Jan 2nd…

Happy 25th Anniversary. It hasn’t all been grins and giggles, but it has been a great ride! We went to Sportsmans Grill for dinner. It was wonderful!!

A new year a new start … AGAIN! lol

I am trying again to do a project life/project 365 again this year. I will try to post pictures everyday and scrapbook layouts as I do them. We shall see how that works out!!

We rang in the New Year with New York this year! So even though it was before midnight I am counting these as day one pictures!!

So here is our new year start:

My “fly” photo submission in the Epiphanie Camera Bags + My Four Hens photo contest! http://bit.ly/junephotocontest

During our recent trip to Mississippi we went to Ship Island and the girls wanted a “typical holding hands jumping” photo.  After a coupoe trys we got a great picture.

It fit well with this months Epiphanie Camera Bag Theme “Fly”.

My “fly” photo submission in the Epiphanie Camera Bags + My Four Hens photo contest! http://bit.ly/junephotocontest

 

My “fly” photo submission in the Epiphanie Camera Bags + My Four Hens photo contest! http://bit.ly/junephotocontest

During our recent trip to Mississippi we went to Ship Island and the girls wanted a “typical holding hands jumping” photo.  After a coupoe trys we got a great picture.

It fit well with this months Epiphanie Camera Bag Theme “Fly”.

My “fly” photo submission in the Epiphanie Camera Bags + My Four Hens photo contest! http://bit.ly/junephotocontest

 

My “fly” photo submission in the Epiphanie Camera Bags + My Four Hens photo contest! http://bit.ly/junephotocontest

During our recent trip to Mississippi we went to Ship Island and the girls wanted a “typical holding hands jumping” photo.  After a coupoe trys we got a great picture.

It fit well with this months Epiphanie Camera Bag Theme “Fly”.

My “fly” photo submission in the Epiphanie Camera Bags + My Four Hens photo contest! http://bit.ly/junephotocontest

 

More Pinteresting

I saw these on Pinterest

And thought to myself, hey those would make great gifts.  So off to Hobby Lobby for canvases, letters and scrapbook paper for the projects.  I put these in the mail today to Nessa and Kai for their birthdays coming up.

I think they turned out great!

I hope the girls like them.

A new menu board

I have tried many different menu ideas.  I have created this one (based off one Sarah made for me a long time ago that worked wonderful till the Main board disappeared).  We wil see how this one works, so far so good!

Pinterest again!!

I saw this cute heart wreath on Pinterest.

So I followed the link to this blog.

I checked Walmart, JoAnns, Michaels and Hobby Lobby for a heart shaped wreath and the only one I found was too small.  So I went with a circular wreath (but that means I can use it for other holidays too!  I bought the wreath, the felt and the straight pins (about $10 for all).  And this morning I got “jiggy” with it!

I made a pattern about 3″ in diameter our of the cardboard box from last nights dinner.

 

So then I started cutting the circles.

 

Then, I started pinning the the felt.  Being a uniform type of person, I started in a straight row and decided quickly this wasn’t going to work.

After rearranging (I did this quite a few times) and puffing things up, I was well under way.

And after a while it was looking good!

After 110 felt circles and one foam wreath, here is the finished project hanging on a closet door

And it now proudly hangs on the front door to greet visitors.

A whirlwind trip

to Austin and back.  We spent 30 hours on the road, drove almost 2000 miles and was in Austin for 34 hours.  Expensive, necessary and 200% worth it!  We now have all our belongings in Franklin and we spent 34 wonderous hours with Sarah!!  Plus, since Rachel spent each night with Sarah, Chuck and I got some alone time too!  All in all a wonderful trip!

Another Pinterest Project

I saw these family blocks and new they would make a great hybrid project, so off to the craft stores to find some blocks.  I only found 1 package at Hobby Lobby, so I started and will do more once Hobby Lobby gets in more blocks!  So I started with CHuck and I and the 5 kids.  Will add inlaw kids and grandkids as I get more blocks.

All the pictures are pretty recent.  All since October except for Aaron’s, his was from 2010.  (doesn’t that sound like it was so long ago?!?!