Six, Seven, & Eight!

 

 

Wow, another blog back to back! This is my little Jude update. He is on track and looking good! I have a feeling he'll come a little early, but we shall see what happens! Otherwise I have about 5 more weeks to go, which saying out loud sounds CRAZY! We are pretty much ready though. I've got Jude's diaper bag ready and I've almost got my suitcase packed and ready. Saturday we're getting help with the installation of our car seats and hopefully going to get our stroller. His room is ALMOST done. The main thing that I need to get is his little changing pad and cover. The decorations are almost complete too! I have one more panel to make to cover up the huge ugly mirror on the closet and I'd like to make a decorative pillow (I want to make a blanket too, but that's going to have to wait!). Overall his room is pretty organized and freaking ADORABLE! I love bright and colorful spaces! I've been inspired by about 4 of these craft ideas for Jude's room. It's my own twist on fun ideas I found on pinterest. Hopefully I can post some pictures of his room soon!

 

Since I never have time to blog I've some how managed to catch up enough to at least share my 6, 7, and 8 month pictures all taken by my awesome husband, Chris! If you missed out on 5 months just click to see! It's amazing how much he grew from that point. Before 5 months I didn't even really show at all.

 

 

Now I feel like it's a waiting game. We are ready to meet Jude and we know are family and friends are ready to meet Jude too!

New Change: Decorating & Simplicity

It's funny that my first post was suppose to be about our move to our new apartment. That post is still waiting to be completed. I didn't want to complete it until our apartment was finished being decorated. I am so close to accomplishing this. It's a huge deal for me, because I have never 100% finished decorating a place that I lived in. I can't wait to share photo's of our place soon!

In the meantime I have been trying to de-clutter and giveaway a lot of stuff too.  I have been doing really good at purging. We seem to manage to take quite a few bags to goodwill and I sale some items on Craigslist. My goal right now is to keep things simple. Here's a list of a few things I'm doing or working on:

• Minimizing the amount of kitchen gadgets that I have and probably don't use.
• I have donated a lot of plastic containers. We don't have a lot of cabinet space and I hope to buy all collapsible reusable containers in the near future. We already have a few collapsible pieces that I love! These are way more practical for me then the large bulky containers that take up too much space. Here's a few more that I'd like to purchase soon:

• I decided I no longer wanted to buy plastic vinyl shower curtain linings. Even though they are cheap they are not recyclable. I purchased a recyclable lining that you can also wash and reuse. The vinyl curtains seem to get really gross quickly and I would go through those pretty fast.

•  These are a few items I recently bought to help "complete" my house decorating/simplifying projects:

My Dean Smith autographed basketball FINALLY has a place to call home! I want to make sure I take good care of this one so I can pass it down one day!

I was very excited to purchase this mini food processor. I have been wanting one for a very long time. This will be so much easier for chopping up spices and other food items. I can't wait to try it out! I'm sure with the holiday's coming up I'll get to use it quite a bit. I love the color I picked out too!

I have been wanting one of these cool gadgets for a long time! I finally purchased a refurbished one and I love it! I have been so behind with my receipts this year, so this is going to save a lot of time for me. It will also help out around tax season!!!

We bought these simple curtains for our bedroom. We live right off of a main street and it can be pretty bright through our window. The curtains we bought aren't this long, but the same style. They are very simple and they serve their purpose. I don't like spending a lot of money on items like this when I know we're going to be moving in the near future. I am just glad we finally have something to block a little sunshine and street lights!

I can tell such a huge difference in my life now that we've tried to keep things more simple. I really hope to keep the concept of simple living in our future (even when we have kids). I also hope to stay aware of the environment and try to do small things like recycling and buying reusable items. This change is so good for Chris & I. It truly just makes me a happier person! I'll look forward to sharing  more soon!