Craft Night!

Since Graig and Ava are out of town I decided to have my friends over for a craft night last night.  I made chicken pasta a delicious recipe that I wrote a post about here. We made wreaths and we also  started working on chalkboard trays.  The chalkboard trays take some time to dry so last night we only put the primer on them.  I hope when our chalkboard trays are done they look like these.  I love these!

Here are some pics from our fun craft night.

Look at this messy table!  We had a lot of crafts going on last night!

Me and my friend Allison.

Here are Erin and Wendy showing off their creations.  I think their wreaths turned out really cute!

My friends Sabrina and Sara were there too.  I just didn't get a picture of them.  Sabrina has the cutest burlap wreaths right now on her blog. Tonight I'm going to a dinner on campus to support our athletics department.  It should be a fun night!  Happy Saturday!

Leaving on a jet plane

Tomorrow Ava and Graig are leaving for Colorado!  Graig has a conference in Denver for work and Ava is going to spend the week with Uncle Garth and Aunt Jill.  I am SO happy that she gets to spend time with them.  Here is Ava with Garth and Jill when they visited us last fall. 

Jill and Garth are expecting their first baby in the spring so last night I went out and got them a couple of gifts.  I hope they find out what they're having because Ava and I LOVE to shop for baby clothes.

Here is Ava all packed up and ready to go! 

Tomorrow night I am having a girls craft night with my friends.  I am looking forward to it because it's been a long week! 

Iphone pictures

I take most of my pictures with my iPhone.  I can't wait until the day when cell phones have cameras that are just as good as a regular digital cameras!  I thought I would do a post today with pictures from my phone.

Last week Ava and I did masks!  She thought this was so fun!

Brock Aaron before his 8th grade graduation.  I might have already posted this but I love this picture of him.  I think he looks like mini Graig in this picture!

Daisy Duke-she can be so adorable sometimes when she's not barking her head off and getting on my last nerve-ha ha!

Eliza in her new princess nightgown that we got her for her b-day.  Sabrina sent this to me from her iPhone.  I love this picture!

Ava wanted her hair curly for the flash mob last Saturday.  Poor thing her hair is SO straight it doesn't stay curly long.  She loves having her hair curly!

 My new favorite beverage (other than diet coke) is Banana Seltzer. Last time I was at the grocery store I bought 10 bottles and I  embarrassed B and A to death because I bought so many. 

I actually forgot I bought this cute stand at a garage sale a couple of weekends ago.  When I was going through my pictures I found it.  I am going to paint it and put it in Ava's room. 

 My friend Allison sent these iPhone pictures to me from the race on Saturday. Brock looks thrilled to be there and Graig is holding a sign that my friend Sabrina made for me. 

I think Tuesday's are going to be my favorite day of the week this school year because we don't have anything to do after school/work on Tuesday's.  We can just go home and relax and be together as a family! Happy Tuesday!

Our weekend in pictures

I thought I would do a post about our weekend in pictures

Yesterday Brock had a baseball game.  He pitched and he had his first ever no-hitter! 

Ava danced in a flash mob on Main Street.

I went to garage sales, lunch and to the mall with Allison and Sabrina.  I got this adorable pillow at TJMaxx.

I did a little photo shoot with Cotton and Ellie.  I like this picture but I hate how their eyes look, I can't seem to fix that.

I ran in my first ever 5k!

 Here are some girls from my running group that ran the race.    Erin our teacher is next to me in pink.  My time was 33.24. 

I decorated for fall.  Fall is my absolute favorite season to decorate for!

Tonight I'm going to a 9/11 vigil on campus.  I can't believe it's been 10 years since that terrible day. Brock was 4 when it happened and I was pregnant with Ava.  I remember watching the news that day at work.  It was so sad.  The only thing I wanted to do was go home and be with Graig and Brock and call my family. 

School Daze

Wednesday Brock and Ava started school!  Brock is a freshman in high school and Ava is in 4th grade.  I know I always say this but I can't believe how big they are.  They are growing up way too fast!   I tried to get some good pictures of them on Wednesday morning.  It's SO hard getting a good picture of both of them. 

 

Wednesday we got A LOT of rain and Brock and Ava got out of school early because it was starting to flood.  Wednesday evening they closed our street due to flooding.  The street was actually closed right past our driveway!  The flooding was so bad that the College that I work at (that hardly ever closes for anything) was closed yesterday and Brock and Ava didn't have school yesterday or today. 

About 1/4 of a mile down our street there was water all over the road.  

The golf course by our house was also flooded. 

Thankfully the water is starting to go down and things are getting back to normal around here.  I am very thankful that we didn't have any damage to our house.    This weekend Brock has a baseball game and Ava is going to dance in a flash mob.  It should be a fun weekend!

Saturday mornings!

Saturday mornings during hte summer are spent going to garage sales and our farmer's market with my friends Allison and Sabrina   I am SO sad the yard sale season is almost over :( 

A few weekends ago I got this old milk jar.  It has the name of our town on it.  I just love it.  It's in our kitchen and I'm trying to grow some plant sprouts in it.

I also always look for milk glass to add to my collection. 

 At the farmer's market I always get fresh fruits, vegetables and plants.  There is one lady that comes every week and  she has the best plants so I always stop by and get one.  Last week I got some Rosemary and a few weeks ago I got a basil plant. 

I also bought these beautiful ferns from her.  I hope they last! 

 Happy Saturday!!

TGIF!!

This past week has been exhausting both mentally and physically.  I am SO happy it's Friday!  Today is the last day of sorority and fraternity recruitment!  I love recruitment but it makes work CRAZY so I am happy it will be over today!  Ava is  sad it's over because she loves going to all of the recruitment events and hanging out with the students. 

Ava likes to help me at events.  Here is Ava with her friend Sarah during the set up for the Welcome Back Party at the College.  She loved trying this sumo wrestling!

Yesterday Brock had his freshman orientation!  I can't believe he's going to be a freshman in high school  He is growing up WAY too fast. 

After orientation I dropped Brock and his friend George off at one of our campus dining halls.  These boys aren't at all interested in girls(thank goodness!!  I am NOT ready for Brock to have a girlfriend!) but they get really excited about food!  Here is Brock and George before a baseball game earlier this summer.

On campus we ran into Marissa she is Ava's babysitter and all-time favorite college student.  Brock looks really uncomfortable in this picture-ha ha!

This weekend we hope to relax and get a few things done around the house. 

I got this book from the library and I want to read it this weekend.  Sometimes I get so frustrated helping Brock and Ava with their homework so I hope this book has some good tips for me! 

 We're also going to take Brock  to see Apollo 18. He is really excited to see this movie!

Have a good weekend!