Her first black eye.

This is what happens when you play with the boys!!

The story =  The kids were playing outside when Austin comes running in the house screaming that Kambree is bleeding. I asked Austin what happened to her. He says, "we were playing with the toy cars, making them drive UP the slide, Kambree was at the top and the car hit her in the face. Mom, it is her own fault for getting in the cars way."

11 years old today.

 Paige turns 11 years old today!! She wanted a "Pokka dot " cake. My sister told me to take airheads and put them in the microwave for about 15 seconds and they would be soft enough to roll out and then use a cookie cutter and make shapes. It worked pretty good except that the 4 year old helper I had kept trying to eat them!

11 years ago I was going to lunch at the Training Table with my boss and 4 other co workers. I had a  #24/ no tomato, a lemonade, and cheese fries with special sauce. It was so good! As we left the restaurant (we were just leaving our table) I felt something funny. And then my pants were soaking wet. Yep my water broke right in front of all those great people! During labor I threw up all that great food :(

She is growing up to be a wonderful young women. She is very responsible and so loving. She always does her best, she has a great sense of her self worth. She is AMAZING!

Too bad she is sick today!

A fun project.

This bare wall is in our basement. I found a really fun project in the "Good house keeping" magazine from February.  It said to take pictures and hang them up in a circle. Then get clock hands and put them in the middle to make a wall sized clock. I made a few changes to their idea and came up with this.....

 I have 4 kids so I figured I could use each one of their pictures. It turned out so cute, I love it. I got the clock hands and motor as a kit at Roberts. I used a 40% off coupon. I already had the frames from our old house (yep they have been sitting in a plastic bin for 3 1/2 years....you never know when you will need a frame :) I got them out and painted them black (left over paint from a previous project). So it turned out to be a pretty fun project and not a lot of money.

Some color.

This is the before.....I added some color. I got these drape scarves at Bed Bath and Beyond. (yep in the clearance section, they were the last 2!)

They were a little too long so I had to do a little cutting and sewing. But with the extra material I recovered  2 pillows that weren't really being used any where, now they match. The drapes are almost the same color as my room. There was some extra material left from that project as well so I recovered 2 more pillow. I found 4 more at the DI that totally matched and this is the end result. I am still working on finding a mirror to put over the piano and maybe a shelf or 2.

The lighting makes these pillows look pink, but they aren't. They are the same color as the other ones (it is called "wine").

This is kind of the oddball pillow. I got this one from the DI and when I was washing and drying it it got hooked some place in the dryer and kind of ripped. So I cut out the rip and sewed it back together. It is a little smaller then the matching one, but it still works.

Where did it go...where did it go?

For those of you who don't know me very well I will confess that I am a list maker!!! I love to make lists of everything...oh and charts. I love to see my progress on things I am working towards. Well today the "night mare" happened. I was at the store shopping (about half way finished) and I noticed that my list was GONE!!! Seriously you would think I had lost my child...no it was my LIST! My brain panicked and I looked for a good 5 minutes and never found it. I could only remember 4 or 5 more things I had written down. The shopping trip was over for me.

Now I am sure this little obsession has some kind of deep meaning behind the kind of person I am. But it is who I am, it is not going to change. So when I got home I started my list again. The things that I had missed at the store started coming back, little by little, and there will be another day of shopping.

My life didn't come to an end because my list was gone, but man it sure felt close. I know I am a little insane...but honestly who isn't?

Remodel Part: 4 (my favorite remodel)

 

The Bedroom!!!

I bought this amazing bed set at Bed Bath and Beyond when they were having a Presidents Day sale. I used a 20% off coupon, the curtains were in the clearance section for $9.99 originally $69. The paint was also $5 off per gallon. SO...the whole remodel (excluding the carpet ) was under $250!!!

This picture above was a throw blanket that came with the bed set. Not really very useful. It wasn't thick or warm and not very long. So I put it to good use.

This is my cedar chest. The fabric doesn't really match. So I took the material from the throw and turned it into a new cover.

Then I have this dresser runner (?) and it didn't match so I made a new one.

  

That one was so easy to make. Then lastly I made a runner for our big dresser with the leftover fabric. It is pieced together but I think it turned out fine.

  

This is how the room looks now.

  

Once again I need to put up some decorations. I was thinking some fun lettering....still not sure. I'll keep you posted. 

Remodel Part: 3 (almost finished)

 

This is how the broken tile turned out. Pretty nice for our first try. We had to leave it at an angle because there was no backer board under it.

This is the wall where the brick use to be. Shawn did a great job. The texture was a little tricky.

This is the same wall with the furniture in it. I LOVE having my piano up stairs. Now to figure out what to put up on the wall as decorations.

 

Same room, different angle.

Let me know if you have any grand ideas about the wall decor!!