Snowy

Today was a beautiful, snowy day!  There are quite a few pictures for today because I just loved it and had lots of moments I wanted to remember.

My new favorite picture of this crazy kid :)

Winter wonderland in the back alley.

Sweet potato chips!  

Catch in the freezing cold because this cutie had cabin fever.

Happy Day 31 of 365 :)

HJ

More photos of my favorite little boy :)  I love the days I get to hang out with him!

My memories from day 28/365

I'm not feeling clever

Sometimes coming up with a blogpost title is hard.  I'm not always in the clever mood.

 25/365 The finished purple shelf in the living room!  I love it :)

26/365 The food pantry and the city wide garage sale

A case of the winter blues

I have a case of the winter blues.  It takes a lot more effort to bring my camera out and catch life when I am not feeling amazing.  Nonetheless here are snapshots from the past few days.

18/365 My sweet baby lounging during family movie time :)

20/365 My favorite ladies and I at the murder mystery party with church.  The theme was Mad Men and it was so fun!

21/365 The new shelves are up in my office and they give me so much space on my desktop!  I also love having a bunch of books lined up filled with topics I love :)  

22/365 Laura and I took a lunch time trip to a local antique mall and I found this tray for $9!  I am going to use it as a magnet message board in my office.

23/365 A few of my great grandmother's handkerchiefs.  I plan to frame a few in our kitchen and bathroom and I cannot wait to have them on display.

Pray for the blues to go away.  I love every one of you!

Morning

This was my morning today.

I like mornings.  I love having time to myself at home to sit, enjoy my coffee, and look around at all I have to be thankful for.  It is easy to get caught up in the dreaming of "someday" and forget that I need to be content with the life that I have.  My life is beautiful and it is the life God has blessed me with right now.

Happy day 16 of 365 :)

The Girls Are Back In Town

Classes started back up today!  I only have one seated course this semester so it did not feel very different to me, but it did mean that both of my office friends were back :)  Last week was really quiet so it was nice to have company.

I'm nervous about this semester but excited at the same time.  I am taking more classes about family development, but the classes are going to push me.  It is good but scary.  Pray for me please :)

Day 14 of 365

Two For One

I am combining yesterday and today's posts into one because in the rush to finish projects I failed to blog photos yesterday.

We have been hard at work making shelves for our living room, bedroom, and spare bedroom (which also houses my office).  Yesterday was rainy and cold here so it was an easy day to stay inside and get work done.

As paint, stain, and wood glue was drying I decided to work on a shadow box of our wedding stationary that I have been meaning to finish for a while.  I found the shadow box for a couple of dollars at a local thrift store and just needed to recover the back panel and attach my items to it.

Putting together brought back so many good memories of our wedding season.  And now I get to look at it every day as it sits on the shelves we finished for our bedroom!  The shelves are made with 1x3 for the back and base and a 1x2 for the front ledge.  We made two four foot long shelves to display pictures and memories in our bedroom.  The whole project cost $5 for lumber plus wood glue.  

Tomorrow we both go back to school which is bittersweet.  I have loved this one on one time as well as the chance to get caught up around the house, but I am also excited to get back to learning about my passion.  

Happy day 13 of 365.  For anyone going back to school tomorrow good luck on this coming semester!