Valentines Day decorations

I love decorating for the smaller holidays during the year.  After all the Christmas decorations are put away our house looks pretty bare until I get out our Valentines Day decorations in the middle of January.  This year I was a little bit delayed because of our kitchen painting project but I finally got them out and I put most of them in our dining room because we spend a lot of time in there and I LOVE looking at them!

Happy Wednesday!

Two quick and easy projects

I have been looking for some new artwork for our house.  I have had the same pictures and wall hangings on our walls since we moved in five 1/2 years ago and I am starting to get sick of looking at the same old pictures.  So this past weekend I did a couple of little projects for our dining room.

I got these printables at  The Graphics Fairy they have SO many cute ones!  I modge podged them to a frame and a canvas that I already had.  I loved the way they turned out and they were simple and easy projects.

Happy Tuesday!!

Weekend update!!

We had a busy and fun weekend! Which is a good thing because now Brock and Ava are home sick today :( Poor things I think they both have sinus infections. I HATE when they are sick because they are so miserable and crabby. They are both sleeping now so I can catch up on blogging. I am taking them into the doctor this afternoon.


On Saturday Ava did a cheerleading clinic with our College cheerleaders. After the clinic she got to cheer at the men's basketball game at the college. She LOVED it, she went with her friend Marty and they had the best time.

Here are some pictures of Ava from the clinic.

On Sunday morning we got up super early to get to Applebee’s by 7:30 am!! Applebee’s generously hosted a pancake breakfast for Brock's baseball team. His baseball team is going to a baseball camp this summer in our town. It's a national camp and kids from all across the country come and play at the camp so we are doing lots of different fundraisers to help the kids raise money for their registration fees.

Here are some pictures of Brock's team mates at the breakfast.

Patrick and Ethan

 

After the breakfast we went to church to watch our friends Dan and Jenn's second son Henry Francis get baptized. He was so cute! Henry is Marty's baby brother. Baby Henry slept through his whole baptism.

Yesterday afternoon we went to a Super bowl party at our friends Dan and Stacie's. They invited all of our baseball friends over for the party. It was fun getting together with them! We spend A LOT of time together during baseball season and during the winter we don't really get together that much so it was fun to spend time together last night. I am SO happy the Saints won!!

Here are some pictures from last night.

Eric, Stacie, Marissa and Alyssa

Some of the kids at the party-Noah, Justin, Dalton, Alyssa and Ava

Ava and Eliza June

Alyssa (this girls loves to be in pictures-ha ha) with her parents Donna and Jim and Graig

Inez, Eliza, Sabrina and Mike

Eric, Shawn and Rich

Stacie, Janine, me and Brandon

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

A quick update!

On Friday night Ava had her cheerleading and gymnastics show at the YMCA!  She has been doing a cheerleading class since last September and she has been doing gymnastics since she was 2.  It was cute to watch her show!  Brock and Grandma Jan went with me to watch her. Graig had to ref a basketball game so we took lots of pictures to show him.

Here is Ava with her cheerleading team.  They are SO cute!  They did a cheer, a chant and a dance.   

Ava with her friends Anika and Lennon

Ava doing her dismount on the balance beam

Ava doing her vault (this is her favorite gymnastics element!)

Ava on the uneven bars

I told you I took a lot of pictures!  Have a great Tuesday :)

Here is quick update, this past week has been CRAZY busy!  I have been painting our kitchen and our whole house has been a wreck for the longest time!  We are putting our cabinets on tonight and then for the most part our kitchen will be FINISHED!  I am so excited.  The only things that I have left to do is pick out a  new throw rug for in front of our sink and get new kitchen towels.  I also want to get a new countertop.
Here are some quick pictures I took this morning. 

This is the door way leading to our dining room

Next to our microwave

Our display shelf

This is a shot of our side door, I love these new toile curtain. 

Today is Graig's 38th birthday!! We celebrated by going out to dinner on Monday night.  He didn't want a present (like usual-ha ha) so he is going to make an extra mortage payment today as a birthday gift to himself.  Also today our friends Dan and Jenn had a baby boy!  We can't wait to meet him!

Soooo tired!!

Last night Ava got home from her dance classes and was sooo tired!  I thought she was watching some TV but when I came into the living room to check on her, this is what I found.  She was knocked out, poor thing she was exhausted!  Our Dog Daisy was tired too, he spends all day barking at cars, squirrels, and people so he gets tired too-ha ha. 

In other exciting news I ordered curtains for our kitchen, living room and sunroom! I can't wait to get them.  We have Roman Shades so the curtains are to add color and warmth to the rooms. 

I ordered black and white toile curtains for our kitchen and I ordered khahi and white toile for our living room and sunroom.  I will post pictures when I get them.

Tonight I am going to a spinning class, we are having chicken casserole for dinner and Brock and Ava are working on their homework.  What an exciting life we lead-ha ha! 

 

DIY Day-Sunroom!

Over Christmas break Graig and I re-did our Sunroom.  We painted it SW svelte sage and I repainted the trim.  The window trim is black and the baseboards white.  Graig re-did our wood floors, we had nasty carpet but we ripped that out.  I am SO happy with the way the room turned out!

I want to add more plates to this wall.  I got these two at a garage sale, I always find the best things at garage sales-ha ha!

Here's a better shot of the floor, I love the color that we chose.  We are going to get a new area rug for the floor. 

I also painted our heater covers black too.  I also added some new accessories. 

The other side of the room.  Ava's toys are in the corner and in the other corner is a little tv tray side table (it's just temporary I am looking for another side table I want to find one to hold our games, puzzles, books, etc.

The longaberger basket my sister gave me!  She always gets me these baskets, I LOVE them!

Happy Monday!