Spring Break {We’re Back}

Well Hello there!  I didn’t mean to take a week off and not even give you any warning.  We rented a cabin up in the Smoky Mountains for Spring Break.  We thought there was internet — but there wasn’t.  So, despite the fact that I had my laptop, I ended up taking a complete break, from...

Remember that project Dad and I started?

Here’s how it ended up.   Dad and I only got halfway done before he left.  I was never sure about it.  Wes and I looked at it for 5 days before we decided to tear it out.   Luckily only $100 worth of material had been cut and used and we were able to return the rest so it wasn’t a...

Bllissdom 2012 Whirlwind

Blissdom 2012.  The last 2 weeks have been a whirlwind of activity with my parents here for Maddie’s birthday and then Blissdom.  Fun, but a whirlwind.   (For those of you who don’t know what Blissdom is:  It’s a blog conference.  A place we go to meet each other, be inspired and...

It’s kind of exciting…

…to see pictures of something you dreamed up and created in a magazine!  WHAT? Yep, that’s my Picture Frame Collage Wall there on page 140 of Small Room Decorating, Spring 2012.   I had been contacted about using those photos for a different magazine and was expecting to see them in...

Meet: Brody!

If you somehow happened to miss my news yesterday…we got a puppy!  His name is “Brody”. He is a Mini Schnoodle (which is a mini Schnauzer and mini Poodle mix).  He is tiny now and will be about 10 pounds when full grown.  We’ve been looking for about 4 months and finally found...

2011 in Review

Hope you all enjoyed (or at least survived) Christmas and New Years!  We had a low key, Staycation here at home.  It was great but I’m ready for structure again.  So much to do in 2012! 2011 was so jam packed with goings-on that I can hardly believe it all happened in one year! In January, Wes...

Why we don’t send Christmas Cards

We try, every year, but it’s so hard to take a decent picture with the lot I’ve chosen!  Someone is always making faces or gestures… of one sort or another! I love ‘em like crazy even when they DRIVE me crazy (which is hardly ever…or all the time, depending on the day)!  And...

Sometimes I throw a Tizzy Fit

Do you ever feel like laying down, pounding your fist and feet on the floor and moaning about having to do something? Do you ever do it? I felt like it this morning…and I did! 1 …more...

Clingman’s Dome

Sunday, after Madison’s fun but exhausting Halloween Sleepover party on Friday/Saturday, we needed some peace and quiet. (Come to find out, when you send six 12 year old girls to bed at an already questionably unhealty hour, they don’t actually put their heads down on their pillows and lay still...