Yeah for me!

So I got an amazing new job a few weeks ago! I'm an associate event planner at this great company called Outstanding Occasions. If any of you know me (and if you're reading my blog I hope you do...no creepers! However, blog-stalkers are accepted since I am one myself) anyway...if you know me at all, then you totally know that this kind of work is right up my alley! Not only do I get to have fun and plan weddings all day, but I get to stay home more often and play with Mr. Merrick. (Who, by the way, is a full-on crawler now! I yi yi...) It literally is going to be a dream job once I completely get into it. The girls that I work with, Jennifer and Heather, are super cute and fun and we have some truly amazing weddings on the horizon. Check out our website and see some of the great work they've done in the past. And you can also check out our fun little blog, In the Know with OO. It's got all kinds of fun wedding snippets and even if you're not into weddings, some of the stuff we have on there is dang cute anyway. Today was my first post so make sure you stop by and read it. And feel free to leave a comment, add a button onto your blog, whatever floats your boat :) Most importantly, tell all your friends! I am so excited to have this great new job, I'll have to post all the fun stuff that we get to see and do!

A little motivation please...

So last June (yes, as in 1 whole entire year ago) I bought this super cute little dresser on a Saturday morning and took it home and had all kinds of romantic, decorative ideas about painting it lavender and putting cute Anthropologie handles on it and it was going to be just perfect in my little girl's room...*sigh*. Then by Sunday morning I realized I was lazy, fat, unmotivated and pregnant and then not too much later I found out I was having a boy...cute dresser dreams (as Jim Carey would say) "chk, chk, deleted!" So it sat on the back porch and then one day I painted it blue. And then it sat for a while longer and I put a clear coat on it. The end result was terrible! I will never try and do anything that requires patience and artistic ability when I am wretchedly pregnant again! Needless to say, the dresser was too horrible to bring indoors, it really needed to be redone! And so it continued to sit on my mother-in-laws back porch. Until the other day I finally went and picked it up, and I am sure that she is deliriously happy that it is out of her sight! Kristen and I started sanding it the other day and I have yet to decide what I am am going to do with the thing once it's ready to paint. I just thought I would post a few "before" pics and maybe that will give me that extra bit of motivation to get this little project done and out of the way. So before you know it, I will be posting "after" pictures, right? As long as you pay no attention to my track record...

Here's the little beauty. Loving the Tiffany Blue, but the clear coat is totally yellow. Couldn't possibly be from sitting on the back porch for a year, right??

Here's Kristen getting some work done! If anyone is highly motivated in this project, it is most definitely her...it's on HER back porch now!! Haha

Kristen really rocks at projects like this though. She just re-did her kitchen table and it is totally cute. I am so glad she (and her paint sprayer) are going to be helping me with this :)

And this desk is the next project. The crackle...not so much. Maybe someday we'll get around to this one!

We Heart Summer

Our pool is finally warm enough so me and Merrick took it outside today and tested out his new floaty seat that I bought him forever ago when I was dreaming of hot weather. He was so adorable! I thought he might be scared of the water but he wasn't at all! He kicked himself all over the pool completely on his own. He didn't even care that he was far away from me, he is so brave. He loved it when he would get splashed by the boys and he just kept laughing and having such a good time. Needless to say, we will be doing this way more often in the next few months!

Teeth X 2!

Make that 2 teeth! His other bottom tooth has broken through also. And what a joy the last few days have been...

Grosgrain Giveaway

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"Break through"!

Merrick has broken his very first tooth!! Woohoo!

I think we are officially at the stage where EVERYTHING goes in his mouth...

And Merrick has started sitting up by himself! He is so cute when he wobbles all over the place! It makes me so proud of him :)