Words On Sunday | Face Towards The Sunshine

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I think this is one of those 'be positive things'. I really liked the fonts used on this though. I thought it was pretty. :) I really love this quote.

This Is Me | Nothing in the Fridge, Let's Look in it Again!

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You know being pregnant does something funny to us girls. I've heard stories about food aversions & cravings, but for the most part I didn't think that would bother me to much. Well, I was wrong. I go to the fridge thinking "ooh, let's see what's in the fridge"...and I find nothing I want to eat. A few hours later I go back to the fridge in search of something good to eat, but oh no, there's nothing there...same as before. Now let me clarify that there IS food in the fridge, it's just not something I want to taste at the moment I open the fridge. I'm quite ready to be over the crazy cravings I keep getting. One week I wanted cucumbers, but didn't have any...so I bought some and now I don't really want to eat them! It's crazy, crazy. Oh well. I'm sure I'll be back to normal soon enough. We're getting to a few weeks from the half way mark. I'm really excited!

Baby Room Ideas

August 30th is the official day of when we will find out what the baby is, but I have a REALLY strong idea it just *might* be a boy! (I'd be super excited if its a girl though so don't worry about that!). I have a few ideas for what I'd like to do with the baby's room, but haven't quite decided. Here are my ideas any input just might be appreciated! :)

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One thing I want no matter if we have a girl or boy is to do a one wall in the baby's room with vertical stripes. I'm thinking of painting with yellow, but haven't quite decided yet.

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This is also something I want to do when our baby is born. I LOVE it and think it's a great way to display all those little details in one place in a cute way.

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I want to make a blanket for the baby. I'm sort of waiting to get going on this until I figure out what we're having. If it's a boy I'd love to do something with these lovely colors.

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Another fun idea that I haven't decided if I want to use yet or not is painting the edge of the door a fun color. Be sure to stop over at Radical Possibility to see her tutorial for this project!

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If I have a baby girl I might do something with ruffles on the baby bed. I think that'd be cute...and a LOT of work! lol. It's an idea I have, but I'm not sure I'd end up using it.

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As I said I want to make baby blankets. Now whether that is a quilt or it's a crochet blanket I haven't quite decided. This is one I REALLY love and hope to make at some point if not this time around.

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I'm already in the process of collecting clothes. Even though I don't know what I'm having I've decided to go ahead and pick up the good deals I've been finding at yard sales (0.25 cents per item & even some shoes that cheap as well!) Anyway, I figure I can always box up the opposite stuff I don't end up using and save it for the next time around.

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I really love this idea. I think it's sweet. Babies grow so fast & this would be one way to keep something special as they grow older.

As I announced yesterday Hubby & I are buying a house and I'm really excited about having a baby room to decorate! I have the baby bed from when I was a baby (just need to find a mattress), and only a few weeks ago I found a changing table which was made in the same color wood as the baby bed so I picked that up too. I have my Aunt's rocking chair to borrow and I'm looking around to see if I come up with anything else I might want to add to the baby room collection. Colors are still undecided but I like the idea of a pale yellow and the accenting with blue if its a boy or pink/purple if it's a girl.

Bucket Listed | Tiramisu, Family Vacation & Snowmen!

Today on Bucket Listed I'd like to share with you three more goals which I've posted previously, but want to expand on. The 'bucket list' photos were saved off my original post: 55 Life Goals Achieved Thus Far. Here I'm sharing just a little more about these items.

Number Fifty-Two: Try Tiramisu.

I don't know about you, but I really love Italian food! And when it comes to dessert Tiramisu is my favorite! In fact, I love it so much that I made it and served it at our rehearsal dinner for our wedding!

Unfortunately I'm unable to share the recipe with you because I promised my Italian Restaurant Owning Friend I wouldn't. :) I'll tell you that it's very tasty and quite easy to make though!

Number Eighteen: Go On A Family Vacation.

At the time of the original post where this goal was shared I was back from a family vacation to Missouri. Now I live here! :) Going on a family vacation with my 'new family' (Autry & baby on the way) was something that happened much sooner than we thought it would!

May 2013. Autry & I went to Mississippi to visit his family. While we were there we discovered that I was pregnant with baby #1! Here we are visiting Red Bluff, Mississippi...a beautiful though scary place if you don't like heights!

Number Four: Build a Snowman.

No matter how old I get I don't think I'll ever get tired of building snowmen! And living in Missouri we have PERFECT snow for building...most of the time...whereas in Oklahoma it was usually too dry or just plain ice and not actually snow!

This is me working on a (very) miniature snowman. You can barely see it right behind the red cup...There wasn't a lot of snow to work with and scraping it together proved harder than you'd think. I did eventually finish it though I froze my bum off in the process!

Have you tried Tiramisu?

Gone on a Family Vacation? Built a Snowman?

Big Life Changes Happening

Photo taken on July 4th, 2012.

As most of you lovely readers already know Hubby & I are expecting a little one which will be due in January. Our apartment lease is also up in January, but I've been nervous about moving and having a baby all in the same month. Do-able? Yes, I'm sure...but not something I really want to go through! Because of this Hubby & I have spent lots of time on the internet, and driving around local streets to see what the possible housing options were for buying a house. It's been a pretty slow and mostly stressful process, but we finally came to a conclusion: living in town for the next 20 years isn't really for us.

Autry grew up deep in the southern backwoods of Mississippi, and I spent a fair amount of time in what I considered the 'country' of Oklahoma just before moving to Missouri. I miss it, he misses it and we want to raise our kid in a country home... We didn't have far to look. A house came to us that I've always loved and admired and we were able to get it at a good deal. Not only that, but it has gardens, fruit trees, grape vines, and blackberry bushes ALREADY IN AND PRODUCING!!! What could be better?? (I said gardens because there are two: one has been made strictly organic, and the other is a regular garden!)

With the move to the country there will be a lot of major changes brought to our lives. We won't have the in-town convenience of multiple stores a few blocks away and we also won't have restaurants at easy access (and though we've been doing much better about not eating out more than 1-2 times a week, it will be much easier to avoid if the nearest restaurant is 5 miles away instead of just one!). Another huge change will be the lack of internet access which means not as much blogging (don't panic, keep reading!) and no more Netflix (which is something I think we needed to let go of anyway).

Now if you're worried I won't be blogging anymore, let me put those worries to bed: I still plan to keep blogging! Of course I can't see any possible way that I can have posts published every day of every month like I've been doing recently, but I have set a goal of at least one post per week...which will more than likely be pre-scheduled since I really won't know when I'll have internet access. I LOVE blogging and that is one thing that makes me sad about moving. There are so many bonuses and so many positives though that it's hard to let that keep me down.

I will have more than enough stuff to write about once the move to the country is made. Not only all the garden stuff, but being able to completely decorate a room the way I want to (this will be a slow process), the chickens we plan to get will be a whole new learning experience & topic here on the blog, plus the baby will be here before we all know it! I will still have my laptop and camera (thank God those don't require internet to use!!) so I'll be able to take plenty of photos & write posts in word documents to load into a draft post when I do have internet access... I think this plan will work nicely, but as I said I plan to write as least four a month and everything else just consider a bonus!

Hubby & I are both very excited about the new changes that are happening in our lives. I've prayed so many times that if we weren't supposed to get this house that it would sell, or that the loan wouldn't be approved right away...little things which would make a huge difference. I really feel like this is where we are supposed to be headed and where God wants us to go and that is a wonderful feeling to have!

As I said above, I'm a little sad that blogging will be taking a back burner, but glad in the fact that I think I'll be able to keep it active on a weekly basis thanks to the lovely "Schedule" option Blogger has!! I know there will be so much that I miss since I will have to unsubscribe from blog updates via email so that my inbox won't be overloaded when I do have internet access. I have been making an excel list with the blog URL's of my favorite blogs so that I will hopefully be able to somewhat keep up with you all! I will miss all the blogging friends I've made...you all know who you are!

For the next two weeks or so things should remain mostly the same around here on the blog, but after that you may see less posting and now you know why that is. I will miss you lovely readers and blogging friends!