I've Been A Mama For A Year!

I wrote a little bit about my thoughts on being a mom for a year on Scottsdale Moms Blog today! Go take a peek if you want:)

Grey, Grey, On The Wall...Which Is The Prettiest Of Them All?

This week I brought my little sidekick with me to the ever so fabulous Sherwin Williams to pick out some Color To Go samples. We are finally making some serious progress with the house. Everything with the leak is repaired and fixed, except the wood floors. Those will be here hopefully in a month or less. Since everything else is finished though, we have finally been able to focus our nights to little projects. That is the way we are making any progress. Spending about an hour a night, and then obviously all weekend:) We are doing wainscoting throughout all the main living areas of this home, and wanted a soft, beautiful, grey paint to finish off the top half of the wall. Yes, that is totally what we did in our old house, but some things {in our opinion!} are too good to not repeat;)

Here are some images that I feel totally captured the look we are going for with the coloring and wainscoting:

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Our three top picks of greys were: Ice Cube Olympus White Snowdrop

Oh whats that? You can't even see Ice Cube? Ya, I prob went just a little too light on that selection. It truly is a pretty light grey, but just a little too light for us. The Olympus White at first made me think it was too dark. The Snowdrop was too blue. I was totally bummed thinking that none of the samples were right, but then I did what you should always do while testing out a paint sample. Do a second coat, let it fully dry, and then look at it all throughout the day, in different lights. 

Once we did that, we both loved Olympus White. For us, it is the perfect shade of grey. We I initially wanted a very very light grey, but the more I thought about just how much freaking white we already have, and are going to continue to put in the house, we I realized J was probably right about needing it to be a little more light-medium hue. Sucks when they are always right, right?!

So what do you think? I know that its all the rage now to have all white walls, and I was slightly tempted to do that as well. BUT I feel like when you have so much beautiful trim that you worked so hard on, you want to have at least some sort of color to contrast the trim work and show it off. Do you like our choice?? Sure do hope so, because we are planning on starting to do at least some of the painting this weekend, whether it be just trim or the actual walls!

This is a sponsored post by Sherwin Williams. Color To Go samples were provided, opinions are my own:)

Design Inspiration Monday

Hope everyone had a fabulous Mothers Day yesterday. Ours was full of sleeping in, doughnuts, family, and fun. {Obviously there were some tears involved too- but it wouldn't be a normal day if there wasn't!}. Hope you enjoy some beautiful images to start off the week:

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Our Love Note To Our One Year Old {And A Year In Photos}

It all started with a faint second line...

And some family that were thrilled beyond words..

And then came the belly that grew..and grew..and grew some more:) So thankful for that belly.

Here you are baby boy, safe inside your mamas belly...

 And 9 hours later...safe outside your mamas belly. So incredible what a difference 9 hours make:)

I'll let the rest of the photos do the story telling, because I choke up even thinking of the words to say to describe your past year of life.

There are no words, none at all that could accurately describe the love your daddy and I have for you. You have been such a blessing, one that we do not, could not, ever be deserving of. A quote that is so true is 'the days are long but the years are short'. You are a spirited child, in the best way {and sometimes testing way} possible. You give us a run for our money. You have such personality. You are determined. You are sweet and sensitive. You are all boy. You love the outdoors more than inside, no matter whats on either end. You can make your daddy and I smile bigger than our faces can handle, all the time. Your laugh, squeals, and noises are the best. We pray that God is going to use you for His glory, over and over again. We pray that we can be the best example of Christ to you through our marriage and our relationship to you. Fat man, you have our hearts through and through. Thank you for the best year of our lives. We cannot wait to see what next year has in store for all of us.