3 Months

My girls are growing so fast! I love them so much and Avery is VERY protective over Abigail. If we are going to leave anywhere and Abby is in the car seat, she will stand next to it to make sure we grab her when we go. She gives her kisses and it's so sweet! Abby is just getting into her personality! At three months she is doing well at rolling over and she talks a lot! I love having conversations with her in baby talk. She smiles a bunch and laughs which is adorable. She's a chunk already and I LOVE it! Chunky babies are the best :) She loves to swat at her toys on her play mat and she grabbing her toys pretty well too! I love my little Abby! Three month olds don't do a whole lot, but just getting to squeeze and hold them is the best.

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Three Months

Kitchen Cabinets

Well it was a long time coming, and I'm glad to say our kitchen cabinets are finally finished! I won't tell you when they were started haha, but I will say major projects get put to a stop when a new baby has just arrived. That's the way it should be too ;) Any way my husband did it again! He is so amazing and continues to make this house beautiful with his awesome workmanship and talents. I love him so much! When we bought this house I knew right away when I saw the kitchen that the cabinets would have to be painted. We knew it was going to be a lot of work. Right around the time when Adam was sanding everything was the worse of it though. UGH! The sawdust got EVERYWHERE! No matter how hard we tried to partition that room from the rest of the house. It had to be sanded though. We tried the non-sanding strip the wood method and it didn't work. These cabinets were so covered in grease and stuff from the years that sanding was the only way. Once that part was over though, the painting was relatively easy. And Adam got to add to his collection of tools like always :) A paint gun is definitely the way to go.

These are a couple of before pictures. Just so gross. I was so sensitive to smells in my first trimester of pregnancy I couldn't step foot in the kitchen because I was pretty sure I could smell these suckers.

This is when everything was all sanded down. And that haziness in the picture...yeah that would be the lovely sawdust.

Almost done!!

Minus the knobs that we are putting on tonight, it's completely done! Major thanks to my awesome husband who did this all by himself. The pictures definitely don't do them justice.

Abigail's blessing

We went up to Colleyville this weekend for Abigail's blessing on Sunday, but the girls and I went up on Thursday and Adam met up with us on Friday after he got off work. It was a super fun weekend. We spent Friday night at Great Wolf Lodge and had fun at the water park earlier that day and most of the day on Saturday. Avery had a blast and she was anticipating it all week. She would take Adam or me by the finger and lead us to her room where she would lie down on her stomach on the floor and pretend to swim, while saying "swimming"! She liked the kiddie pool, but the wave pool was by far her favorite. She liked to jump the baby waves that would reach the shore. And by jump, I mean she liked when one of the family would lift her up :)

During the weekend Abby was able to meet her great grandmother on Adam's side and meet her cousins for the first time on both sides! The rest of Saturday we spent relaxing at the house. Avery loved to jump on the trampoline and feeding Nana's horses. Though when it came time for her to actually feed the carrots to the horses she would take off and start eating the carrots herself :) She cracks me up!

Sunday was such a nice day. It was so special having so much family there to witness Abigail being blessed. We had a nice lunch afterwards with everyone and it really was the perfect topping to end a fantastic weekend.

By the end of taking pictures everyone was pretty much spent. You can definitely see it on Abigail's face, and the fact that we had to give Avery a chocolate cupcake to get this fantastic picture of her! I love my girls <3

Finished!

I'm so happy with the finished product! If you don't want to build one from scratch there are a ton of tutorials on the web on how to upholster a coffee table that you have or buy from a garage sale. It was really easy to cover, just a little time consuming especially if you have children. The tufting I would say is a two person job because if you really want to get the buttons tight it helps if one of you are pushing them in while the other is stapling the thread on the other side. And it made for a great husband and wife project too :)

okay. okay, so we still have to stain the legs, but you can ignore that right now :)

Preview

I have been wanting a new ottoman in the living room for a while now. The coffee table was great but with Avery and now Abigail I was afraid that they would constantly be hurting themselves on the sharp corners. I was looking online for upholstered ottomans but they can be so expensive! So my amazing husband offered to build one! Here's a few pictures of the finished wood product. We just have to finish the tufting on it and it will be finished! I will post pictures soon!

I am so glad I married such a handy man! He did such and amazing job on building this! I don't think he minded though. He was just excited that he got to use the new tools he has been collecting :)

My really late Fourth of july post

I'll keep this post simple like our holiday was :) We celebrated the fourth with just the four of us! It was so nice having Adam home early during the week. He got off early on Wednesday, had Thursday off and got off early on Friday. We hung around the house most of the day and in the afternoon we went to the mall so Avery could ride the merry-go-round (sp?) and Adam grilled us some dinner and we shot off some fireworks. It's so nice just to be with my family. We could have stayed inside all day and I would have liked it just as much! 

I love this picture of Abby and Adam because she is smiling up at him :) He's such a good daddy!

My man

It has been a little hectic around here! It's definitely an adjustment having two kids, but so much fun! I have been stressed though with Abigail not sleeping really well lately. She was doing so well for a little bit, but just recently has been up most of the night which means I am up with her. It can be frustrating to me, especially because I know that I will have to somehow find the energy to keep up with and play with Avery during the day and get things around the house done that I need to. Through all this Adam has been there for me 100%. I try to get up with Abby during the week while he takes the weekends, but he will step in during the night when I need him. I can be stubborn though, but he persists so I can catch up on some sleep. When he gets home, he lets me sleep some more and he has made dinner for us a lot recently. He is such a great daddy and such an amazing husband! I really am so lucky to have him! Plus a little shout out to him since he just got a promotion at work! He no longer has a cubicle but has an office now! Congratulations babe! I love you so much!!

 

 Looking so professional ;)