Show Us Your Life: Children's Rooms & Catch-Up!

Well, I have REALLY gotten behind on the SUYL posts! :( OOOPS! I am determined to catch up though! So, let's start with this week... Children's rooms and Nurseries. Well, there are no nurseries in my house currently, but I we do have two rooms that have Lilly Kate and Ethan Stickles written all over them! :)

LILLY KATE'S ROOM

LK's room has changed ALOT since she was born. It started off as light pink and green toile print. Typical baby girl room. Now she's in her "bigger" little girl stage, so it's a little brighter. It gets more "grown up" as the days go on though. Makes me a little sad!

{like I say in all these posts.. EVERYTHING in our house is still a work-in-progress! ha!}

Chris and I made the upholstered headboard and I LOVE the way it turned out! All her bedding if from PBK, although I still need to buy her a bed skirt. Lately, I've been thinking about making her a hot pink tulle one though.. I just think that would look GREAT! :)

usually this area is NOT this tidy.. there's typically about 5-6 hairbows all over it! ha!

there's that pink kitchen! {story behind pink kitchen - when she was 2, she fell in love with it in the PBK catalogue.. i mean IN LOVE! so.. i searched high and low for it (b/c Lord knows I couldn't afford the one from the catalogue). i found it on Ebay.. still WAY too much $.. ordered it & all the matching appliances and i can count one ONE HAND how many times she has played with that thing!!! she even told one of her friends that she could take it to her house if she wanted too!!! OMG! Chris calls it "our worst purchase EVER! haha! OH THAT PINK KITCHEN!}

and no.. still haven't hung the drapes in her room either! ;)

what room isn't complete w/o a bookcase full of Elvis pics??!

view from her door. see what I mean about the hot pink tulle bedskirt?! i just think it would be such a great pop of color!

ETHAN'S ROOM

When we found out that Ethan was going to be a boy, I immedately started searching for ideas for his room. I hate "themes", so I definitely wanted to steer clear of anything related to baseball, football, race cars.. anything that is typically "boy" nursery realted. So, I chose neutral bedding and built everything around that. The main colors are red and blue and all the decor is vintage cars, trucks, trains and planes. I LOVE it! His room is probably one of my favorite in the house. It still has the "baby" look, but is getting "bigger" all the time.

view from this door. unfortunately his room is the smallest in the house, so it's a bit cramped for space!

his new "BIG BOY" bed with the bedding he picked out from PBK.. construction trucks.. he definitely is a Stickles! :) The mobile is the same one that hung over his crib.. vintage airplanes. The pictures are vintage magazine pages that I purchased on Ebay for his nursery. I LOVE THEM!!! They are from the 50's.

My grandfather was on of the first 100 employees of FedEx. When Ethan was born, he gave him that airplane. Ethan LOVES it and calls it "Popie's plane". Even when he sees a FedEx plane flying in the air he yells out "HEY POPIE!!!" And, living in Memphis, you can imagine how many times that happens on a daily basis!! :) The train set is Chris' grandfather's and the CAT tractors are a special order from CAT. The basetball goal is a hand-me-down from Chris, but is getting replaced by a newer model from Santa this Christmas! ;)

Ethan's dressing table was my dressing table when I was born. It was made by a family friend. The matching cradle was made by my grandfather. LK will get the cradle and E will get the dressing table for my future grandbabies!!!! ;)

And, of course, Ethan's best friend is never too far away! :)

Ok.. so let's get caught up now...

DINING ROOM

i have slipcovered chairs in there now, but want to replace them soon! Still deciding!! We never used to eat in our dining room, but now that our house is smaller, we do! Time to upgrade!!

KITCHEN

i love how big and open our kitchen is! i REALLY want an island of sorts to go in there! i think i may have found the perfect one at an antique store.. maybe I can convince Chris to go pick it up! :)

LOVE our gas range!!! (and that's our recycling stuff.. not regular trash! haha!)

my favorite part of the kitchen!!

opening to hallway

backdoor! i love that it's black!

this is my absolute FAVORITE part of the kitchen. this cabinet was like this when we moved it. it holds ALL of the kids stuff.. plates, bowels, cups, lunch containers.. EVERYTHING! the middle section also moves to reveal more storage in the very back! LOVE IT!!!

See what I mean??! It hold everything!

And lastly... MASTER BEDROOM

I wont bore you with too many pics of this room. It's definitely the least decorated of the entire house (but isn't that the way it always goes??! ha!). Our room is SO MUCH smaller that in our old house, so we're still adjusting to the lack of space!

A little project I did, these are picture frames that I purchased a Target. They have a linen back. So, I took off the glass and got some cute pins and hung all the jewelry I typically wear on them. (ok.. I'm not going to lie.. I hardly ever wear any of it! haha! - like I have time or go anywhere to do that!! - but it's cute to have!) So cute and only cost me about $10!

Huck's bed!!

Ok.. I think that catches me up! Go over to Kelly's Korner to see more!:)

We LOVE Candice Tate!

So, on Saturday afternnon, we met up with my good friend, Candice, for a few fall family photos! Unfortunately, Ethan was just NOT having it that day at all! I am so impressed with her though.. b/c considering Ethan's not-so-great mood, she got some fabulous pics!! She posted a few sneak peeks on facebook... I can not wait to see the rest! :)

Look at Huck.. haha! LOVE IT!

see.. i knew they loved each other! ;)

Love this! If only my face didn't look like it belongs on a hippo! Could my cheeks be any bigger??! UGH! I guess it's time to lose those extra 12 lbs that have snuck up on me! :(

typical LK!

Now... to choose which one will be on our Christmas Card this year??! She is making my decision way too dificult! :)

Thank you, Candice! You did an amazing job!!

WICKED!

Last night, Chris and I celebrated my birthday a little early. He got me tickets to go see Wicked! I was SO excited!! I didn't get to go last year b/c the timing just didn't work out with everything else we had going on, so I was determined to go this year! (and talk about an easy gift for him this year! ha!) It was AMAZING!!!! I have seen so many Broadway shows, but this is definitely one of my top faves! Even Chris said that it was good, and he doesn't normally enjoy them all that much! ha!


Luckily, my sweet sweet sister, Lynsey, came over and watched the kiddos for us, so we were able to leave a little early to get a quick bite to eat downtown before the show. We grabbed some sushi at BlueFin {definitely try the Creamy Crab Fondue - OMG! It was to die for!} and then headed to the Orpheum for a quick drink.


Of course, Ethan refused to take his nap and ended up falling asleep late, which meant that he didn't wake up till right as we were leaving. So, of course, he was extra clingy and trying everything in his power to get me to stay home! Lyns promised him popcorn though, so he quickly perked up and let us go!

my sweet boy!

World's BEST Husband.. hands down! :)

The music was amazing.. the story was amazing.. the colors were amazing.. just plain AMAZING!

Gaaaaalinda!

Who knew that the Wicked Witch wasn't really that wicked at all??! Hmmm.. ;)

OZ!

It was definitely the best birthday gift!! I am so thankful for such an amazing husband! He was WAY TOO good to me! :)

Happy Birthday, Huck!!

Friday, our sweet puppy, Huck, marked his first year on this big ole Earth! We got Huck right before Christmas last year and he was 9 weeks, so we just counted back the days and came up with October 15th for his birthday! (really, we just had to pick a day so that the kids could celebrate! they wanted a party for him so bad!) So, on Friday, we ran around town all afternoon getting everything ready! We had to get all the ingredients to make his doggie birthday cake {LK told me that she had to make one.. i was NOT allowed to buy one! ha!}, cupcakes for the people guests, and of course.. gifts from the kiddos! :)

What Puppy Party isn't complete without Muddy's cupcakes!! MMM... {FYI - if you haven't tried the lemone cupcake - Pucker Up - TRY IT!! DELISH!}

singing Happy Birthday to the birthday boy! (please excuse Chris' appearance - he and E had just come home from soccer practice!)

such a typical one year old.. he only wanted to lick the icing! ;)

doesn't he look so happy! he LOVED all the attention!

E and LK had a great time openeing all of his gifts! You would have thought that it was their birthday!

Huck got so many great toys from Noni & Papa and Goo-Goo!

Ethan got the biggest bone I've ever seen for Huck. LK had to go a little more elaborate, of course! She picked out the Vineyard Vines whale collar. I have to admit.. it's precious! It looks so handsome on Huck!

He definitely loved his doggie ice cream!

Look at that sweet boy!! He was exhausted after all his birthday fun! I dont know if dogs have any concept of birthdays, but he sure did know that Friday was HIS day! He was a ball of energy and had a blast! I've never seen a dog so giddy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUCK!!! We look forward to SO many more years with you!!