Furniture Shopping

It has been quite the busy week, but fun all at the same time. I have been furniture shopping daily to try to get some of the bigger pieces we need. There is no way we can furnish this enitre house but I want the eating and main living places to have furniture. Bedrooms are a whole other story, I have nothing.

Here are some of the things we purchased this past week.

We got a table for our kitchen nook and bought separate chairs not the ones in the picture with it but that are in a linen fabric and a lantern chandelier from ballard which is my favorite part.




I haven't seen it up yet, so this could be returned but I am thinking this burlap three pendant chandelier for over our dining room table.


I have no idea why but I like the metal safety pins you get some Ballard Designs for our laundry room, so I snag a few


Last night we made our big purchase which has taken me a long time to find one that right size and that I like. We found it at our local furniture store called Woodchucks. The picture doesn't do it much justice because its all dinged up and sort of rustic looking which goes with all of our other furniture. But this thing is absolutely massive because we have a big wall and we need it to take up quite a bit of space. I can't wait for it to be delivered


I think we are done furniture shopping for the big things now and we can just get little things to help decorate. The bedrooms will have to wait to get furniture.

Jeff's best friend from college is coming down with his fiance so we have a weekend full of fun and even took off work on Monday. Here is to a three day weekend and then only two work days after that till Spring Break!

Busy!

I do have good reasons for not posting in a long time....

Football season is officially over! We have been practicing quite a bit to get ready for playoffs. We had an undefeated season and are back to back champions. I am so sore today, but we were beyond thrilled we won the championship last night.

I know I posted about the house we were under contract on that was a short sale. Well we have been waiting to close for many months due to a nasty divorce. We got a little impatient and tired of the whole process. Dealing with the bank was the easiest part. My cousin graduated from Florida med and got her residency here in Jacksonville. So her and her soon to be husband will be moving into the house Jeff and I currently live in June. My grandpa would be so happy that his house was being used by all his grand kids. So Jeff and I decided to head back out and start looking. We came across a great house with lots of the things that I wanted. We put in an offer and it was a done deal in two days. It was nice because its brand new so we are buying it from the builder and no big things need to be updated or changed right away. We are closing in two weeks so we have lots of packing to do! The best part is we are not even one mile from our closest friends Allie and Brandon who just moved into their house last weekend.

So I have been on a furniture shopping kick to try to find some of the main pieces we need to furnish the house. We are going to go room by room and buy things slowly. My dad took me shopping on Saturday and bought these little beauties for us as a house warming gift! I have never been so excited over a washer and dryer. I swear I do more laundry for two people that any normal person should, so I cant imagine what it will be like when we have kiddos. So we got the biggest ones we could so I could fit all sort of stuff into one load to make my life easier. I hate doing laundry but I can wait to get these delivered when we move in.



So life will be crazy for the next few weeks boxing up one house and moving into another but all in a good way! I will be back and post pictures of the house once we are in and settled!

Baby DeLainey's Shower

It has only taken me like three weeks but I finally have some pictures and time to post from Jamie's baby shower. It was a lot of fun and turned out great! I had a lot of help from my mom, her friends, and my cousin. I couldn't have done it without them. I started doing things all week long so it wasn't last second. Here is a picture over load but I couldn't choose just a few. We can't wait for the little princess to get here in a couple weeks

Weekend Recap

Hope everyone had a great St. Patty's Day. We spent the day on the boat getting our first sunburn which felt great to have some color again! We just hung with family and friends and relaxed a little bit. The highlight of my weekend was we bought a bed and nightstand for our guest bedroom on Friday and then today we hit up target to get some bedding and a lamp.

I need to iron the bedding but it seems tedious because of all the ruffles! But here is a pic of what it looks like now. Thanks to my brother-in-law and Jeff putting the bed together Friday night. It is sort of going to be a rustic beachy looking room by default since I threw my friends a beach couples shower I have so many shells, signs, pictures etc left over I figured I should put it to use somewhere.




I got all the pictures back from the photographer from my sister's baby shower I threw. So a day when I have some time I will post pictures! Have a great week!

Happy Birthday Lauren!

I'm a terrible blogger, but maybe after my sisters shower I will post a little more often. I have been constantly searching stores for things I need or doing crafts! It is all coming together and I can't wait for her to see it all!!

Last weekend we went out and celebrated my friend Lauren's 25th birthday! We had a delicious dinner and drinks with friends what could be better!

Baby Shower Planning

Sorry I have not posted in a while. I have been super busy planning my sisters baby shower! I go to work come home and start placing orders or buying things offline! I have been waiting for my sister to get pregnant for a while, so I want to make this shower perfect for her. She is so precious pregnant, all belly! The nursery is almost done which is my inspiration for the shower! It looks very restoration hardware inspired. It is very neutral with tans and light pinks! I decided to go with those colors and have a rustic garden party with flowers, burlap, mason jars, and light pink!

We finally got the invitation design done and I think invitations are so important as its the guests first impression of the party. So I wanted them to set the tone for what they can expect! I decided to go with mason jars! They turned out so cute and I can post about them as they are finally sent out. I sent the lady helping me Jamie's shower curtain for Delainey's bathroom and we pulled colors from that for the invite.

Sorry I blurred some info out just to be safe, but here it is.



Being that all the girls in our family are teachers, we all want Delainey to have tons of books as its so important and this is a great way to start filling up her bookshelf.

The little tag says this in case you can't read it..

Just one last request, and we hope it's not hard. Please bring Delainey your favorite children's book in place of a card. By signing your book, we will remember and share your special gift, even when you're not there!

Weight Watchers- 1 year

I have done a lot of diets over the years and none have really worked for me like Weight Watchers. I have been doing it for a year as of this week! I have lost a total of 23 pounds so far and my goal was 25. It has been very difficult towards the end to loose weight so I sort of just been maintaining my weight and have not been doing that good on my points so my last two pounds are probably my fault! Since the new year I have been busy with a lot going on so my working out and my eating has sort of slipped away from me! In the beginning I was seriously pretty neurotic about my eating and wouldn't go out to eat and drive Jeff crazy, but I honestly feel that is how you have to be to start.

I have since calmed down a little and now I am trying to get into a place where I don't have to be so crazy but can just maintain my lifestyle. I would really like to loose those two more pounds just to accomplish my goal I set for myself! I know my problem is not working out enough! As much as I love how i feel afterwards it is a struggle to get my butt out there to do it. After a long day at school the last thing I want to do is come home and go for a run. Running doesn't come easy to me so I typically do not like it nor do I want to go to the gym and wait to get on the treadmill behind the 20 other people coming after work. My goal for this year is to get in some sort of routine with working out. I am hoping to get a treadmill or something to go in our house with some weights so I can just do it home or it will be nice our new house is right down the street from our community gym which I will see it everyday on my way home!

I am thankful I did weight watchers as it has changed my mentality about food and what I eat. I know that I can treat myself to a TCBY every once in a while and not freak out! I will tell you the thing that has changed the most is that I do not drink very much anymore. I like to have the occasional drink when we go out with friends but it is such a waste of calories and it is just not worth it. I rather eat than have a beer or a glass of wine. I highly recommend it if anyone wants to try to loose those few pounds. It will change your life and will make you never want to gain that weight back again.

Furniture

Sorry I have been MIA lately but lots has been going on! We are still waiting to close on our house which who knows what will happen. I guess that is what happens when you get involved with a short sale. Everything is in line with the banks but we are waiting to get the finalized divorce papers from the seller so we are to just wait a week or so to do that then we can close. It is going to be a close call whether or not I will be able to have my sisters baby shower at the new house or we may have to move it to my moms house.

But on a happier note Jeff and I have been on a furniture shopping kick for the new abode! We actually just got home from doing a little shopping after church and we picked up two greats pieces! One being an antique looking mirror from Home Goods which was such a steal we couldn't walk past it. Not sure where I'm going to put it but it will fine a home somewhere.


We then ran into TJ Maxx completely against Jeff's will and he spotted this chair that would work great as a desk chair. He actually insisted on getting it! It has a little chip so we got some money of the price and it was marked for 200 bucks off so again how could we walk buy.


Our house is turning into a storage unit which is making me go absolutely insane but hopefully we will be out of here in a couple weeks so I feel like I have some breathing room. My entire entry way is full of boxes as well as our garage. So heaven forbid the house falls through we will be renting a storage unit until we find another house because I can not live like this.

We are going to have an upstairs loft at our new place so we figured we would paint our old coffee/side table white that could up stairs and we also painted a blue entry way table my dads friend gave us white and put some cute knobs on it.





For our anniversary Jeff surprised me with the one thing I wanted the most a dining room table..It is still in a box in my garage since it would be pointless to take out plus our little house we live in now would not have room for this big bulky table. We also got four chairs that are wood/upholstered to go with it. Then I am going to put two big wing back chairs at the end of the table.





We are slowly getting some furniture for the house, but we really are just ready to have some space to breath! We keep saying our prayers and have our fingers crossed that this whole process will speed up so we can close shortly. But in the meantime we just cleaning out old junk and I finally got Jeff to get rid of his college recliner that was absolutely gross! So we are making progress!

Next on the list in the a media stand for our tv but I'm having a hard time finding one I like. So we will see