nesting.

tooooootally what i look like when i clean. image via pinterest

about a month ago, we decided to wait to buy and house and stick it out another year, with three boys, in our little two bedroom house. which is fine. really. except that all of my nesting and creative instincts should be going in to a nursery. and i have none. bummer, yeah. but at least we have a roof over our heads!

so to channel my need for cleanliness and productivity ive been cleaning! oh! the amount of bon ami we have gone through! the grout! the bathtubs! the baseboards! needless to say, by the time im done dust and fingerprints will be a thing of the past.

anyone else having sudden (or not so sudden) cleaning urges lately? or any cute nurseries i can be jealous of? ;)

our little family.

it would be lying if i said i hadnt been "inspired to blog" lately. im actually feeling full of inspiration (more lack of energy at this point) and my brain/body are in full nesting mode. but really, before we embark on adding another little body of testosterone to this household, im trying to really just enjoy our family as it is now. we have this flow going, a good routine and jeffrey and i feel like we've "got this". hahaha i laugh because of course right when we feel that way, its alllllll about to change. anyways, here are some of my favorite shots that sarah, ashley and reagan took back in february. our family as it is now- 4 here, 1 in heaven and one growing. 

ps- go here for our family photos from last year!

seriously, i love these boys.

all photos by 1313 photography 

30.

today is also my parents 30th anniversary!! my parents marriage is the perfect example to me of how life isnt perfect, or easy but with God as the stronghold between you, 30 years can happen ;) plus, they look about the same as they did then! love you guys!

trash to treasure, yo.

you guys, after a seriously long and pretty crappy day last week, jeffrey and i took the boys downtown for pizza and then drove around the lake, looking for homes like we always do. and some silly person had gone through their garage (treasure trove) and thrown out furniture! and, to be honest, a lot of other crap too (floppy disks!) and i found me a something that i liked!
we had been "needing" (its all relative) a sideboard/buffet type thing in the dining room for a steal, aka free, and this piece fit the bill. so i went to lowe's, grabbed some paint, rifled through my knob collection to come up with a random assortment of clearance anthro knobs that i seem to accumulate and the hubs painted it for me. what a winner, am i right?
so, here she is. literal trash to treasure! and yes, it houses the lego police station- it must be protected from little brother.

100 Layer Cakelet Feature

Well, my back in the saddle routine is a bit rusty. Im just feeling like I am out of practice? Nothing seems interesting enough to blog about! But then! There is! LOOK!

Sarah asked us to do a little family shoot (which as I am pregnant I would normally refuse but I wanted pictures of the boys so badly) and it was featured on one of the cutest family/kids blogs, 100 Layer Cakelet! Obviously it is so fun to be on there but I really am just so grateful for these captured memories of our growing family... Thanks Sarah and Ashley and Reagan!!

all photos by sarah, ashley and reagan of 1313 photography

back in the saddle.

it seems somewhat ridiculous to attempt to re-cap over four months of life on here, but upon request (okay two people) i have decided to jump back in the saddle. even though ive read on about a million blogs that "blogging is changing" and "social media is the new blogging", i still kinda like it. plus, im not really that trendy anywho. so, lets do this, shall we?

i guess we could start with our most pressing news...ahem, its a baby. yep, another baby boy is making me friggin fat again, surprise! its taken me a while ( about 3 months) to really wrap my head around another baby when we kinda (okay totally) werent expecting it, but i think im getting there. plus, the boys are beside themselves excited.

my mom and i have been pretty busy over here, which is also pretty darn exciting.

umm jeffrey todd and i went on our first ever trip without children to upstate new york and vermont and that was delightful.

wow, im super out of order butt...on our sweet Campbell's third ( i know, its been three years and i still cant believe how quickly its gone by and yet how long it feels ive been without her) birthday, my brother proposed to his longtime girlfriend and she said yes! so come december, this whole fam is going to be wedding mode! ( i realized i was pregnant on the ten hour drive home from birmingham btw. with screaming kids in the backseat. a joyous moment, to be sure.)

oh! jeffrey todd is running his first half marathon this weekend! and yeah, im going to carbo load with him. its the LEAST i can do.

and now here we are. 5 months until new baby. 4 months until my current baby is 2. just a small amount of time before my oldest boy is in kindergarten (?!) and throw some weddings in between there and basically life is going way to fast for me.

but im going to try smarten! readers, i swear. im going to try!

second photo by sarah of 1313 photography

baby sister.

my baby sister turns 17 today.

happy birthday boo.

she is totes cutes guys.

photo by chloe purpero (stolen from facebook)