A quick and easy fall centerpiece

I was inspired by The Nester on making my centerpiece and I just tweaked it a bit to make it more my own!  This literally took me 1o minutes to put together...and I am praying it doesn't fall apart because nothing is glued together!  I wanted it that way, so I can reuse the pieces in other things...smart huh?!  

Boo!

This frame is actually in my craft room, but thought I would repurpose it for Halloween!  I just put in some spider print craft paper and used the chipboard letters to spell S*C*A*R*Y~

I do not have a ton of Halloween decorations but I have enough to decorate a little hutch that you see when you walk in our front door.  So, this is as spooky, scary as we Woodard's get!!

*side note*  The black sticks are actually part of a big bundle I use in a large vase...but they were brown.  So I picked out one bundle and spray painted them black to put in this cute orange vase I picked up.  

Plays hard, sleeps hard...

It's 10:00 when we got home on Friday night.  TJ went from school to the park for almost 3 hrs then came home and literally ate a piece of pizza while running outside to play kickball.  Then we went to the OHS football game and after we got home, we sent TJ to take a bath....he.was.FILTHY.  Todd started calling his name but did not get a repsonse from him so when he went to check on him, this is what he saw!!  A passed out, snoring little 9 year old in the bathtub!  TJ likes to play HARD, but when he is done...he is done!!

"Blue" photo contest

I decided on this picture of TJ for the "Blue" photo as I just LOVE the blue background and of course those BLUE eyes!

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He got it

Just when I thought TJ wasn't paying attention in church yesterday...which wasn't hard to figure out since he was drawing fighter planes on the bulletin, he wrote this in his Bible.

"When you go to church do you just have a mask on? You shake people's hands, say your a christian. You might not really be a christian. Do you really want to wear the mask? Also, put God first, people second. Enjoy your life without the mask on and live a life with joy, happyness, and not faking to be a Christian. God is our SUPER God and not just any kind of God."

Thank you God for this gift!

Ahhh....it's been too long!

I have really been in the crafting "mood" lately which is probably why I haven't posted on my blog in a while...(NOT!  but it just sounded like a good excuse...).  Actually, things have been quite busy here with school and sports going again.  When I have had a free moment, I have been working on painting a personalized canvas for over Morgan's bed.  It turned out really cute (for my first one)...and it is definitely not perfect as you will see in the picture!  I tried fixing up a mistake and the spot of course showed up darker than the rest of the paint BUT that's OK!  Overall...I really do love it and thinks it adds just the right touch of whimsy to her room.

Out of the mouths of babes

TJ & I spent the day together today.  His last day of "summer" before he starts school on Monday as a third grader!  Unbelievable!  My little peanut is growing up too quickly...anyway, we were in Orlando getting ready to go into a vintage clothing store.  Todd and I are going to a "1974" birthday themed party this Saturday and I was on the hunt for my outfit.  As we pulled into the parking lot, there was a big (ok...HUGE) picture of Uncle Sam holding a money bag.  TJ said "Mom, that guy is stealing money!".  It took ALL I had not to bust out laughing although inside I was cracking up...so true babe, so true!  This will definetely go down in the book of "TJisms" and a book that will be so fun to read in the years to come.