Chelsea Gonzalez: children

Opal blowing kisses. Tassel garland from Target- $6.

Hey everyone!

I hope your Valentine's day was amazing and full of love and quality time with the special people in your life. I got to spend Valentine's day with my husband and beautiful daughter.

We spent the first half spoiling her with treats, shopping for big girl spring clothes, and then we went out and looked for some household things. It was a really great day. That evening when we were heading home we were surprised by a snow storm that came out of no where that we were completely unprepared for!!

This was Opal's second Valentine's day, but first that we got to actually gift her something special. She was so surprised by her little baskets of goodies from mommy and daddy! At first I honestly didn't even know what was appropriate for a one year old, but after some looking around we picked some cool stuff for her.

Opal's baskets from mommy and daddy.

I found these really cute wire baskets in the bargain bins for $3 at Target. I needed little baskets for her room so I figured these would double and replace bags I'd probably end up tossing away anyways. I found most of the items in the Target bins and in total I probably spent less than $20.

Second Valentine's day for Opal.

The fox, strawberry plant, bath buckets, & bath foam letters were from the target bins.

The unicorn hand puppet was from Ikea, and I LOVE THIS THING. It is so cuuuuute.

The bunny piggy bank was randomly on clearance at target, but they're still being sold.

She picked the Sleeping Beauty PEZ from the dollar tree. We didn't let her have the candy portion.

The fox hair clips were also from Target. Her dad loves foxes, wolves, etc.. self explanatory.

Lastly, the mini M&M's are her favorite thing. We let her have some before she lost them in a Marshall's store. They were her favorite part of the entire day.

Opal and Daddy, 2015.

My Valentine's!

Aren't they just the cutest? I love them so much.

They have my whole heart.

So I've been gone for a while, but I promise I am back. Opal has been giving me such a rough time with a horrible sleep regression and teething with a molar. I have had a lot of sleep-less nights the past 2 months. It has given me a lot of time to surf Pinterest around for some neat DIY projects, beautiful room decor inspiration for Opal's next room, and of course plenty of things I can task to my husband. ;-)

First off, my favorite things to pin to my boards are decor, projects, and plans for Opal's next room. We definitely see another baby in the near future so we are going ahead and planning on transitioning her from the crib to a toddler bed once we move in. I want to have the crib in the room as an option for her, but also so that she doesn't have to go through a weird process of bringing the crib back in once the new baby is on their way.

I also can feel it in my bones that we will have a boy next, so I plan to decorate her room with a gender neutral palette. I am going to keep her side very girly, but I don't want to overwhelm the entire room with pink or purple. Here is my room inspiration for our child(ren). I found the pin on pinterest, and have bookmarked the original author on my computer, phone, ipad, etc.. Go check out Laybabylay.com for some amazing ideas on this shared room inspiration. I absolutely adore the styling and can't wait to order some of these gorgeous pieces.

I just cannot get over how gorgeous the colors flow together. I hope that our base housing has a nice big room that our babies can share and grow up together in.

I am definitely going to have to make some wall decor similar to the one on the door. It is so cute and looks so easy to do. I can just picture "Opal" and "Oliver" on the pillows and everything else.

I need to find a nice big dresser for their room, that I can redo. I've been considering going with painting the dresser so that it provides a pop of color to the room.

I probably wont be able to paint their walls, (something base housing generally frowns upon).. So I have been looking up different places that I can order cute wall decals from too.

I'll go ahead and share some photos and links to some of my room decor inspirations and wish list.

I truly cannot wait for the day we receive orders so that I can pull the trigger and order all of this truly amazing and cute stuff. If only Dillon would let me decorate our master bedroom like the kids' rooms! So whimsical and exciting!!

:)

Have a blessed Friday everyone!

xoxo -Chelsea.