4th of July 2012

It's obviously a lot different celebrating Holidays once you have a kid. Haha. We had fun though. The baby had woken up at 5 AM that morning so we slept in a little late. We got to the ward pancake breakfast around 9. It started at 8, so we thought they would still have some left by 9. Wrong! All the food was gone and they were cleaning up right when we arrived. All we could do was laugh. #pancakefail. We decided to just go to McDonald's and get breakfast. When we got back we took Wes to the pool for the first time. He loved it! We put a lot of sunscreen on his fair little body and face. Unfortunately, in the pool he rubbed sunscreen in his eyes and they got all puffy, red and swollen. Poor baby. You can totally see in the pics his red eye. That evening we went over to this couple's house in the ward who have a 16 month old baby. Weston didn't really know what to think around him. It was funny. Their baby just wanted Weston to come walk around and play with him. It was nice to make some new friends but the baby started getting fussy and tired so we had to leave around 8. Sadly we didn't see any fireworks this year. We did hear them in our apartment though. Haha. Kids are so unpredictable. Anyway, here is Duder at the pool with dad and in his festive outfit from yesterday. I took a ton of pics in his 4th of July outfit while he was distracted watching Sesame Street. Haha.

Life Lately

Here are some random pics as of late. Most of them are from my instagram. I'm a little obsessed with instagram. I just can't help it. Anyway, I love being a stay at home mom. It's tough and monotonous sometimes, but I have so much fun watching Wes grow and learn new things. I live for his smiles! They melt my heart. John is settling into his new job and enjoying it. I'm so grateful he has a job and we are here in Houston. Life is good.

Texas Apartment: Bedroom/Nursery

Here are the last two spaces in our apartment. I was so excited for Wes to have his own room! It was so hard when it came time for him to sleep when he just slept in a pack n play next to our couch in the living room in NYC. It has taken him some time to get used to sleeping in a crib. His new trick is to stand himself up in his crib. I hate this! It's very cute to come in there and see him standing, but he doesn't know how to sit himself back down after he stands and it keeps him up! He just stands in there screaming. Haha. Anyway, it was fun to decorate a little room for him. It also doubles as a guest room because we had an extra bed from NYC. I wish the bed weren't in there, but we had no where else to put it. It needs bedding on it still and I am still going to add some book shelves and a place for his stuffed animals, but other than that it's pretty much done. The only new pieces are the changing table and crib. Most of the stuff I already had. One day I hope to be able to design a dream nursery just how I'd like it, but until then, this one works! 

Our bedroom actually isn't totally put together either, but I took some shots of just the bed and nightstands. We didn't have a headboard, so I just used a big picture of NYC to act as a headboard. I did buy new bedside lamps and an Eiffel Tower Canvas, other than that nothing in our room is new.