A few of my projects...

I must be the queen of unfinished projects!  I swear I have at least a dozen little DIY projects running through my head at any given moment. Everything from my never ending bathroom project, to making new curtains, to painting furniture... the list goes on! One thing I have recently realized is that my decor is a bit predictable.... I mean its not like my walls are flat white or anything but it was time for a change.  One thing I have been dying to try is a unique paint design, you know, maybe stripes or something, anything different than what I have. Then I saw the beautiful chevron wall on pinterest! Oh how I love pinterest! I had the perfect wall space to do something crazy like that, a little 3 maybe 4 foot section in between my kitchen and living room. I am very happy with how it turned out! In all it was a 2 maybe 3 day project, mostly because I had to go out and buy paint and you know me, I am not a planner so I had to keep stopping in the middle of my project to go out and buy supplies. It did make it a more pleasant experience than it probably would have been if I had done the whole thing in one sitting. The measuring of the graph and the taping was enough of a headache, I couldn't imagine painting all in the same day! I will say I would never do this design on a large wall, or if I did I would make the pattern MUCH larger, it would be way too busy! As it is i am very happy with how it turned out! It inspired us to paint our whole living room / hall / kitchen so everything matched!

 the wall before was a soft sage green color, same as the hallway and part of the living room. I had a very neutral palate, soft greens and tans mostly, and a little bit of light yellow in the kitchen.

The Taping... oh the taping! this color looks pretty green still in the picture, I think I must have had my white balance wrong on my camera... the color is definitely a aqua color.

The finished product! I love the way it turned out! I also used the rest of the darker aqua color on my husbands desk which sits right next to our front door... It just ties it all together. I love it!

This is my dresser in our bedroom, it was a cheap craigslist find I scored for $40! It was so scratched up and gross, not something I would like in my home! But with a little sanding, okay a lot of sanding, and a few coats of primer and a few more coats of paint its perfect! I just love how white paint brings out all of the detail! Notice one of the handles is missing, of course it broke as we were installing it!  I have a few more projects we are finishing up, our bathroom, a super cool barn door, a bedroom update in the boys room,  a wood panel wall ( not nasty gross paneling, think pallet panel...

Daniel

Well i really messed this one up! My idea was to have this set of pictures at the end of this post, but of course poor planning on my part, and I am so not a computer person... you get the more recent pictures first!  Danny is almost 9 months old can you believe it?! He has said his first two words, " mama" and "dada" he just this week got his first two teeth too! Time just flies!

Danny's favorite toy at the moment...

 love that chubby little face!

and his beautiful blue eyes

I cant believe that my little baby is almost 9 months old! It seems like yesterday he was a newborn and now he is getting ready to crawl! I haven't been very good about taking pictures of him with my camera, it is just much easier to take out the ipod and snap quick pictures! we took a trip over to visit my dad a few months ago and i discovered that he has PERFECT lighting in his living room! My house is so dark I cant stand trying to take pictures inside, so I mostly do outside photos of my little boys, but at Dads house, "aaaaaaaaahhhhhh" ( that was said like a choir of angels singing it if you were wondering) perfect light! I couldn't resist setting my then 6 month old bundle of joy up for a quick photo shoot. I think they turned out just so perfect! 

 Precious little boy...

 Love him so much...

 cute little smile...

I'm so in love with this little guy. Did I mention his first word was " mama" 

Family Ocean Shores Trip

 Get ready for picture overload! Seriously this post has some of my favorite pictures I took on our recent trip to the coast. I say some of my favorites because I took a TON of pictures! A ton! This trip was really one of the first times that I have taken my camera out in a long time. I ind that it is just too much of a hassle taking it out, and worrying about dropping it, getting it wet, etc... Most of the time I just take my ipod along and use instagram to document our memories. I didn't realize til this trip how much I missed using my trusty old Canon! So here it is, this June we had all of my husbands siblings fly out here and we all took a trip down to the coast. We stayed in a gorgeous house that was literally right on the beach. I swear the kids spent most of the time out there. It was a perfect and surprisingly relaxing time. I say surprisingly because there were 29 of us! When we were itching to get out of the house we headed into town to the arcade or to the bowling alley. Noah was excited to bowl,  Joshie was unimpressed! I am so thankful for the week we spent together, it will likely be a few years until we are all together again. Like I said before here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip. Enjoy!

 Noah, Samuel and Landon are all around the same age. They loved the water!

 This was the look that was on Joshies face for most of the time at the beach! He was so tired most of the time, he did not sleep well at all, so you can imagine that I didn't sleep either.

 Samuel and Joshie playing skee ball. The arcade was a blast! Papa and Grandma saved so that everyone could have a chance to play the games.

 This is my absolute favorite picture! Noah, Samuel, Tony and Lily

 Such a sweet picture of Cammie and Mollie

 Tony, Noah and Samuel. Like I said, the kids loved the water!

 Oh look, Joshie looks like he is having fun! Here is Joshie and Landon

 Oh back to the water...

 Look how sweet he is when he is not screaming his head off...

 This is about as far out as Joshua would go!

 Tons of sand dollars!

 Hannah, Adria and Lily. I cant believe how big these girls are getting!

 Noah

 Samuel

 Noah and Joshua

 more boys running to the water

Matt, Cammie, Mollie and Matthew.

Can you believe I didn't get any pictures with my husband or my boys? I guess that is how it is when you are the one behind the camera

Happy 3rd Birthday Joshie!

 Way back in June we celebrated our sweet Joshua turning 3 years old! We invited a few of his friends from church over for a ice cream sundae bar! Who doesnt love an ice cream sundae? As usual for Joshua he didnt seem too excited to have people over, he had pretty much the same expression on his face the whole time, well except for opening presents, then he got pretty excited! Our Joshua is such a sweet boy, he is definitely a lover. loves to snuggle! He has such a mellow personality, always has the same stone faced expression, he is such a happy boy but you wouldnt know it by his pictures!

 Of course, Joshua wanted an Angry Birds party this year, my boys LOVE angry birds! We kept it simple, just cupcakes, rice krispy treats and cookies shaped like stars. The party favors were golden egg cookies! Oh of course we cant forget the ice cream sundaes!

 Love free printables! Although Micah is pretty photo shop savvy, I'm sure he can make something like this pretty easily,  it was nice to have it already made!

 I did a cute little photo display with bakers twine and mini clothes pins! can you say CUTE! I have a new found love for bakers twine, oh and washi tape! One of my favorite pinterest ideas was making these angry bird balloons, i just printed out the template and taped the faces on the balloons! The kids LOVED them!

 My stone faced little boy! Love this cute hat!

 and sunglasses.... these pictures break my heart... we had been battling his eczema for several months and could not get it under control. You can see it under his lip here, and around his eyes. Poor baby.

He loved his new soccer ball and net... this boy is definitely going to be our sports kid! Not quite sure if i wanna be a soccer mom, he sure seems to love it though!

Happy to my sweet Joshua. You have brought so much joy to our lives, and I am thankful for you every day. We pray every day that the Lord would call you to himself and you would grow to be a man who loves HIM with your whole heart, soul, mind and strength.

Seriously, It's August already!?

 I cant believe I am actually getting a free moment to sit down and update my poor little neglected blog! Life has just been so crazy, I never imagined having 3 little ones under foot all day would consume so much of my time, energy and patience! I mean really, I usually fall into bed at night thinking, " I did absolutely nothing... all day....." Truth is I did a lot, a lot of breaking up fights, taking a little 3 year old potty five hundred times, nursing, attempting to pick up the house, etc.... oh and I cant forget my new found love for Downton Abbey, that consumes at least an hour of my evening... seriously LOVE this show! I have made it my goal to incorporate a few phrases from the show into my daily conversation with my husband he has heard a few " are you quite finished ?" and my personal favorite, " now kiss me before I get cross" Seriously i love this show! Anyway... moving on.. what have we been up to this summer you may ask.. well too much for one post I will tell you that! Here is a small window into the first part of our summer. Enjoy!

 Noah played T-ball and he loved it! He especially loved playing the catcher position. He also was excited that his uniform was #1.

 I think by the end of the season he finally was starting to understand what baseball is all about... lets be honest Noah is kind of an air head... he would mostly just stand around, or chase butterflies or pick flowers.

 Noah graduated from Pre-K. So so  sad that my baby is going into kindergarten! How can this be? I seriously am struggling with this season, the idea of dropping my son off with people I don't really know freaks me out! Not to mention throw in the epilepsy.... sheesh! I need lots of prayer! Back to Pre- K. We have the most wonderful preschool at our church. I have been so blessed to have my boys be a part of it!

 Look how proud he is of his cool hat!

 Noah with his mimi

 Noah with his buddies. I just love being a part of a church family where all of our kids will grow up together! 

We also took a few trips to Ocean Shores. I have a TON of pictures from our huge family trip but that is for a different post. These are from our trip with the youth group. The weather was perfect!  Noah had a great time hanging out with the kids, and his best friends Grace and Faith came along too. Actually I should say he has 3 best friends, Grace , Faith, and landon. He would be upset if I didn't include Lando on his best friends list!

 See, PERFECT WEATHER!

I threw together a surprise 50th birthday party for my mom! Shockingly she was actually surprised! I put together a cute table display but of course I cant find it! We were so blessed by all the people that came to celebrate my mom. I know she felt so loved, which was my goal!

Stay tuned for posts about Ocean trip, my Joshies birthday party, our summer furniture re-hab projects, more bathroom remodel, and some super cute pictures of a super cute baby Daniel!