Nursery

I can't believe how fast time is flying! Baby Jensen will be here in less than 6 months and we find out if we're workin' with pink or blue in 3-4 weeks! This means momma needs to get going on nursery ideas, which has been so fun but overwhelming, everything is so cute!


The hubby doesn't have a care in the world about what the nursery looks like, he's more focused on when we can take baby to their first Sooner game :) So this means I get to do whatever I want, woohoo!

I can't seem to kick my obsession with green so I think boy or girl, either way, the primary color in the nursery will be baby green. If its a girl, we'll throw some pink and brown in and for a boy we can mix baby blue and brown. I've found some very cute inspiration pics to share and found a super cute website called modpeapod.com that has some of the cutest bedding i've every seen! (minus the crib skirts that come with them). I think I might mix some of these pieces together because you can custom order them.


I looooooove this room! I like that the pink isn't the traditional baby or hot pink and it goes so well with the green and brown. The rug is really fun too! I would need a little more green but still love it!


These are the cute choices for boys..........believe it or not, I found more boy ones that I liked than girls......that never happens with boy stuff!

No nursery these days is complete without the cute letters on the wall. The little ribbons on these are fun and the ones in the next picture are my fav, along with the chandy!

For a minute, I was totally down with this green and black color scheme but then I changed my mind.........I still really want this green chair though!

This reminds me of Stella's room on Tori & Dean at Home (love that show). I could never do it but I'm still thinking that putting some damask green wallpaper on just one wall might spice things up a little!

So many cute things, how do people ever decide!!!

Fall!

Usually the only thing that excites me about fall is the fact that it means football season is here!!!! But this year for some reason I have gotten so excited about all the fall decor ideas I'm seeing. I walked into hobby lobby the other day and got that warm fuzzy feeling all over because they had all their fall and christmas out, yay!!!!! I'm one of those people that think the stores can't put that stuff out soon enough......I would be fine if they started playing Christmas music now :)

I have never decorated for fall, maybe because I try to stay far away from all things orange (coral is a totally different story though!)......but I have always wanted to eventually be one of those people who decorates for every holiday-like even 4th of july and st. pattys! I picture just changing out the mantle, table and kitchen bar decor every couple months for whatever's coming up. We'll see if this happens, gonna have to hit up a lot of hobby lobby holiday sales!

Anyways, I think this year I'm gonna work on some fall/pumpkin decor for the mantle and table, and we'll see where it goes from there! I won't even get started on talking about Christmas decorating, I am and always have been obsessed with it and it stands alone vs. all the other holdays :)

I'm waiting patiently for the offiical fall Pottery Barn and Ballards catalogues but here are some inspiration ideas I've come across so far:

This is a little too Halloween'ish for me but this is the kind of console table I'd like to find to host all the fun holiday goodies! And I don't know why I've never noticed them before but I LOVE the white pumpkins in these pics.......where in the world do you get white pumpkins because I want some, A LOT!!

This is a very clean, basic and easy idea for the mantle! I like the idea of framing the Boo letters-maybe add some cute, fun fall scrapbook paper! I love the little pumpkins on the candle pillars, but I think I would have to jazz up the pumpkins a little like the ones below......maybe even add some Boomer Sooner painted pumpkins! I'll try again but I've found I stink at carving pumpkins so I should probably stick to painting them :)

And I just thought this was a really pretty idea for the fancy fall dinner party that I'll never have :)

If my dreams come true, I may be able to host a holiday housewarming party! Not gonna hold my breath but I'm gonna keep trying to convince Mr. over-analyzer that we should put our house on the market and go for it! :)

What to do.....What to do......

Well after some pressure last night by a certain blond friend to get a new post going already......I decided I would make her happy! ;)

The hubby and I have been doing some research and are thinking about taking advantage of these super low interest rates and moving! At first we thought we'd refinance but that would mean staying here for 4-5 more years and that ain't happenin'! We've really loved this house but among other things, the backyard is the size of my bathtub and our giant babies (and future real babies) need some space to run! We knew we wouldn't be here more than 5 years so why not cut it a few years short?!?! The next house will be something we'll stay in for a loooooooooong time.
So since we may start looking or building, I thought I could use some inspiration......some realistic and some not so much!

Big backyard!!! A MUST!

Stairs! Not a must but I never had stairs growing up and always loved going to friends houses that had them (I don't know why). I'm still like a little kid, I want some!

Granite countertops! I know, everyone has them....they come with every home these days but we don't have any so they're on the wish list. I'd also love to have these white cabinets but thats not gonna happen :)

Mmmmmmmmm, pretty and lots of counter space! I heart islands!


I love a cute little covered porch! I also love this brick color with the white mortar......it makes such a difference.


What?!?! A girl can dream!
Maybe we can have this in oh, 50 years.

I love our hardwood floors but I don't love that they're way soft and the dogs have killed them. I think it'd be smart to just get in the living room next time. These old, hand scraped looking ones are great looking, much harder for the doggies to destroy!

So we'll continue going back and forth.......but I think we are both set on moving. We found a great new neighborhood with some amazing deals where we can build, its insane how much more home you can get right now for the same mortgage payment you've been paying forever.
No rush, taking our time......we'll see!

Finally, I got some things done!

Well I started a lot of crafts and had big ideas at the beginning of the summer. But then I guess got excited and busy with our trips and wanted to focus on them instead of crafting.

Now I'm back and super excited about what I made this week........and a few things I did awhile ago but never shared.

My super duper cute (and kinda huge) memory board!

I knew if I wanted to make these, I would have to start finding some big, cool, chunky frames. I told my Grandma to start looking for some at her local "junk store" in the country and she found me this great one! It was brown and really dinged up which was perfect! I spray-painted it heirloom white to get going.

For the actual memory board, I had to find some super cute material so I went to Etsy and found Poppy Seed Fabrics. So many great things there!

I also grabbed some ivory ribbon then foam board at Hobby Lobby since the frame no longer had a back...... and some quilt batting from Grandma for that fluffy look! I used a staple gun to get it all attached in the back but I'm thinking a regular stapler would do. The ribbon has to be really, really tight.

I also learned a great trick for those button looking things you see on memory boards. In the scrapbooking section they have all those decorative brads that are perfect for this! They stuck right through the material, foam board and batting and they really gave it a cute look!

Here they are:

Here's the board before the cute little brads out of the frame:

Here's a close up after I stuck the brads in, they give it that cushiony look, aren't they cute!

And here it is on my new blue wall! I absolutely love it! I don't even want to put pictures on it because it will cover it up :)

Here's the one I started right after for the study because I was so excited. This was an old brown frame my mom had that I painted red (or Crimson since its for the OU room :). I found the material on sale for cheap at Hobby Lobby and voila!:

I just need to go back and get some black ribbon and more of the cute little brads and I can get it up on the newly painted walls in the study!

By the way, here's what I did on one of the other walls: (I didn't end up doing the picture collage in the living room so I went for one in here instead.)

The other thing I did this week for the first time was scrapbooking! I'm not sure I could do this all the time but it'll be kinda fun to throw together a page every now and then. I made one for my "babies" first:

Then I made one from some of our Mexico trip pics:

I guess there's no rules on this stuff so I just did whatever I wanted and made it busy and fun! Looking forward to doing a couple pages from our Chicago trip.

I've also been slowly working on my jewelry organizer frames all summer but they're still not finished because they didn't quite turn out like I planned. I found these on major sale at Target a while back and got them because I liked the shape of the frames and knew I could paint them and knock out the inside.

I used the heirloom white spraypaint again and tried my hardest to get the wire to stretch straight across but as you can see compared to the "inspiration pic", they look like crap :)

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So I've decided I'm gonna take the other route and find some material to put in the frame and just use stick pins to organize the jewelry like this:

Yay, I feel accomplished!

Traveling with The Jensen's!!

Jay and I have had a really great summer of vacas! We decided that we better take as many trips as we can now before we decide to start a family and all vacas hault for awhile!

We are always going on fun crazy trips with our amazing circle of friends so this year we decided we should take a few trips with just us (but still one with them of course!), we haven't done that since our honeymoon. (which was 3 years ago, crazy!).

We went to Playa del Carmen, Mexico in May and had one of the best weeks of our lives!

We had been to Playa once before with a group of friends and had a blast. But this was a different kind of fun because it was just us, relaxing, drinking and doing whatever we wanted!

I absolutely love the cute little town of Playa and the hotel we stayed at (The Royal-Playa del Carmen) is right in the center of it! We lounged on the beach all day, ate, walked around town and ate some more!

We also went snorkeling which was my favorite snorkeling experience yet, I was so mad at myself for not buying an underwater camera......we saw so many great things!

Other than that, we shopped, drank about 1,000 mimosas and cervezas and got dressed up every night to go EAT!! (can you tell we love food?!?!)

I love you Mexico!

Next stop, Port Aransas, Texas for July 4th weekend!

This trip was oh so much fun and much needed since our whole group hadn't been together in forever! If you ever want a relaxing, do whatever you want and don't have to get dressed up vaca, this is the place for you!

We went last year with a big group for memorial day and after that, we knew we'd be going back for years to come. We rented a cute little beach house that fit all of us and proceeded to relax, drink, catch up, dance and eat the days away! I'd say the highlight of our trip was the little pub crawl we did on the last day. They have so many old, cute bars...... some we fit in well at and some where I thought the locals might kick us out!

And our last trip of the summer, CHICAGO! I really enjoyed this trip because it was different than any other one we've taken.....I'm always wanting the beach but I knew this would be fun!

We definitely had to work for the fun, meaning we walked the ENTIRE freakin' city! But it was worth it when we got to all the fun places, sites and food!

The first thing we did was go find the Navy Pier and then we found the pizza!! Gino's East is a famous deep dish place there and it was literally right next door to our hotel.

The next day was when we had to have set the record for number of miles walked by a Chicago tourist! We started with walking the mile and popping in all the great shops, then we went to Millenium and Grant Park, then we were off to the Sears Tower (Willis Tower now but i'll always call it Sears)........and then of course we had to walk all the way back to the hotel!

Every afternoon we would come back and collapse in the cold bed and not move for an hour or two, but then.....we had to get back out there! After this loooong day, we decided to take a sunset cruise on the river and out to Lake Michigan. I am so glad we did because it was a whole different way to see the city and I got some beautfiul pics!

Well, they don't look as beautiful now, I have the crappiest camera ever and I almost threw it into the lake! But you get the idea!

The next day was the day the hubby had been waiting for, for a looooong time! The Cubs game!

Wrigley was such a fun, old stadium to see and not to mention all of the fun bars surrounding it. We went on a mini pub crawl before the game, we got there super early!

The Cubbies lost but oh well, it was the experience of being there that mattered!

So that wraps of our summer travels! My goal for the rest of the summer is to start scrapbooking all this for the first time! I should also probably finish all the other crafts I started!!!!! So much to do and summer is almost over!!