Red Reversible Dress

This is the adorable red dress I made this afternoon. It's actually reversible so BR will get lots of wear out of it. That is only if she stays in this size range long enough. (0-3 months)

I still have to sew the buttons on tomorrow but I couldn't wait to share this one.

I'm picturing Brantley wearing cream tights and a cream long sleeve shirt with tiny black shoes to church one Sunday. So excited!!

Pink Seersucker Dress

This is the finished dress from Saturday. Last night I appliqued this flower on and added the sequins for a sparkly touch. I love the way it turned out!

Also, yesterday I went to Hancock Fabrics and bought some more fabric so that I can continue sewing adorable outfits for BR. I'll post those as I finish them because I'm just so darn proud of my new found skills. My Granny would be proud of me too!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Oh and by the way.... Check out our baby ticker.
Only 100 days (or so) until Brantley Rae will be born!
Holy Cow, I'm so excited!!

Pictures In The Gardens

Yesterday, Chase and I met Kearstyn and Ashley at Botanical Gardens to take a few pictures with them. Our friend, Brittany, was there to take Kiki's 3 year old pictures. Ashley decided she wanted Kiki's "Aunts"/her closest friends to be there so we could get a few pictures wither her.
We had such a beautiful day and we had a great time!

Kiki is so much fun!

Sweet girl giving Brantley Rae kisses!! Adorable!!

Aunt Allison and Kearstyn

Aunt Jami and Kearstyn

Kearstyn Hailee

While Chase and I waited on everyone to get there we walked around. Chase took a few pretty good pictures of me for my 25 week pictures.

Look how much we're growing!

We had a wonderful afternoon being outside in the gorgeous weather with friends and nature. It was a great was to spend our Sunday afternoon.

These are the pictures that Chase and I took but you can check out Brittany's work at BG Photography.com. Look under children!

Pumpkins In The Park

Yesterday, after church our Sunday school met at Homewood park for lunch and pumpkin carving.

These are the classes pumpkins.

Chase and I are having fun really getting to know the other couples in our class.
We have wonderful teachers as well and they make the class really fun and enjoyable.

Only a few more days till Halloween! Have you carved your pumpkin?

Belly Post - 25 Weeks

Inside my belly this week...
Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but she's beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and she'll start to look more and more like a newborn. She's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture.

Brantley Rae,

This weekend has been really great at our house. Yesterday, I made you a totally cute pink dress that you are going to look really cute in! You won't get to wear it until this time next year but I'm going to make you some smaller ones soon.
Tonight, Daddy and I went over to Nona and PopPop's house and picked up the dressers for your bedroom. Yay!! Now Mommy gets to start decorating and putting things in their place. We still have to attach the doors and all the hardware but at least they are here and in your room. I'm so happy!!
You've been going through spurts of being awake and asleep daily now. You're really starting to get bigger and stronger. Last night was also the first night that you kept me awake with all you kicking and such. I wasn't very happy about it at the time because Mommy was so tired but it also makes me happy because I know you're growing.
This week I'm going to work in your nursery, putting a things in place and making it look better, instead of so cluttered. I'm also hoping to make you another dress or two. Mommy is really excited about sewing dresses for you! Maybe one day I'll try something a little harder but for now I'm sticking with the easy pattern.
Well sweet girl, your Daddy and I love you very much and pray for you everyday, that you are growing into a healthy and happy baby girl. Only about 15 more weeks in my tummy and then we will get to meet you. We can't wait!!!
We love you, Brantley Rae!
-Mommy

Boredom turned Beautiful!!

This afternoon I got REALLY bored. So Chase told me to go buy stuff to sew something so I could try out my new sewing machine. So...
Today turned out to be a WONDERFUL day all because of this dress.
I MADE IT!!!!
With my own two hands and my new handy dandy sewing machine.
I am so happy with it that I could jump up and down if I was allowed to, but BR might not like that very much.

It's pink seersucker and I LOVE IT!! It's a 6-9 month size so it will be a while before BR gets to wear it but that's okay. I'm going to make many more in different sizes and fabrics. From now on I think I'm going to make them out of two different fabrics/reversible so that we can get more wear out of the dresses.

Right now it doesn't have anything on the front but I'm thinking about appliqueing a flower on the top middle or either one of these monograms. I like them both very very much!!

I'm SO proud of myself!!

Yay! Now I can rest knowing that I accomplished something SUPER CUTE today.
I'll be a "sewing machine" from now on, cranking out dresses like crazy. BR is going to have the cutest dresses!!!

I hope everyone's having a good night!!

Babymoon/My Birthday

Last week, my parents gave Chase and I a one nights stay at Gorham's Bluff up in north Alabama for our Babymoon and my birthday. We left fairly early on Saturday morning to head up north. We stopped in Guntersville to eat lunch at Wintzell's. Turns out they were the only people open that afternoon for lunch. It was good!

After lunch we drove over to Little River Canyon. It was VERY cold and wet outside, but it was nice to see the water running so much. Pretty!

This is the lodge at Gorham's Bluff.
It was so nice inside! There is a dining room and living room areas on the bottom floor and rooms on the top two floors. It was very peaceful and relaxing there! Chase and I sat in our room before dinner, watching a movie, reading pregnancy books and watching Brantley Rae moving all over my belly! It was pretty cute!

The view was beautiful on Sunday morning!

We took pictures on the Bluff Sunday morning when it was around 35 degrees. The wind was really blowing so I stayed out there as long as I could. But BR and I got cold pretty quickly and we had to go back inside.

This is us watching the Auburn game down stairs waiting for our dinner time. We ate dinner, breakfast and boxed lunch there and the food was wonderful! I had an aversion to the ham that I ordered for breakfast but I think it was just pregnancy related.

After lunch on Sunday, since it was my birthday I decided I wanted us to go to a Pumpkin Patch. we found one called Down On The Farm in Rainsville, AL.
It was such a cool place!

They had a HUGE pumpkin patch that Chase and I got to walk all around to find our 2 pumpkins. So fun!

This is an old corn combine that they have turned into a playground. It looked like the kids were having lots of fun playing on it!

This is the CORN PIT!! It was SO cool!! The pit is about a foot or more deep with corn kernels. The kids that were playing in it were having a blast. I'm hoping that next year someone, maybe Ashley's husband Heath, will make a Corn Pit here so that Chase and I can take BR to play in it. AR, BR and all the other kiddies would have so much fun!!!!!

Finally, when we got home we had dinner with Chase's parents at their house. I was so excited to open my birthday present from them because I got a SEWING MACHINE!! I've been wanting one for a while now so I'm really happy about it. I've already sewed on a few burp clothes for BR that turned out really cute! Maybe this week I'll get to work on some more projects and I'll try to take pictures and share my work.

Overall, I had a wonderful birthday and WE had a great Babymoon! Thanks, Mom and Dad!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!!