Just a few thoughts

Hello! Here are a bunch of random things running thru my head with a few pics of my babes

* One of these days I AM going to go to bed before 1 am.... Maybe
* Yesterday we took Holden to ride the train in the mall. I think he liked it but was super tired(picture below)
* I am been sewing again this week and it feels awesome! I couldn't do much in the last few months I was prego with Rylan just because I would get so wore out. And I have made some of my fav tees ever!
* Jack has been jobless for two months now. He had an interview that sounded super promising last week but we haven't heard anything else yet.
* We are all finally over the stomach bug. It was bad and I feel SOO bad because my mom helped out with the boys when I was sick last week and now she has the bug
* Rylan is the sweetest baby ever but he has been getting a lot of gas lately(tmi?) and spitting up more. We changed his formula last week to see if that would help but so far it hasn't. He goes for his one month check up this week so we will see what the doctor says
* While driving down the road today Holden started singing along to "Red Solo Cup" now that's a kid after my heart! So funny!
* Speaking of Holden, we are down to one pass pass(paci). He had gotten on such a habit of sleeping with one in his mouth and multiple(like 2 or 3) in his hands at night. Well last week he forgot three at moms and was down to two here at home. And then he lost one
* I am SO addicted to Pinterest that it isn't funny. Exact that it is. Oh and words with friends. I actually sat in a room with three friends the other night and for over 30 min we didn't talk to each other cause we were so busy playing each other! Totally sad!! Lol!!

That's all I've got for now and remember I'm going to bed before 1! Ha!

Holden's color book

So I have a confession to make. I am slightly... Ok VERY addicted to Pinterest! I have 685 pins right this second and that number grows by a bunch every day. It probably doesn't help that I can just look it up on my phone and pin away! Ha!

So most of what I pin is recipes, crafts and stuff for my boys. Holden has become a little sponge lately and learning a ton super fast. I wanted him to work on learning his colors a little more so I found this adorable and sime idea! All you do is pick up some paint sample cards, punch holes in the top, and tie together! This was seriously the easiest this ever and took no time.

And now let's hope he learns more colors and everything isn't "well-o" or "bue" anymore. : )

This and That

 I can not believe that in TWO weeks from today this sweet little boy of mine will be TWO!! I can remember so clearly TWO years ago just waiting for him to get here and being so excited for his arrival. He has been the light of our lives for almost TWO years now and the best thing that has ever happened to Jack and I! Lately he has the funniest little personality and I just want to bottle it up and remember and keep it forever.

 I also can't believe that in less than TWO months we are going to have another little boy to share our love with! I think it still seems so unreal that God has blessed us with another boy! I always thought with Jack and I coming from families of almost all girls we would have girls but I can not even imagine not having these boys! 

It has been so much fun making all of this fun stuff for Rylan! When I was pregnant with Holden, I hadn't really gotten into sewing yet so my Mom made most of the stuff that I used like his bumpers, curtains and boppy cover stuff like that. And this time I am learning how to make everything and it is soo much fun!

A few weeks ago my biggest new sewing adventure was making a boppy cover for my boppy. SUPER easy, yes- installing a zipper on the back, something I had never done and was not as easy first go round with the fabric I has on the back. I REALLY want to make another one to have using different material so I can see how that works. Then maybe sell them on Holden's Hut : )

So here it is! Rylan's boppy cover with his name on it of course : )

Car Seat Recover #2

 A while back, my sweet cousin Keri asked me to recover a car seat for her. She had been given a car seat from a friend to use as an extra for her husbands car and wanted to know if I would recover it for her. Of course I said yes!

I love doing new projects like this and learning along the way exactly how to do it. The actual car seat part was super simple and I just took the pieces apart recovered them and put them back together. The top canopy however gave me a little trouble since I had never done one before but turned out better than I expected! 

So here is the before pics:

 {I had already taken the straps off so I could wash the cover before recovering it}

 And after:

Much better if I do say so myself : )

 With the straps put back in and sweet little Kinsleigh's head support

 I am really happy with how this turned out and hopefully they are too! : )

Most fun project EVER!

 For weeks months now I have been working in and on getting Rylan's room ready for him. From getting his clothes washed and put away to little things like his diapers all organized. A few weeks ago, I went to one of my fav places ever Hobby Lobby and got the letters for his name to go above his bed. Holden has the exact same letters we just spray painted his black. Well this weekend I got around to hanging them above his bed. Love it! I do need to go back and shorten his ribbon some but I still love seeing his name up there.

 Holden thought he should try out Rylan's bed for quality : )

 So here is where my most favorite project EVER comes in to play. So ever since I picked out the fabric for Rylan's bedding, I knew that I wanted to paint his walls grey and add white polka dots all over the room. So for awhile Jack and I have been looking everywhere in stores for the wall decals/stickers to go up. We could not find these in a store anywhere! Sure of course we found them online but I decided today that I really needed them. So after searching online again this morning for any store that might carry them, I found on my fav website right now Pinterest {By the way if you have not been on here yet.. beware! It is SUPER addicting and so much fun I can't even tell you!}where you could just apply some wonder under{thats how I make all my shirts just iron it on the back of fabric, cut out and iron it on a shirt then sew and oh la la you have a shirt} to the back of fabric and you could IRON IT TO THE WALL! Brilliant!! So of course I have a ton of it laying around so I decided to give it a try! So I ironed my wonder under to the back of some white fabric, traced some kitchen items like a lid to a pot, cut them out and peeled off the backing and ironed them up! SO much fun!! Here is the start

 I didn't have nearly enough and knew I wouldn't cause I have an order that takes up lots of wonder under but I love how it is starting to look! I CAN NOT wait to make some more to put up! And that spot over his changing table.. I 'm hoping to put a name sign up there that either I make or his Nana can make him{hint, hint, wink, wink} : )

This seriously was so much fun and I am so exciting about finishing! I am super tired tonight but I just HAD to get on and share this! 

Last weekend I also made a boppy cover and a bumper for his cradle so stayed tuned for those to come this week too! 

NINE more weeks until our new sweet boys due date! : ) Night all!

Holden's Turkey Day shirt

 It seems like lately, I have been super duper busy sewing a ton of stuff. From Rylan's bedding to a billion shirts for Holden to birthday presents and many orders. 

Holden and Rylan I do have to say have some of the CUTEST shirts and onesies right now that I have ever made!

Here is a recent one that I made for Holden to wear for Thanksgiving

 Mr. Turkey shirt he loves and if you ask him what a turkey says he will say "obble, obble". 

Love it.

I'll try this week to post some other cute ones that I have made for them lately but that's it for now, I have made tons of things this weekend and have been on my feet for way too long. It's bed time for me! Night all!

Rylan's Bedding

 Months ago when I started looking at baby bedding {even before I knew if we were having a boy or girl} I fell in love with this adorable bedding from Polka Tot Designs. I loved the idea of doing an animal print like this for a boys room and loved the baby blue and white since Holden's room was and is very bright{which I still love} I knew that I would never spend the way too much money that a website like this sells things for so after I found out I was having another boy, I set out to find the blue giraffe print fabric first so I could just make it myself. Well that sounds a lot easier than it turned out to be. For MONTHS I looked for the light baby blue giraffe fabric and never found it in a store and only found it online for $10+ a yard. I'm way to cheap frugal to pay that much for fabric.

So I started looking for other light blue fabrics that I might want to use and never really found the exact print that my Mom would say "screamed" at me. So a few weekends ago Jack, Holden and I had some errands to run and one of them was to Joann's fabric to just see if I could find some samples of something to possibly use for Rylan's bedding. And this is what we found:

I need to add right here that I found it for $5 a yard. Thankyouverymuch! Ha!

Love this so much and I had planned on trying to find a grey and white polka dot fabric to match but couldn't find what I wanted. So off to Hobby Lobby{my fav place EVER} to see what they had to match. And this is what we found to match...

I think this is going to look so good when done! Last week Mom and I went out and got all the fabric that I was going to need to make everything and I can not wait to get started on it! It's going to be just like the pic above with the wavy fabric as the bumper{on the outside} white sheet... maybe... and black with white polka dot crib skirt. HOPEFULLY this weekend I can get it made! Jack painted his room grey yesterday to match and it is going to look sooo good when everything is done!