Slip 'N Slide

Slip

'N

Slide

Season

Is

Here!!

Go out and buy your own tarp and slide and slip till your hearts content. :-)

Dream Bedroom

When we first moved into this house we took the bedroom that had the bathroom attached, but it was the smaller of the two bedrooms upstairs.  Our bedroom was blah, unexciting, and downright depressing.  So, we decided to switch rooms with Carter so that we could have a larger bedroom.  When we first got married our family loaned us some master bedroom furniture. It was nice, but not what we wanted.  We wanted to have a king size bed for the whole family to fit in. :-) I ordered some bedding for the new bed a few months ago, but we had not bought a bedroom suit yet. I was shopping around and price matching and trying to find the best deal, but still get something that we would both like.  One night when I was browsing on craigslist I found an Ashley bedroom suit for 2000 dollars that included a king size bed, a dress, two side tables, and a vera wang pillow top mattress.  I was interested in it, but we were not able to do it at the time.  A few weeks later the price had dropped some and I talked to Casey about it and we decided that we would make a lower offer and see if they accepted.  I sent the owner a message and said that I had 1400 dollars cash if she would take it.  She sent me a message back and said it was a deal. I was so excited, but didn't quite know what to think. I hadn't even seen the furniture except for a few small pictures.  Casey went on Saturday to pick it up and it turned out to be wonderful and in great condition.  


Mom and I wanted to paint the room and really make a statement with the color.  We went and picked out some paint and a glaze to go over it.  We brought it home, painted one wall and decided that it wasn't going to work.  We took the paint back and got our money back, which was pretty amazing, because Lowe's doesn't usually give money back for tinted paint.  We decided to go with another option and went straight home to get to painting, because we only had two days to finish before Casey brought the furniture.  

Here's the beginning of the makeover

The first color that was oh so bad!

More mess

Tada!!

The new pretty glazed walls

Love it!! Such a cozy oasis!

Mom is such a wonderful designer.  Didn't we do well?

My new chair that my mom got me for my birthday. I love it

Just makes me want to go take a nap, as if I need more encouragement to take a nap. :-)

Well, I think that it turned out so well. It is a perfect Indian/Boho oasis and we love it.  Hope you enjoyed the process.  I know I'm just glad that it's done.  From start to finish it took 5 days.  Pretty good, huh?

Well, hope you have a great week.  Lord bless you.

The View From Here

We went to the park as a family the other day, actually, Sunday after church.  We grabbed some icees and skittles and headed to the park.  I had to bust out the camera and take some fun shots.  I was trying to snap pictures from different angles than what I normally do. It was fun and I liked the way some of them turned out.

Here is my precious serious baby J. 

A cool wind chime thingy

My precious big boy digging in the dirt

Baby J and Daddy

Baby J and Mommy

Carter riding on a turtle

So fun!

Climbing up to have some fun

Slides are fun

Jude's first ride down a slide!

Jude's second ride down the slide!

Chillin!

On the run!

I have so much to do today, so I better run on and get started.  Have a great weekend everyone.  

Not me Monday!!

Happy February to everyone. I cannot believe that it is February already. I have a feeling that this year is going to fly by. This time last year I had just found out that I was pregnant and this year I have two precious little boys. The Lord is so good to us beyond what we deserve.


I love to do Not Me Mondays and I have a little down time this evening, so I'm going to throw one together real quick. Hope you enjoy and get some laughs and somehow in a sick way feel better about yourself through my shortcomings. :-)


I am most certainly NOT the mom that puts my infant in the bathtub everyday and proceeds to feed him his cereal so that we don't make a big mess everywhere and ruin his clothes in the process, nope not me.


When my sister stayed the night with me last week I definitely did not offer for her to use Carter's toothbrush instead of mine to brush her teeth. Nope, not me. That would be gross to make her use my son's tooth brush since we all know what two year olds put in their mouth- EVERYTHING! Nuuuhh!!!


Yesterday at church I did NOT give my son two desserts so that he would sit longer in the highchair and then send him to the nursery for the nursery workers to handle his sugar high. Nope Not me!


Last night at dinner, there is no way that I let my oldest son think his roast and potatoes were actually apples, so that he would eat them, because he hates carbs! Nope, not me!

If you want to do a not me Monday as well, go and link up to McMama's blog and join in on the fun.


I hope that everyone has a Happy Monday. I know that Mondays can be tough. Here is a picture of mischief makers that make my Mondays SOOOOO much better. :-)