Little Man baby shower

The theme was Little Man or more so Bow ties! Here is the shower that inspired my new chevron shades. It all started with this... And then pretty much became the easiest shower decor ever. You just tie a bow on everything or turn whatever you can into a bowtie!;) The adorable cupcakes were made by our friend Nicola over at cup a dewdle dew. Check out her blog and USE HER if you are in need of some adorable and yummy cupcakes! The beautiful mama to be! Cupcake maker Nicola and the Mama to be! Mama to be and her Mama. Aren't they gorgeous!? BFFs How amazing is this diaper cake. The Mama to be's Mama made it, I mean talent! It was a super fun afternoon with some pretty fabulous ladies. Now come on baby Penza we can't WAIT to meet you! xo A special thanks to the always fabulous Lindsey Regan Thorne for being my co-host! Your one creative gal and I swear everytime you come over my house becomes cleaner and more pretty, so thanks!!

What I wore...hey it's me Hunter V

Sooooo my mom thinks she's the only one with style in this house....well, she needs to think again because you've never seen a kid pull off a pair of osh gosh overalls as cute as I do. Needless to say, I thought some of you might like to know where I get some of my adorbs clothes aaaand if you don't care, well, I'm fairly certain you never get tired of looking at pictures of me :)


This was my Christmas outfit. Mom saw it at Janie and Jack and couldn't resist. I wear the green and red checked collared shirt with just jeans too! Oh and they arent pictured but I wore it with some sharp looking loafers!!


Oh the infamous tie shirt. Don't I look spiffy? I wore this on christmas eve but since the tie is a onesie it was still comfy. My tie onesie is from etsy my pinstripe pants and socks Janie and jack.


Mommy loves her some osh gosh. I have a feeling I'm going to own a pair of these in every size until I'm 18 :) my onesie is carters...they're the best!


These overalls are super warm and cozy. Mom got them for me from restoration hardware baby & child.


And lastly sometimes I ditch those little boy clothes and dress like a little man :) this is a Baby gap outfit jeans and all. Don't overlook my corduroy elbows. This outfit is paired perfectly with my duck boots...booyah!! Can u say stud muffin??

Wish lists and Push Presents

I'm honestly getting tired of blogging about my pregnancy and I'm sure you all are getting bored reading about it. BUT its been a struggle to even just get that weekly blog in. We've been so busy the past 3 weeks and have two more jam packed weekends ahead.

The Last weekend in August I had my family in town for my shower weekend. The weekend after that we had Hunter's family in town for the ECU/SC game. Last weekend we traveled to Greenville NC to attend the ECU/VT game and celebrate our brother in laws Chad's 30th Birthday! The Lunsfords are a house divided with Hunter's sister Carter and her husband Chad attending ECU and Hunter along with his father AND Uncle all attending VT. We look forward to the ECU/VT rival game every year :)

Anywho I'll do a post and share some pics from that tomorrow but getting back on track to me talking about how busy we are.... We are going up to the VT/Arkansas state game this coming Saturday, and then the last weekend in September going on a little baby moon. I feel torn, our home is a mess, there SO MUCH left to do before baby yet I don't want to sacrifice going on these trips in order to do those things because I know we are going to be stuck at home once he comes. This weekend will be the last football game I can attend and the only time this year I'll get to go up to VT so I DEF don't want to miss that, and our baby moon is done/paid for so we certainly aren't going to cancel that. I am just HOPING and PRAYING this little man stays in side me until 40 weeks because we NEED the month of October to get ready for him. I have a looooooong WISH list of things I'd love to get done before he comes and while I'm at it I wanted to blog about something more fun like....PUSH PRESENT IDEAS :)

Wish list of things I WISH I had time to do:

1. Make a pretty autumn wreath! Putting up fall decor around the house is DEF on the to-do list before baby comes. Change my outside pots to Mums, make a pretty fall wreath for the front door, change our couch pillows from summer to fall, decorate with pumpkins, leaves, pine cones ah first weekend in October you know what I'll be doing!

2. Finish making diaper cloths. I own a sewing machine but am still learning how to use it. I thought an easy project to practice using it would be sewing ribbon on diaper cloths. I'm sure you've seen these before. Something like this....

I have the diaper clothes, I have the ribbon and actually have one completed now if I could just find time to finish the other 5!

3. Gah this just popped in my head...I NEED to finish writing thank you cards from my shower. If you haven't gotten a thank you card from me yet...YOU WILL I PROMISE! SOON! xoxo

4. I still want to make this....

5. CLEAN CLEAN and more CLEANING....I enjoy cleaning and would love to time before Hunter comes to get make our house SPOTLESS! Stay in there baby Hunter for 7 more weeks and you'll come home to nice clean house!

6. Time to read books! Thanks to my wonderful mommy friends we've been gifted with the great baby advice books that worked for them. Moms on call, baby wise, and the baby whisperer. I've gotten through Moms on call and I know that I will want to refer back to them all once Hunter is here but I'd like to be able to read through them first before he gets here as well! It would also be nice to TOTALLY get my mind off of baby and be able to read a non-baby book before he comes. My sister in law gave me The Help to borrow, can I PLEASE find time to read that too!? Maybe on our babymoon...

7. And all the things we have left to do before baby I'm trying not to think about because when I do it gives me a bit of anxiety.

- wash and put away all his clothes - wash all his bedding, make his bed, wash all his blankets, boppy covers, changing pad covers, pretty much lots of WASH. - Sterilize all his bottles, nipples and Binky's - Put together his swing - hang up everything on the walls of his nursery, mirror, selves, book rack, picture frames, curtains. - Set up the monitors - Install his car seats - pack a hospital bag for him and me. - Go shopping for the last few things we need.

I know we could get all of the above done in one solid weekend at home but knowing that weekend is still 3 weeks away is a racking my preggers anxiety....

Now onto some fun stuff, Push Presents! Within a month of eachother I will be giving birth and turning 30 so here's some items I may or may not have sent to Hunter as some present ideas.... :) Some are realistic, some are more pipe dreams of mine!

1. A Tiffany's celebration ring...I mean giving birth and turning 30 are two things certainly worth celebrating right! ??? :) I mean Hunter can pick one, anyone...I won't be picky!
2. Tory Burch Celinah Ballet Flat - I feel like more than ever a leapard flat is a MUST have this fall!

3. Tory Burch Selma Riding boot

4. Kate Spade Black Bixby bag

5. Just a few items from J.crew (for after baby of course)

Merino turtleneck sweater in vibrant flame

Cafe Capri in wool in bright Dahilia


Schoolboy blazer in wool flannel in Marasachino Cherry

Pique stripe tee
Timex Travelers watch with

>/a authentic red strap


6. The EF-S 55-250mm Telephoto lens for our Cannon Rebel T2i.

And that's all folks, What's a girl gotta do to get more time and more money??

It's a .....

How exciting is that!? We're completely thrilled to find out and announce that we will be the proud parents of a little boy.....Hunter Lee Lunsford V!!!! (aka HL5) :)

p.s. sorry about the fact that we just learned to use our video camera. We realized after the fact we can turn it the long ways and the video would have covered more picture. oops. oh well, better we found out now before HL5 comes!

So...about this Gender Reveal Party

I saw this Amy Atlas bunting theme for a sip and see and thought it would make a perfect and simple gender reveal party theme. With the help of my good friend Lindsey we designed, printed and sent out these invites.



And of course a bunting banner to hang above the food and drink table....



I made this bad boy on Sunday along with stringing our baby sonogram pictures on twine. They won't be hung in this order on Saturday...just hanging like this on the fireplace for safe keeping until the big day. Thinking of hanging the banner above the food/drink and the pictures below on the front of the table. We'll see.

Top the party off with some pink and blue serve ware, pink and blue table cloths, paper poms and flowers, and some pink and blue drinks and food. I plan to do blue koolaid and pink lemonade along with some pink and blue jello squares. When's the last time you had jello? It's been a while for me so I'm pretty excited about it. Hunter is making these burgers a mexi-slaw and onion rings to go along. Anyone hungry yet? :)

Oh and one more thing...these adorable onesie cut-out cookies. I can't resist making these!



The countdown is on ....I'm DYING to know at this point. Will it be a ....???

Elephants or Whales?

This post might be a little premature considering we don't even know if we are having a boy or girl yet. But I keep looking at boy stuff because it's where I'm the most indecisive. If it's a girl I'm fairly certain I know what I will do for her room. Anyways, while in Potterybarn Kids, the other day, looking at the cribs, Hunter pointed out his adoration for this Whale quilt. Then, I showed him this elephant quilt I had my eyes on. He agreed the elephants were cute but stood his ground in liking the whales better.

Now, I should point out that I know I don't want a nursery full of animals so the quilt (and maybe sheet) will be the only piece we will purchase with animals on it. I thought of doing a striped, solid or polka dotted bumper, sheet and crib skirt along with the animal printed quilt.

Now here comes the fun part...

Did you know on Potterybarn Kids website you can build your own crib? Well you can, right here!

You pick out your crib, then add your quilt, bumper, sheet and crib skirt. You can mix and match every pattern they have and it adds it to your crib where you can see what it will look like together. You can even change the wall color. Genius and EXACTLY what I was looking for!

Here's some different combinations I put together with the quilts we like. The white crib in the pictures is the exact crib, boy or girl, my generous parents are purchasing for us!

Sorry for the blurry images...I couldn't' copy them from the website any clearer.

All of the images have the light blue pique crib skirt and bumper which I think I'm sold on.

1. Whale quilt, navy blue polka dot sheet.

2. Whale quilt, whale sheet.


3. Whale quilt, blue gingham sheet.


4. Elephant Quilt, blue gingham sheet.


5. Elephant quilt, elephant sheet.


Now, I'm aware I can rotate the sheets and use all the different patterns. But, I ask you...my friends....Elephants? or Whales?

Here's clearer pictures of the two.

Petunia Pickle Bottom & Belly Bands

I feel like I have turned the corner this morning with this pregnancy! Hopefully I'm not writing this too soon and I remain feeling good but I just can't believe the amount of energy I have this morning and absolutely zero nausea. It could be adrenaline because its Friday and my mommy and daddy are here for the weekend but hopefully I'm just starting a new leaf! (is that a saying? a new leaf?) oh well ha!

I also officially broke out the belly band this morning! I could probably squeeze the button closed on my work pants but it would be so uncomfortable. So far, one of the best things about pregnancy is the excuse to be able to wear your pants unbuttoned all day! ha! I swear my wardrobe has gotten larger not smaller since I have the excuse to do that :) In other news, I made the first big baby purchase! Our DIAPER BAG!!! Hunter's sister has this Petunia Pickle Bottom Diaper bag (how cute is that name btw Petunia Pickle Bottom, love it!) anyways, I learned of PPB from Carter and really like her diaper bag. After visiting them the other weekend Hunter even commented on how much he liked it. Done, sold, check it off the list now and spread out the expenses because over the summer we'll be purchasing nursery furniture! We went with this design (Peaceful Portofino). I figure it will go for boy, or girl and is pretty enough for Hunter to carry too ;)



Check out some of PPB's clothes and other products as well. Nordstrom has a pretty good selection, as well as Amazon.com. We received PPB social set and it's ADORABLE in person!! You can sign up for emails and they do an outlet sale a few times a year! I fear the day we find out the gender of baby and I can really start shopping! :)

Happy weekend everyone! Ours will be filled with family. My grandparents from NY, Parents from VA, and Aunt/Uncle/Cousins from Asheville NC are all here visiting for the weekend!