Bedroom complete

We did a lot of furniture moving the past few weeks! And, of course, by we I mean Ryan and John! We brought the 3 pieces of Ryan's old bedroom furniture together to make up our new bedroom furniture and dispersed the couple pieces that were in our room throughout the house! His furniture was a light oak color, so I sanded it down and painted them all white! I am pretty happy with how it turned out!

When we have some extra cash sitting around I will change this hardware to match the other two pieces! The rocker came from Ryan's family and I think it fits perfectly there! It will get reupholstered eventually!

We lowered the headboard and moved it over a little to make room for the dresser! I really do love how it has turned out, and feels like a whole new bedroom!

Playing in the rain

Samuel's buddies, Ben, Jacob & Matthew, came over today for a play date. They were in and out all day, but after lunch headed back outside for a little more fun. After about 5 minutes I realized it had started raining again. I opened the sliding door t0 3 very happy little boys! They were running around, opening their mouths to try to catch the rain and just soaking up the water, literally! Samuel continued to say "I wet mommy" which was just so funny! They played for at least 30 minutes!

Saying "cheese" for mommy...unfortunately his eyes are closed!

Ben was so happy to be running around!

Trying to play soccer in the rain is a bit difficult!

Ben and Jacob discussing the rain and how much fun it is!

Changes to the Nursery part 1

We have some big plans for the nursery, really just moving a few things around and adding a few pieces of furniture. Since baby #2 is a boy, we didn't feel the need to do a complete overhaul, just adding a few things that we like now that we are adjusted to life in our house! This weekend we started working on shelves to go into the second closet in the room! Check it out below!

This is the old changing table.

Here are the shelves in! This area is so great! Awesome, organized storage and a place for the changing table that can be hidden when the closet door is closed! I am very happy!

Just another Sunday morning

We love our peaceful Sunday mornings, and today is no exception! Samuel slept until 8:15 which has been a great treat since he has been getting up between 6:30 and 7:30 lately! Ryan got up and went out to get a paper, Samuel enjoyed a nice bowl of "cece & bok, two pease mommy" "beberries mommy" (translation: Cereal and milk, two kinds of cereal please mommy, blueberries mommy". He certainly has an idea of what he wants!

I made eggs, biscuits and sausage and we sat down for a nice breakfast! Ryan reading the paper and Samuel deciding he needed to read too! What a blessing these boys are to me!

Projects in full bloom

I feel like Ryan and I have been in project mode for several months now! With bunk beds, upholstery and painting furniture we have had our fair share of work around the house! We have been looking for a twin bed to go in the nursery and today we found it! Here is the before look of the headboard and footboard! Hopefully we'll have the nursery together and can let you see what we have done!

Introducing...

I am 20 weeks along, seems like it took a long time to get to the halfway point, but now I want to hold on to the sweet time I have left with Samuel as my only child! This pregnancy has been COMPLETELY different than my first, but we made it to the halfway mark and I am thankful to FINALLY be feeling better!

Well to the exciting part! Last Tuesday Ryan and I went to the doctor for the big ultrasound! Baby 2 is doing very well, growing well, moving well, and looks very healthy. I had been told that I would feel it move earlier this time around, mainly because I would know what to "feel for". They were right! I have been feeling a lot of movement inside and just recently have been able to feel the moves by touching my stomach! Ryan hasn't felt it yet, but he will soon enough!

Finally, we did find out what we were having! Many people had lots of thoughts:

1. this is a different pregnancy, it must be a girl!

2. Surely you won't break the mold (almost all of our friends have 3 girls, or 3 boys), so same gender it had to be!

3. Others were hoping for one or the other: boy/girl

And the verdict....Samuel is going to have a little BROTHER!!! We are excited to add to our "basketball team", which Ryan concluded (since the women's world cup has been going on) it should be our "soccer team"...I quickly reminded him I didn't plan to have 11 children! We will just see!

Samuel's Playroom Complete

Samuel's new room/playroom is finally complete! Thanks to my mom's amazing sewing skills I was able to get the curtains made and hanging a few weeks ago! I finally was able to get a few pictures once the room was mostly clean! I am really happy with the results, and Samuel seems to really love it!

Samuel really loves his bed, he climbs into it often!

We just hope he loves sleeping in it come August!

The curtains closed! I LOVE THEM!!!

For those that didn't know, Ryan made the bunk beds!

My chair that I re-upholstered!

Samuel welcoming me inside!

The cabinet used to be in our bedroom and houses all of my photos, crafty stuff, and gift wrapping. The painting is one that my grandmother did of Samuel at the beach last year! Maybe my most favorite parts of the whole room!

Anniversary Trip

Ryan and I celebrated our 5th anniversary this year, and what an amazing 5 years it has been. First of all, I thought I had created this post, but when going back through pictures I realized that I, in fact, had not! So here you go, a few months delayed. Thanks to are WONDERFUL friends, the Thomas's, we were able to leave Samuel in Wilmington for a long weekend and head south to Charleston! We stayed in a beautiful hotel, ate DELICIOUS food, and walked A LOT! We took a carriage ride, but mostly just wound our way through the streets and admired lots of the beautiful homes, walked through several beautiful parks and even took the ferry out to Fort Sumpter! It was a great weekend overall!

When we checked into the hotel there was a bottle of champagne there, Ryan had told them it was our anniversary. Unfortunately I was already pregnant (not that it is unfortunate that I am pregnant) and Ryan doesn't like champagne...so we kept the bottle to enjoy when baby #2 arrives!

There were many beautiful fountains throughout the parks and we came to this sign that just made us laugh! You can't read it too well, but it was all pertaining to fountain just below!

Wade at your own risk, no lifeguard on duty! As you can see, it barely covered our ankles!

Of course, Ryan climbed numerous trees, and was so happy sitting on the long, beautiful branches!

Erica and Daniel came up on Sunday to spend the day at Fort Sumpter. We had a great time and it was good to see Erica, Daniel, and little baby Ramsay (in her tummy)

Our two great guys!

It was so very windy, but we managed to get a pic of the two of us!

Rainy Day Activities

Today was supposed to be a pool day, but of course we got our 2nd rain of the whole summer today! Thus we quickly changed our plans! Our friends, Lilly Kate and Charlotte, came over this morning to play and we then decided that there was no outside fun to be had! Since today is Chick-fil-A's annual Cow Appreciation Day we decided to head out to get some FREE FOOD! We had a wild and crazy and FUN time! We are so thankful for our buddies! We really do love them a lot!

Lilly Kate came to me in the kitchen and said "me and Char want you to take our picture!" I thought it turned out pretty great...both girls looking and smiling at the same time!

Not so happy that everyone else got cow spots and he didn't!

Plus he wanted his "hunch" (lunch)

The Carpenter herd got some great costumes and looked great in their cow spots! Thanks friends for dressing up and supporting CFA!!!

Celebrating the 4th

Our amazing neighbors have generously let us use their pool this summer, it has been so great! While they are out of town we had a couple families over to swim and then grill out after! We had a great time as you can see!!!

Samuel got this bathing suit from his BeBe and we just love it!!!

Samuel kept saying "I cheese mommy" he just wanted to smile for the camera! This was the crazy result!

Ben just giggled and giggled the whole time in the pool!

There were so many cute ones of them playing in the sprinkler I couldn't choose just one! here is Samuel and his sweet girl "Char Char". They are so fun to watch!

A little blurry, but you get the gist of his excitement and joy running through the sprinkler!

Garden

We have LOVED having our garden this summer. We've harvested TONS of great tasting cucumbers and lots of tomatoes! These are so small, they stand up to their name of grape tomatoes! We've also had a great share of blue berries and black berries! Hopefully our corn will be ready soon!