Renovation Update Part 2

So, construction is in full swing now that the holidays are over! The worker that's here is insane, and I'm amazed at the things he does by himself! 

So this is our room. We haven't decided how to lay the bed out but we realized that we may be able to get another dresser because our room may have more space than we realized. So our bed will either go on the walls in the top two pictures. 

Bottom left picture is our closets. Bottom right picture is the entry to our room from the hallway and the entry to the bathroom. & at this point our room is ready to paint. It's since been smoothed out and completely ready for paint. It looks awesome, I just didn't get updated pics! 

Our bedroom set is white, 

Yo can see our headboard here :) Family cuddle time.

I'm really loving this bedding. It's a tad

Pricier than what I want to pay, but we prefer a quilt and I really want to do gray, white and yellow. So we went with a darkish gray for the walls. I wish I would have snapped a pic before we gave the samples to the contractor.. 

For the Master bath, 

This is kind of my inspiration. 

We went with navy, chair rail and white.. Our bathroom is going to be small. Which is okay. So I was afraid of the darkness of the navy so I couldn't fully commit to the entire wall being navy. But, I want to do navy/yellow. 

I have these four shower curtains saved, just not sure which way I want to go.. 

& we are hoping this is our vanity. Barring how much space we are given. 

This flooring is our favorite. 

And the brightest squared lights up on the left are our favorite too!! We just hope it's in the budget! ;) 

For Jolies bedroom, this is obviously my inspiration- 

We have the dressers, the crib is *almost done*.. I have to touch up a few spots from the construction workers laying their crap all over it before it was sealed with wax! Here is now sits on our back porch. 

& this is her room 

Top left- closet

Too right- reading nook, may do a dresser there. Haven't decided.. 

Bottom is where her crib and 2nd dresser/changing table will go.. I've purchased a few things for her room, black butterflies, gold circles, a tassel banner, I've printed her letters and we plan to do a DIY for that.. 

Didn't get a bathroom picture or my new sewing space yet.. This construction has been kind of hard on us, today weep display. It was super duper loud.. 

We ended up downstairs cuddling, watching Shrek. Nap time was a bust. 

*update*

They apparently painted our room!! The pictures are on my husbands phone, but I love it! 

Christmas Part 2

Hopefully this will flow, I'm writing it while having random contractions, the contractors are being extremely loud and my girls are *trying* to nap. (They are. I'm amazed) So here goes.. 

Christmas morning, I believe they woke up around 620.. Bria immediately asked for Baby Carlos. We tried to explain the night before that when Santa comes Baby Carlos goes back home with him.. We reminded her again, and that was that. Haha. 

We made our way downstairs and immediately went for the stockings! I totally failed, didn't charge my video camera and my phone was almost out of storage. Nice mom. 

Gummy bears! 

Bria goes no where without her monster Sippy. 

Paw Patrol! Literally the only thing Bria asked "Santa" for was something paw patrol. We couldn't disappoint. Although, I'm pretty sure they've lost them already. Such is life. 

Ella was a present opening PRO! She was fast and stil gave us awesome reactions! She was excited at just about everything. 

Hand,Hand, Fingers Thumb and coordinating monkey. Bria's favorite Bol probably. Wearing her new Elsa dress which was a hit too! 

And then their favorite gift from us. Their own IPAD. 

Ok people it's not really an iPad. It's a kindle fire. For $50 bucks,

So it's not that bad. Lol They love it! 

I just knew with a new baby coming I couldn't stand the thought of the fights I would hear trying to "hold" daddy's iPad.. Just wasn't going to fly with me lol 

The IKEA deal of an easel really is a huge hit. We got the attachable paper roll and they love it.

I've only given them chalk and crayons. The other side is the dry erase board but I'm afraid to freely give them the dry erase Markers I Bought. 

& the kinetic sand became a huge hit too! They play it daily. I love to play it too, it's kind of soothing. Win for us all! 

I totally failed at getting any other pictures of the day, but the girls had a great time! It was definitely one for the books, I'll remember that excitement over the Elf and Santa and presents forever. I may have enjoyed it more than them. 

So, now that Christmas is over, we are ready for ya Jo! 

Merry Christmas Y'all

IGoodness gracious did it go by WAY too fast! 

Christmas was SO fun!!!!!!! I prayed everyday that I wouldn't go into labor on Christmas because I was so stinking excited about the girls' Christmas! Praise the lord, I'm still pregnant over here 37+2.  The most I've ever been pregnant *wink*. 

I mean, Christmas Eve started out opening a gift for Jolie. A tissue box my mother in law made, with tissues included. My girls ripped out the paper from the bag and said YAY!!!!! Paper towels and were jumping up and down. 

I mean. Come on. They freaking loved it. 

Baby Carlos ,the elf, yes you read that right- left them Elf Jammie's to wear for tech rest of Christmas Eve. 

Pretty much my fav. 

Cookies and milk for Santa. 

Santa brought them their stockings and a new chalkboard, dry erase board with paper roll. It's a hit so far! 

The little frozen chairs are from my momma and they are pretty much the girls favorite.

Christmas Eve was so much fun, Ella was super fast unwrapping where Bria took her time. Not surprised there.. 

I'll do a part 2 update soon! :) 

36.5 Week Update!

How far along? 36 weeks 4 days! 
Total weight gain/loss: 16 pounds total. Right before getting pregnant, I lost 16lbs, so I've gained it back. I'm 1lb off from delivering the twins. 

Maternity clothes? Eh, not really. I have a few pairs of pants that still fit, I wear a lot of yoga pants I guess & I wear my same scrub pants.. The shirts I do half and half. 
Stretch marks? I think I have a few new ones.. 

Sleep: pretty awful at the moment. I have heartburn like no other and I also have a sinus thing and it's just killing my sleep. Poor Andrew slept out on the couch last night because I was snoring. :/ 

Best moment this week: It's almost Christmas!!! I'll be 37 weeks on Christmas and I'm SO excited! 

Movement: She's pretty crazy.. Sometime she hurts she moves so much! 
Food cravings: Honestly,

Nothing.. Ice maybe? Diet Coke? 
Anything making you queasy ? Still some smells get to me.. 
Leakage: yes. Ugh 
Gender : Girl! Jolie Annalynn

 Labor Signs: Not that I know of.. It's hard to tell.. Haha 

Belly Button in or out? Top is out 

Wedding rings on or off? On 

Happy or Moody most of the time: Is exhausted a choice?! 

Weekly Wisdom: Im too tired to

Think of any. 
Milestones: Windows went in Jolies room!! And electricity! Next up, drywall! 

Impromptu work bathroom pic. I don't feel Ike I've dropped yet, I'm going to try to wear the same outfit from my 28 week picture and compare.. 

Renovation Update Part 1

People. 

I have an update.

That's amazing in itself!

We have framework and closets! 

This my friends is Jolies non existent nursery! Although it's semi existent! 

We have a closet framed and the room! Woot! 

This will be our bedroom

And this will be the space for the bathroom

The current entrance they use is right there so it will be a later project to be completed.. Opposite the bathroom will be a hallway, closet and a small little room where we intended for a couch/tv area, but it may end up more like a homework nook. We shall see. 

That's all the updates so far folks!

Hopefully ill have more soon! Friday is our dr appointment and I plan to ask lots of questions! :)

#joliesnonexistentnursery

I am Type A. 

I'll be the first to admit it.

So, naturally, I'm a planner. 

This baby currently doesn't have a room. 

& part of me is dying inside!

I've had ideas of her nursery for a while and things are starting to come together. I've ordered some things from good ol China that I think will tie the room together. Gold circles for the walls, butterflies, a few vases and jars, etc. 

I picked up the jars at Goodwill, I initially thought I would use them in my kitchen, but after contemplating,I thought they would look cute filled with hair bows and headbands.

I wanted to in corporate all the nursery colors in one. Done.

Now, I've been working on the crib. Of course, I forgot to take a before picture. 

But there's just started 

& one coat of paint for all. 

It's Annie Sloan chalk paint, so I'm hoping it pans out like all the blogs I've been researching. I've worked the past 3 out of 4 days, and then our garage is filled with junk until we make a dump

Run so I'm hoping to do a 2nd coat come Friday night. Fingers crossed. I want to say tomorrow, but I plan on taking some Christmas pictures for my sister and want to get a little crafty for that.. Then Thursday I should really edit them. 

Speaking of pictures, we got ours done at a tree farm! Im super pumped about seeing them because as always Stacey was wonderful even though it was cold!! A crisp 45 and wind chill factor made it seem colder. The girls eventually warmed up. & I think they got some awesome shots! I'm dying to see! 

Before: 

After: 

 & also life update:

We are officially an Elf family! 

I asked the girls what to name him. Bria mumbled something which I thought  was Cuddles. I said "Cuddles?" And she said no. Andrew said "Carlos?" And she said yes. So, Ella chimed in- No, it's Baby Carlos. 

Ok.

The next day she called him Tacos. So I'm questioning if it was Tacos all along. We may never know. They eagerly look for him every morning and it's hysterical! They always say "Whatcha doing up there?" So far, we've only hid him in high places so the girls definitely don't touch him. Would hate to lose the magic already! 😂

32 Week update

I took these pictures trying to decide on what to wear for our maternity pictures. I'm still clueless.

But that's a giant 32 week belly folks! 

Im exhausted. That's been the theme this pregnancy and it hasn't changed either. I'm even moreso exhausted than before. My back aches, and at the end of the day I have zero energy. I usually end up vegging out on my bed watching tv. My house and laundry have suffered but I really just can't muster up the energy, like, at all. 

Im 99.9% sure I have a hernia. I was coughing a ton! And I could feel it, I can pretty much push either the hernia or muscle back in around my belly button.. And the scar above my belly button from my gall bladder surgery doesn't help either.  

Besides all that, everything is going well. It's been a weird transition to basketball season. I think it's taken a toll on the girls. They were hard to put to bed yelling for daddy, etc and just fighting any type of sleep- nap or bedtime. It's slowly gotten better into week 3, but it's been an adjustment. Last week was kind of nice, I got to put them to bed by myself and I think that helped and we've managed a routine that we can continue later. 

In the meantime, my big girls are SO big! 

They talk and converse in full sentences and carry on conversations. Just yesterday, I called on my way home from work and Bria answered the phone 

"Hi mommy"

Hey Bri Bri!! 

"Are you coming home?" 

I almost couldn't speak, like- she knew what to say. I started to tear up right there. Andrew got on the phone after she mumbled  something else about the iPad and I said- did you tell her to say any of that? And she said nope. 

SO big!