James Lately

I am so in love.

randomness like always

Something about this time of year just makes me feel all happy and warm inside. Thanksgiving is a week from today! Hub's only duty is the turkey. I'm going to attempt the rest. I plan on making dressing, mac-n-cheese, green beans, eggs (for hubs), creamed corn, and cresant rolls. oh and banana pudding for desert. I wanna actually set our table and have all the food on it for our first Thanksgiving dinner in our new house. James has a cute little first Thanksgiving outfit that he is barely going to fit into, but he can wear it for at least dinner! lol He is growing sooo fast. I tear up every now and then when I realize I only have my baby for a little while. He will be grown before we know it. I am trying my hardest to treasure every second with my little man. That being said, I am excited about making the holidays extra special for him. I want him to feel the way I did when I was younger about the holidays. We may have put up our Christmas tree last night. no shame! lol We are a little excited about having a house to decorate this year. It's fun picking out each ornament that will be on our tree for the years to come. I really can't wait to add the ones our children will make :) We have stockings that I LOVE, but are still on the search for stocking hangers. I'm also looking for inspirations for decorating our mantel. Hubs even wants to put lights on the outside of our house. Don't worry, we won't be those people that leave them up. lol Oh, another first this year for us, Christmas cards. With no other than James on them, of course! I found some cute ideas on Pinterest and can't wait to take the pictures!

The house is coming along quite nicely. While Hubs was off the past few days we finally finished unpacking everything and cleaned and organized the garage. I love the feeling of being organized. We got metal shelves for the garage to organize all the rubber maid containers. There is so much more room  out there now. Up next on the todo list are James' room and the guest bedroom...because I am expecting some guests in the next month or so. :) (my dad and gran) We are still keeping the monster theme in James' room, but I found a lighter grey for the walls. I am also adding a chalkboard section on one of the walls. I also am finally gonna print/ create some wall art for his room. I think I wanna do a collage wall of random artwork and things. I have no idea what I'm doing in the guest bedroom yet, I just can't wait to see it come together. James' bathroom is red at the moment. I think I've decided to paint it a shade of blue and do fish/ocean theme in there.

Ah! I have so many other thoughts running around in my head. Gonna just make a list to see them all laid out.
-I want to start James' baby book. I think I'm doing more of a smash-type book than a traditional baby book. I think it will neater to look at when he's older.
- I need to print TONS of pictures for the book and for picture frames for the house. The longer I wait, the more pics I need to print.
-I need to figure out what we are doing for Christmas presents for our families.
- We need chairs for our dining room table. Right now we only have a bench on one side.
- I need to get more candles for the house. Cinnamon ones for Nov and Dec.
- need to start ordering gifts online this week.

ok, need to stop procrastinating. I wanna give the house a good cleaning and have dinner ready when hubs gets home. He deserves it. :)