Light Fixture Makeover

So... this is the giant piece of ugly that's been hanging from our kitchen ceiling for the past who-knows-how-many years. I just ignored it for the most part since it just blended in with the stupid popcorn ceiling that I make a habit of pretending doesn't exist anyway, but it is something that always irritated Josh(surprise surprise, he actually has an opinion haha!) White with black speckles... beautiful, right? Well, a good cleaning and a $4 can of a hammer-textured metallic spraypaint later, and voila, a much-needed facelift!

Campfire!!

Josh's dad invited us all over last night for a campfire FHE and it was fun! I actually was trying to do this a little too spontaneously on Sunday night, when it turned out we had no stuff for s'mores(what's a campfire with no s'mores?)! So we went for a hike on Sunday instead, and then came over for this campfire with everyone last night. The weather was just perfect, hardly any bugs, it wasn't humid yet, couldn't have asked for a better night.

We brought a few of a our puppies over for the kids to hold which was fun too. Kyler wasn't terribly interested in the fire or s'mores, just the tractor and slides as usual haha. And yes, I'm huge now, 30 weeks along already!

A waterfight broke out towards the end with some of the girls and Steph... I stayed behind the camera and stayed dry ;)

hahahaha!

I found these on our camera when I uploaded pictures this morning and couldn't stop laughing.... thought I'd share a little laughter with everyone else :) apparently Kyler knows how to use the camera!

Easter and Puppies!

Easter comes 3 times for us, once at Josh's Aunt Cindy's house, once at Josh's parent's house, and of course, Easter morning at ours :) Lots of family and cousins to enjoy, here are some Easter pics!

Hunting eggs went great, but of course, just like last year, once he found his Easter basket at our house... the matchbox cars had to come out of the boxes and he wanted nothing else to do with Easter for the rest of the day. Josh and I had to pick up the rest of the eggs ourselves, and it took days for him to even look at the rest of his Easter basket. Needless to say, this child does not have ADD haha.

Hunting eggs outside at Josh's parent's in the not-freezing weather was great, and Kyler enjoyed just playing outside too(he would live outside if he could). Kyler loves the slide and playset, and he especially loves having a friend to play with... I think this is the only picture in existence of both Kyler and his cousin Isaac smiling at the camera, at the same time haha.

Then below, we've had a crazy week at our house - including two litters of puppies! After several sleepless nights and two deliveries later, we only ended up with 8 puppies! For some reason the litters were just really small, but we love the pups and as you can tell, Kyler really loves them too :) Maybe it would have been a little too much for us to have 20 puppies right now, and the Lord was keeping an eye out for us, who knows. Kyler is so careful and gentle with the new puppies, I'm thinking it's good practice for baby...?

And yes.... a SNEAK PEEK at our nursery painting project(it was blue before)... lots and lots of sewing to do before I get more pictures posted...

Some Slight Craftiness...

I've been working on these fabric Modge-Podge'd canvases for Kyler's room for a while now(most of the time just in my head haha), and am so glad to finally have them DONE! Here is a mini-tutorial of how I did it, there may be easier ways for other people.

First, I drew a rough-draft of the picture that I wanted on paper to get it all figured out(top pic). Then I bought cheap posterboard at the $1 store and traced the canvas size onto them and cut it out so I knew what size I was working with, and re-drew the pictures on them in the size they would be(the use of a projection machine would have been nice if I had access to one, but I was stuck re-drawing them).

Then, in the below picture, I cut out the outlined shapes on the posterboard, and labeled each by the color of fabric I wanted it to be(the hardest part of the whole thing was just deciding what colors to put where!). Using those pieces as templates, I put them face-down on the right-side-down fabric and traced, then cut them out.

The canvases needed to be recovered with the background fabric, which I just did with a staplegun as if I were recovering a chair. Then using the original drawing on regular paper, I put the pieces back together and modge-podge'd them on! (using a matte modge-podge and no, I did not modge-podge the entire background fabric)

Okay, I LOVE how the school bus turned out, and the truck. The train, not so much. Pretty much I hate it. But whatever, it's done, I'll re-do it "someday." Kyler's favorite things are trains... so it's going to have to stay up. He really likes them all, and I think it's so sweet that he refers to them as "mommy bus... mommy train... & mommy truck!" I keep trying to tell him that no, they're KyKy's - but I think this is his way of recognizing that I made them for him :) what a cutie!