Free (Legit) Baby Stuff

Who knew you could get so much free baby stuff?

I was talking to another first time mom who just had a sweet baby girl and she was telling me about all this cute stuff she found online for free an just paid shipping. She told me just to google udder cover codes.

Sure enough, you can go to www.uddercovers.com and find some cute patterns to choose from. Plus it's free! The promo code I used was freeone and I only paid $11.90 for shipping. Then once you finish checking out you will get 2 more promo codes automatically for a free sling and a free car seat cover on 2 other websites (www.sevenslings.com and www.carseatcanopy.com).

How cool is that? Free stuff is always a good thing! And having twins, we will take it!

Random Things From the Past Week

I feel so behind on so many levels. I was just telling a friend today that I should be better about writing in my journal throughout this whole pregnancy. I have to be better about that. And how cool would it be to write letters to the babies? I have got to get a new journal!!!

 

On that note....Let me catch you up on a few things.

This past Saturday my sister and I went to our second "art" class. We painted the Chattanooga skyline. How fun is that?

 

Here is a close up. I am not really sure where I am going to put it but it is really neat.

 



This past Sunday night for small group, I attempted a banana cream pie. It turned out pretty yummy and was super super easy.

1 Graham cracker pie crust

1 cup sour cream

1 cup milk

3 bananas chopped

whip cream

Mix sour cream and milk. Add pudding. Mix for 1 minute. Fold in bananas. Pour in pie crust and top with whip cream. YUM!

 

Today we went to the Doc. Everything looks good... PRAISE GOD! 26 weeks.

She is weighing 1 pound 13oz and he is 2 pounds 1 oz.

And today... we got one step closer to being a family of 4!!

Check out the twins new ride.

AKA my Mommy mobile!

 

Also, I wanted to share (sorry for the crummy pictures) all that I have bought at the consignment sales I have been going to. And there is still 2 more to go to!! (and yes, our poor little boy doesn't have as much as lil girl, there is just a lot cuter stuff for girls... HA, don't worry, he'll catch up!)

 

 

Girls clothing from the Sweet WeePeets sale.4 dresses (1 smocked, 2 RL), PJs, onesies, pants 2 bubbles, and a few outfits.

 



Boy clothing from Sweet WeePeets, 2 outfits, PJs and 2 onesies.

 I think total I spent around $30.

 

This past Saturday I went to the Jack and Jill sale and to my surprise was not crowded at all! YAY!

 

Clothes for her, 4 rompers (1 RL), RL PJ's, 2 dresses (one RL)

 

And the boy outfits, 1 RL gown, PJs, and 3 rompers. The seersucker, sailboat romper is my favorite, I splurged on that one for $10... ha.

Total $48. Most items were around $2 or $3, not too shabby huh?

 

50 Cents!

Lord knows I cant pass up a good deal. I went to a consignment sale last week and got a lot of clothes for the babies half off and I am going to another this weekend and another the weekend after that. Tis the season. HA!

I was at one of my favor tie thrift stores the other day and they had all of their infant clothes 1/2 off, which are only $1 to begin with (most of them). Apparently, they get the leftovers from all these consignment sales and are trying to make some room.

I'll take it.

little girls cable knit sweater 

Pink ruffle pants

Adorable Gymboree white boys cable knit sweater with the cute little elbow pads.

Gap boys linen shirt. OMG!

sweet little boys onesie

Love this Children's Place sweater with the sailboats.

sweet little girls khacki pants from Old Navy

All of this for $3.50, and NO TAX! Sweet deal.

Eventful Friday





We had an eventful Friday night this past weekend.

  To make a long story short, Curtis, who apparently lives one road over from ours, decided to try to drive through our woods beside our house at 11:30pm. He was drunk as a skunk and luckily wasn't hurt. Poor guy told the police he had 18 beers. Oh Curtis, bless you. He had lost his keys, shoes, phone etc stumbling through the woods and by the end of the night we had 3 police cars, ambulance, a fire rescue truck and a wrecker that had to wench his car that was downhill in the woods about 100 yards. We were up til 3am. Good practice for the babies right? HA.

I got a late Birthday gift. My SIL got me some cute seersucker PJ's with my monogram on it. YAY!

I went to Southeastern Salvage to drop off something to be monogrammed and I spotted these hemstitch guest towels for $2.50 and I got our monogram put on it for $5. Not bad for $8 right?

 

I am also hosting a baby shower for a dear friend of mine who is having a baby girl (6 weeks ahead of me) next month and found these super cute invites for $3 at Michaels.

I LOVE planning parties!

Look what else came in.... our second crib!

Well technically it came the other day but it was defective so we had to ship it back and our "3rd" crib came in. HA. It looks a little like a sad daycare right now with nothing on the walls or over the windows but it is getting there.

 I also did my first load of baby clothes. They smell so good! I really want to start washing my clothes in it. HA!

Change

Last week has been a little hectic. I  had a pretty nasty cold since last Saturday and that has certainly not helped me sleep well at night. Speaking of change, last Monday morning I found out that my doctor had been laid off. I have an appointment this past Tuesday and luckily all went well. I did go to the high risk consultant and was relieved to find out that everything looked great. 2 weeks ago when we saw them, baby girl was a little low on fluid and it kinds freaked me out. So they did a follow up visit, I didn't know if I would end up in bed rest or in the hospital but praise God for a good report! 

This whole baby thing is really starting to feel real. I am still in shock daily that there's two! But now that I can feel them kicking and we are planning showers, registering, getting their room together and buying things for them it is all becoming a reality and they will be here so soon! I have a lot to do!

My sister spotted this dresser at a store after I had been searching all day for a piece of furniture to use as a changing table, I see lots of "changing" happening in my near future. Ha! They were asking $125, but I got it for $100. I am hoping it will work, if not i can definitely put it to good use somewhere else. 

After my appointment, I was cleaning the floor and  opened the front door to find a big box sitting outside. I was screaming ( in my very horse, pitiful voice) and scared the heck out of my husband. Ha. It was one of our cribs! 

Yippee! 

Here it is. All set up and ready for a little one, the other crib should be here soon! The room is starting to "change"! 

(I am gonna have to spray paint those ugly gold wheels!!)

And one more small change i made recently.....Here's my newly decorated front door with the moss H I made. I'm loving the look!

Valentine Baby

Can y'all believe its mid February!? Because I sure can't, this pregnancy is flying by!
My husband is starting to get worried because we really don't have much for these little babinos. 

I did manage to find these sweet canvas storage totes at Tj's the other day. The match the nursery quite nicely ( or what it will look like), so I got all 3. 

 

I also got 2 of these sweet bunnies from Pier , 2 different sizes to sit on a shelf together.

 

And.... Today, my MIL booked a date for my family baby shower and I ordered our cribs!!  I ended up getting them on Amazon with free shipping and no tax.. I'll take it! So excited! That room is gonna start filling up fast. I am going "changing table" shopping tomorrow. Hopefully I can find one! 

Yesterday was valentines day, I am sure you all noticed men everywhere frantically shopping for cards, flowers and chocolate... HA!

My sweet dad came by my office and dropped of these goodies how sweet is that? Totally made my day. 

I also went to my first kid consignment sale. Don't get too excited. I actually walked out empty handed. The line was so long and I only found a handful of clothes so it wasn't really worth it to stand  in line. 

Then, I came home to my sweet valentine of 12 years and he had bought me some more flowers. 

Hydrangeas. My favorite. Love them! 

 

 

We celebrated by going out to eat on Tuesday night... Bonefish of course (one of my favorites!) It was a pretty good day!

 

Still trying to finish up my registry, talk about overwhelming! Sheesh... who knew...??

Happy Weekend!

 

 

Baby News

Last week one of my dear friends had her little girl! I was so thrilled to meet her. This is Snow. She is so sweet and so cute.... and look at all that hair!

Aww, I love holding babies!

Also this week, my wonderful Husband got my flowers just because. I know everyone says this, but I really do have the best Husband ever!

 

I went to see the High- Risk Doc. on Thursday. Everything looked great except little brother (baby A) seems to be taking up a lot of room in there and has more fluid then she does). He weighs 1.2 pounds and she is 15 oz. 8' long, I still cant believe how big they are!

He told me not to be too alarmed but to relax and DRINK DRINK DRINK. I got back in 2 weeks. So please pray everything is great!

 

See how squished she looks? Poor little baby girl, her brother needs to share! HA!

 

And, for the record, I don't like to post a whole lot of "belly pictures" but today is the first day I really thought, Wow I look preggers, not fat! HA!

So here they are from the outside (please ignore the toilet, at least I put the seat down! HA!)

Girls Trip!

 

Part of my Christmas present from my parents was a girls weekend trip to Asheville NC to tour the Biltmore house. So we planned it out and went this past Friday and Saturday. And MAN was it cold! It even got in the teens, and only up to like 30 degrees! We left at 6am on Friday on the 4 hour trip, and made it safely (after traveling some icy roads) to Asheville.The babies first trip to NC!

Here is the house (I am sure you have seen pictures of it at least) it is incredible! I studied it in Design School and was amazed by it then, even more amazing to see it in person!

 

I mean look at this place! Can you even imagine? Plus it had an indoor heated pool and bowling alley! WOW! Mind blown!

 

These are the pictures from my phone (we took a lot more)

 

We even got to eat in a restaurant that used to be the old stable. So neat! We went on a wine tour as well and saw some of the gardens, we spent the whole day exploring!

 

After waking up at 5am and not sleeping well, I was very sleepy! We at a quick dinner at Zoe's and went to bed.

 

We got up, had a big breakfast and headed out to explore downtown Asheville. My very best friend now lives in NC and she was able to come and spend the day with us!

 

We went to some stores and Farmers Markets (saw lots of hippies! HA!)

 

And then we went to this hotel Grove Park Inn... neat place!

 

like I said, COLD!

 

Me, (21.5 weeks) the babies and their Aunts

 

 

Then we had lunch at The tupelo honey cafe (very yummy!) Then we had to leave because it was starting to get cold again and threatening snow... but we made it over the mountain with no trouble so we decided to hit the outlets in Gatlinburg and Old Time Pottery. I only came out with a $15 navy cardigan sweater, but still a lot of fun! FREEZING but fun!

 

Some random other goodies I got...

 

My aunt sent me a Kohl's gift card for my Birthday, so I picked up this fun polka dot scarf the other day!

 

And my monogram necklace I ordered with my Birthday money! So excited to wear it!

 

Off to a Super Bowl Party... who's it gonna be?

 

Wednesdays with Friends!

One of my very good friends, Stephanie, came to visit me!!! She lives in Nashville and I don't get to see her too often (although I did see her last month for a Baking Girls Day) but when I do we always have a great time together! She came Tuesday night, we went to TJ Maxx and had some Fro Yo, then headed to my Mommas house for dinner and then watched

 

This movie... HA! I had seen it a while ago but not since I was preggers... totally changes everything! HA, its too cute!

 

The next day we headed downtown to the Art District, went to a Bakery and bought some yummy fresh bread, had lunch at Tony's (Italian... YUM!) with my Mom

And went to Rembrandts for coffee! Whip cream? Yes please!

 

We then went to Merchants on Main and I got a side table for the nursery to go by my chair for $43! Score... and it is perfect and I don't have to paint it or anything! I love the shelf and the "pie crust" top.

 

Then we headed to the outlets in Calhoun and got some goodies. What a fun filled day! I was worn out by the end of it! HA!

 

On another note, we decided on baby names! It was tough, we just could not agree. Here is the kicker (and this is NOT my idea) I am not allowed to share them. The Mr. wants to keep the names a secret until the babies are born. So I am being a good wife and keeping the names a secret (even though that is going to be SO hard).

 

However, I was able to place my order for the nursery art work.

I got 2 canvases (this is the inspiration I sent her) with their sweet little names

 

and then I found this (and the bunny print from the previous post) and sent it to her to make me 2 square "animal" canvases. I am so excited and cant wait to see what she comes up with!

 

This is the link to her shop on Etsy. She has some really CUTE stuff... personalized invitations, stationary and hand painted canvases!

 

This baby stuff is starting to feel more and more real! and I am already OVER HALF WAY there!