peonies, best buds and rolling over

Peonies are one of my favorite flowers so last night when a friend offered me some I did not have to think twice about my answer :) This morning while Will was on his play mat I took some time to take pictures of my beautiful new flowers.

While I was in the kitchen with the flowers Will decided that he was going to be sneaky and roll off of his play mat. Of course me being the great mom that I am did not pick him up or move him but ran for the camera so everyone could see what I had just walked into.

Recently, Will he has been rolling over a lot which has not been fun for me at night when he cries out for us to come and flip him back over (can we say lazy boy!). Obviously there will be no more middle of the night flips since he just proved to me that he can roll fine by himself. What a sneaky little man.

After the whole rolling over episode I decided the bumbo might be better suited for this moving boy.

I was calling my mom to tell her Will's big news of moving across the dining room when I saw the below take place. Thankfully my mom didn't answer so I quickly hung up to take some more shots of this in action.

This was the first time I had seen Will pet Miley and by pet I mean grab her fur. I have been a little worried about how Miley would react to Will doing something like this and all the crazy girl did was give him a kiss on the check. Thank you Miley for loving your baby brother! I think these two are going to be best buds :)

a garden redo and more

You know it has been a productive weekend when this is what your to do lists looks like Sunday evening.

 

My parents came bearing flowers and plants this weekend so I thought this would be a good excuse to convince everyone to get out there and clean the backyard. I did not get a before shot but just imagine a garden filled with weeds and dead plants that come up to my knees! Here's the after shot.

We still need to:
-add more rose bushes
-plant veggies in the back half of the garden (where the tomato stand is)
-straighten bricks around the perimeter (they were left from the previous owner)
-mulch the garden
-edge the garden and our lawn (weed whacker will be Dave's Father's day gift)

My mom also planted zinnia seeds in the middle of the garden so I will hopefully have flowers to cut this summer!  It might not look like much right now but it will be full and beautiful in a few weeks/months. Also the hose will eventually lay flat (hence the bricks) and once all of my seeds start to come up we will mulch which will hopefully hide some the soaker hose as well. Also the stones mark where the seeds end so I know where to plant more bushes. This is not our attempt at garden art :) I cannot wait to have a beautiful garden this year!

Besides making my parents slave away in the garden I did let them have a little Will time as well :)

My mom will probably kill me for posting the above pic but we had all just woken up and Will would not take his cheek away from my mom's. It was so cute! (Please ignore Will's slicked hair. Someone obviously needs a bath!)

Will also wanted to show off his dance moves to my dad.

Dave grilled some steaks for everyone Saturday night. A well deserved meal after all their had work.

While the adults feasted on steaks Will got his first taste of oatmeal cereal. The doc said to give him oatmeal instead of rice cereal due to his digestive track if you get what I am saying ;)

My baby is growing up. Now will you please excuse me while I go cry and water my new garden :)

another use for napkins

(**repost** Blogger was having some technical issues last week and the original post was deleted.)

So keeping with the theme of Tuesday's post I wanted to share with you a project I did back in March. I had gotten some cloth napkins from Pottery Barn about 4 years ago but had never been able to use them. I loved the different blue patterns on each napkin but they sat in our buffet for years unused because they did not go with the colors of our dining room or dinnerware. Then a few months ago I needed some pillows for my basement and I remembered how cute these napkins were so made them into pillows. Unfortunately, they ended up not really going with our blue/grey walls or sofa so I put them up for sale. They ended up with my mother in law and I finally got over there yesterday to take some pictures! (sorry for the bad lighting but I took these late at night)

 

The fronts are each different napkin (there were 6 napkins total) and the backs are made from a white cotton fabric.

Here is the breakdown of the project - The napkins had been on sale when I had gotten them a few years ago for around $20.00 and the white fabric only cost me a few dollars per yard. So for under $30.00 I was able to make 6 pillows. Not to bad when you consider one pillow at pottery barn would have cost me what I paid to make all 6!

ready for the weekend

Yesterday was one of those days when I was counting down the hours until Dave got home. No matter what I tried to do to make him smile (or really just not cry) it did not go over well. Any moms out there think this might be teething? We have had a few days like this recently. What should I do?

Today seems to be much better well so far...

I did get a lot of new pillows wrapped and packaged yesterday in between crying fits so hopefully I can deliver some today!

I made some labels for gift bags. I remembered my summers of working in a high end home store and how people were always excited to get something gift wrapped so I thought this would be a nice way to say thank you to my local customers!

I created this name a few years ago when I did design consultations and I thought I would stick with it although I wish I had been more creative :)

The above navy blue fabric are pillow sham covers for a friend (Hi Peyton!). I took a few pictures before wrapping them up to show you all. I liked them so much I might have to make some now for my bed :)

My parents are coming late tonight to be with us this weekend! This means I get to sleep in and let someone else hold my baby. Never hurts to get a break even though seriously I could kiss these cheeks all day long even if he is not happy.

flowers and a photo shoot

I wanted to take some pictures of the flowers that Will (really Dave) got me for my first mother's day. Will was sitting in his bumbo so I decided to include him as well.

 It quickly became more about Will then the flowers! Can you blame me :)

Love this little guy. I  cannot believe he is going to be 5 months soon!