Lily's Room...finished

Here are pictures of Lily's finished room. However, I would like to do a little more on the wall with her name...I have a few ideas. And after taking these pictures it looks a little plain on that side of the room.

 Looking in from the door

 The guest "book" from her baby shower...each guest placed their finger print on the tree

Paint...part 1

Finally in just a few days I will be posting pictures of Lily's finished room. But I decided instead of all one post I should do it in a couple. I guess I could have shared this post a month ago, but alas here is part 1 of getting Lily's room ready. (disclaimer:I know babies don't need elaborately decorated rooms, but I love doing it & wanted to decorate the room just for her).

Lily's room used to be our "office"...where the computer was. Along with the room that anything that didn't have a place went into that room. It was extra storage for us...and 9 times out of 10 was a HUGE disaster. Oh and we used to have a snake in the room too. Right after we found out Lily would be on her way Jason found someone to take the snake(thank goodness)!

So we cleaned out her room and then picked out a pink for the walls. Painting was the next step to getting it ready. Jake was so excited to be able to help paint the pink walls.

I had been searching the internet for girl room ideas and saw several rooms with trees. After we picked out her bedding I knew a tree would look great in Lily's room. Thank goodness for a wonderful high school friends who also happens to be an amazing artist(or really good at anything creative). I showed her a couple pictures of what I liked and away she went. Sketching a tree on the wall free hand and then painting it. Thank you Marisa...if you want something painted on your wall let me know & I will pass her along your way.

Just about the time the tree was finished we got the call that some of her furniture was in.

I love how curvy & girly her bed is!! And hopefully when she is a teenager her big dresser will make up for the fact that she has the room with a tiny closet. Jake's room has a closet that could almost count as a whole other bedroom.

Stay tuned part 2 the finished room will be up a little later this week.

Stay a While

Welcome to our home. In the fall I took you on a little tour of our fall decorations and now here you can peak at our Christmas decorations. I hope you will grab a cup of coffee and stay a while!

  

The foyer entry table, excuse the "beleive" Jake likes to rearrange the letters, usually only a couple at a time. I didn't notice until I was uploading this picture. But hey if you were visiting that would be real life. 

Our Jesse tree that sits on our dinning room table. Thanks to Ann at A Holy Experience for her wonderful Advent ebook that includes these great ornaments to go along with each days reading.

Come on In

I really enjoy hosting people in our home. So in the spirit of Fall Welcome to our home!

As I type this I have a pumpkin pie candle burning and it smells so yummy!!(it actually might be making me hungry)

Here is what you would see if you were to come visit during the fall season! We don't have any pumpkins yet (at least not real ones) so it would be a little different in another couple weeks. But you can imagine pumpkins on the front porch & probably a few around the house too!
 Come on in...

a close up of the fall arrangement on the front door.

Our entry table in the foyer

And our mantle in the living room.

We have a few other small things throughout the house, but these were some of my favorite decorations that I thought I would share.

And since I do live in Georgia it just wouldn't seem right for me to end a fall post without saying...

                            Happy Fall Y'all!!!

Closed

8 years ago today we closed on our very 1st house.

What an exciting time it was for us.

So much has happened in our 1st home!

This is where we came the night we got married before leaving on our honeymoon.

This is where we found out we were expecting our 1st baby.

And then again where we brought him home to from the hospital.

Not to mention all the not so big, but still wonderful memories we have here in our 1st home.

Our neighborhood is wonderful....and I have met some of my very best friends here.

Jake has friends to play with

And we are happy here in our 1st home!!

I can't believe how different everything looks!

Look at our tiny Japanase Maple tree and how big it is now...not to mention the rose bushes we have planted with it now