Catch up!

It has been super busy in our house lately.  We've been doing fun stuff but I feel like we are always on the go. I am ready for a quiet night at home!

I thought I would post some pictures of some things that we have been up to lately. 

First of all this adorable picture of Ainsley is from today.   She had some tests done and had to be put under.  My sister Shelby texted me this picture when they got to the hospital today.  The nurse gave Ainsley's baby doll a hospital bracelet too.  I thought that was so cute.  My sister said things went really well today and I'm sure she will put a full report on her blog. 

I ordered this adorable pouf from Esty.  I saw a cute one like it in my friend Melany's shop and I have wanted one ever since.  I found a Etsy seller to make it for me.  I bought the fabric at Melany's and sent it to the Etsy seller.  It took a few weeks but it was worth it!  Ava loves to sit on it and watch TV. 

A few weeks ago I went out with my friends for a girls night out.  Here is a picture of all of us from our fun night out!  I am so thankful for these ladies!

Graig finally joined the 21st century and got an iPhone.  I was looking through his pictures the other day and 90% of his pictures are of our dogs.  He has a couple of me and the kids but a majority of them are of the dogs.  Here are two that I got from his phone. 

Speaking of Graig we celebrated his 41st b-day on Jan. 20.  He wanted a chocolate creme pie and Ava loaded it up with all the birthday candles that we had!

Graig and I have been to a lot of basketball games this month.  Here is a picture of Ava from her last game.  Brock's last JV game is Thursday night.  Ava still has a few weeks of her season left. 

Happy Tuesday!

Wednesday randomness

This week has been SO busy.  Graig has been gone (he's at a conference for work) and I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get all the things that I need to get done during the day and at night at home.  Graig does SO much for our family and things run much smoother when he is home.  I will be so happy when he is finally home tomorrow!

I don't think I posted a completely finished picture of our dining room table.  I had it refinished and it took 3 loooooong months but it was worth the wait.  I love it!  It's stained a dark walnut.  I wanted the darkest stain possible so our refinisher stained it a dark walnut. 

This monogram project is something that I want to work on this weekend.  I got fabric at my friend Melany's store and I am going to staple that to canvas paint our monogram black and hot glue it on the fabric.  I just need to have time to put this together!

Here is my little display of pumpkins and mums outside.  I covered the pumpkins with dish soap because it keeps the squirrels from eating them.  Squirrels eat my pumpkins every.single.year so I read about the trick on pinterest.  I hope it works!

Ava took this picture of our puppy Lilly to text to Graig because she thinks that he is really missing Lilly.   She is the sweetest dog and she is getting so big!

Our weekend!

We had a fun fall weekend full of friends and all things fall! 

On Saturday we went to a Cider Mill with our friends.  We brought home apple cider donuts, apple cider and lots of apples!

I only took one picture during our trip but we had a great time.  Here is Ava with her friends Anika, Ava and Elle!

Saturday night we celebrated the birthday of my friend Melany. 
Melany moved to our town last year with her family and she is one of the funniest, most creative people that I know.  I am so thankful for her friendship!  She has made so many friends since she moved to our town and  and over the summer she opened up her own fabric shop on our Main Street. 

Here is a picture of some friends that came to her party.  Her sisters and Mom also flew up for her for the party which I thought was really sweet.  It was fun getting to meet her family!

Me, Sabrina and Sara at the party.  Sara is pregnant and she is going to have her baby any day now!  We are so excited and happy for her!

Sunday I went with some friends to a pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins and mums for our house for the fall.  We had 11 kids in our group at the pumpkin patch.  The poor kids were looking right into the sun in this picture that is why they are all squinting and have their eyes closed.  Anyway it was a cute little pumpkin patch and we got some good pumpkins for the fall!

Today I FINALLY picked the fabric to re-cover our ottoman.  Melany has SO many cute fabrics in her shop so it was SO hard for me to decide.  I decided on the same fabric that is on this chair that it in her shop.  I have always loved it and I think it's really pretty and I cant' wait for it to get done.  It seems like I am always doing something to our house!

Tonight I am helping Brock study for his first high school biology test and Ava finds out what part she got in the Nutcracker.  Happy Monday!

Our weekend and fall decor!

I can't believe it's already Wednesday!  This week is flying by. Tonight we have Brock's 10th grade open house.  We get to go to his different class rooms and meet his 10th grade teachers.  It should be a fun night!  I felt so connected to his elementary school teachers because I saw them almost every day.  Once he got to middle school and now high school I don't know most of his teachers so I look forward to this night to be able to meet them and to see what Brock's day is like in high school.  

Speaking of Brock he made a little money over the weekend by umpiring two little league baseball games.  He was in the field and Graig was behind the plate umping.  It was SO cold.  Poor Brock had about 5 layers on :( 

Ava had a soccer game on Saturday and she played goalie.  Thankfully she stopped about 3 goals from being scored! 

I have been doing some more fall decorating at home. 

These two little fall touches are on the top of my dining room hutch. 

Here is a picture of our whole hutch.  I LOVE my orange (fiesta red) pitcher. 

Here is a close up of my fiesta pitcher.   Love, love love it!!

I love the fall garland that I use every year in our dining room light.  I leave it up until Thanksgiving.  I really like "fall" decorations instead of Halloween or Thankgiving focused decor. 

This is the shelf in our living room.  I always try to do something to spice it up for the holidays.  I made that rag wreath last fall and I added a subway art to a frame that I already had. 

It is suppose to turn chilly and rain this week. One thing I want to try this week is the broccoli cheese soup recipe from Panera that is on pinterest. I found this recipe and I can't wait to try it!

Friday fun day!

I am SO happy it's Friday this has been the looooongest week at work.  I am ready for the weekend.  I thought I would show you some cute things I've done around our house.  Since it's for sale I haven't been doing very many projects but I've added a few things.  Obviously, we are trying to declutter so right now about 1/2 of my decor items are in storage :( 

I added a border to almost all of my pics on this post. I don't like it so I won't add it again-lol!

Last weekend I got a few mums at Home Depot.  These are by our side door and look great. Unfortunately the ones by our front door are almost dead :(  I think there is too much sun out front for them.  I am going to pick out a few more mums this weekend. 

I ordered some pillows for our dining room from etsy.  I love look of both patterns.  Of course I LOVE the chevron pattern but I like the other pattern I got just as much.  I think these cozy up the little bench/heater in our dining room. 

Right before we put our house on the market I added some empty frames to the wall above our couch in the sunroom.  People keep asking me if I took our family pictures out of these frames because our house is for sale.  Umm, no... I just like the look of

the frames.  The colors in this picture are a little off.  Our wall color is actually a light green color. 

I got this cute little fall owl at the Christmas Tree Shop.  Cuteness-I love him!

It hasn't been all work and running my kids around this week.  I have been doing some fall shopping online because we live in the middle of nowhere with no mall for miles. We actually have a teeny, tiny mall with a few stores but we have no "real" mall.      I got some cute cardigan sweaters at Target and then I ordered this coral necklace from Bridier Baubles.   The pic is from their website.  I have been wanting this for a few months and it has been out of stock.  I checked yesterday and it was back in stock and it shipped to me today!  It was only $20 with free shipping.  I can't wait to get it!

Tonight we don't have any plans (thank goodness!).  I feel like that never happens so I am making tacos and I got We bought a Zoo from Redbox and we are all going to have a low key night at home. 

Tomorrow and Sunday are busy days for us-Ava has a soccer game and Brock has baseball and we are going to a dinner tomorrow night for Graig's work so I am thankful that we can relax tonight.  Have a good weekend!

Our weekend!

Last week was crazy busy Brock started his travel baseball season and Ava had practice after practice for her annual recital.  I spent the week working and driving them around from one activity to another. 

I did have a little bit of time to paint this cabinet I got during our trip to Brimfield.  I wanted to put it in the center of our kitchen as a little island but sadly our kitchen is so tiny that I had to put it in the corner of our kitchen.  I do think it turned out cute and it provides us with a little more storage!

As usual all of these pics are from my iPhone and Ava likes to take pictures of herself with my phone.  Here she is with our dog Lilly.  Lilly is such a great puppy.  She loves going on walks, splashing in puddles, and snuggling next to us. This morning she curled up in the bathroom while I was taking a shower. 

Our varsity high school baseball team won the state championship on Saturday!  It was big excitement for our small town.  Graig and Brock went down to watch the game. Here is a picture I found from Brock's JV season this spring.  Brock was #20.  I want him to stop growing.  He is already so much taller than me!

Ava had her dance recital this weekend and she did four shows.  She was one tired girl last night.  She did not want me to take her picture at all so I am thankful that a professional photographer took pictures during the recital.  I was able to buy some of Ava dancing thank goodness!

Here are a few that I took.  Ava with her BFF's Eliza and Anika. 

I love this picture of Ava and Eliza.  Eliza and Sabrina came to watch the show yesterday and Eliza loved it!  I see lots of recitals in her future :)

Our neighbor and Ava's friend Sarah was also in the show.  Here is Sarah, Anika and Ava.  These girls have so much fun together!

Happy Monday!!

Top 10 decorating projects for 2011!

Today Rhoda from Southern Hospitality is hosting a top 10 projects party featuring decorating projects from 2011.  I don't think I did 10 put I do like participating every year so it will be fun to look back and see what I've done this year. 

Let's get started. 

I love, love, love to decorate my hutch in our dining room for every season.  This is from the summer when I had all my milk glass on it.

 I bought this desk table for $10 at a garage sale this summer.  I spray painted it turquoise and use it as my desk.  It's in our living room. 

 This was a quick (and messy!) project.  I put reindeer moss on a wooden monogram.  I really like the way this turned out!

This is another quick project ( I love those) a black and white ribbon wreath!

I got this little cart for $1 at a yard sale. I spray painted it and added our monogram.  I keep it in our kitchen.  The bottom shelf holds our white platters and bowls, the middle shelf holds snacks for Brock and Ava and the top shelf I use for display. 

 I also did a mini bedroom makeover this year.  This is our kids art area where I display pictures and Brock and Ava's artwork.  The large shutter Graig found for me.

I found this little table at a yard sale for $1.  I spray painted it and now Graig uses it as his nightstand. 

For a few years I have wanted a bar area for our house.  I found this bar cart for $8!  I spray painted it black and got new glass for the bottom shelf.  This little bar cart lives in our sunroom. 

Here are my decorating projects from  2009.  Happy Wednesday!

A touch of tangerine

If you have read my blog or know me in real life you know that I have been obsessed with the color turquoise for a few years.  It seems that everything I buy, craft or spray paint has been turquoise.  The proof?
Just look at this post, this post, this post, and this post. Obviously, I am a little crazy about turquoise. 

As a little break from our LONG car ride home on Friday we stopped at Hobby Lobby and I found the divine tangerine fabric.  I decided to make a couple of small place mats for our dining room with them. I made them with stitch witch while talking to my friend Sabrina on the phone the other night. I love the way they turned out and the new color that they add to our home.

Tangerine might be my new favorite color!  Happy Friday! I am going with some friends tonight to watch Change Up  It looks like such a funny movie!  Have a great weekend!

Milk Glass

This weekend was busy, busy, busy!  Brock had 3 baseball games, 4 basketball games and Ava had ballet practice and went to a water park with our neighbors.  I spent a little time on Saturday morning at garage sales with Allison and Sabrina.  I got some cute plates, platters and a little table.  I got one milk glass vase and it inspired me to change my whole dining room hutch around on Saturday night. 

I have seen beautiful displays of milk glass that others have done and I wanted to see how my collection would look all in one place.  Here is an  entire website devoted to milkglass.  I just found it tonight and it was very interesting to look through. 

I have gotten every single piece of my milkglass at garage sales.  When I see a piece I always buy it and I've never spent more than $3 an item.  Usually it's $1 or less.  I know  that some of my pieces aren't real milkglass and I'm OK with that.  It's just a fun collection that I like. 

What do you collect?