Headboard

Best In-laws ever! Thanks to them my pillows will never get swallowed by the black hole behind our bed anymore. :-) We officially have a headboard, which I love. It's a little bit more shabby than modern which is what Wes would like, but I like throwing in a little girly into the mix. It's made out of old doors. So I won! :-) Of course after a long talk.

You might even notice our 2nd anniversary present, cotton. NEW SHEETS! I've been wanting some gray sheets. I had a set on my old bed and once I put this puppy on Wes said we were never changing. And they are very affordable too, which is always nice for our budget. I think you can only find them at Bed Bath & Beyond, but they are "Pure Beech" and amazing! And they've improved on their thread count, cause I can't find the one I got online. You have to just go and touch it. Silky smooth and wash well too if you follow the instructions.

Hard to believe at the end of this month it will be 2 years. Feels like forever! Crazy. And I can say after our first 2 years we can accomplish anything. We've had plenty of highs and lows to go around and couldn't ask for a better partner and father.

Haircut

Today marked Aiden turning 17 months, so what better to do than for Aiden to have his first haircut!!!! Bye bye baby curls. Hello handsome stud! He was amazing and didn't shed a tear or fuss. All the women were amazed. However, he did want to stand in the chair....so I had to hold him in position. Silly! After we headed over to see Gabby to show her the new duo and I kept trying to run my hand through his hair like I've always done and OH its all gone! He looks like a big boy now! :-( Makes me sad.

After Gabby's he was exhausted, so down for a nap. Then I headed over to Goodwill and found the gem. His new table for $2! AHH I've been looking for one ever since I decided to make him an activity wall. It's perfect!! All I have to do is clean the top, scrap the stickers, and spray paint the top bright blue. That's my project next weekend.

Well, I said I would accomplish the wall this weekend. And I did!!! Well, I still have to touch up the baseboard. Stupid drips! :-( The magnetic paint was the hardest to work with...or maybe I did it wrong but my walls aren't 100% smooth. At least it's in the corners. I LOVE the chalkboard paint, it's Schoolhouse Green. Reminds me of the kind we had growing up in elementary school. I only found the tintable paint at Home Depot. Lowe's only had black.

Once everything was setup, I let the little one loose and OMG. HE LOVES IT!!!!! He knew what to do right away and was having a ball trying to figure out how to put the magnets back on the wall. I'm on the hunt for some alphabet letters that he can't swallow. I saw a pattern how to make them out of felt, so I might try that. While, he was playing I left the room to do other things he followed me, next thing I knew he went back to his room just having a blast. I'm so glad!! I really wanted to give him a space to be creative since we don't have a playroom. I highly recommend everyone do it!

I hope everyone else had a great 4th of July weekend like me!! It's going to be tough going back to work tomorrow. Work hard for the $$ so Hard for the $$!

Family Reunion

Yesterday, we went to the Tate Family Reunion (Wes' Grandmother maiden name was Tate). Sooo many people. Aiden was all about it too. Just making laps around the table, watching all the other kids, and throwing the basketball. Good food, good company. Couldn't have asked for a better Saturday.:-) He stole the show...everyone couldn't get over how cute he was. Duh! He's my kid. lol

Tonight Aiden's spending the night at Gabby and Grande's so I can work on his magnetic chalkboard wall.....wait for picture updates! YAH!! Looking forward to swimming, cooking out, and enjoying the family. Hopefully, I can find a firework show we can go to...

This last picture was from our cousin Ashley's wedding. She looked beautiful!! One good looking family!

Destin

I would have posted about my vacation earlier, but I've been swamped! So here we go...

Travel time was to begin Friday. Well the night before we had a bad storm, winds like I've never seen before. Yes, it storms in Memphis like every other week it seems like these days. So with that our power went out at 8pm. Thankfully after I cooked dinner! Our power was out all night. Let me say the house was HOT, steaming! Worst sleep ever. :-( Then it only got worse from there...

1. Woke up at 5am to all the lights on. So as I'm stumbling around turning them all off. I notice a big orange ball in the front yard. I thought to myself "Dang the sun has already risen that much. There's no way it's only 5." So I move closer. OMG that's not the sun but FIRE! Since the power was back on the power lines were making our trees in the front catch on FIRE! Freak out moment! I run in the room to get Wes. Call 911.

2.Then as I'm on the phone the transformer at the end of our drive blows up. Sparkles flying in the air. Ground on fire. More trees on fire. Freak out moment #2. The whole time I was thinking where is the help bc the police/fire truck are less than 2 miles away. Each second felt like an eternity. (Help was there in less than 5 minutes btw). My other thought was....I need to have something ready if it gets near the house aka the water hose. Well let's just say I'm still in my pjs, hair a mess, no makeup, no contacts (so I'm blind) running around the house like a craze woman.

As the police arrive the transformer was going off like crazy and now all the neighbors started coming outside. Then the power line catching our trees on fire fell to the ground (Burning our grass...we have a huge line of dead grass where the line fell). However, within 10 minutes the power to those lines were cut off. Fires died. Everything is good.

Now the aftermath. We go outside and see the cover to our cable line was blow off, because yes in the midst of the madness there was an explosion on the side of our house. The cable line coming from the ground to the house was fried. Burnt up charcoal. INSANE. Out comes Millington Cable. They repair our line, but here we are week 2 after all this the line is still above ground. UGH! Makes it hard to cut grass, well makes it hard for Wes to cut grass! :-)

Needless to say after all this, getting away was the best thing ever!

So now onto our trip! Which was wonderful and too short! It was really nice seeing the fam since the last time I saw them was Xmas. :-( Thanksgiving seems really far...no likey. My brother and SIL were sweet enough to let us stay with them for the week in Destin. Although 2 of the days we were in Pensacola visiting my rents, my sis and her hubby. Couldn't ask for a better fam!

Lane and Ashley bought Aiden a CUTE baby pool, which we turned into a float. Aiden loved it! He loved going to the Bay in general. The water was calm and allowed him to stand. Which he loves bc it makes him think he's a big boy! :-) His favorite thing about the water was playing with everyone's empty beer cans. And as you can see we even caught him trying to drink from it. lol Just wait wee one! :-)

However, he HATED when sand would get on his hands. As you can see from the pic above. He would get upset then throw his hands down only getting more sand on them. SILLY! Although even on that emotional trip to the beach (aka. Aiden didn't nap well so everything upset him) he did something hilarious. So there we all are chilling on the edges of the water when Aiden spots two, I'd say about 16 year olds,  girls getting out to go back to their towels. What does my boy do? Follow them! OMG! "Hey pretty lady"

My bro's dog Maverick and Aiden became bff. Maverick was so cute! Everytime Aiden would whine in bed, Mav would run to the door then run back to me and whine. Like "Go get him! He needs you" So cute!! Aiden didn't even mind when he got in the bath with him after one day at the beach. lol BFFs for sure! I know Mav misses him bad now.

Majority of our time was spent at the beach or relaxing at the house. we are boring...but not much you can do with a baby who naps for like 2-3 hours in the middle of the day. But that was enough for me. I was just happy to get away.

It sucked to go, but just makes me look forward to next year! Then Aiden will be 2.5 and a talking machine. :-)