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House Tour 5

January 4, 2013

The final stop on our tour this week – Spencer’s room!  When I found out that he was another boy, I decided to carry on with the navy and white theme that I had in Maxwell’s room but combine it with yellow instead of green.  I love how crisp and clean it feels…

The rug is one of my favorite parts and it’s from Pottery Barn Kids, as is the crib bedding.  The crib is from Land of Nod and so are the bookshelves and yellow pouf.  I had the yellow pillows on the bed made here in Birmingham at Sew Sheri using fabrics by Premier Prints.  The navy comforter is from Amity Home.  That is actually a bed from Target.  We had another one on order that would have looked more like a daybed but it kept getting delayed so, 1 week before Spencer was born, I cancelled the order and got this one at Target!  Even though the headboard and footboard are different heights, I think it looks fine as a day bed…and loved the price too!  🙂  The paintings were an Etsy find and I love them…and so does Maxwell!  A friend joked that I basically created Maxwell’s dream room for Spencer with all the “lallow trucks!”

I actually found the campaign chest on Etsy too.  I knew I wanted a campaign chest to use as a changing table but finding one proved to be difficult!  This one originally looked like this when I bought it…

I had a family friend build a base so it would be taller and then he also painted it in a glossy, navy blue lacquer and I LOVE it.  absolutely LOVE it.

This is such a happy room and Maxwell loves hanging out with his ya-ya in here.  Who knows…they both might end up sharing this room at some point!

That’s it for the house tour!  Hope you guys have enjoyed it this week.  Back to normal posts next week!

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MGM Christmas

December 28, 2012

After seeing what all Santa brought and filling our bellies with pancakes and bacon, we loaded up and drove in the rain down to Montgomery to spend the day with Robert’s family.  Maxwell had a bad cold and was definitely not feeling 100% so the distraction of playing with his cousins was nice!

Spencer was a trooper all day and loved finally getting to meet his Aunt Jenny…

Lulu got plenty of love from all her grand babies…

and I had plenty of time to love on mine…

even if one of them didn’t want to sit still!

We all had fun opening presents!

Maxwell even got this GIANT puppy from Katie and Anna!

whoa!  that puppy is bigger than Maxwell!

Maxwell did pretty good all day but, by late afternoon, he was done and melting down.

After our late lunch, we said our goodbyes and gave out some “tackle hugs”…

and headed back to Birmingham just in time to beat the thunderstorm too!  It was a fun day and I’m so grateful that we live so close to Robert’s family and get to see them so often!

ps – I made the desserts for lunch and made a Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake that my friend’s mom always used to make (happy to share the recipe, let me know if you want it!) and I also made this Apple Cranberry Cake from Barefoot Contessa (Ina never fails!).  Both were EXCELLENT if I do say so myself!  Will be making both again for sure!

pps – I hope you all have a great weekend.  I’m going to be taking the next week off to enjoy a little vacation but I’ve got some fun posts lined up.  Wanna see our house and Spencer’s room?  tune in next week!

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Christmas morning

December 27, 2012

What a fun Christmas day we had!  We woke up bright and early on a rainy Christmas day to find that Santa had indeed come down our chimney!  The night before Maxwell had left him some cookies and milk…

and Santa ate all of them except one little bite.  When Maxwell saw that little bite left in the morning he said, “Me put that in the trash.  but first me take a baby bite!”  and then took a little bite of the bit of cookie left before throwing it away.  silly boy!  🙂

The Santa haul….

Maxwell was super excited to see that Santa had brought him a fire truck, some books, a new Alabama “butt ball” hat and other goodies…

including a choo-choo track!  yay!

Spencer must have been pretty good too because he got a school bus and a book about school, a music player and some fun rolly balls.

He was really excited!  🙂

We played for a little while and hung out…

and then had some Christmas pancakes for breakfast before heading down to Montgomery for the day.  When we got back that night, Maxwell had to put on his Bama shirt to go with his new Bama hat…

and Spencer had to get a little workout in!  Apparently Santa knows he’s a little chubbo so gave him a dumbbell in his stocking!  🙂

ha!  It was a great Christmas morning!  Pictures from Montgomery tomorrow!

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Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2012

From our family to yours…

Merry Christmas!

Our card this year…

ha!  Gotta love it!  Have a wonderful Christmas day!

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Ho Ho Ho

December 24, 2012

Back in mid November, the boys and I visited Santa.  Maxwell was not fond of him at all!  We ended up using one of the pictures from this day on our Christmas card this year – check back tomorrow to see it if you haven’t already!

A few other photos from that day that didn’t make the card…

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve!  We’re off to bake some cookies (and by that I mean open a package of Oreos!) to leave out for Santa tonight.  Can’t wait to see if Maxwell gets the fire truck and choo-choo track he’s been asking for and if Spencer gets the school bus that Maxwell told Santa his baby brother needed!

Merry Christmas!

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