Baby It's Cold Outside

My sister and mom gave me the most beautiful baby shower with the theme of 'Baby It's Cold Outside'- rather funny that it was 65 degrees that day in January.  I mean what are the chances!!  Regardless of the warm temps, the winter wonderland shower was perfect.  Here are just a few pics of this wonderful day with friends and family!

My wonderful sister and sister to be!!

Fun little game- guests added a message with permanent marker on a diaper for our late night changes.  A great way to keep a sense of humor about being up every 2 hours!

Can't wait to add a little girl to this generation photo!

Best Auntie- to be!

Guess the Pregnant Celebrity Game

Baby photos of Ian and I- can't wait to see what our little girl looks like!!

Nesting with Organization

I am not sure if this would be called nesting, maybe a new year's resolution thing, or just me being me... BUT I found some spaces to organize!  I decided to conquer a few spots that have been particularly bothering me lately.  This would be our 'junk drawer'- that one drawer that is literally just a catch all.  It would not open without getting caught on something sticky out- literally drove me crazy every time I opened it.  Also the area in our laundry room where we kept hardware items for the house. Everything just sat on shelves with no organization in sight.  Oh wait another area- our random cabinet with every manual that came with our house the day we moved in just stuffed in! Okay here are the embarrassing before pics...

Junk Drawer! I mean who knows what is in there?! People who know me might be shocked to know that I did indeed have a junk drawer- but it drove me crazy!!

The random cabinet and pile of manuals.  Oh my...

This is the final product of the laundry room cabinet with the tools all in labeled boxes.

This is exactly the reason I needed to clean out the manuals and organize them.  I seriously found the SAME manual like 10 times!! What? Only need to keep one- already making progress!

Next I put every different appliance or manual in a labeled folder.

Then added them to a hanging file box in alphabetical order.

I also organized my camera supplies and extra house supplies such as keys and random things we got again when we moved in.

Here is the final product! Organized and so much easier to find what we need.

The junk drawer only needed a few dividers and a good clean out.  Most of that stuff was junk and went to the trash.  Now it is a drawer that is organized and everything in there has a home and will be used!

 After this day of organizing just these simple spaces, I felt so much better!  I just get happy when spaces I use often are organized and make sense.  I think too often we think about all the spaces we want to organize.  I would encourage you to just take one small space at a time and organize it.  Little by little you will have a well organized home!