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Sunday

Lately I just can't figure out which day of the week is my favorite. I'm torn between Mon, Fri, Sat., & Sun.
Yes, I do love Mondays. There isn't a speech session for my oldest son so after school the entire afternoon is usually free. I also don't have to run on Mondays which is always a happy moment for me.
Friday & Saturday are obvious as is Sunday but Sunday is great because it is so laid back around here. I usually wake up to a clean house because I make sure that Saturday afternoon it has been cleaned. This past Saturday I literally scrubbed my walls & baseboards with bleach. I was quite mortified at how terribly dirty our boys' bathroom was. They play in mud & dirt daily so you can imagine what it looked like. It needs a total bleaching once a week.

On Sundays, My husband gets me my coffee drink from McDonalds. My guiltiest pleasure these days. Hot cakes welcome the boys to the kitchen table as I savor my drink & watch the best show ever, CBS Sunday morning. After breakfast, The boys play inside for sometime before heading outdoors to the slip n slide which will be soon replaced by a summer membership to our local Y.

I try to make it to the 5pm Contemporary Mass with my oldest. I would be lying if I said we go every Sunday. I feel pretty badly when we don't make it.

Finally, when Downton Abbey returns my Sunday night will be complete!

So, I leave you with my oldest son having fun in his super clean room which makes me super happy.

Oh yes, and a lot of bug catching seems to happen in Sundays too.

Spring Break

Spring Break happened around here recently. Lots of fun was to be had, most of it right in our front yard. The boys had some friends over from our preschool a couple of days during the week. They had so much fun on the slip & slide down our hill in the front yard. Popsicles were a daily must & addiction.

The beginning of the week started with a fun trip to the Jacksonville Zoo. We took off with a group of girlfriends & their kiddos. Colin discovered how much he loves riding merry-go-rounds & I discovered a fascinating position he turns his body into when he doesn't want go be picked up. He becomes limp & literally I cannot pick him up. Amazing how he does this!
Anyway, we have had a blast. We meet friends again @ the park tomorrow for a cook out & playground fun.

Oh did I mention Angry Birds in Space came out this week? We even had a daily countdown until the big release. My oldest has been playing it ever since.

Something Blue

Recently, I had the pleasure of making a Spring Wreath for the magazine I work for, Family Times. Instead of going the Easter route, I decided instead to make a Spring wreath to keep up through May. I am very pleased with the outcome and cannot believe how quick and easy this wreath was to make.





You will need:

hot glue gun
Elmer's School Glue (blue)
spray paint
glitter
very thin steel wire
small frame (found mine @ Hobby Lobby)
chipboard letter
scrapbook paper
ribbon
any adornments such as vintage brooches and premade fabric flowers (again found @ Hobby Lobby)
Wreath (found @ Hobby Lobby)

Start by spraying your wreath with paint. Be sure to do this in a very open well ventilated outside space. Spray your wreath in intervals and let dry in between to prevent dripping.

Allow several hours for your wreath to dry. Then position your brooches and flowers before hot gluing on to the wreath.

Trace the paper insert from your frame onto the back of your scrapbook paper. Cut out and insert inside as a backdrop to your initial.

Before hot gluing your initial onto the outside of the frame, coat your chipboard letter with the Elmer's glue and glitter.

attach the frame with ribbon and hot glue onto the back of the wreath. To further secure your ribbon and frame, twist the steel wire around the riboon and make a small loop at the top for hanging.

Fun in beautiful spring like weather

So I'm officially hooked to Instagram photos thanks to a friend introducing them to me. I am even going to start having them printed because it is everyday moments I haven't been catching. All too soon time will go by & I will soon forget even the small things we do every single week day... Play on our preschool playground as soon as school let's out.

Valentine treats

So excited to have finished making his Valentine class treats. My oldest loves cotton candy so we put them in pink cones for the girls & blue for the boys. I made his personalized Valentine from the free template @ Album Cafe & attached them with Martha Stewart bakers twine. The teacher gifts are so cute too. I bought them personalized note cards & a roll of pretty wrapping paper. He also wanted to do Lego Ninja cards with some cute goodies to go with.

Some boys on a farm

A recent trip to a friend's house inspired these snapshots of my boys. The youngest absolutely LOVES horses, tractors, pigs, you name it. He is going to be my country boy.

My favorite shot is the one where they are more preoccupied with a puddle than they are a camel standing off to the side. By the way, this is the first time they have ever seen a camel in real life.

Finally, there are pictures to his room

So, I finally finished his room! Now, I have pictures to prove it. I got so many of my ideas for coloring and bedding from Pinterest, of course! I really love his room and I think it is a super fun space for him as well! His map really rocks! We found it online at mcmaps.com
His bed was found in an antique mall and it used to be like a camel color so my husband painted it this neat red. The letters in his name were boring and white so we spruced them up to match the bed.

Loss

For the first time in my life, I took a gamble & lost. I found myself very unexpectedly pregnant. Irregularly pregnant from the start which is why I had no clue. Sure enough, even after the spotting my blood test revealed I still was. It has been an agonizing 2 weeks of high hopes & big time stress that came to an end so quickly with one quick call from the Dr's office today. My dreams of a china doll that looked like my mother or a new brother for my boys is no longer. I can still dream, can't I? I am so sad yet so relieved to have an outcome. I would have been a wreck with an irregular pregnancy as the stakes got higher, I would have so much more to lose than I already have.

The Magic of Christmas

Awww, the Magic of Christmas does something to the soul, especially when one has young children this time of year. My oldest is just captivated by everything he sees. This is my favorite year with him for sure!







My tree is adorned with so many Christopher Radko ornaments, too many to count, but this very simple silver bulb with a small white deer stands out amongst them all. It is my favorite ornament. This bulb hung on my grandmother, Honey's tree, which means my mother hung it it too as a little girl. It is surprising it lasted this long because my mother did not care for antiques or anything old. I of course love everything old. So funny how opposite we were. When my mother was a little girl, she went to bed with nothing Christmas and woke up to a fully decorated tree and very few handmade presents. Her mother must had to work very hard all night and through the weeks before to sew and make all their presents. She was quite a talented lady and made everything they ate and wore.

Pinterest!

If you haven't joined Pinterest, what are you waiting on? I cannot tell you enough about this site! Seriously, every party or shower or school function I have attended within the past few months as been greatly enriched thanks to Pinterest! What do I mean? Well, it seems everything I go to now has the yummiest desserts or the most beautiful crafts because everyone is Pinning. Just the other night I was at a Christmas party with such delicious food. Where did the recipes come from? Pinterest of course!

Merry Christmas Brothers

Well, I never know how these boys are going to behave in front of the camera. I am still AMAZED that I managed to snap 3 great pictures for our Christmas card. My oldest of course had a stomach ache in the middle of Micanopy and no bathroom in sight. My youngest had no desire, what so ever, to be photographed. The weather was typical Florida winter weather and these boys are dressed for, well, not 80 degrees type weather. My husband just kept giving me this very irritating look, he wasn't irritated, I was irritated looking at him stand there watching it all happen. He pretty much had thrown his hands up with the boys but I was not leaving Micanopy after all of this fuss in ironing their clothes and driving 30 minutes there without some great pictures!





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Sweet Dreams Nutcracker Party

Recently, I had the splendid opportunity to put on a "Sweet Dreams Nutcracker" themed Party. Pinterest was of course the first source of inspiration in which I found all my glorious ideas. Having a very small budget was a small source of contention but I found ways to borrow and improvise as I have done for each Family Times issue. In keeping with my budget, I outsourced to a few wonderfully talented friends that came to the rescue in the form of a fondant cake in the shape of a perfectly wrapped present as well as pink frosting sugar cookies.








It was beyond exciting for me to work on this pink laden party since I am the mother to two boys. I found myself covered in pink glitter as I adorned just about everything I could find in some perfect form of pink velvet ribbon or satin fabric. Wow, how many times have I mentioned the work pink?








Thank goodness I did not have to work alone in dreaming up all of these delightfully sweet party items and decor. Our friend and stylist, Cathy Clark, was just bursting at the seams with great ideas such as the snow on our cover. It just adds such a magical feel to it all.







My friend and photographer, Kristie Griggs, of Pure Joy Photography dreamed up the entire cover. It is as if we all happened upon these beautiful ballerinas hosting a tea party in a secret garden. The ballerinas in fact are the actual Nutcracker performers in our local Marion Ballet production. Their hand sewn costumers are just divine.







Needless to say, things were a bit stressful when trying to pull of the details together but once again it all paid off as you can see.

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