Housewarming Party

The housewarming party went great! Bob and I are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family! Everyone had a great time and it was so good to see everyone. Since this was the first event we've hosted, I wanted a picture of the two of us :) Our dining room was transformed into an art room. I think the painting party was a great idea. Everything went smoothly and our guests left with their own masterpieces to 'warm' their homes. We are looking forward to hosting many more parties in our home!

Enjoy the snapshots!

Friday Favorites

1. Healthy Sexy Hair shampoo/conditioner
I had been using Redken Smooth Down, but decided to try something different. I always buy my shampoo by the liters from the salon- you get more for your money and it lasts longer. I also love the Root Pump from Big Sexy Hair.

2. Hard as Wraps clear nail polish
I was definitely not blessed with gorgeous, strong nails. Instead, mine are brittle and peel easily. This is the best nail strengthener I've ever used.

3. Matt Nathanson
I love his music! In fact, some of his tunes are on the music player at the bottom of my blog.

4. Nik-L- Nips
Say that one five times fast :) Does anyone else remember these? They were my favorites as a kid. One of my coworkers brought a bag for her students and I had to have a few. I didn't know they still made these. For those of you who aren't familiar, they are wax bottles with a candy drink inside.

5. Painting
This was taken at a painting party I attended at the end of September. The artist that led the party is who I've booked for my housewarming party. I'm really excited! My faithful blog readers might remember my trips to Mobile to paint with my dear friend, T.

6. Sleep
In my old age I'm early to bed and late to rise. :) By 7:30 p.m. I'm showered, in my pj's, and trying my best to stay up until 8! Sleeping a minimum of 12 hours is a breeze for me. These days, I just feel so old. I think I sleep more than my grandmother.

7. FCA
FCA meets every Wednesday morning at 7. It's inspiring to see high school students give up extra sleeping time in order to get to school 45 minutes early to fellowship and learn about Christ. Last Thursday the FCA hosted Fields of Faith. It was a great turnout! (Oh, rising early for events like this is why I need so much of #6).

8. A&W Root Beer Float
For those of you without an A&W nearby, Wendy's also has their version (a Frosty Float). It's pretty good but I still prefer A&W's.


9. Father of the Bride I & II

10. TLC's Sister Wives
Does anyone else watch this show? While the idea of polygamy is downright crazy to me, I'm still hooked on the show. Sister Wives follows the life of Kody and his four wives (Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn), his 13 biological children, and three step children.

Happy Friday

Thursday's Thoughtful

Last week at our FCA meeting one of my fellow teacher's pointed something out about our purpose. Then, at Fields of Faith, the speaker mentioned the same idea. It goes a little like this........


We're not just saved so that we can go to heaven. If Jesus saved us just to go to heaven, then the minute we were saved he would have taken us home. Instead, we are still walking the Earth. Yes, we are heaven bound, but while we are still on this Earth we have a mission: to spread the good news and help others find their way to Jesus.

It's something to think about isn't is?



Have a great Thursday!

Housewarming Invitations

Invitations ordered from www.tinyprints.com
You may remember I also ordered our moving announcements from there.

I wanted to do something a little different for our housewarming party. So, I've booked an artist to come and give a painting lesson (hence the $30 artist fee on the invitation). The guests will get to choose a picture and the artist will walk them through the process of creating their own masterpiece. Everyone will get to take home a canvas painting to hang in their home.

I opted for a casual Sunday afternoon party with light refreshments and a few close family members and friends. I cannot wait to see everyone!


Oh, but don't let my excitement fool you. I've been super busy trying to finish last minute projects before the big party. I just hope I can get everything done in time!

Thursday's Thoughtful

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin

Fabulous Find

Remember this ruched duvet from Pottery Barn? I've been drooling over it for quite some time now.

Well, while browsing through one of my favorite bargain stores with the hubby, we came across this.......

Please excuse the dark pics, they were taken with my iPhone.

Love it- and the money I saved!

It came with the comforter, pillow shams, and bed skirt, and two decorative pillows- plus it was a fraction of what PB's version cost.

You may remember that white made my Friday Favorites list a while back.... I love my all white bedding. Every time I look at it I smile :)

The master bedroom is now complete.... stay tuned for pictures of it and our office (you thought I'd forgotten).

around the house

Our Home- The Laudry Room

Before....

• A truly hideous shade of yellow. It was almost neon.
• There was a hole in the wall where a sink/cabinet combo should have been.
• The wall above the stairs was just sheet rock- did not even have primer.
  
• Non of the doors, trim, window seals, or baseboards were painted.
  

After.....

• Paint color: Subtle Oatlands Taupe. (A light khaki color with gray undertones).
• Trim color: Du Jour
• We installed a cabinet/sink combo, and storage cabinets above the sink.
  
• We spent countless hours caulking doors, trim, molding, etc... I spent an entire day on my knees just painting the baseboards.
• Made curtains for the windows.

The back door looks much better now that it's painted. It was a dingy primer white.

Found this little guy at Ross back in the Spring. It was only $8!

We still have to install trim for the staircase. We've just been lazy lately. :)
Please excuse the tackle boxes/fishing gear on the stairs.
Half bath in laundry room.

And lastly, the view from the windows :)

I am very blessed to have a large laundry room. Our LR before was barely big enough for one person to squeeze into! :) Our new laundry room is bigger than our old master bedroom. I still want to add a potted plant or two, some decorative pieces on the walls, and maybe a bench.


On the sewing front, I finally got around to unpacking all of my sewing gear. My first project was curtains. I'm really liking the curtains I made for the laundry room. I tried several different things with them before deciding on just a simple valance.

My messy breakfast table :) It's serving as my sewing spot until we can get my official sewing room painted.

It took me forever to decide on fabric.

I thought I wanted something like this, but once I hung them I decided against the idea. Instead, I'm going to use this version in our office.

I think the simple valance worked best.

I'm posting before/after pics of our office next. Stay tuned....

Homecoming Week

Consider yourself warned.
This post will probably come across as boring and long to most of you- but I wanted to post it for the sake of my journal.

Our theme was "Peace Love and Bulldogs- Groovin' down in Bulldog Town'.
Monday was 70's day.
Tuesday was crazy hair day. The day before I read the book Stephanie's Ponytail, so all the girls in my room wore a crazy ponytail (even me, but I thought I'd spare you the picture ;) )
Wednesday was Country/Western day.
Thursday was twin day.
Friday was purple and gold day (our school colors).

There was a door decorating contest, and a first-second-third place winner for each building. I have an AMAZING group of parents this year. One in particular, whom I will call Crafty Momma volunteered to decorate my door for me. You may remember my post about receiving a 'happy' on my first day of school, well this mom is the one who sent it to me.

Crafty Momma did an excellent job! Our door won first place for our building! The kiddos were thrilled! I also had several parents (including Crafty Momma) volunteer to do our float for the homecoming parade. They took care of everything and we had the best float at the parade! ;)

I tried snapping a few pics, but they didn't turn out to well. Sorry!

I am blessed to have such a great group of parents!

Since it was a 70's theme, all of the kiddos brought a white t-shirt. We tie-dyed them so they would all have matching shirts to wear on the float. At 12:00 on Friday I was up to my eyeballs in tie-dying! To make it simple, we just used markers to color the shirts. Here are some pics- I thought they turned out great.

The kiddos coloring the 'stubs' as they called it (the parts twisted with rubber bands).

The finished product.

Homecoming week was a blast! I had to work the game last night, but it was still a fun game! We won, 63-0. Everyone showed great school spirit- and we all had a fun, exciting week.

But, this first grade teacher is looking forward t0 a regular week of school starting Monday. I'm exhausted!

Happy October

I'm in love with today- it's the first day of my favorite month! The weather lately has be gorgeous and life could not be any sweeter! I have the urge to carve a pumpkin, rakes some leaves, or take a drive with my sunroof back and my windows down.

Ahhhh..... October! What took you so long :)

I hope you all have a fabulous Friday!

I plan on replicating this for our front porch. Perfection!

On a side note: Tonight is our Homecoming Game. GO SWEET WATER BULLDOGS! :)