2016 Wrap Up!

Happy New Year! 2016 ended on a good note, celebrating Christmas and my birthday.

I fixed up my dollhouse from when I was a little girl, and gave it to Chloe. We both love playing with it!

My birthday was the next day, we had fun going to lunch with family and then I went to Cinnebistro with friends later that night. We saw Passengers, I enjoyed it especially since I wasn't sure what to really expect. 

I'm not gonna lie, the highlight was running into John and Sherry from young house love They are my favorite bloggers and when I saw them I was beyond excited. I got a picture, it was pretty amazing, and such a fun surprise for my birthday.

I also got to hang up the new chandelier in the dinning room, I love it. Goodbye ceiling fan!

With wrapping up 2016 I am really looking forward to what 2017 has in store. It was a good year, but started off really hard. A year ago we were still living at my mom's, waiting to close on our house in North Carolina, and waiting for Luke to come.  I'm so glad he is here now, he finally has a nursery in our own home and we have settled in. 

So here's to 2017!

Chloe's Big Girl Room

The same day that we closed on our new house we started painting Chloe's room. We wanted her to feel at home, so we began making it as pink as possible right away, per her request. 

Her room is the first one to be "done". I loved how it turned out. We splurged on the colorful pink duvet cover from Pottery Barn Kids, but it was worth it. I love the brightness it adds to her room. Since her comforter was a bright pink I tried to find a nice more neutral pale pink for the walls. Demure by Sherwin-Willians did the trick. 

Both the kids have nice big closets, perfect for storing all the toys!

Chloe loves her very pink room, and I think has finally adjusted to sleeping there. Honestly at first it was a struggle for her moving into a big girl bed and room. But I think we have gotten to a good place and I see lots of fun times to be had here! 

Catching Up

Well May was a whirling month for our family, which is why there was no blog post. It came and went so quickly with mothers day, school wrapping up for Chloe, closing on our house, moving and lots of painting, and to end it all our cruise! Whew! June is turning out to be the same, so lets see if I can actually get this post up!

This was mother's day at the boat house. A wonderful brunch!

On May 12, we closed on our new house! It was such a big day, after almost a whole year of waiting, we finally got our home here in Richmond. We started painting right away.

Of course Chloe wanted a pink room.

Chloe on closing day in our family room. 

 The next day we explored our "new" neighborhood. I put new in quotes because this is where I grew up. So, it's all so familiar to me, but new to Clarke and the kids. We love the playgrounds, walking trails, and of course the pools!

Getting our stuff out of the pod! It had been way too long. 

Reading on the front porch. 

Luke turned 4 months old. He is such a happy baby, really only cries when he's hungry or very tired. He is starting to move so much. I can tell he wants to be mobile so badly. His personally is starting to show, he's so easy going. In the morning when he wakes up in his crib he just plays until I come get him, no crying! 

Chloe on her last day of school for the year. She was so sad that her school is closed for the summer. She had the best year! We absolutely loved her class and teacher this year. She has truly thrived there. 

Luckily her friends will be in her class again next year, but we are going to miss Mrs. Jackson so much!

Having fun at the end of the year picnic. Dancing with her friends was her favorite though. 

At the end of the month we went on our cruise! Clarke's company celebrated 50 years so they took the entire company on an all expense paid cruise. It was so much fun and much needed after the craziness of moving. 

One of our favorite parts was swimming with a dolphin. It was so neat to hug them and pet them, we loved it. We also explored Nassau that day. 

 This is where we ate dinner every night. A nice view of the ocean.

And since we got back we've been trying to unpack and make this house a home. It's a slow process with two small children.

The kids rooms are coming together, the dinning room, not so much!

Well, that was quite the catch up post! I'll try to post more once we are settled here.

I'll end with this picture, my loves. :)

April Catch Up

Where has this month gone? Thought I'd do a quick catch up post as we approach May.

Earlier this month Clarke went to the daddy breakfast at Chloe's school. Her teacher sent me this adorable picture.

The house we are buying in 2 weeks (eekk!) got a brand new roof, super exciting I know, but really it's a huge answered prayer. 

I've been bringing the kids over to our new neighborhood to walk around the lake or play on the playground since it's been so nice out. I can't wait to add the pool to the mix!

Saturday we decided to go to the Richmond zoo since it's one of the last free Saturdays we have before we close on the house. Chloe loved seeing all the animals, of course she said the chickens were her favorite. 

The merry go round was also a favorite!

Sunday we went to a friend's birthday party, with horse rides. I was so proud of Chloe wanting to get on the big horse and ride. 

Then today Chloe had her first gymnastics class!!

I was totally that mom standing there taking a ton of pictures, but it made me so happy to see her doing gymnastics! She was adorable, and I loved watching her try new things. She said she wanted to go back, and that she liked it!

2 weeks till we close on the house!!