Apartment Favorites (Tour)

Many of you have been asking for pictures of our new place. To me the house looks the same, but here are some pictures anyway.

These are some of my favorite things around the house..Enjoy!

An "entryway". Enough said. 

I cannot tell you how much I love our little entryway! The table was actually in our bedroom before (back here), but it worked out better here. It's so nice to have a place for all our crap. 

Totally obsessed with the Target chalkboard basket (we have another one in our room) for umbrellas, guests' shoes, my husband's work stuff, whatever.

Why yes there is a picture of my grandparents in our bathroom. 

My husband thinks it's totally weird we have pictures in the bathroom. I'm not really sure how it happened. It was more of a "if we don't put these pictures somewhere, they will gather dust in a closet" situation. So my grandparents are hanging out in the bathroom. Sweet. 

Love this in the hall leading to our room.

I got free 11x17 (I think that's what size they are?) photos from Shutterfly using My Coke Rewards. I knew if I didn't get frames and get it up ASAP, it wouldn't be done. 

To the left of the pictures is my husband's very own closet. He can keep all his work stuff in it and it's out of the way! Remember before it was in the office closet?

Obviously I love not having to share my closet. 

Across from that, I have my very own closet too. :) Woo hoo! It's awesome when I'm having a "nothing fits" moment and I can just throw the stuff on the ground and shut the door. 

Any ideas for above the fireplace?

And of course the dogs are obsessed with our gigantic window. You can't see it but there is a bed so they can sit and look out. They love it!

At night if our lights are on, people can see in. My FIL put the curtain rod up and now we just need to find curtains. Suggest a place to get them for a reasonable price? I'd rather not spend $400 on a place we rent! (That's what Bed, Bath, and Beyond had). 

Not sure if I posted about it but my husband got me that giant map for our 1 year anniversary. It is awesome for dinner conversation and I just love it. I've always wanted a map to mark where we've been, where we've lived, family lives, etc. We can't wait to show our little gal where her family lives and talk about it! 

And the dining room is also where my husband has "set up shop". 

Seriously, having a second bathroom has been nothing short of amazing. And we also have a huge linen closet in that bathroom-- it's just perfect! It was so nice when people were here! 

The door on the left leads to the office, and the door on the right is the linen closet. Completely stuffed with pillows, blankets, towels, and the like. 

My office/guest room is kind of a weird shape. Just like before, there is a big walk in closet that is perfect for all our stuff. 

The dogs love sitting on the bench (very bottom, under the window) and looking out the window. We call it their "perch" and they sit there all day while I work. 

And my least favorite part of the house, ugh. Honestly, we are not hoarders (I swear)! I don't know what the deal is. 

The walk in closet is also weirdly shaped and is housing my scrapbooking stuff, Christmas stuff, and my husband's tools. 

This guy holds random work stuff (and obviously a basketball, LOL). You guys know I'm not a huge fan of the cube units (they look so dorm-y to me), but it's all that could work. Plus, we can shut the door to the closet and I don't have to see it. 

Have any suggestions for reorganizing this bad boy? My nesting instincts are telling me to throw everything away and use it as a closet for Baby B. Please don't let me do that. 

That's it! I'll try to take more photos as we get more settled, and of course nursery pictures will be coming soon! xO

Weekend Happenings

It's already Monday, boo. The good news is that it's a beautiful day out-- blue sky and 64 degrees. I am so excited to take the dogs out and be outside.

The bad news is my husband is not feeling well. Poor guy. I honestly think it's just allergies but he is totally milking this (as his mom would say).. still in bed and I just brought him a kit kat bar.

Let's see, Friday (I count Friday as a weekend) Cocoa had her little boyfriend over for a play date.

Alien eyes

By "play date" I mean Cocoa sat on the top of the couch and Oreo chased her boyfriend around our 1,300 square foot apartment. 

I wore this bracelet for the first time and I love it! I'm a big believer that if you dress cute during the day, you can change your whole perspective on the day. And at 7 1/2 months pregnant, dressing "cute" is not what you're imagining. 

While my husband was at work on Saturday afternoon, Oreo learned how to sit like a big boy (ahem, at 4 years old). The picture on the left is how he always used to sit (on his booty), and the picture on the right is as good as it gets. 

He only sits like he should for cheerios. So basically he never sits like a big boy. But hey, we're working on it. 

Saturday afternoon looked something like this.

A couple weeks ago I caught an episode of Dance Moms and I fell in love, hard. And when my extreme pregnancy exhaustion strikes at 2PM? This is my view. 

I totally recommend Dance Moms, by the way. I definitely don't recommend letting the dogs sit near your belly because they will jump on it when they hear a noise. Sigh. 

Two calls to the Dr and 20 minutes on hold later, BG is totally content by the way. 

Yeah, I can rock 3AM like nobody's business. 

Guess that's what happens when you sleep for 2-3 hours while watching Dance Moms..you're up all night ready to party. 

Little Oreo was also ready to party. We watched infomercials, returned emails, Tweeted, and ready my October 2013 moms board. 

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Last week was World Breastfeeding Week. While I'm not currently bf'ing I thought it was a perfect time to finish this book. 

I am so blessed to have such wonderful friends who not only recommend this book, but have given me so much information and courage to feed my baby girl! 

Closetmaid Cubeical

Our cube unit (more on that back here) arrived Saturday afternoon, so Sunday morning my husband got straight to work. He's such a good dad to be! 

The other giant box is her crib. He should be working on that today, but we'll see how he's feeling. The room is starting to take shape and while it's no Pottery Barn, it is functional. 

With that being said, there is no way this little "cubeical" is going to hold all her crap. 

And we discovered last night that I got paint on my husband's favorite Syracuse shirt. Oops. :( He was so sad. Luckily our baby shower is in Syracuse so I'm hoping I'll be able to sneak away and pick him up a new one. 

And last but not least, my 29 week belly! To be honest I just feel round all over..not any bigger or anything. My husband says it's the shirt. This was taken yesterday-- 29W1D. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! xO

Life According To My Phone-- January 3rd

These days, Cocoa's rockin' a $3 chevron sweater. What do you think? She only had a "fur" coat and it was too heavy for inside, so I snagged this from Target. 

At what point do the dogs say, "Yeah! Let's dig through the recycling!"?

Snuggle buns on Christmas morning. 

Don't act like you can't see it. . .

Oreo wasn't a fan of the snow. :( Cocoa, on the other hand, couldn't get enough! I knew if I didn't take a photo, nobody would believe me that it snowed. Here's your proof, people!

So we're terrible doggie owners and got the dogs "chewies" (AKA: anything that will keep them occupied for several minutes) for Christmas. 

Some days if I'm on the phone or would like to SHOWER without so much as a whine or heaven forbid, a dog jumping in, I will give them chewies. I know you are not supposed to reward bad behavior. I know they can choke. I don't give them chewies and light the place on fire and leave..Please don't send me emails. :-)

Regardless, we got this chewie for Cocoa and a different one for Oreo. As you can see hers was pretty large for her ittie bitty mouth. Well instead of eating it, she just sat there and "protected" it for a few hours. Anytime we'd go by the bed (or try to take it) she'd snatch it up. Finally she ate it. It was so cute though. PS-- She's finally mastered how to eat them since this pic was taken. 

The dogs are petrified of the dishwasher. Cocoa sits here and Oreo sits by the closet in our room. They will not leave the room-- I've tried coaxing them with potty, treats, whatever. Poor things. 

Can I join your picnic? 

How sad is this? My husband is the top, I am the second one down. Really? 11 pants for him and 6 for me? I need to go shopping.

I love doing my Bible reading and writing in my journal (more on that back here). On this particular day it was expected to snow so I would peek out the window every 33 seconds. 

We love the Green Machine and recommend it!

The other night we left our bedroom door open and the dogs had a field day all night. They probably didn't sleep and ran around with: the recycling (pictured above), presents, toys, and a bunch of ornaments at the bottom of the tree. Awesome. They also had 2 pee accidents. 

I took the above picture because my husband never cleans up accidents. He was so nice to do this while I took them out and screamed at them. Never again will we leave the door open. Oh, and they slept like babies the next day. :)

Sister Visit

My sister came and visited for Labor Day weekend. We had a blast doing all the touristy things because she had never been to DC before. Here are some pictures from her visit.

We had a behind the scenes tour of the Capitol Building. It's such a beauty inside and out!

She's cute but she's not single. :)

We took a boat ride on the Potomac River to Georgetown. This is my favorite thing to do when people visit! Granted, I've only done it twice but it's super fun. You can watch the planes take off and land right at Washington National. 

We were on the boat the same night as that "blue moon". I'm not sure where the name Blue Moon came from, but it does look really nice! That "neighborhood" is actually an air force base.

Once we got to Georgetown we stopped at Georgetown Cupcake. I'm sure you've seen them on TV-- two sisters own a cupcake shop. Tasty!

We got stuck in the rain on our way to the White House. 

Gosh, he's handsome.. but crazy! 

I guess you could say there is a "story" behind the sign at Arlington National Cemetery. We went to the cemetery when we first moved and I just didn't get it. No jogging? Are the security officers going to come up to someone and say, "Sir, please slow down to a speed walk please". Then we realized! They don't want joggers coming in and just working out. Ah ha! 

We had lots of fun! Tomorrow I'm going to post about our little "off road-ing" we did. It's quite exciting. 

Nighty night! xO