Little did she know...

22. up and over while the babes wait for music practice to be over...  23. get real real talk right here. #bedroomstruggles 24. days end smokey skies at sunset 25. first thing coffee and wake up snuggles. 26. think about it 27. bite size 28. dress up 29. candy ...or something like that...  30. pretend if I can't see you, you can't see me. 31. trick or treat we party hard around here...

I did a bit more "cheating" for this week of pictures. I prefer to call it "borrowing" from other days. ;)  11. create my sister is really great at creating teachable experiences that are woven into every day moments. 12. night life technically, this was sunrise. but in my mind, same same. 13. musical the baby cousins. also, my focusing skills are lacking. 14. happy day Uncle Jon is the best. 15. cuddle 16. discover 17. the boss good thing he's cute. 18. oops don't worry, I helped her up. 19. special all of my plant babies come from special people in my life and from special times in my life.  20. silliness singing songs during missionary conference brings out the silliness in the adults, as these kids soon discovered. 21. favorite photo this is not a picture of my favorite photo (how would I ever choose?), but it is my favorite photo that I took that day.

I have been itching to paint some furniture! Since we have had such a wet spring/early summer, it's been hard to find a time that I could haul everything outside and leave it to dry and not worry about it getting rained on. So this past week, I finally just decided to bite the bullet and start the ball rolling indoors.  I have had this bookshelf that my BIL made for me years ago.. I never stained it, or sealed it or painted it... it has just sat there naked in the corner of the room year after year. We have been overhauling our catch-all room, aka guest room, in segments and this bookshelf is about to be put to use, so I decided it was now or never! wouldn't be the first time that our kitchen served as a work shop!  I loved this tutorial that I used for crates we had at our wedding. Easy peasy. Fun to watch. And mostly free! So I thought, what the heck. I will give it a go on this bookshelf, and see where I want to go from there!  I hau...

One of the reasons that I l.o.v.e Christmas season is all of the lights -they make things so sparkly and warm and cozy!  First married Christmas. I'm a fan. one of my favorite hand-me-downs from my grandma's Precious Moments collection. We can see who the favorite is around here...