Front porch

This has been a project I have been dreaming about since we bought this house. I love that I have a little front porch and knew that I wanted a couple of big planters of flowers. The kicker was making it look homey. Then as I was driving by the thrift store I saw a wooden rocking chair and had to have it. So I brought it home and told Brad and the girls I wanted to redo it and paint it turquoise. Both Brad and Shianne told me how dumb that would look with a red house but I am stubborn and did it anyway. And I love it so much now!!!

It has been a while

It has been a while since I have been on here. Things here have been crazy busy trying to get all of the end of the year school stuff finished. Hard to believe we are entering into the summer. It will be busy with fun, sun, and water. The new waterpark is sure to take up a lot of our time. Now it will also including building a new swingset and fence. I have lots of new projects coming, like redoing an old dresser I used as a child, and revamping a rocking chair for our porch. So excited to get them done and I promise there will be more posts coming soon.

Bean Bags

My girls and my daycare girls love bean bags, but I haven't had any except for when we borrowed some and I was to cheap to buy them. So this last weekend I was at my Mom and Dad's to help them out after my Dad's hip surgery and just on a whim was playing with my Mom's sewing machine. I decided to throw some bean bags together (my sister Cara was shocked that I could do that and referred to me as Martha Stewart for the whole process). They turned out so great. Even though I haven't touched a sewing machine in probably 12 years! The seams are not the straightest but man to my kids and the daycare girls love them!

Happy Valentines Day

These are the girl's valentines we made this year!!!

Stay Tuned

The girls and I spent yet another snow day home yesterday. To prevent all the laziness and "Mom, I'm Bored" from happening we spend the day making homemade valentines. It has been a long time since we have done this and they turned out so adorable!!! Stay tuned on Monday for the pictures of appear!!!

Super Bowl Snacks

A few of my yummy Super Bowl Treats!!! I was these on a blog I follow, eighteen25 and just couldn't pass up making them. Have a great day and enjoy the game!! Go Packs!

Days 17-20 in the Organizational Challenge

I haven’t ever got the pictures up of the last days of the 21 day challenge. I started working on scarves and forgot about it until my friend Morgan wanted to do this challenge as well. So in looking back I realized that I haven’t posted, so here are my last few days

Day 17-The mail, I use my baskets, from the first day's challenge and now I use my binder as well. See my home management binder post.


Day 18-Keepsakes, I have a tote for each child to put their keepsakes in.

Day 19-Master Closet I didn't do a whole lot there, we keep it pretty nice since we finally have a bigger closet.
Day 20-Photos- I have them all separated into individual boxes for each child and then have all of them and my supplies for scrap booking in totes.