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Doctor's Appointment

Good News!! I saw my doctor's nurse today (my doctor is out of town for the week) and she checked me. She told me I am dialated at about a 1.5 or 2 and she could feel the baby's head because he has dropped quite a bit since last week. She also said my cervix is very thin and that I am about 80% effaced! This means I'm well on my way to having this baby soon. :) I went ahead and asked her if she thought we would be on track for setting up an induction for next week and she said absolutely!! Looks like we will have a new addition to the family in about a week or so! We will keep you updated - Please keep us in your prayers

The Latest pictures of Grayson

It's a little hard to see his face because his hands are in front of it.

We've Finished the Nursery!

We've finished the nursery and it's perfect! Or atleast I think so. Neither of us wanted to do a typical themed nursery so we took inspiration from some Bible story drawings that were given to us from some children in Peru. They worked out great. We basically based the whole nursery off of those pictures and the bedding. So here are some pictures of the final product:

Latest Doctor's Appointment and belly pictures

Now that I am about to pop any day now I am seeing my doctor once a week from this point forward. If you've lost track, I am now almost 38 weeks along. Since last week she has begun checking me to see if I am dialated. So far, Nothing! Although, she did say on Wednesday that I was starting to thin out a little bit and that he had dropped some. She said after I see her on October 31st, depending on my body's progress, Josh and I can make a decision whether or not we want to go ahead and induce or if we want to wait. I'm hoping I will progress enough between now and then so that we can induce and go ahead and bring Grayson into this world!! We will be keeping you all informed as soon as we know something.

For those of you who haven't seen me in a while I've gotten pretty big. Here's the proof!

DIY Fall decorating on a budget

A couple of weeks I got such an itch to do some fall decorating. I didn't decorate for fall last year so I knew going into it that I would have to start from scratch. So, I started looking around, not really finding a whole lot of great things and realizing how expensive decorations were. I soon came to the conclusion that I would rather do some DIY projects and get the looks of Fall that I wanted and pay a whole lot less! So I started out looking at Goodwill, The Dollar Tree, and then your typical Kirklands, Target, Hobby Lobby and Ross. I picked up a few things here and there and this is what I came out with.

This is the centerpiece I made for the dining room table:

I started by buying 3 different glass vases from Goodwill to try and create a more eclectic look. Here's the break down on how to create this look:

The two taller vases were $4 a piece and the small vase was $1. I already had the candles so all I had to buy was a steam of berries from Hobby Lobby for $3.50, which I pulled a part and placed in the vase how I liked, a bag of acorns from Hobby Lobby (which were quite more than I would have liked to pay) regularly $8.99 but I used a coupon and got them for $5.50, and I used coffee beans that we had in the pantry to fill the small vase. That makes this project a total of $18.00.

This project was created to spice up the bookshelves!
I found a set of 3 silver candlesticks at Goodwill for $6, stacked them on a couple of books for height, placed two different colored pumpkins that I purchased from Wal-Mart for $0.98 each on top and I took what was left over of the stem of berries that I purchased for the centerpiece and scattered them around the based for a more Fallish look! This look cost a total of $8.00!

On this project I actually got to test my crafting skills. To create this I bought 4 black frames from The Dollar Tree and a 5 foot strand of fall leaves for, you guessed it, $1 a piece. Then I bought 2 pieces of black, brown, and fall scrapbooking paper for $0.30 each and a set of stencils for $3.00 from Hobby Lobby. After tracing the letters on both the black and brown paper I cut them out and glued them to the fall background paper using the black to highlight the letters. This whole project cost me right under $10.00.
Here's the look altogther:

I created this simple centerpiece for the entryway. I already had the hurricane glass and silver plate so all I had to purchase was the cinnamon candle ($3.50 from Wal-Mart) and the leaves ($1.00 from The Dollar Tree) and it was that easy!!!
Then I just picked up the thanksgiving plate from Ross for $3.99 and this finished off the look!

Anyway - I had a ton of fun doing these DIY projects and I hope by next year that they get even bigger and better!