Cutie Pies!

I re-read my last post and it was SOO random-ha ha!  Anyway I forgot to post this picture of Ava and sweet little Eliza. Eliza is my friend Sabrina's daughter, we are always together so Ava and Eliza spend A LOT of time together.  Ava loves Eliza so much and always loves to help Sabrina out with her.  Wednesday night we went to get ice cream and it was Eliza's first time riding this little merry go round.  Ava held Eliza while she was riding it.  I LOVE this picture of the two of them together, Ava tries SO hard to help Eliza whenever she can. 

This weekend is super busy for our family.  Ava has her dance recital!  She actually has four shows this weekend.  One tonight, two tomorrow and one on Sunday.  I am going to be with Ava all weekend.  I am helping out backstage for two of the shows and then I am watching the other two.  Brock has two baseball games and I'm really sad that I am going to miss both of them because of the recital :(  Thankfully Graig is his coach so at least Brock will have one of us there during his games. 

Tomorrow morning there are a TON of great yard sales in our town!  Sabrina and I already talked and I am picking her up super early (6:45!) so we can get to the sales early.  I hope we get a lot of great things!

Have a great weekend!

Garage Sales, Baby Girls, Peonies and Turtles

This is going to be the most random post ever!  We have had lots and lots going on and I am going to try to condense everything that has been happening down to one post.  I am going to apologize in advance for the lackluster photography in this post, all of these pictures came from my iphone.  Lately I have been too lazy to take real pictures with my camera-ha ha!
Where should I begin... last weekend my friend Sabrina and I hit up a few garages sales on Saturday, we got some really cute things!  We also had our own sale at my house on Sunday with about 6 other families!  We made over $600 and all of the money will be used to help send our boys to a week long baseball camp/tournament.  The cost is about $800 per boy so the garage sale was only one of the MANY fundraisers that we have held this year. 

Here are some pics of the things that I got

A white vase for only $1.00!  I love this I have it in our dining room, I am not sure what I am going to put in it yet but I love the way it looks!

 Black and white chicken plate that cost only 50 cents!  There were two so Sabrina took the other one to put in her house.

Pier One candle holder.  This was free!!  It was not sold during our yard sale so I kept it! 

The little flower pots were $2 each,   I love the colors!

Today after work I was watering my flowers and I saw this giant snapping turtle sunning in our driveway!  I couldn't my eyes!  Ava and I were the only ones home at the time.  I called Graig who was no help because he was in the middle of batting practice with Brock's baseball team so I called our neighbor Heidi.  She came over with her kids and we got the turtle into a big plastic storage tub and we took it to a steam about 1 mile away from our house. 

After we removed the turtle I was able to finish watering my flowers and plants and I cut some peonies for our living room. 

Yesterday my sister Shelby went for her ultrasound and she found out she is having a baby GIRL!!

Ava and I are SO excited!  Graig and Brock were hoping for a boy-ha ha  She is due on October 1.  They don't have any names picked out right now but she wants to decide before her shower in July.  She also registered for this adorable bedding and accessories at Target.  Graig and I bought her the 3 piece bedding set as a gift for finding out the gender!

flowers, flowers, flowers

Yesterday after work I picked up  Ava from school and we stopped by a new gift shop in town to look for a wreath for our door.    I have been looking for a new wreath for the longest time and I am sad to say that we didn't find one :(  I did get some cute fake flowers and when we got home I made own my door decoration.  This is actually our side door since and the door everyone uses to come in to our house so I like to have something nice on this door.   

At the gift shop I found these adorable flowers.  They have a magnet on the back so they stick to anything metal.  I got 3 of them and put them on a few things around our kitchen!

I got this one too.  I put it on top of our stove.  So festive for summer!

I put the hydrangra that I showed yesterday on our back deck last night.  I put it in the front of our house which gets full sun ALL day long and last night the poor thing was dried out and wilting.  I put it in the back where it's shady and gave it some water.  This picture is from this morning it seems much happier on the deck!

Last week I took my interns out to dinner to celebrate the end of the semester.  They got me these beautiful flowers.  I love them!  I added the flag for Memorial Day!

Today was our end of school year picnic at work which is always fun!  I ate a ton of good food!  Tonight Ava and I are going to get a pedicure and then we are going to watch Brock's baseball game. 

Happy Thursday!

This and That

Last night I went to Home Depot to look for new cushions for our outside chairs.  I have it narrowed down to these two options.  I usually like lighter colors like the blue/green color combo but I also really like the bright coral/teal blue one.  I need to decide soon because I want these on our deck for the Memorial Day Weekend!

I bought this Pottery Barn bucket at a yard sale for $2!  I love it, the price tag from PB said $42!  I would never ever spend that much on a bucket.  I bought some vinyl lettering off etsy.  I am going to add a pretty plant to it and keep it outside on our deck this summer! 

I also finished painting my little table that I got for $20 at an antiques store.  I painted it SW Oyster Bay.  I LOVE the way it turned out!  I got the birdcage for $5 at the same antique sale.  I am going to get a fern plant to put in the birdcage.  I really like this plant but I don't think it looks right in there. 

Last night I also bought these 2 plants at Home Depot.  I can't wait to go home after work and plant them tonight!

We have a busy night tonight.  Brock and Graig are going to watch a Little League game  and I want to plant some flowers.  I hope Ava and I have a chance to run over to the mall.  I need to pick up a few summer tops, it's SO hot here-90 degrees!!

Happy Wednesday!

Fun Festival!

Last weekend Ava, Grandma Jan and I went to a fun festival in Cooperstown.  Brock and two of his friends went too but they wanted to play basketball at Grandma Jan's so they stayed at her house and played while we went to the festival for a little while. 

One highlight of the day for Ava was to go on the horse and carriage ride.  She loved it SO much!

Ava with Grandma Jan on the carriage ride

Ava and me!

Ava and Grandma Jan after our ride

Another highlight for Ava was getting this sweatshirt and shorts screen printed.  We went to this store where they had a lot of iron ons that you could put on shirts.  Ava LOVED this one and had to have it!  Luckily she had some First Communion money from PaPa Bob and she used some of that to buy this outfit!

Ava also wanted me to take a picture of her doing her back walk over.  She finally got it and now she does them ALL the time!

garage sale finds!

Yesterday I found some GREAT things at yard sales in our town.  This is the very beginning of yard sale season and I am so excited!  I love going and finding treasures!  Ava and I left our house at 7:45 am

My absolute favorite item of the day was this little table.  I am going to paint it and it's going to go in a corner in our living room.  I was so excited about this that I already went out and got the paint.  I am going robin's egg blue on the bottom and an off white for the top.  (Sorry these pictures aren't the greatest,  I took them with my iphone.

I have been looking for a birdcage forever.  I really like this one it's yellow. I cleaned it up last night and I am going to put a plant in it. 

Pretty bowls, you can never have too many!   These were only 1.25 each!  I am not sure what I will do with them but I do love them!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Craft Night!

Saturday night my friend Sabrina and I got together and had a little craft night.  We spent the morning going to yard sales which weren't that great.  We did go to a junk store that Sabrina loves and we found some really cute things!  I got some new white dishes and some wooden boxes.  We also went to Home Depot to get some Martha Stewart paint samples to paint our boxes. 

Mine was an odd shape so I didn't  know what to do with it, Sabrina suggested I add a candle and some sea shells and I did and I LOVE the way it turned out.  We have it on our dining room table and I am going to keep it there all summer.   

Happy Wednesday!