Kids' Gallery Wall

Last week, I finished a project that I've been working on for what seems like forever!  I've wanted to make a fun gallery wall in the kids' gameroom for some time now, and I'm so happy that it's done!

 

This picture isn't the greatest due to where the windows in this room are located, but this is the wall.  I love it so stinkin' much!  The vast majority of these frames I already had, so it was a super cheap project!  I put everything on the wall while Jackson was napping.  Bryan does all of the measurements for projects like this in his head, and since he was at work while I did this, I just eyeballed everything!

The "ABC" print is from this site.

The "Jesus Loves Me" print is from this site.

The black frame at the bottom was $1, and I just painted it with chalkboard paint and wrote "love" on it.

The "You are my Sunshine" print is from this site.

I saw the "I Whale Always Love You" print for sale on this site--via Pinterest--but I knew I could make it for free.  About 2 weeks later, we received a thank you card from one of our dearest friends after sending a birthday gift to her daughter.  The card had this whale on the front!  It was fate!  : )  So, I cute him out, then used cardstock and stickers from my craft stash and popped the whole thing into a frame I already had on hand.  I love it!

The bottom picture is of Sarah holding Jackson in the hospital room for the first time shortly after he was born.  I just adore this picture!

 

I made these silhouettes of the kids, and I think they're precious!  Although I may go back and make another one of Sarah with a bow in her hair--because she's rarely without one!

This is one of my favorite pictures.  In the spring when we took pictures in the bluebonnets, this shot looked like the kids were praying, so I put Bible verses over the picture--one for every letter of the alphabet.  I love how it turned out!

 

Here it is up close.

I got this frame months ago for 50% off at Hobby Lobby with a gift card that my Dad got me for Christmas last year.  (Thanks again, Dad!)  This is one of my favorite pictures of Sarah and Jackson.  Sorry about the flash!

 This collage has one of their sonogram pictures and a picture of them in the hospital.  Love it!

These pictures I just cut and mod podged onto 10 cent tiles I had in my stash from Lowe's.

I made this frame from two different frames using this tutorial.  I wish I had sanded the bottom piece of wood down more, but I hate sanding, so I didn't spend too long on that process!  I love how it turned out though!

This is just an extra canvas I already had that I stapled fun fabric onto.  I just taped the pictures to the fabric so I can change them out over time without messing up the fabric or canvas.

I hung everything on the wall using different sizes of these Command Strips.  These are my favorite because I hate using nails!  (These make great stocking stuffers...hint, hint!)

Park Fun!

This morning, Jackson and I went to the park--one of his favorite places!

 

Instead of going on the swings first, like we always do, Jackson wanted to go to the playground.  This isn't the best picture, but I wanted to remember him going up and down the stairs while counting, "one, two, tree, four, nine!"  It was too cute!  (And yes, we're still working on recalling all of our numbers in order!)

 

 He loves the swings!

 

And I love watching him smile from ear to ear and listen to him laugh while he's on the swings!

 

I may or may not have taken several pictures of us together!

I just love spending time with him!  I am so blessed to be his Mama!

He is starting to really like going on the slides--even the big ones!--but he only goes down backwards!

He likes to walk around while we're at the park, and that includes climbing on big rocks,

 and hugging trees!

 Getting ready to go backwards!

Halloween

 

Yesterday morning, I made Sarah a Halloween themed lunch.  It included a pumpkin shaped sandwich, jack-o-lantern mandarin oranges, goldfish (because they're orange and we were out of carrots!), and a mummy juice box.  She loved it!

 

Jackson was so excited to be a cow--it's his favorite animal right now!  He's jumping in this picture!

Look at that smile!  Tell me he's not the cutest cow you've ever seen!

I have a picture of him looking out this window from last Halloween when he was a tiger.  I may have to frame the two together!

 All ready to go...although he really had no idea what we were doing!

I was trying to get a sweet picture of Sarah, but a cow wandered right in front of the camera!

Isn't she adorable in her poodle skirt?!

We always take pictures of the kids from behind at houses getting their candy, so I thought it would be neat to get one from the front at our house.  Plus, we were trying to teach Jackson what to do since this was his first real time to trick-or-treat.

We had to tell him several times to take a piece of candy and put it in his bucket.

Once he understood what to do, he took half of our candy basket and put it into his!

I really wanted to get a picture of us with the kiddos dressed up in their adorable costumes, and this is the best one we got!  Ha!  At least Sarah looks great!

Sarah did such a great job showing Jackson the trick-or-treating ropes!  She is such a wonderful big sister!

Look at the cuteness!

His bucket was starting to get heavy!

I love this picture of Daddy carrying Jackson's bucket!

I was trying to take a picture of Jack, and Bryan was trying to get him off of the grass when the camera went off, but I think this picture turned out cute!

Their mouths are full of candy!

Sarah with her goodies.

Have you ever seen a cow driving a car?!

We had a great time trick-or-treating!  This was the first time in three years that Bryan wasn't on call for Halloween so we were all able to go together!  This was also Jackson's first year to actually go trick-or-treating, so I was so happy that the whole family was a part of it.  (Last year, instead of going around the neighborhood, we went to a trunk-or-treat at a local church the weekend before Halloween so Bryan was able to go with us.)  Bryan and I spent the whole night laughing watching Jackson run up and down the streets dressed as the cutest cow ever and seeing Sarah sweetly teach him how to get candy!

And because I love looking at old pictures, here are some of our previous Halloween photos:

 Sarah was 5 here!  This was our last Halloween in Fort Worth.

Here's our family on a hay ride at a Halloween carnival.  This picture makes me laugh!

 Our little cowgirl!

This was Jackson's first Halloween!  I love how he's looking at Sarah!

 Our little bumble bee and tiger last year!

I love this picture of them!

Other than the picture of me holding Jackson in the hospital, this is my favorite picture of the two of us!