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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Cars 2 Cute Skirt

In addition to the Cars "2" shirt, I made Ryenn a matching skirt. I had left over fabric the morning of Nolan's birthday party and decided to whip up a skirt.

Mater and Lightning

When I was putting together Nolan's birthday party, I was very particular on the theme. Everything, and I mean everything, had to be cars related. I decided that instead of spending a ton of money for someone else to make him his birthday shirt, I would enlist some help from my mother-in-law. She is great with a sewing machine and knew she could accomplish what I wanted.

Hard at work!

Nolan's Banner

N and Mater

Although its almost been a month since Nolan's birthday, I promised I would talk about a few of the things I made for his birthday party. I chose to first talk about his birthday banner. I saw on Pinterest a birthday sign that said "(insert name here) is (insert age here). " I loved that idea and decided Nolan needed one too.

L is for Lightning McQueen

I got 8x10 scrapbook card stock and went from there. I cutout all the letters/number for his name and age in black to put on the red background. I ended up cutting them a bit smaller than I wanted and they looked silly on the page alone.

Franceso and Team '95

Instead, with the advisement of my husband, I off set the letters a bit and added checkered ribbon and Cars 2 stickers. With that adjustment, the banner was perfect! I hung it in the garage with handmade bunting behind it and it completed the look I was going for.

Birthday banner

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Nolan is 2!

At times it feels like just yesterday I was pregnant and counting down the days to Nolan's birth. And at others, I can't imagine my life before I became a mother. It's unbelievable that 2 years ago, on June 15th, I was rushing into the hospital to deliver my first child. I was anxious, nervous, scared, yet prepared. I know that everyone who has been pregnant wishes they could fast forward through the last few weeks of pregnancy (that's when I REALLY popped). I wasn't due for another week, so I felt lucky that I could be meeting my son that day. I was also unsure if I was actually in labor. Nonetheless, I was admitted into labor and delivery. This was the real thing! I felt like this was no big deal and that I could handle this. Then it got painful! I experienced the most excruciating pain for a short hour, before I got my epidural, but it felt like an eternity. My labor was 8 hours in total, with only an hour of pushing. Nolan Myles was born on June 16, 2012 at 4:11am weighing 7lbs 14oz. He was absolutely perfect.

It's amazing to think that my bouncing baby boy is now a rambunctious busy toddler. It's hard to process this information. I have been a mom for two years! We celebrated this past weekend the 2nd birthday of our baby boy! We invited his friends, our friends, and family and celebrated his birthday at our house. We celebrated his 2nd birthday in style. He is obsessed with Cars 2, particularly Mater. We have a dozen Mater cars kicking around our house. Even one he can ride on. As you can probably guess, we chose a Cars themed birthday! He was geeked! Everything was racing, Cars, and red/black/white. It was so fun. He had so many people come and help celebrate and got so many great things!Just a warning, this blog post is a picture frenzy (thanks to the help of Allyson, Adam, and Angie)!