Gender Reveal Party!!

I cannot believe how quickly time flies!! It has been a while since my last post...and SOOO much has changed in our lives!! We found out in April that we are expecting our first baby! We are sooo excited! So far I have had the easiest pregnancy! I hope they are all like this...Nathan and I wants lots of children and I don't mind if they are all this easy :) We had our gender reveal party the past Friday night! We went for our anatomy ultrasound at 9am Friday morning and got to see our precious baby! But we decided not to find out the gender at the doctor. We had the ultrasound tech put the gender pictures in a sealed envelope and took it to a friend Nathan works with and had him fill a piñata with pink or blue candy!! And that night at the party we busted the piñata in front of all of our family and friends! It was so much fun that I just had to share :)

Here are some pictures of the Boy vs. Girl table that I set up!

 



 

I made a chalk board of all the Old Wives Tales used for predicting gender. I had 2 that said girl and 3 that said boy!

We took pictures of everyone holding the chalk boards of what they thought baby Campbell's gender was going to be! It is fun to look back and see who was right!!

My mom thought from the very beginning that we were having a boy! Dad wouldn't say for a long time what he thought the baby was going to be...but he finally told us that night that he thought it was a boy too!

 Nathan's dad also said from the beginning that he thought we were having a boy! His step mom voted for a girl!
 

 

Nathan's mom and uncle both said girl!!

 

 

Both my Mimi and Popee and Nathan's Grandmother thought it was a boy!
 

 

Here is what all of our friends thought...



 

When I found out I was pregnant I felt like I would have some sort of motherly instinct that would tell me what we were having...but I never got it!! I never could make up mind on what baby Campbell was. It took Nathan a long time...but one day he said "It's a girl!" Here is a picture of us before we busted the piñata!

 

 

We bought this piñata from ETSY!! Most people we know have done the cake for their gender reveal parties so we wanted to do something different...and I think this was a hit!! Isn't it precious!!

 

 

 

I was the one that was going to bust the piñata....but I couldn't do it!! I think I hit it a good 7 times and it wouldn't budge!!!

 

I finally handed the bat over to Nathan!! My arms were tired!

 He immediately busted it!!!! AND........

 

 

Out came PINK candy!!!

We were so excited!!

 

 

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!

 

 

 

Baby girl was given her first gifts!! An Alabama Cheerleader outfit and burp cloth! And a beautiful silver rattle!!

 

 

Here we are with our families!! Everyone was so happy!!

 

Here are just a few more pictures from the rest of the night :) 

Our Happy Little Family :)

 

 Lots of Love

from

Me and Our Little One :)





Kitchen Reveal!

I couldnt't wait any longer to do the kitchen reveal...so here it is! It is still not 100% complete...but it is super close so I am going to go ahead and show what we've done :) We have been working so hard the last few weeks and I really think it has paid off! I LOVE my new kitchen!! It is exactly what I imagined! Here we go...

Doesn't is look a billion times better! I have so much more room for cooking and I have a dishwasher :) YAY! Here is a reminder of what my Kitchen Inspiration was...

We changed things up a little in our kitchen...we didn't do the table attached to the island for functional/space reasons. I loved the lantern lights in this kitchen...however, they are $3000 a piece and we definitely didn't like them that much ;) I am still lacking counter stools for the island and table and some shelving...but other than that and some more decorating we are all done :) and very happy!! Here are a few more pictures...





We are so glad to almost have this project behind us! It has been longer and more difficult than either of us thought it would be...but it was totally worth it! I hope to do a breakdown of everything we did soon! I just couldn't wait any longer to show some pictures! Now it's time to cook!

Kelsey

Making Progress

A lot has been happening at our house the past couple of weeks. The day after I did the Kitchen Inspiration blog post the guy that we hired to do some of the work in the kitchen came over to get a game plan on when we would be starting the project. We weren't planning on starting the renovation for a few weeks...but he had a change of plans with another project and was ready to start our kitchen that week! So we said ok and Nathan started the demo the next day :) I immediately became overwhelmed! So many decisions...so little time!! But it is coming along nicely so I thought I would share the progess!

Here goes DEMO!

 

Putting the kitchem back together??

This is my dad and Nathan working on the electrical. We ran into some problems with this part but luckily they were able to figure it out so we didn't have to call an electrician! My mom and dad have helped us so much! I don't know what we would do without them! Thanks mom & dad!

At this point I was glad that the kitchen was bigger...but I was so nervous about it all coming together and looking good!!

Here is where we are today...

*Note these pictures were taken at night and are not the best*



We still have several things left to do...but I LOVE it! I can finally see it coming together just the way I had imagined it! Our countertops are supossed to be in at the end of this week! But we are still waiting on the oven hood and we also have to put up a few shelves. But overall we have made a lot of progess and I am so ready to see the finished product :)

On a different note...our Master Bedroom is almost complete!!! I am unbelievably excited about the way it has turned out! It is even more beautiful than I imagined! I want to show a sneek peak of one of my favorite parts of the room...



This dresser was the dresser that was in my nursery when I was a baby so it is a very sentimental peice of furniture. I bought the mirror at a local store and they painted my dresser to match! I am so excited about the way it turned out! I will hopefully do a full master bedroom reveal soon :)

Happy Home! 

Kelsey