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.

I (heart) faces sports photo contest

This is a picture of TJ at one of his soccer games and I just LOVE the action and the look on his face...it definetely shows his true colors of being an intense player!

Go to I (heart) photos for more pictures!

sweet esther

Our babysitter, Esther stayed at our house while we were gone on vacation for 10 days.  She watched the dog, the cat, took care of the pool and all the hiccups that came along with that!  She was absolutley great and to top it off, this is the sight we came home to...ahhhh...We literally drove 10 hours in the car home and got to sit right down to have dinner!  What a blessing she is and continues to be for our family!

~ vacation photos coming soon...they are on hubby's labtop ~

Sweet Emma...

This week at IHeartFaces

the contest theme is "Kids"...and I couldn't resist entering this cute

picture of Emma from our RV vacation last summer

How come I couldn't think of this?!

One of my favorite blogs to read is Emily @ Chatting at the Sky.  She is an amazing writer and I went to her blog yesterday, which she happened to be blogging about her lamps... she has some very cute ones I must say!  Anyway, I noticed her beautiful arrangement on her dining room table that I asked her what it was made from.  She was so sweet to respond back and would you know, it was greenery from her YARD!  I have lived in my home for almost two years now and have NEVER gone outside to find me some greenery to make a little something for the house...and that is why I stalk other people's blogs!  

So, this morning I went wandering around our yard and found that we have some great trees to cut from!  The red vase was on my dining room table with a candle in it...but now it sits in my kitchen next to my chalkboard sign.  Thank you Emily for the great idea!!

Watch out...I've got chalkboard paint!

I went out and bought a quart of chalkboard paint...and before  you know it, my kids just might be painted!  Nothing...I mean, nothing is safe!  This silver tray I bought at Goodwill for $2.99...woo-hoo!!  Look and see how cute it is now!  The glass jars were just $5.00 and I had the ribbon at the house to add to it...I just LOVED how the jars turned out :)

BEFORE...a plain silver tray...

AFTER...a fun way to display a menu for the night (I know, I need to clean the edges of the tray!)

BEFORE...just a glass jar for flour

AFTER...a whimsical, fun, cute glass flour/sugar jar with chalkboard lables!

For more fun, frugal ideas go on over to The Shabby Nest 

Fix-it Friday

BEFORE

AFTER

today on iheartfaces you were to download the "before" picture and play around with it to see how you could "fix-it" and make it better through photo editing. i played around on picnik and came up with this...what do you think?