Trophy Club Baby Shower

Recently Connie and I drove to Fort Worth for my first baby shower. This shower was hosted by my three sister-in-laws (Tiffaney, Jessica, and Stephanie) and one of my best friends Julianne. These hostesses did a wonderful job – everything was too cute! I had so much fun getting to see old friend from Trophy Club, Keller, college, plus all of my family that drove in. Thank you to everyone that came to celebrate Hayes with me, I am so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family. A special thank you to Connie for riding with me!! I didn't get pictures of everyone there, but below are a few pictures from the shower:

The hostesses - Stephanie, Jessica, Julianne, and Tiffaney

Mom (Lou) and Connie (Nana)

Amanda, Adele, Moisy, and Mom

Good friends - Julianne, Jessica, Kristen, and Nikki

Stephanie, Mom, and Jessica

Aunt Vicki

Connie and Tiffaney

Connie, Tiffaney, and Sally

Bri, Paula, and Mindy

The cute favors!!

Stephanie's coffee punch - it was delicious!

Kristen - one of my dear friends since kindergarten. We also lived together all four years of college!

 

Amanda and Adele

I love hydrangeas – they are my favorite flowers!

Again, thank you to everyone for coming and making this day so special. I can't wait for you all to meet Hayes :)

Hayes's Room

It is hard for me to believe that Hayes will be here in less than 12 weeks, I feel like there is so much to do to get ready. I want to start by giving a big thank you to my mom for coming to stay with us last week and helping a TON to get ready. Hayes's room is not quite done, but I wanted to go ahead and show a few pictures.

Dustin putting the crib together

All the furniture in the room

This is the dresser we bought and painted

His armoire

Top view of his bedding

Cowboy decorations

Hayes's first pair of boots :)

Black bear hunt in BC

Yesterday Dustin and I returned from my black bear hunt in BC. The vacation was a nice escape from the heat and very enjoyable. I have had family begging to see pictures, so I thought I would upload the following:

Camp (our cabin is on the left, our guides in the middle and the orange building is the bathroom and laundry room. There is also a cook cabin, but you can't see it in this picture)

25 weeks pregnant



My black bear - didn't get it until the 6th morning, I was starting to worry!

Preview of what the bear rug will look like

Her paw

 

I have a lot more pictures, hopefully I will upload them soon. Not sure why, but my internet is going really slow today. We also spent a few days in Vancouver, and went over to Victoria on Vancouver Island for a day - very pretty city. This was my date in Victoria:

 

 

Vicki and Jerry come to Texas

Vicki and Jerry met the Brian Sills family, Chad Sills family and Dustin Tommerup family at the ranch for a relaxing weekend. It was so much fun to see them! Vicki spoiled us all by cooking the entire weekend and showing up with bags and bags of cookies. I must say all of her great nephews were on a sugar high all weekend. On Saturday morning the guys loaded up and went to Uvalde to go golfing. Apparently this was the most exciting game of golf every - Uncle Jerry got a hole in one! From what I've heard, all four men were jumping and screaming in excitement on the green - I would have loved to see that!!

Aunt Vicki

The golfers - the teams were the Sills boys against Dustin and Jerry

Boone helped Brian and Chad plant fruit trees

Stephanie and Grayson

Boy oh boy...

We had another appointment today, and it has been confirmed - we are definitely having a boy! We still love the name Hayes Stanley, so most likely that will be his name. But, we do have 20 weeks left, so who knows if we will change names or not.

Today was the anatomy scan at the doctor's office, and all of Hayes' organs measured normal. Thank you Jesus, so far everything seems perfect :)

Now that we know the gender for sure, I can begin working on his nursery. Our plan is to paint the nursery in the next few days before our new carpet is installed on the 11th. The bedding we like is a cowboy print, so I think we will be painting the walls a light brown color. I do love little boy's rooms that are light blue, but it would not match.

Nursery Dresser Project

Dustin and I found a dresser we like at a local furniture store, but we didn't love the price. I began searching consignment stores, and found a similar style piece. The only thing it needed, was to be painted, so the project began.

Here was the dresser when we bought it:

Here are the supplies that were needed:

Here are some pictures showing our hard work:

After doing a little research online, I found an awesome primer that claimed it did not require any sanding. After consulting at my local Sherwin Williams store, they agreed it was a fabulous product (even though they didn't carry it), but that they still recommended a "light" sanding. With that being said, I started with a light sanding, put on two coats of primer (was a little scared after the first coat, I was worried because it didn't cover everything - two coats was perfect!!), two coats of oil based paint, one coat of stain, and one coat of clear finish. Please note - even though I used an oil based primer and oil based paint, S.W. told me to use a water based finish. They told me that if I were to use an oil based finish it would yellow due to the stain. I was so glad my sales rep was so knowledgeable!

Here is the dresser almost finished...... I know I know, how weak, the final picture is an almost finished product. I was so excited the other day when I had put on the new hardware and hung the shutter door, but completely forgot to take a picture. I will take pictures of it in the nursery to show you all.

I love how the dresser turned out! Plus this DIY project only cost us one fifth the price of the new dresser we liked at the furniture store! :)

Life Lately.....

Dustin and I have been extremely busy lately. Since finding out we are having a baby, we have been trying to get the house ready. Well, more of me coming up with ideas of things that "need to be done," and Dustin being nice enough to usually help. I have booked contractors to come blow in insulation in our walls (we found out we have zero insulation in any exterior walls, which explains the bizarre temperatures of our house), install new windows in all the bedrooms, and have new carpet put in all of our bedrooms. This will all be taking place in May, so I am very excited.

We recently had an early peak to see what the gender of baby T is. According to Midland College we are having a little boy :) we are ecstatic. I am pretty sure if someone sees boy parts, its a boy, but just to be sure, we have a "real" check with the doctor on May 3rd. We have been tossing around several boy names - our favorite is Huck, but everyone seems to feel the need to remind us of what Huck rhymes with...... As for now, no name is set, but we do like Hayes Stanley Tommerup. Stanley is after Dustin's paternal grandfather, who I had the pleasure of meeting one time before he passed away. Baby T's expected arrival date is September 17th.

Other than that, just the usual going on. I have posted pictures of our most recent trip with the Sills clan at the ranch. We had fun just being our family at the ranch - mom and dad had never been at the ranch with just their kids, so they were thrilled. Here are a few pictures from the weekend:

Ryder, Brian, Jessica, and Case

Dustin, Boone, Ryder, and Brian

Brian and Jessica's boys on Easter morning

Chad and Stephanie's son Grayson on his first Easter.

Ryder, Boone and Case

Boone checking out Grayson. Cute ears Chad!!

Little Grayson

Here are a few pictures from other trips:

Dustin :)

Grayson's little feet

Do you think Daddy Chad needs a pedicure???

Sorry to Lou, Pops and Stephanie, it appears I did not get any pictures of the four of us, but there is always next time.

Love,

The Tommerups