Flower Girl Bailey

I really need to figure out how to twist the pictures around! Bailey was a flower girl this past weekend in a wedding. She did such a good job and was so pretty. One of my sorority sisters did her hair and we painted her fingernails and toenails to match the bridesmaids. She loves going to weddings and being in them even more! She loves to dance and stays on the dance floor the entire time unless she is taking breaks for punch, cake, and food. The bride was beautiful and Bailey was extremely fond of her as she is her teacher and my sorority sister. She was so proud to be in Miss Jessica's wedding.

Wreaths

So thanks to the invention of Pinterest I have anxiety over getting things done ;) No seriously, I went on for a total of 30 minutes and found two projects that had to be done in a few days for my baby shower. It ended up being 3 things but 2 came from pinintrest. I made the hospital wreath for baby Brycen and a fall rag wreath for my front door. I also painted some canvases and did brown vinyl letters on them to go above the crib. They are now nailed to the wall thanks to my dad coming over to do some handy work while Blake is deployed. I had a few things on the list for him to tackle and my mom helped plant fall flowers in my planters outside to make my home ready for fall and my baby shower that was being held at my home. I will have to do another post soon on just my fall decor...I changed things up this year since we are having a fall party for Bailey next weekend. I wanted to have one last party for her before Brycen makes his debut and steals the show. I'm so excited to get my hands on him and read books laying on my stomach again.

 Ribbon Wreath with wooden "M" - I am going to get a white paint marker to write his weight and height on the "M" after he is born.

 Fall Rag Wreath with 2 different browns, 2 different oranges, and some crimson thrown in.

His initials in vinyl on canvases...the middle canvas took a while to get the borders but it turned out really cute. 

Summer of Cupcakes #8 & #9

Well I didn't get to #10...and really #8 & #9 were the same cake just different icings, but they were still delicious! Very Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Icing and strawberry drizzle or filling. I decided I liked the filling better so that each cupcake received the same amount. These are going over really well that I made them for another occasion and received high remarks about them. I made them with homemade whipped topping the third go around and they were delicious. I still think the strawberry icing tastes the best to get the "very strawberry" taste.

Very Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Filling and Vanilla Buttercream Frosting in Pale Pink and Pale Green with "6" flags for a birthday party

An order of #4 cookies for a birthday party at school for a little girl turning 4.

Life in the past few weeks

This past month had a few big things...school started back, Blake left for his 2 month deployment to Puerto Rico, I kicked off my business using a facebook page (Go like it!), I bought the silhouette vinyl machine (newest obsession), consigned all of Bailey's clothes and shoes from infant to size 5 (tear), Bailey's soccer practice on Thursdays and games on Saturdays, and the nursery is almost ready!

It has been an exciting past few weeks of new things and we have been very busy. It helps to stay fully scheduled while Blake is gone - it makes it feel less lonely when you have so much to do. I have orders to work on at night on days I don't have commitments. On Wednesday night I joined a new Bible study while Bailey is in choir...I can already tell that it's going to be fabulous. Bailey moved into the big kids choir so she has to learn a Bible verse each week - she is so cute trying to memorize her verse so she can get a sticker.

The pregnancy is going...I wish I could figure out how not to gain so much, but I guess it's the thyroid doing what it does best...messing everything up. At night I look down and do not recognise my legs and feet...they look like they belong to someone else large hippopotamus. I try to get off of them but I have to much to do. The pregnancy brain is at its finest. I have done some of the dumbest things ever in the past couple of weeks that I just laugh because I know it's not an all-together-Brittany making those choices/decisions.

One thing we have had to adjust to is the size of our TV screen. Blake took the xbox/only dvd player we have on his trip so if we want to watch a movie we have to do it on Bailey's 19 inch TV/DVD player in one. I have gone to red box on two different occasions to rent movies only to get home and realize we have to watch it on Bailey's single bed from across the room. Thank goodness I DVR'd a bunch of movies on the bigger TV in the living room so we just rewatch Tangled, Toy Story 1-3, Princess and the Frog, Beauty and the Beast, a Barbie Movie, or The Land Before Time.

So yeah, that's what our family has been up to in the past month.