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Nursery Inspiration for Baby #3

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Baby number three is over halfway here and we still haven't made many moves toward prepping the house for his arrival. I have, however, been Pinteresting and daydreaming about what his room will look like once we move little Elena in with Ty.

For this little boy, I am sticking with navy, green, and white. I think that navy is such a handsome boy color!  
Navy, Silver, Lime, and White Wedding Color Palette - custom color palette created at MagnetStreet.com:
My sweet sister offered to let us use my nephew's nursery bedding since he's now in a big boy bed and, let me tell ya, number three comes with a budget, so this was perfect!

Here are some of the ideas floating around in my head... 
Print (paper) size is 8x10 - Set of 4 prints perfect for a nursery or playroom - you pick the colors!    Print comes freshly (and professionally):

This has inspired the letters of his name or his initials above his crib... those letters are still out (no named baby!)

This big boy room is inspiring some of the wall paint for our nursery. I think we are going with a pale green color. I've found one I love at Lowe's.

RIBBA Frame IKEA The mat enhances the picture and makes framing easy. The mat is acid-free and will not discolor the picture.
I have several of there white Ribba wall frames from Ikea that I will reuse in his room for newborn pictures and prints.

I am so excited to get the nursery started, but am also wanting to wait as long as possible before we move Elena out of her room. Once we make this room happen I will post the finished product!
Find more nursery ideas on my Pinterest love home: nursery wall!

Elena's 1st birthday tea party

Thursday, March 10, 2016


I won't lie. From the second we found out we were having a girl- at 16 weeks pregnant- one of the first things I got excited about was throwing a GIRLY GLITZY birthday party fit for a princess.  I had the best time planning Elena's party! Here are some of the details for her afternoon tea...
smash cake with her gold sparkler candle
tea sammies
gorgeous pink ombre cake
food for the kiddies
a tea party wouldn't be complete without tea!
bubbles and beer bar
the spread
monthly pictures
slide show
favors for little friends
one of my favorite details... faces of elena
homemade gold decor (thanks, pinterest!)
Most of our friends and family were able to make it to her party, which made it extra special, and our little social butterfly loved every second of her time in the spotlight...and I loved watching her!
the birthday girl!
lighting the candle
smashing her cake
grandpa
presents!
Needless to say, you could hear a pin drop in our house that night. Both of our kiddos were exhausted and slept so soundly after the big day of celebrating!  I will never tire of birthday parties!

Decking the Schneider halls!

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

I'm linking up with Andrea for a Christmas decoration Show and Tell and with Alisha, Jess, and Amy for Bits of Cheer! I love Christmas sharing!

This year my most favorite addition to our house for Christmas was Elena's stocking. I actually ordered it months ago and have had it out to admire it for weeks.  When we finally hung all four stockings up I was doing a happy dance! I love a FULL mantle of stockings!!
My kids favorite part of the house is definitely the train around the Christmas tree.  We got this for Ty for his first Christmas because I knew he'd love it. Now it's all he and Elena do when we are home!
This is our tree. I love how most of my red balls are beginning to be replaced by ornaments given to or made by Ty and Elena. 
These are all things given to us by our parents. I love the glass nativity scene. Justin mom gave it to me on our first Christmas.  

My mom gave us this cute tic-tac-toe game with Santa pieces and snowman pieces.  

The Frosty ceramic was painted by my mom before I can remember. Every time I pull it out I remember my childhood Christmases.
The outside of our house was a big deal for Justin this year. He wants to make it the brightest house on the block for the kids.  We added a few things that I mentioned here. 
Also mentioned in this post was the story behind our little Christmas village.
Besides the ledge that we have the Christmas village on, we had another ledge that I wanted to use. My mom gave us these small Christmas trees and I knew they were perfect for the last empty ledge. This small forest makes it feel like Narnia in our house! 
This is my manger scene. My mom gave it to me when I moved out. I love putting it up every year.  He is the reason for the season, after all!
Here are some other small things that bring the Christmas cheer into our home.
We got this ornament the night we got engaged at the Biltmore Estate.
I love having all the Christmas decorations out every year. It's always been my favorite time. I think I was born half human half elf.  Now, though, my favorite part is how excited and happy it makes my kids to see all the decorations in the house each day. And how their eyes light up every time they see Christmas lights. CHRISTMAS CHEER!!!
Also linked up here and here.

weekend recap

Monday, November 30, 2015

And so the Thanksgiving festivities continued...
Friday morning was a gorgeous morning for a photo session. I met a beautiful family at the local park and had a blast taking pictures of them. Emilie, the little girl is a natural. She needs to be a model.:)
When I got home Justin was busy getting the Christmas lights ready to hang outside. This year he wants to do even more now that Ty is older. On Friday he came home with a Star Shower Laser Light that he wants to shine on top of the icicle lights on the house and lights on the bushes. With all this, he didn't finish putting them up before we had to leave for Thanksgiving #2 at Frank and Erin's house.
We had such an awesome time having dinner with them and Erin's mom.  It's the first time we've had the Soukup Thanksgiving and everything was delicious.  After dinner the boys had a blast having flashlight fights in the dark living room with the monster (Uncle Frank).  These are the memories that I am so happy my kids will have with their cousins.
Elena's homemade turkey bow
On Saturday we woke up with intentions of going to Justin's parents' house, but Ty and Elena are battling the ends of a cold and we did not want to pass anything to the rest of the family. We continued our decorating in our house.
i couldn't resist a pic of E with this cute hat on while we decorated!
I just had to finish putting out the Christmas village. I started doing a village because my father in law passed down some of the houses and we wanted to continue his tradition. Also, I thought it would be fun for our kids to see tiny houses on the ledge every time they come down the stairs. Ty loves it. Every morning he says, "Look!! Mommy!!"
On Sunday afternoon, I had a photo session at a local historical park. Justin brought the kids to hike around while I worked. It was the coolest spot-- a small hidden gem in Raleigh with a waterfall and beautiful landscape.  I LOVED shooting pictures there and the kids loved playing. It was a nice break from all the Christmas decorating that we'd been doing ALL weekend.

I cannot believe this little Thanksgiving vacation is over. It's such a quick tease before Christmas vacation, but definitely one that we needed and appreciated. Only a few more weeks until Santa comes down the chimney and Jesus is born! Now if I can just get my Christmas cards addressed...
 
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