My new obsession

I've always thought about having a "Chabby Shick" home but never really thought twice about it since I got sucked into the whole "Southwestern" style after I met Jake.

I love southwestern, but it's not me.

So, after a website my cousin Katie showed me and then telling me how easy it is to do it, I made the decision.

I'm switching.

All of it.

Piece by piece.

But i'm finally doing it.

I'm planning on sticking to some basic colors like Cream, light teal, mustard color, and so on. All destressed.

So, I made my first trip to Mckinney Trade Days and found some awesome things! Here they are...

I am so excited to get started!

This beauty below I got for $12 (and its heavy duty, good quality) and i'm going to paint it cream and destress it.

Birthday Surprise

So since I have known Jake,

lets just say he's not very creative when it comes to celebrating my

Birthday,

Mothers Day,

etc.

But this birthday, I made a point in dropping the hint pretty obvious that this one better be better than the others because mainly, I'm turning 30.
I have been dreading this birthday for a really long time. It just seems as if i've been in my twenties for so long that the "3" "0" would never come. Well, reality hit and to tell you the truth, it's a little depressing when I think about it. But I can say I don't feel any different.

yet.

So, my birthday went a little something like this.

6:30am, Jake sneaks out of bed, leaves through our back door and goes to get donuts and flowers. He walks in the bedroom with a glaze donut (my fav) and two huge numbers "30" lite up singing "happy birthday".

The rest of my day consisited of... Taking care of the kids, cooking, cleaning, and finally showering at 4pm. Later that night, Jake had the Underly's surprise me and come over to the house with a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Cake. (A birthday tradition in our family)

So, the day of, (as always).... Jake asked me what I wanted for my birthday...
I pointed to the piece of paper on the fridge and said "This."

His face expression changed and he said...

"Oh, ha ha... Can't I just buy you a present instead?"

"Nope" (With a big Smile)

I never thought in a million years I would choose household work over gifts, guess that'e one thing that changes when you hit the 30's!

Squeezing in some fun

As you may already know,

we LOVE driving down to Houston to see our cousins Nick & Hillary.

It's been about a year now since we've done that because they haven't lived there this past year as Nick was doing rotations with medical school all over the state.

But now... We are back on track!

We went down there as birthday request of mine and spent the entire weekend, laying out by the pool and just relaxing all weekend. I love weekends like that and little quick trips are so refreshing.

The kids had a blast playing with their cousin Isabelle and Charlotte was loving all the new toys she had discovered.