New Paint

So as of about 3:45 yesterday afternoon with a little encouragement from Pinterest and my co-worker, Lauren, I've decided I'm going to re-paint our kitchen and dining room!

Our dining room is a really dark color and there's not a whole lot of light coming into the room, so it's very depressing. Also, our back door and main entrance to the house is in he dining room and I feel like it is not the most inviting space right now. It could be the fact that we have a majority of our wedding presents sprawled out all over the room, but I'm going to say there are other factors as well. We have two floor to ceiling built-ins on each side of a window that I would love to fill up with all sorts of decorative goodies, but those are in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint as well.

Then there's the kitchen..from day one I've never been a huge fan of the blue walls. Fortunately, we have a brown tile back splash that covers most of the wall, so the blue is only in-your-face in a couple areas. Brown and blue makes me think of that Vera Bradley pattern from years ago and to say I'm #overit is an understatement.

Here's a few inspirational ideas from Pinterest that I'm loving.


SWOONING over these chairs



Love these color pallets. Could one of these be my new paint color?! Stay tuned. 



5:30 AM

Olive and her new favorite bed buddy. I've been snubbed.

I'm really feeling this early morning blog post. Probably because I've been up since 5:30 AM!!

Side note: now playing: "World Spins Madly On" by the Weeples. For those of you living under a rock, this is the song playing after Ellie dies and P. Sawyer takes Ellie's (her Mom) ashes to the field where she describes her happiest moment hearing "Here Come's the Regulars". (reminisce with me here) Talk about an early morning One Tree Hill GUT WRENCHING memory courtesy of Amazon Prime Music.

Back to my early morning. I've set my alarm for 5:30 three times this week intending to get up and run, but it never actually happened until today. *snaps for me*. Matthew gets up to run that early frequently so I figured I'd join in. Even though I didn't actually make it out of the bed until 5:45, I still got up and knocked out some early morning exercise. Which was much needed considering the 4 cookies and 2 pieces of cake I had yesterday. No...I didn't stutter.

Matthew's Grandparents, Aunt & Unlce, and their triplets AND twins (yet again..not a typo) are in town and insisted on celebrating my birthday (a week early) while they are here. I got 2 pieces of cake out of it in addition to the leftovers so I can't complain. #notmadaboutit

My coworker and I have decided to try and drink a gallon of water everyday. It's kind of a good thing to do together because every time I hear her chugging, I pick up my water and start to guzzle. It's also a good thing the bathroom is right outside our office.

Despite my high sugar intake, I am trying to counteract the potential diabetes development with water intake and exercise!

Crew


I'm attempting to create a photobook with all our wedding pictures this weekend. *prayers for patience accepted* You know I have commitment issues so there's no wonder it's taken me so long to finally arrive at this point. I'm going to keep this short and sweet because it's Friday and I'm not feeling chatty, but here's a picture I just stumbled upon that never fails to make me laugh. I don't know if it's the look on Matthew's Dad's face or the "everyone please cooperate so we can be done and start drinking" thought in the bridal party's mind, but I think it's great. 

Death by thank you notes



I feel like I have been playing a lot of catch-up lately. Catching up with home cleaning, catching up with friends, catching up on episodes of Real Housewives, and catching up on the dreaded thank you notes. I'm swimming in them.

Right before the wedding I got to the point where I dreaded receiving the call that we had gifts to pick up because I knew that once we opened them, it would only add to the mountain of thank you notes we need to write.