Travelin' Trunk was look for girls in sissy's size to model for their spring line. 

We were delighted to jump at the opportunity so we packed up and chance had it... the shoot was 4 streets over from our house. 

Here are the shots they used for the spring line.

And as a "thank you for modeling" we were able to pick out one outfit.

Here is the back of the one we chose. 

LOVE it and can't wait for it to come in!

Mardi gras part 2 and spring break

Mardi Gras in mobile

We went down to experience mardi gras and stay with the inlaws for the week.

The kids had a blast! 

We brought warm clothes then it got cold... Then it rewarmed. The sun was bright and it was a nice change of scenery! 

Sister loved just hanging out between parades.

Bath time was apparently really funny to baby whit! 

The connor's were reunited! 

And I learned how hard it is to take selfies with a 5 year old!

The king cake was awesome and now we begin the season of Lent! 

Do y'all celebrate mardi gras? 

If so where? I enjoyed being apart of this for the second time and sharing this tradition daddy grew up with our kids! 

Alabama Gymnastics

These crack me up!!!

Baby w's first Alabama sporting event!

C talked up big al until he got this close. 

And the only picture I could get of all 3!!

I keep telling myself not to wish this stage away but man are they wild!!!

8 Months

This month this little pickle was busy busy busy!!! His crawling got faster and he was doing everything he could to keep up with big sister and big brother!!

Unfortunately he still isn't sleeping fully through the night, but majority of that has been from cutting teeth, congestion, and an ear infection that lasted for a month. No fun. 

He has discovered he is funny and smiles, then after the smile story's and wrinkles his nose. Sooo funny!!!

And as you can see, Clearly this month was all about the sticker!!!

He has been my baby that one day he is all baby and the next doing 3 new things! 

This month he really started to eat food more regularly, loved having oatmeal for breakfast, and even got to taste a donut! 

His face totally says it all!!

His stats this month: 

He lost weight being sick and has dropped to 17.5 pounds. So around 40%

He is still short and in the 30% percent for length at 27.5".

He moved from a size 2 diaper up to a size 3

And transitioned from the rest of the homemade baby food we made to joining us in eating what we eat at dinner! 

A Room for Two: Client Edition

Wanted to share the progress in a little girls room I have been working on!

And on this one I think we will reveal the sources. 

You won't believe me if I don't! The budget for this room is reasonable. It's what a lot of people really want to spend on a room and don't know how to get a whole room for this price! 

Here is the before:

After figuring out the needs of this room we decided to move sister in here! Mom found the main fabric and we have had a blast piecing this room together. We did Not do a style board for the main reason being the budget. If we found something that could work and it fit the bill we went for it!

Here is where we are right now. We still have a few finishing touches but it is coming together beautifully! 

The pink swatch is going to be our euro shams! Hope to get those made before spring break! 

Can't wait to have this room completed!!

Actually seeing progress...

You see this??

And this? 

And this guy? 

Well... We are 9 outlets short of switching out every single electrical port in the downstairs of our home! Swapping electrical and all lighting downstairs before any major project was out deal!! 

Hubby rocks and has been working on this during Sunday afternoon naps for the past 5 weeks. 

39 total.... Only 9 to go!!!!! Eeek!!! Makes the house just feel fresh and new!!!!!