Christmas 2013

This Christmas was a blast. Dean and I made cookies for Santa, and we attended the Candlelight Christmas Eve service. On Christmas, Santa came and brought us trains! Grammy and GPaw got him a chair, and he even got a ride on train from his Aunt and Uncle. It was a traintastic Christmas!

Pre-Christmas Festivities 2013

Christmas Card 2013. Since he was a baby our preacher has said Dean reminds him of Charlie Brown. Well this year we decided to make that our Christmas Card.

We like Santa this year! We also loved the matching outfits he and his cousins got from Grammy!

Wade Family Christmas. I made a Red Velvet Cupcake wreath, didn't make it in one piece though. They kinda fell off the seat on the trip over. :) Dean had so much fun, but was sad to see everyone leave.

Dean's Nursery Then and Now

This is Dean's Nursery before he arrived. You can see his lamp isn't sitting on top of the freshly finished dresser, and there is no changing pad there yet. Pretty much ever piece of furniture was refinished, given to us, or bought second hand. My mother made the bedding and window treatments, and we made all the shelves and the map out of all license plates.

This is his room now without the crib. We moved the crib out and moved Dean to his big boy bed. He did great! No issues at all. On the bare wall, I made a clock and toy storage buckets and hangers to match the car tag map. I think it turned out cool!

This is how it looks on an average day. :)

Here is my pinterest board with a bunch of ideas including the plans for the ledges and floating shelves.
Follow Marley Sullivan's board Little Boy Room on Pinterest.

Halloween 2013

This year Dean and Dustin were Mike and Sully from Monsters University! We got to trick or treat at the campground and in Greenwood! So much fun with great friends!

Bull Bottom Farms 2013

We met Angie and Kai again this year at Bull Bottom Farms and had a blast! Dean loved the new bouncy pillow.

Dean's Having a Ball 2nd Birthday

Dean's favorite word as a one year old was "Ball". Every time he saw one, he'd repeat "ball" over and over. That is why his second birthday party theme was "Having a Ball." And we did! He invited friends from daycare this year, and many showed up. This party was easy, we scattered all sizes of blow up beach balls and used his summertime pool as a ball pit. The kids loved it! I made the cake from the wilton sports ball cake pan, and I used pretzel m&ms to top the cupcakes. All food was ball related, including a cheese ball, sausage balls, and cheese puff balls. I got the green ones from Target, made for Halloween. (Note: Keep cheese puffs in container until the last minute. I put mine in the cupcake wrappers an couple of hours early, and they got a tad stale. Good thing I had extras!)

Here is the board I used to collect ideas in my planning process. Some I used; some I didn't.

Beach Birthday Boy

We luckily got asked back to the beach on Dean's birthday. We had a Monsters University cake for Dean to celebrate him turning 2. He loved the time at the beach and having his cousins back with him.We had fun at the Hangout for his birthday dinner, and went by the USS Alabama for a tour on the way home.

Dustin is 30

Dustin turned thirty this year. We had dinner at Lost Pizza in Grenada. For his birthday present, he and Dean had their first train rides.  They both enjoyed it! We rode down to Jackson for lunch, shopping, dinner, and a movie.

Beach Birthday

Not only did I get to spend Mother's Day on the beach but also got to go down on my birthday for our July Fourth family vacation. Dean got to spend the week with Andrew and Conner. He loved it. It was quite windy this year. We got to see Sully and Mike in Monsters University. Dean fell asleep, but he like it. We had rainy days, so we also saw Despicable Me 2 and deal loved that! He did so good in the water, even kicked around by himself.

Mother's Day at the Beach

I got a special treat this mother's day. We were lent a condo on the beach that week by some generous people. Aunt Lindsey and her homeschool kids, Aunt Jenny, and Grammy got to come along to add to the fun! We got to go to the petting zoo, and the outlet mall with splash pad. I couldn't have asked for a better mother's day!

Warm Weather Fun - Carnivals and Baseball

With warm weather came some fun times! Dean got to go to the carnival and ride rides, and went to see his cousins play ball. He wasn't sure about the rides, but he didn't cry. He just took it all in. He had fun with his buddies Kai, Regan, and Angie though!