Bartlet Glen: Family Room

Here are some "look how far we've came" pictures of the family room. Geoff was about to have a nervous breakdown over the boxes that were still out and about so he worked his hiney off yesterday getting things sorted. Then on Monday we brought furniture that my grandparents gave me from Richmond and started getting them sorted too... things still aren't 100% but its on the right track. Wall color: Valspar from Lowe's in Nickel, I call it "Pottery Barn blue" and I LOVE IT! ~and of course anything would be better than the army green we started with~

Grant's Photo Riddles

Grant loves our iPhones, mostly because hes learned how to take pictures on it. I love looking through at the end of the day and seeing what he has captured. So heres a game... can you guess where we are?

or how about these?

What do YUDU?

Finally finally finally, I got to play!

Geoff caved in and got my a Yudu for Christmas even though he had no clue what it was or what I would do with it, and I was a very happy girl. The short answer is that a Yudu is an at home screenprinting machine. Basically, take an image and print it with paint on any flay surface (i.e. t-shirts, clipboards, canvases, etc)Well the Yudu is big and since we knew we'd be moving it has been in the box in Atlanta since, and I was not such a happy girl.

Well with Geoff gone this whole week I decided it was time to play! Yudu here I come!

I chose to use the logo I designed back in college for ELONTHON, a 24 hour dance marathon to raise money for Duke Children's Hospital. The event is this weekend, the Tuttles are speaking and I'm hoping we can go. So heres what happened: I aged the image a bit, made the transparency, burned the screen and...

STARTED PRINTING! :o) really really really happy girl! The shirt in the pic is just one of my maternity shirts from old navy and the picture looks a little elongated because I had just stretched it off of the board, but yea, a perfect copy and the exact burn-out/ aged look I was going for. oh the wheels are turning, who needs t-shirts?!?

SPAM hacking

Yes, I know. Someone has hacked into my hotmail account and is sending spam through it! I hope by now everyone knows the nature of spam and me well enough to not open anything about Canadian Drugs that supposedly comes from me...

Bartlet Glen: Upstairs

You've been patiently waiting for some pictures of the house and the painting/unpacking that we've done so my goal over the next few weeks is to give you some shots. We're still waiting on a run to Richmond to get some furniture but I'll try to string you along as nicely as I can!

Heres the upstairs bonus room/play room Before and After:

It went from a dark chocolate purple to white and the room feels 200% bigger. (In real life the room is brighter but I had to close the blinds in order to take a halfway decent picture) It was the last family's man cave complate with surround sound wiring and so there was a lot of Kilz and puttying to be done. I would never usually choose to go white but since we wanted this to be a playroom and bright the use of white with primary colored accents turned out perfectly. The letters were collected from hobby Lobby, JoAnne's and Michael's and then spray painted bright colors, the world map rug bought from Hearthstone catalog and the Toot and Puddles painted last year. Behind where I'm taking the picture is a computer desk and what will be my craft table but they aren't quite done so stay tuned!

We didn't do much to the bathroom upstairs, we kept the chocolate purple that they had and I finally got to use a bath set that we had registered for at the wedding. Its Groomin' by Croscill and it fills the little room with whimsy. (Do you know how hard it is to take a picture of a half bath?)

Grant with the Tulips!

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Happy Easter!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

We spent the weekend in Durham, got tickets to Disney Live! Mickey's Rockin' RoadShow on Saturday and it was a BLAST! grant was in hog heaven as he saw his favorite charaters in real life, he was shaking and jumping and all together WOUND UP, it was really special to see him so incredibly happy. Then Sunday we spend Easter at Westminister (The tie actually lasted all through nursery and church and only came off when it was time to get in the car to head to the gardens) then we continued my family ritual my heading over to Duke Gardens to take a stroll around and some pictures!

Secret Spilling Time

I'll let you in on a little secret....................are you ready?

IT'S A BOY!
As a birthday present from Geoff we went and had a 2D/3D ultrasound done yesterday and learned that we're expecting another bouncing boy bundle of joy! Everything looked wonderful and he gave us quite the show, dancing and swimming about. Once we're setled in North Carolina I'll go in for the official NT scan and get all of the measurements and all, but as for now Baby Boy is happy and healthy!

Congrats Lindsay!

As if I weren't excited enough about the closing and officially being a North Carolinian again, little Miss Lila Addison Hege made her way into the world, and more importantly North Carolina this morning!

So Army, lets hurry this thing along, we've got people to see and cheeks to kiss in good ole NC

Beautiful Lila was born at 12:38am, 7lbs and 11oz and everyone is doing well!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

I FINALLY WON!
After several years of blogging and following other peoples blogs I finally won a giveaway! For those of you who just read family/friends blogs, theres a whole world of blogs out there for crafters, home makers, decor blogs, mommy blogs, all sorts of good stuff. Well these women have "mad pull" and get sent stuff to give away on their blog as a marketing tool for various companies, artist or other blog sponsors.
Well, imagine my surprise when I got an email from KIMBA herself at A Soft place to Land I won a gift certificate to mydesignguide.com, an online home decor design site that does all of their consulations virtually! Its like having your very own interior decorator! you'd better believe the timing was perfect with us closing on the house WEDNESDAY and I'm excited to get in, set up and see what doesn't work/ what could use some tweaking~ Thank you Kimba!

School Pictures!

Since we won't be buying both I just have to show off the proofs for Grant's school pictures this spring. I can hardly believe them! How they got a bunny to be in the pictures with 100 little kids makes us think they must have drugged the little guy but clearly Grant was VERY excited. So I think we're leaning towards #2 but either way, Happy Spring, we can {almost} feel it!

MARCH!

wooowhoooo, it is finally MARCH and it is going to be a WONDERFUL month!

heres what we're looking at:
Today- Mary Kate Taylor turns 20!
Anyday now- Little Miss Lila Addison Hege should make her way into the world!
March 5- celebrate 6 months of all things Dagny
March 10- we close on the house!
March 13- celebrate my birthday by having fun keys to the house made (I'm thinking Zebra or this)
March 15- Brian's Birthday
March 16- Grant's last day of school and Geoff's graduation from FACCC!
March 17- packers pack our stuff into boxes
March 18- loaders come to put everything onto the moving truck
March 19- move out inspection, start the drive, drop the Jetta off in OKC to have it shipped the rest of the way
That next week- Paint Paint Paint the house! (well Geoff and Patty will, I'll be taping off moldings in other rooms)
March 23- first OB appointment in Fayetteville
After that- wait on edge for our stuff to finally arrive and start unpacking
March 27- Brian and Kate travel down to check out our new digs
That week- hopefully recieve news that Nadia and Pat have welcomed Baby Dunn!

{whew} think I'm going to go take a nap and rest up for it all...