Bedrooms finally complete!!

Patrick finished the kid's beds a couple weeks ago and I finally got the furniture arranged the way I wanted it and the accessories and decor up!! Here are a few pics of both rooms!!

Bryan has the blue madras quilt with car sheeting- we left the stips on his wall because they went really well with the car sheeting we found!

Emma has the pink madras quilt and butterfly sheeting- we re-painted the room pink to match her new bedding and I hand painted the butterflies on her wall

(Emma looking thrilled that I'm taking a pic of her room!)

Bryan sings his ABCs!!

So impressed with Bryan, he is barely 21 months old and has mastered his ABCs...his BIG SISTER is so proud (oh, and so are his parents!)!!

Emma's First Day at SMG!!

Today is Emma's first day at St. Maria Goretti...she was so excited to be starting "real school"!! She did great...walked right into class, hugged her teacher, put her stuff away, found the seat with her name and never even looked back!! We are so excited to join this wonderful community and have already started to get to know some wonderful families -it will be exciting to see our kids grow up together!! Cannot wait to hear about her day when I pick her up!!

Home Improvement Projects...

We had two big home improvement projects going on at the same time and I am happy to report they are finally complete (with the exception of finishing the rails for Bryan's bed). The first project was the kitchen- I love the set up of our kitchen and I love the cabinets but I just wanted to bring in some new color since we had lots of browns and whites in the house. We repainted all the cabinets white (or Patrick repainted them) then we added pulls (which hopefully will keep the white cabinets from getting as dirty!), next we painted the mocha brown walls a grey-blue and finally we tore out the old brown colored back-splash (which meant the sheeet rock had to come out too and be replaced) and we re-tiled it with a navy blue subway tile. The entire project cost us just a little over $100 although a lot of the supplies came discounted or free from Sherwin Williams :) I really like the new colors it brings into the house, really seems to brighten things up!! Now I'm ready to start finding some accessories to decorate the kitchen with!! The second project was the kid's rooms- Emma has had a lime green colored room since we moved in when she was 18 mo. old and she has continued to ask us for something pink in her room...so we painted her room pink! Next Patrick made new beds for both kids- yes, he made the beds (the design is from Pottery Barn) and they turned out great and cost us only $70 per bed rather than the $600 you would pay at Pottery Barn. And last but not least, we picked up some new bedding from Pottery Barn Kids- both kids got the Madras bedding (Emma's has the pinks and purples, Bryan has the reds and blues) and then Emma got butterfly sheets and Bryan got car sheets! Here are a few pics that I took on my phone along the way!!

(I haven't had a chance to take a pic of Bryan's bed yet but it's the same except it's painted navy-blue!)