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Thursday, May 12, 2016

HOME TOUR #TBT

It has been 2 weeks now since we have moved into our new home that we built.  It always takes some time to get readjusted, reorganized, and used to the change.  It still doesn't quite feel like home yet, but each day it feels a little more like our home.  Getting used to a new grocery store, new route around town, new sounds inside the house, finding where everything is, and then finding where I unpacked it, and new neighbors!  All the important things of moving!

So, since it is Throw Back Thursday #TBT, I thought I would post our very last home tour of our last home.  It was the home my husband and I bought as an engaged couple, came home to as a married couple, and where we found out we were expecting our first child.  It carries a lot of firsts for us, and will always be a special home to us, but we know this new home will be so much more special as we start our family here.

HOME TOUR OF OLD HOUSE (not our new house)
just so there is no confusion! 






















Our new home that we built, is set up so differently and has almost double the amount of square footage, so it has been a fun challenge to organize and decorate the house.  After only 2 weeks of living there, there is obviously a TON of work to be done yet, so a home tour of our new home will come soon enough when I feel a little more organized! :) 

It was sad to see this house go, but after 5 years of living here, and a baby on the way, it was time! 


Tuesday, May 10, 2016

It's a......BOY!!!!

Over Mother's Day weekend, we revealed the gender of our first baby arriving in September to our family!!



The big news is out!  I am expecting!!! Half way through at 22 weeks now!

I haven't been able to post on my blog lately because I have had A LOT going on in my life.  In January, my husband and I found out that we will be expecting our first child mid-September.  In January, we also broke ground on our new home we've been working on building the last 6 months.  In the past 2 weeks, we found out our baby's gender and moved into our new home!!  The past few months have been a whirlwind and unfortunately, blogging just has to take a back seat to ensure this busy momma gets the rest she needs right now.  But now that I have so many new and exciting things happening, I can't wait to share everything with all of my followers.

My husband and I found out the gender of the baby at the doctors office about a week and a half ago.  It's been tough not spilling the beans to our family and friends in the meantime, especially when they were asking us a million questions to see if we would slip up and reveal it early!  Well we didn't, and the gender reveal party turned out great!!  It was a great time to have some of our closest family over to our new home and surprise them with either a little girl or little boy addition to the family!!

I still can't believe I'm getting a little baby boy in a few short months!  For some reason, throughout this entire pregnancy, I kept thinking it was going to be a girl!  I have a lot to learn about being a boy momma!!



























My neice Emersyn has always thought the baby was going to be a boy!  And here are some other predictions from my family.






















These pictures crack me up!  You would have thought I was surprised it was a BOY too even though I had known the gender of our baby for the last week and a half before this!  We found out "the old fashioned way" at the doctor's office during the 20 week ultrasound.  I think I was just so excited to finally share the news with our family.  (and maybe still thought pink balloons would magically pop out!  haha!) Meanwhile, my husband is a little less surprised because, duh!, he knew it was a boy!  :)












This Papa Bear is pretty excited to be having a baby boy!! ;)

Luckily, since we just moved into our new house a week and a half before this, we had a ton of boxes to hide balloons in for the reveal.  I wrapped the box in brown craft paper.  Painted a heart on the front with black paint.  Hung a blue banner and pink banner to the front to dress it up a bit, which was just made out of scrapbook paper.  Then wrote all the words on the front with a chalk marker.  Party City has just about every party theme possible, so I bought most of the blue and pink decor from them.  I made the 'BOY OR GIRL' banner out of scrapbook paper.  The "blue drink" was blue gatorade and the "pink drink" was pink lemonade.  The drink dispensers I recently bought from World Market and I love that you can fill the center with fruit.  I had to buy a separate drink stand from Target to go with it.  

Thankfully we moved into our new house just in time to have a few family members over to announce the news.  It made the gender reveal that much more special to be in the new house we will be bringing this little nugget home to! 



Monday, March 21, 2016

Early Birthday Celebration at The Cake Bake Shop

photo from The Cake Bake Shop Instagram @thecakebakeshop


Let the birthday celebrations begin!!  30th birthday that is!  Eeeekkk!  That's a big one.  What a better way to kick off my birthday week than to eat a huge piece of birthday (carrot) cake with a couple of my girlfriends at Indy's best bakery in town.  These are seriously the best cakes I have ever had!  There are no words at the amazingness this shop has, from the decor to the desserts, it is all around the best bakery in town.  Forget the cupcake craze, go have a slice of cake!



The Cake Bake Shop is owned and ran by the renowned baker Gwen Rogers.  She has made cakes for the stars and celebrities, and is well-known for cake baking for the actors of Dumb and Dumberer.  Her shop is far from Dumb and Dumber though.  It oozes anything girly-girl from the glitter and pink blush tones throughout the shop.  Every piece of dessert is lightly dusted with edible glitter.  The dessert case, where you choose your dessert of choice, doesn't end at just cakes.  There are pies, lemon bars, scones, cookies, whatever you fancy.





I chose the Carrot Cake for my guilty pleasure!  Between all of the chocolate cakes, and the ones oozing with caramel or topped with cookies, the carrot cake just spoke to me.  My friend Valerie chose the Red Velvet, which was topped with gorgeous frosting roses and my friend Kelly chose this decadent chocolate cake looked divine with like a caramel candy bar filling. 




The birthday girls!  It was Kelly's 30th birthday just a few days earlier, so we celebrated both of us saying goodbye to our 20's!  :( 

photo from The Cake Bake Shop Instagram @thecakebakeshop


photo from The Cake Bake Shop Instagram @thecakebakeshop


photo from The Cake Bake Shop Instagram @thecakebakeshop


I would highly recommend The Cake Bake Shop to anyone looking for a fun little girls outing.  It is the perfect place for a birthday, celebration, or anniversary.  They have a private room, though small, that can be reserved for a baby shower or wedding shower.  



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