Beckett Louise O'Brien

She's here and she's wonderful. Sorry it has taken me so long to blog about her but...well no need to explain right?!?!

On Monday, April 26th, I had a doctors appt and my wonderful Dr. decided it was time to get this baby out. With the combination of how big the baby was getting and the pain I was in from the mix of Lyme and the pregnancy we decided to induce the next day. So the next morning Ed and I got up bright and early and headed out to the hospital. Here is our last picture in our home before bringing our sweet girl home.

We had to take one last belly pic too. HUGE, I know!

I was in labor for 12 hours...I will spare you all the details. Mom and Laura were there all day long!!! Amazing support.

I had to be placed on oxygen for a while to keep Beckett's heart rate up. At this point I was feeling quite ready for her to arrive!

When the baby arrived it was just Ed and I in the room (and the nurse and dr of course) . Our sweet little girl was placed into my arms and I was able to know the miracle that is becoming a mother. Ed sat with her trying to decide what her name would be. He then brought her to me and we both just knew her name should be Beckett. She was 8lbs 1oz and 20.5in long.

Here is a picture of our new born baby girl. She had the cutest swollen eye, we call it her pirate eye!

More updates of what we have been up to these last two weeks to come.

We are soooo in love and having the best time!

Yard Sale Finds!

My good friend Danielle always has the best yard sales, so on Friday night when I found out she was having one the next morning, I knew I was in.

Ed, Lindy and I headed over to her house with high hopes and were not disappointed. Lindy walked away with an adorable lamp and dress and we purchased a beautiful buffet and outdoor lounge set.

Here is a picture of our new buffet in our dining room.

And this is the outdoor lounge set. I promise I will prop it cute with pillows and such later and show you.

Thanks so much Danielle for your selling us your amazing finds!!!

And yes, still pregnant!

Why I love Homegoods

If you have never been to a HomeGoods you are truly missing out! It is essentially TJmax's home section on crack. Aisles and aisles of vases, pillows, frames, dishes - my dream come true. The first time I walked into the place I seriously almost wet myself (and I wasn't pregnant). If I am there with Ed he releases me why we are in line to pay to keep browsing. The prices are amazing and if you have the time to browse you can find the perfect items for your home (and if you don't have time to browse, let me know what you need and I will do it for you). I probably visit the place at least once a week, just to browse, well sometimes buy. It is my candy store.

Here is the catch. Although you can find some really amazing jewels, there are also some really, really strange items. I MEAN STRANGE! I get in some really good laughs.

I have decided to start a new section of this blog that is the HomeGoods Find of the Week. It may be something that is really a great find and I will talk about the product and how I would infuse it in a home or it could be something that is a complete disaster and I just can't keep it to myself.

We will start this first HomeGoods find of the week post with a disaster. Yesterday while there, Ed and I had a chance encounter with the Easter Bunny. Guess what? He was for sale!

39 weeks!!!

Got to see Max today. Our good friends Nate and Jessie had their little baby boy Max 6 weeks ago. We are so excited to raise Scooby and Max together!

Here he is...

Ed got some new clothes today, Dad clothes. While I was waiting for him to try on his clothes I realized that I was bursting out of mine, so I decided to take a picture. This is me at 39 weeks pregnant!

Loving our Stroller!!!

We got our stroller and we are so excited about it! After much debate we decided on the Uppababy Vista Stroller. We made enough money at our yard sale to purchase it and headed out that week to buy it and bring it home. We had seen it at the store Giggle and decided to purchase it there (it's the same price everywhere). We got to the store, had terrible customer service and found out that it wasn't going to be in stock for 4 to 6 weeks! The employees at the store told us that everyone was sold out on this product because the vendor was out. So we decided it was worth the wait of 4 to 6 weeks and we would go ahead and order it anyway. As I was filling out the paperwork the employee informed me that because we were "special" ordering the product it would be a final sale. That means no returns. At that moment I handed her back the paperwork and said "no thank you". Ed and I being in retail did not understand why it would be final sale. The reason may seem complex but I will explain it for those of you who are interested, if not skip this section -ha-

So if you wanted a yellow upholstered arm chair that you saw on the showroom floor at Crate and Barrel and your wonderful sales associate Ed, told you for that particular item the vendor was out of and it would be 10 to 12 weeks until the vendor had it back in stock you would be pretty bummed. But Ed would know that if he placed the order as a "special" order or "custom" order that you could get the same chair in 6 to 8 weeks. Now this yellow chair would be exactly the same as the chair you saw on the sales floor there really would be nothing special about it. That was the case with the stroller. They were placing it as a special order to get it sooner but there really would be nothing special about it. But instead of doing it that way and applying a return policy (knowing that if it was in that much demand they could sell it to the next customer) they decided not to allow returns.

I was so nervous to buy something expensive that I couldn't return. They ended up telling us that if we wanted to we could return it, but weren't very nice. So we ordered the stroller. After we left the store we felt so taken advantage of instead of excited. We decided to head to another store up the street, The Right Start, just to see what they said. Low and behold the service was amazing and guess what???? They had one in stock!!!!! We quickly headed back to Giggle, canceled our order, got our money back and went straight back to The Right Start to purchase our beautiful stroller!

So here are some pictures of this amazing thing. The first picture shows it with the bassinet attachment.

This picture is of the stroller seat facing the pusher

The seat can also face the other direction and lean back at a 45 degree angle. This is great because it means she can ride in it at an earlier age then most strollers.

Last is a picture of it with the car seat attachment on it. I wanted to show it with the car seat too but I couldn't figure out how to get the car seat of the base ( I will work on that).

So our wonderful stoller also has a rumble seat that you can purchase when you have a second child and a foot stool for even a third child (don't ask when those are coming, we need to birth the first one yet). We are ready for lots of walks around the Rose Bowl, come join!!!!

Design yes, Crafts....not so much.

If this project doesn't kill me, I don't know what will. In other words, either I will love this project and post pictures of it or it will end up in the trash can. Right now I am leaning towards trash can.

Channeling my inner Ellie Abney.

Okay, fine...here is a sneak peak.

Nursery Projects

Soooooo.....the nursery. Me being me, since the moment I found out we were having a baby, decorating the nursery has been all I can think about. All I knew at first was that I refused to do a pink nursery. Initially I wanted an all white and ivory nursery with bright pops of colors. That plan had to change when the wallpaper that was the crux of the decor ended up just being too expensive.

Guess what?!? The nursery is now pink. Ha. Very soft pink, but pink. There will be pictures to come of the nursery as it is finished but for now I wanted to share some of the fun projects we are attempting to decorate the room.

Being on a budget, a lot of things needed to be home made. Grandma O'Brien made the curtains and Ed and I are making a lot of the art work for the room.

The first project are paper numbers, the second text from the A Mid Summers Night's Dream, and lastly a home made mobile. The first two are done and we are about to begin the last (also the most daunting). Here are some pictures (but not in the room because it all needs to be apart of the grand reveal). Enjoy what we have done for now!