Eppie

I knew as I approached today that I wanted to write something. I didn't know what exactly but I'll see what comes.

Today was my due date of my second child. For anyone reading this post that didn't know, I miscarried in July. I wanted to honor that baby in someway today by mentioning her. She'll never have birthdays to remember and celebrate but I didn't want to overlook today. We didn't know if she was a girl but we felt like she was and thus the name Eppie Noella. Eppie was her nickname during the pregnancy and Noella since she was due in December.

My husband has been such a rock during these last five months as we have gone through the healing process together. So many times I feel like we're on the same page and dealing with things at the same time when we talk about it.

Eppie will never be replaced in our lives and that's why I didn't want today to pass without mentioning her. I think some people think that my grieve is because I want another baby or that if I just hurry up and have another one then that will "fix" my problems. That's not true for me.

 

The Lord gave me this verse earlier this week as it has been an especially difficult week.

 

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." John 14:27

texas trip part 3

This is my last post from our Texas trip. On our last day in Texas, we went to the Fort Worth Stock Yards. That was a really neat place to visit! This felt like the real Texas to me. It was rainy and very cold that day but we (or I should say I) endured it for a couple of hours.

 

 

This Texas police officer was riding the streets on his horse.

 

At scheduled times throughout the day, they drive Longhorns through the street.

 

Riley was being so cute walking with Matt. My baby is growing up so fast and turning into a little boy! Many a time now I feel like we have a toddler on our hands now and not a baby.

 

texas trip part 2

We made a trip to downtown Dallas with some of our family. There was a park right in the middle of skyscrapers where the kids could play.

 

Riley liked riding the merry-go-round.

He looked way too grown up on this thing!

Riley has discovered that he likes wearing his sunglasses.

 

 part of the crew we were with

 

This was a beautiful building that had blue lights shining from the ground that lit up the building at night. It was really cool to see but I wasn't able to get a picture of it.

 

 

 

Joy and Carson in front of the building in which JFK was shot from.

 

A memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.

 

 

 Something I've wanted to do for awhile... eat from a food truck. There were six food trucks to choose from and this one had the best looking menu to us.

Sliders-- fried chicken topped with mashed potatoes, bbq pork with tomato and jalapenos and a sausage slider with onions and cheese. They were yummy! Also they had the best tater tots I've ever had.

 

One night we went to the American Airlines Center to take pictures of a night sign that was flying.

Riley fell asleep on the way and slept the whole time we were there. Thanks to the timer for this picture as the camera sat on top of a garbage can.

The night sign. A night sign also flew and Samuel and Donna's wedding saying "Congratulations Samuel & Donna". I wasn't able to get a good picture of it at the wedding. The words change to form a sentence or phrase. In this picture it says "Mavs" which is short for the Dallas Mavericks.

 

I should just have one more post of our visit to Fort Worth.



our room

So I'm interrupting the Texas' post for this one. I have put this off for long enough. I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of the redo we did on our bedroom. We started back in August with painting the room and it has been completed for awhile now minus one thing. I got the new curtain rod hung yesterday so now it was time for pictures.

 

I still have some things that will eventually get changed like the bed skirt. I want to get a white one off of Amazon but I'm saving up Swagbuck gift cards for that.

 

This is what you see walking into the room.

Matt and I made the sign. I designed it, he took apart the pallet, cut the boards, put them together and then I paint it. I also made the ribbon swag over the sign.

I didn't really like the shams that came with the bed set and I never put them on the pillows so instead I made pretty pillow cases. I made them envelope style and customized the size for the pillow so I didn't end up with baggy pillow cases. I also did the yellow pillow covers the envelope style and just covered pillows I already had. The yellow pillows did not turn out like I wanted in the back, as I didn't know what I was doing at the time. A little side note, if you ever do envelope pillow covers make sure you overlap the fabric in the back at least a couple of inches so you don't end up with an exposed pillow. These were super easy to make and so much faster then doing a zipper.

I now have a whole jewelry station. I painted a pallet board and bought knobs from Hobby Lobby to work as my necklace holder. This is actually also my Hobby Lobby corner. The frame that functions as an earring holder came from there, also the yellow vase and the sign.

This is my $2 yard sale chair that I am SO happy I did not pass up.

The sign in the far left corner will probably get moved to our bathroom and I'll make something different for that wall since the gray blends in to much. (I made the canvas to go with our old color scheme)

 

The nightstands we found on Craigslist and picked them up in Raleigh, of all places. They were white but need some TLC. Matt came up with the paint design and I'm so glad I trusted him on it cause I am so happy with how they turned out. I replaced the knobs with glass ones which totally finished them off. The second picture is more true to color.

The lamps I bought awhile back, before I was married, at an auction for $5 each. They were originally a cream/tan color. One of them I had spray painted black, but never was happy with how it turned out. This time I painted them white with a paint brush. Oh, and I do like them this time around.

 

I found the lampshades for a couple dollars at a dollar store and made some flowers to add color.

 

This is the opposite side or our bed.

 

I recovered this board with fabric and ribbon that matched the room.

 

These pictures were all previously hanging in the room but I switched walls and rearranged them. The canvas in the middle, I painted.

 

My brother, Joseph, made me this nightstand when I was probably 13. I sanded it down and painted it a mixture of white and light gray to match our room. We also added pallet boards to the back of it and painted them the same color as the upper part of the walls. Everything on this nightstand is stuff I already had.

 

I deconstructed some fake orchids and glued them to sticks to put in the jar.

These were pictures that also were in our room before the redo. I made the "3" sign out of a pallet board. All the frames in the room were ones I already had. I have a thing of collecting frames so that I have them when I need them.

 

I painted this frame to stand out from the others. I had seen this quote on Pinterest about a year ago but I couldn't find it in any colors I liked. I made the print up on the computer and printed it.

The curtains were the inspiration for the yellow. When I found this fabric I knew I would have to match the paint to the fabric instead of vice versa. I couldn't find matching paint but I think I got some that doesn't clash. Originally these curtains were suppose to be all yellow fabric and they were suppose to reach the floor. Somebody apparently measured wrong (I wonder who that could be :) ) so they ended up 10" short.

I am now happy with how they turned out with adding gray fabric and have no regrets. I pleated some gray ribbon for trim to finish it off. I also wouldn't have had enough fabric for pillows if I would've made the curtains the proper length.

Btw, please forget about the baseboards you saw in these pictures. They haven't gotten painted. Neither one of us like painting baseboards.