Christmas 2013

So we had a very wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas with our family. We spent Christmas Eve with my mothers family, Christmas morning we opened gifts as a family, headed to Christmas with the Satterlee side and then had Christmas with the Harnois’ Christmas night. We were all spoiled but Eisley was most of all. I’m pretty sure we’re going to need to consider buying a new house with all of her new things. All of these photos are from Christmas morning at Eisley’s Great Grandma Satterlee’s house &  the video of Eisley with her new piano is at our house on Christmas morning.



Nicole

The Busy World of Nicole.

Richard Scary has nothing on me. Life has been pretty hectic lately, but not in a terrible way. My little girl is growing and growing and growing and I am busy redoing our home, working at the salon, revisiting old and beloved fascinations & opening up my etsy shop as well as creating stock. I miss reading and commenting on blogs like I had been, but I’ve finally started USING the bloglovin’ app so I’m really hoping that changes. I miss keeping up with other mommies and bloggers on here. Soon enough. :)



Nicole

Happy Birthday, Andrew!

Okay, well, ACTUALLY Andrew’s birthday isn’t until Friday but I’ve had these pictures taken since Monday and I can’t hold off anymore.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY! WE LOVE YOU!





We couldn’t ask for anyone better, Andrew. We love you so so so much and we hope you enjoy all the little surprises this week.

While you were out:

I’ve been a naughty blogger but we have truly been going going going non-stop since Thursday. We went and watched Andrew’s brother perform as Sherlock Holmes on Thursday & Eisley got baby sat by my parents for the first time. Friday & Saturday we spent time with family from out of town & today we’re taking Eisley trick or treating at an awesome Western Town that my family’s church puts on. Eisley is going to be Snow White and Andrew and I two of her dwarves. I can’t wait to post photos of us all together. But in the meantime, here are some sweet images to wrap up my wonderful weekend. My beautiful little girl in dreamland and Andrew wearing the fabulous yarn beard I fashioned for him last night.

And the transformation begins…

So I have finally started to make decisions & my husband is begrudgingly gratefully assisting me in starting the transformation. I went back and forth between doing two paint colors in the living room and decided that since a lot of my décor is only in the same color family and not the same color it would be easier to do a neutral color on the wall and use the décor as the color in my room. I like the idea of this as well because I feel the room will be ‘airier’ as well. So the plan right now is to do a grey color on all the walls and then grey and white stripes on one of the walls. I’m not sure which, but I was kind of leaning towards the wall where our TV is against. Not sure why, it just felt right. Opinions?

Don’t mind the messes tucking around our living room. Also, apologies in advance for the imbalance of décor. See, when we moved into our home there were a gazillion nails still in the walls ( And painted the same color as every inch of our walls) So since we have actually decorated our home, we tend to throw things onto the nails already in the walls in order to get them off the floor. In fact, that chalkboard is actually from Eisley’s room. OOPS. Oh well, that’s going to change soon. Oh! Don’t mind my sleeping baby on the couch.




These are the greys I’m between at the moment:

Glidden Pebble Grey

Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter

Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray

HELP ME CHOOSE PLEASE!!!!

This is the ugly built in we have in the corner. We’re planning on painting the wooden pieces white to match the trim and removing the ugly mirror tiles. I’m trying to decide if I should do a pop of color on the wall behind these  shelves or if I should stick to the grey I plan on doing in the rest of the room.




Okay, now that I’ve burned your eyes with our horrid looking living room, we move on to the kitchen. Which has been nothing but a nightmare since we moved here really.

We have dealt with with a leaky sink, a leaky ceiling, had a dishwasher crap out on us & the worst of it all, in my opinion… THIS:



Seriously?! Okay. When we first moved in I saw the wallpaper and I thought, Oh, this will be a hassle but it’s doable. LITTLE DID I KNOW that not only were there THREE LAYERS OF WALLPAPER but they had been layed DIRECTLY ON THE DRYWALL. So when we first moved in I began to remove the wallpaper and this happened:


After that happened I gave up on the kitchen for a while and then like I discussed in this post a lot of things happened in our lives and the entire house took a backseat. Any who, Andrew & I are back on the wagon and taking care of business and trying to knock as much of our DIY to do off of our ever growing list before little miss is big enough to be running around while we’re working on things. Last night we played some music while Eisley chilled in her rocker and we tried to kick some wallpaper arse.




Andrew did a lot better at removing the wallpaper than I did. I have to narrow down my choices on paint color for the kitchen, but eventually we plan on doing the white Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation on the cabinets. Anyone used the kit before? If so, what is your opinion on it? Worth it?

Nicole
Edit: I forgot to mention that the room is going to be accented in shades of blueish teal. I posted some of the decor I'm working with on my instagram [nicannette] so check that out. it might help!

The Great Pumpkin Patch Adventure 2013

I would be lying if I said that was RIDICULOUSLY excited for Eisley’s first trip to the pumpkin patch & it totally lived up to our expectations. The only thing I wish we would have done (and only didn’t because I forgot , mommy brain!) was going on a hay ride! We hung out, watched them launch pumpkins out of basically a giant potato gun and ate apple donuts. It was so much fun & I’m already looking around for other fun things for us to do this fall and winter.

Seriously, this kid makes THEE funniest faces. I love it


“ I was caught where?? OH! Okay! CHEEESSEEE!”


CinderEisley & her knight in shining armor… Daddy!

I like to think she gets those faces from her dad & not me.



We walked through a not so scary Haunted corn maze & checked out the animals. Eisley was entranced by the animals. I can’t wait until she’s old enough to go to a petting zoo. I know she’ll love it.


Eisley with the I was This Tall This Fall Sign. You don’t have to tell me I’m rockin’ the paci well. I know it. I can’t wait to see where she is next fall!




Realistic looking horse, obviously.



Hope your weekend was as wonderful as ours!

Nicole