Sticks and Stones

I have gotten so many compliments on my stones that I thought I'd share them on my blog!

For Mothers Day this year my children painted these concrete stones we bought at Lowes and

placed them out front for me!

How sweet!! What wonderful memories and a great way to add color to any garden or front lawn!

Please excuse the mess! Our grass still needs to grow in between the stones and we are going to have the sidewalk pressured washed as well. I have no idea why the previous owners painted all the sidewalks and driveway!!! Anyway.....thats a hug project we need to tackle, but no it the hottest time of the year- so it has to wait for now!!

Oh MY!!!!

It really has been a long time since I posted on here!!

Summer is here now and I have been so busy keeping the kids occupied!

We have been doing crafts and playtime activities and last week we made edible playdough.

Oh what fun!!

The kids liked it and then they were able to eat it!

All it consists of is

equal parts

peanut butter

dry instant milk

honey.

It is yummy too.

I am also on facebook now and I love it!!

Thanks for asking about me Lori!!!

I often wonder if anyone does read my blog- at least I knew a few friends do!!!

Happy summer!!

Time flys when your having fun!

Then.....

Ok maybe it hasn't been every single day, but it's been pretty good!!

Hubby and I have been together a long time now and we have changed and growed up alot in those years.

Our kids are good people and we can be thankful for that!

Now.....

Time has flown by us, we've had a few kids and it definitely has changed us!

But we stick by each other and love each other very much!

So as we approach another anniversary this summer, I will remember all the good times and the bad and be happy we got to share them together!

Favorite treats

I love to surround myself with my favorite things!
The other day I recived a very special package from Frivolous whimsy etsy shop.



I won a tons of sweet goodies from her etsy shop!! She has amazing work and I love her creations!!
I am putting up a few things for Easter but because we will be on vacation I am not going to overboard this year!

Looking in....

Just thought I'd share some pics of my home and some of my thrift store finds. I rearranged my dining room table so it is going a different way and I think I like it. It is a small change which I like to change things up around here without getting too crazy! The living room I go back and forth with. For Christmas time I have to put the couch along the wall because of the tree, but I like it the way it is now as it seems more cozy- a little tight when we play wii, but we deal!

The tea cups I found at a thrift store. I bought 4 plates and 4 cups and paid 2.00 for it all.

The small white pitcher was .50 and the vintage hankie was 1.25, the small white bowl was only .30 and the rose plate with gold edging was 1.00. I made out pretty good yesterday. I love my thrifting. I started thrifting several years ago when my husband and I got our first place. It was so cheap to get the things we needed and I found at those prices I could also get the things I wanted. A few years later after I got pregnant with our twins I found thrifting was necessary!!

Now it has become a favorite hobby! I love the hunt!!! When I find great deals, it feels good too.

I know I got a great bargain while helping charity at the same time!!

Ok...not just a hobby....lets be honest......an addiction!!

I look for thrift stores everywhere I go!!

In fact for Easter we are traveling up north to see family and I am already planning out all the thrift stores I want to explore. I am going to plot them all out on my GPS and drag my dear hubby along for the ride!! LOL

I wonder what kind of neat stuff I will find!!

My Puppy Love tag swap

My Puppy Love tag booklet arrived the other day from Karla's cottage tag swap and I was so very excited!! Each artist had the most impressive tags and I could really see all the hard work and creativity put into each one! The one here is the cover made by Karla at Karla's cottage.
The tag featured above is so darling, but I don't see a name or blog on here so if someone reads this and it happens to be yours- I just wanted to say how much I love it!!

The tag above also is so beautiful and there is no name on this either. Each side is so beautiful!! Such amazing work!! The above tag was made by Deborah. I love the colorful pic and the back is on the most beautiful paper!!
The tag with this beautiful flower really touched me!! The back page happens to include

1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 which just happens to be mine and my husbands verse we live by since the day we were married! I thought that was a wonderful coincidence!!

The above tag was mine that I made!! How sweet!!
The next adorable tag was made by Jenny at TheRedBulletinBoard.Blogspot.com.

I love the little pic!! How very cute!

I really enjoyed being a part of the swap!!! It is so nice to get such pretties in the mail!!!

It was alot of fun and I hope to be a part of another swap sometime soon!!

Playtime

We treated the kids with a nice wooden swingset.

They all love it very much, except now everyone wants to play here even more so.

Our backyard is loaded with toys and fun stuff.

It has been nice here the past few days which makes it very easy to sit out and relax and watch the kids at play.

It looks like so much fun- I might climb up there adnd check out that slide!!!