BABY SHOWER FOR AIDA!!!!!

Planning this baby shower was a lot of fun...however it was a TON of work! It turned out so good though...better than I even thought it would. Almost all of the ladies of the church showed up so we had a FULL house! :) we played 3 games

1. "what's in your phone?" kind of like the what's in your purse game but with what is in your cell phone..baby related of course. :) 

2." The price is right." This was a lot of fun. I bought all the items like diapers, rash cream, lotion etc... and you had to price all the items and come up with the closest total without going over. We had a lot of close guesses but the winner ended up only being 58 cents off!! That was pretty amazing. 

3. "My Water Broke" game. I froze little plastic babies in ice cubes and once your baby was free of the ice cube in your drink you had to yell "MY WATER BROKE" first lady to have their water break won a prize..haha it was so funny since the woman who won was our pastors wife!

The big event of the shower was the diaper raffle. Julia told me while I was planning the shower that the only thing she really needed was diapers. So I found this cute idea of doing a diaper raffle on pinterest. For every 20 diapers you brought other than newborn size you got your name entered in a drawing. Everyone participated and Julia got TONS of diapers! :) 

For food we did a Yogurt Bar. We had yogurt with fresh fruit to go on top. It was really good and everyone loved it! :)

Head bow station....Everyone made a head bow for baby Aida and it was a lot of fun creating them.

Sugar rimmed glasses. This adds such a fun touch to a party without being hard at all! You just swipe a lemon wedge around the rim and dip it in sugar! Super easy and it looks great!!

I love the chevron purple and pink straws...just sayin' :)

Party guests!

Giulianna and Me! 

GIFTS!

I asked everyone to bring a book instead of a card and so she got so many cute children's books for AIDA!

Personalized onesie! Loved it!!

Blanket I made for Aida!

All the diapers from the diaper raffle!

Joanna and Giulianna

GIFT CHAIR! :)

Now pictures of the beautiful baby ~AIDA JEWEL~

Isn't she GORGEOUS?? 

Until next time!! 

~Janel~

GENDER REVEAL!!!!

BOY OR GIRL?????? I voted Girl at the last minute because that was my first instinct when I got pregnant but I kinda thought it would be a boy because the pregnancy was SO opposite!!!!!

Prep for the party was super easy...I originally was going to do a large party and invite people from the church to come but I just felt tired and decided to just have family there. So much less prep and food! :) 

I love how the chalkboard turned out! Thanks Pinterest!

Old Wives Tales....What am I having?? The ratio was more boy! 

                                CAST YOUR VOTE!! BOY OR GIRL???? BOW OR BOWTIE!?

                                    Bouncing Blue Punch and Sweet Pink Lemonade to drink!

Which one????

TEAM BLUE!!!

TEAM PINK...We were the minority :)

HERE WE GO!!! AGHHHH So EXCITING!!!!!!!

                                                        Everyone waiting in anticipation!

OH MY GOODNESS!! IT'S A GIRL!!! I was so thrilled I couldn't believe it. I didn't know how much I wanted a girl until I dumped the box! 

Proud Parents to Be!!

He voted boy...LOL 

YAY GIRL!!!

Giulianna LOVED the balloons!

First baby girl gift!! Super cute shoes and hair bows :)

We are so thrilled to be having another little girl. Her name is EMMA JOY ELISABETH. It means Complete Joyful Gift From God....And that is what she is to us already! We can't wait until she is in our arms. Counting down the weeks! 20 down 20 more to go... (or 21 since I'll go late) 

Until Next Time!! 

~Janel~

OWNING A HOME!

OWNING A HOME is so nice...however it is A TON of work!!!!! Things break that you have to fix and not the landlord! If it's not one thing it's another.

 BEFORE.... I hate shrubs and the color of the house looks WAY better in photos. It was grey but with mint green showing through and white showing through other places. It was pretty hideous.

                                                AFTER...We painted the outside white and painted the shutters red....removed the HIDEOUS shrubs and landscaped. I love it :)

     We have done so much work to the house and we still have a lot of work but it's coming along...as they say "Rome wasn't built in a day" :) We bought the house at a really good price, and I have always wanted a fixer-upper just like this one ever since I could remember. It has been a lot of fun doing whatever I want to the house to personalize it to my taste.

BEFORE DINING ROOM....the brown paneling took like 3 coats of paint but we finally conquered it! :) It was the room that took the longest to paint. You can't see the ceiling very well but it was soooo old nasty drop ceiling tiles. 

AFTER DINING ROOM.... Huge improvement I must say :) I still need to paint the furniture and stuff but it's mostly done!

                                             BEFORE KITCHEN....it's not a very good photo but you can tell it's HIDEOUS! The wall border was BEARS! LOL like it couldn't have been worse border....but A LOT of paint and hard work and we transformed it :)

AFTER KITCHEN....I love my kitchen :)

Random photos of the moving in process...

The main working crew! :)

We still have a lot of work left, but working a little at a time is fun...even though I get impatient at times because some things don't get done in fast enough time for my taste....but until next time!!! Stay cool :)

~Janel~