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A Father’s Day Gift Idea

May 31, 2012 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

Last year I gave my husband this wall frame.  In it is his first picture with each of our three kids.  Starting with the top picture is our first-born, Caleb.  It was their first moment skin to skin.  It was the moment that being a dad became real for Matt.  I have it captured in this picture!!  I love it!  Second picture down is Matt’s first picture and moment holding Jeremiah.  He now had two beautiful boys!  The bottom picture is his first time holding Reagan.  His little girl.  She had his heart from this first moment!

What a special moment that is when your husband is holding one of his children for the first time.  You can see the joy and excitement in his eyes.  I LOVE these pictures and absolutely love having them all together.  Our kids love to see their picture with their daddy as well!

Here is Matt’s frame hanging in our bedroom…

This was a really sweet/thoughtful yet pretty easy gift to give!  If you are organized and have your picture albums labeled and dated, it might even be an easier task for you than it was for me!

If your husband is anything like mine, family is his number one love and priority (second to God!).  I promise this gift will be a hit!

Here are close-ups of our sweet kids:

Meet our Caleb…

Meet our Jeremiah (J-man)…

Meet our Reagan (Rea-Rea)…

Happy early Father’s Day to all the awesome dad’s I know!  If one of you may be reading this, just ignore it…in case you may be seeing this idea done soon for you! 🙂

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An AMAZING gift!

May 29, 2012 By Erica Deuel 4 Comments

I showed you all what I MADE for my mom and mother-in-law for Mother’s Day, but I have not shown you what my AMAZING husband made me.  Brace yourself for this amazing-ness. 🙂

I saw a pin of a large mirror in a gorgeous wood frame on Pinterst forever ago, and I fell in love with it.  Since we have been married, we have just had a big plain mirror leaning up against my dresser in our room.  It was definitely NOT baby proof, but since is  was the only body length mirror we had, we just kind have dealt with it. At times I have had to steer all my kids away from it as they were banging on it, with fear that it could have fallen on them.  During these seasons of our lives, my bedroom door has remained closed all day…everyday.

Here are pictures of baby CALEB playing with our mirror…

For Mother’s Day, I asked Matt if he would make me some version of the pin I had seen.  He FAR out did himself!!  I not only got a safe mirror…it is stunning and oh so beautiful.  The best part would have to be my husband’s heart behind it.

He wanted to make it perfect for me, and he did.  There were many a steps, where I was ready for him to cut corners.  For instance, when the mirror didn’t fit into the frame (one of the two was slightly warped or something from being a perfect rectangle), I was ready for him to just glue another piece of wood behind the mirror.  I thought it could just sit on top.  He wanted it to rest inside the frame, so he hand carved and chipped at the trim until the mirror fell into place.  LOVE.

He designed it.  He bought supplies.  He measured and constructed it. He went back and bought more supplies.  He painted it.  He sanded it.  He stained it.  He chizzeled it.  He touched up painted it.  He touched up stained it.  He waxed finished it.

I am one blessed girl!  Thank you boo for this amazing gift, but more importantly…thank you for the gift of YOU!

He would say it’s not perfect, but to me…it couldn’t be any more perfect!  I am in love with it and my husband!

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