Master Bedroom

Uber was nice enough to help me make a headboard while he had a few days off with the holidays. I LOVE it! I finally (5 years later) feel like we have a complete master bedroom!

Here's a reminder of the before with the new side tables

And here is the after!
I went back and forth on buying verse DIYing and finally after looking everywhere I decided I just had to try it myself. I was amazed at the high prices in the stores and the not so great quality! Plus I wanted a bed skirt that matched to make it look completed since our room is a little small for the whole bed frame thing.
The nail head trim was key for me- it took a few hours but I think it was totally worth it!
And a not so great shot of the bed skirt.
So the project break down:

Fabric- $55 -6 yards of Coffee Divesitex Whitney Linen/Rayon Blend...

Joanns-$15 -2 yards of kona cotton to finish off the back, and 2 yards of 90" muslin for bed skirt

Foam and upholstery batting- $50.80 - I am so happy with this company! I completely recommend them to anyone needing quality foam. They had excellent and fast customer service. I told them what I was making and they told me what I needed (and their recommendation saved me money!) Shipping was fast and inexpensive- it's part of the total above!

Home Depot-67.48 - this included the 2x4's, sheet of mdf, bolts to attach headboard to bedframe, screws, wood glue, and a ton of upholstery tacks!

So total is $188.28 for the headboard and bedskirt- not bad!

and here is Micah with his Uncle... just because the photos made me laugh! He is not into babies so it's fun to make him hold Micah!! Micah finds him very interesting to watch but not so much on being held by him... I think it has to do with Beau holding him completely awkward I know they'll be good buddies when he gets a little older... and doesn't randomly spit up/poop!

Micah - the first 6 weeks

Photo update for family and anyone else who is interested (Uber says I can't fill facebook up with baby pictures ...haha... and plus some people don't have facebook)

Here's a bunch of pictures of the little guy in no particular order just a few of my favorites--out of thousands... yeah and we haven't even been that good about getting pictures!

I'll try not to make too many posts picture posts!

5 Years

and Uber has loved every minute of it,

...so have I!

Our fourth... a little late

Ubers cousin and wife came down from Atlanta to visit over the holiday weekend. We had a blast showing them Florida since neither of them had been here before. We took them to the beach and found this adorable little guy! I'm totally going to have to try making one of these next time we are out!

Saturday we went kayaking... are you guys sick of kayaking yet? ... we're not!

They had never been and had a great time. I am really not sure why more people don't do this it is SO fun and relaxing!

We were able to get some great shots of the wild life

Look what jumped in our boat! We have no idea when this guy got in there...but he was not happy about it...

I love seeing birds taking off. Uber always makes noise so they do this a lot around us.

This is one goofy bird, it reminds me of the flamingo I think it gets its pink color the same way. It has a weird flat circle beak.

I'm very jealous of birds ability to fly, walk and swim...

Some kind of hawk. I am planning on picking up a bird book so we can start figuring out what some of these are. I want to get a laminated one that we can take out on the water with us....

Friday night we took them out to a Suns game

Uber was tormenting us all with the camera I put the above picture in because he said it makes him look fat... HAHA... Uber and his cousin look eerily alike (this picture is not a good example), I have to be really careful when he is here and make sure I look at their face because at a glance I will think he is Uber... They even have the same birthday 3 years apart... and we realized that all the injuries that Uber had growing up James also had...well James had a lot more then Uber... but he is a tad accident prone.

ANYWAY- there was a fireworks show at the end of the game. Which ended up being a VERY good show. It's definitely the closest I've ever sat to such a large production. I'm really getting into the whole baseball thing... I should probably start paying attention to the game though... I have more fun hanging out, people watching, visiting, and eating REALLY disgustingly good food.

Hopefully I will get around to crafting something... someday...

Maiden Voyage

So before Mum and Dad left we went kayak shopping. We're 'storing' their kayak until they get back to the states and can use it. Last weekend we took it out for the first time and it was a blast! It's a sit on top so it's a little different than the ones we had rented the week before, it's also shorter since this one can be used as a single or double kayak.
I have decided that this is the absolute best way to get to the beach! Yes it is even better then driving up and unloading you car right on the sand. Its so much fun to just load up the kayak and row for an hour or so and then stop on the beach somewhere for lunch.

As opposed to the week before the tide was coming in when we left the dock and out on our way back in-- WOW it is a lot harder when you are going against the current... and in this case the wind as well. We went South this time which doesn't get you to the beach as easily as going north.

This direction snakes you through the inlets out onto a river and then out into the ocean. It was a little crowded on the river. In the picture up above we are sitting at the mouth of the inlet and I am not really sure I want to go any farther, with all of the large boat traffic there are some pretty large wakes... and we have stuff in the boat we don't want to loose if it tips.

We ended up not heading out any farther (which meant no ocean) but instead rowed straight across the river to a very small island that was almost completely under the water (because of high tide) since there was no sand left we just plopped down in the shallow water to eat our picnic... which is usually what we do at the beach anyway so it wasn't a big deal!

This was the little bit of island left ...

We didn't stay out as long or go as far since it was twice the work... but it was alot of fun for the first trip!

Ubers so good he loads the kayak in and out of the truck with out my help...

Here's a few funny clips from our afternoon. Mum and Dad will appreciate them, though I think anyone would find them funny ... or maybe not... I laughed though. To give a little back ground the grass you see in the water is way above our head at low tide so Uber decided that since we could we should go straight though the middle of it instead of rowing around it normal people.

Hope you all had a good 4th! I will try and show you what we were up to tomorrow.