{8 month baby portraits} My happy Ellie

I'm starting to see a little of Ellie's personality now. She is pretty mellow and easy to please but she does not like being left alone. She is at her happiest when she is surrounded by her sisters and mommy and daddy. She has MAJOR stranger anxiety still which I hope she outgrows soon because I need a break! I think this 8 month stage is the best though. She can sit on her own without falling over and she can't crawl yet so she can't get into too much trouble. I love you my Ellie belly! 

Grey, Gray, Beige, Greige oh my!

I've been living with pale blue walls in my house for the past 3 years and I finally convinced my husband that we needed a change.  I actually really like the blue-gray color but it definitely turned out WAY bluer that we expected. I excitedly chose a bunch of colors that I thought would make our house brighter and warmer and rushed out to get samples. So now, I have about 8 different colors painted along both sides of my fireplace and in the loft. My kids think I'm crazy. They want to paint the walls too and are wondering why mommy keeps painting squares everywhere! What's driving me insane is that none of the colors look like the actual paint swatches when I paint them on the wall. My husband thinks I'm crazy too. I have various grays, beiges, and taupes splattered along several walls....the painters are coming tomorrow...yikes.