Spring = Love Is In the Air

It seems my eight year old son has an admirer! Wednesday night, while sitting at the dinner table, a knock was heard at the door. He answered it and a little girl (who happens to be our neighbor, best friend, and church buddy) gave him this.

A jar filled with flowers and water with a ribbon I am sure she tied all on her own. It had a "tag" on it with his name also. The best was the note she wrote to him. After talking to her mom I found out that this was draft 2. The first was a little more straighforward .

"you are handsome dayton. I'm happy you won dayton. P.S. your wonderfull. Your friend Lily" Inside the heart it says, "you rock dayton"

AHHHHH, young love!

"count your many blessings, name them one by one"

As I was preparing for a dinner party last Saturday I stopped and was grateful for sun streaming in through the window. So I decided to take this picture.

Then I began to think about all of the things that I am grateful for and "wahlah" this post came to be!
I encourage you to pause at the little things and "count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings see what God hath done."

• my Savior, Jesus Christ
• my hubby, and all that comes with him
• my daughter who has been teaching me since the day she was born
• my son and the noble character he shows me daily
• the plan of salvation, where all of the above can be with me for eternity
• our jobs- we no longer take them for granted
• my parents- they continue to guide me to this day
• my siblings- I've learned so much from them from such a young age
• my nieces and nephews- near or far
• my family members who've passed on- I know they protect my family each day
• my friends- without them I may not get out of bed on some days
• my home
• my health- I try never to take this for granted either
• living in the United States of America- we may dwell on the negative, but we still live in the greatest country there is!

The list goes on and on, but these are the necessities that guide my life each and everyday!

Love at first sight!

Do you ever come across something that literally makes your heart skip a beat? This did it for me! Thank you!

EVERYTHING here makes me giddy, so I had to make a list so that I can remember to add them ALL to my wishlist!

• ceiling boards
• wallpaper
• distressed wainscotting
• THOSE chairs! paired with the chandelier=love!
• mismatched furniture
• shelf in unexpected spot
• fresh fruit and flowers everywhere!

BE STILL MY HEART!

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

I did something this weekend! If you'd like to read about it, click here!

Lucky Me!

Lucky me that this is the house that I grew up in!

Lucky me that when I went and visited my mom and dad yesterday my mom sent me home with these!

They were given to my parents as a wedding gift. My parents have been married for 56 years! Thanks mom, I will treasure them!

Laundry Room Offspring

You remember for Christmas my sweet hubby got me this. Since we had to cut the larger butcher bock to accomodate the window wall, we had extra. I came home one day and he had cut the scrap down into a square and routered the edges.

Now I have a custom made butcher block for my island!

I love it!!!!

Thank you so much Hubby!

"My Fair Godmother" by Janette Rallison

If you want to giggle out loud, read this!
If I were to write a book this is the book it would be! Good, clean, fun! In my heart I think I am still a boy crazy teenager so it really spoke to me. The overall message is good. Totally appropriate and I can't wait for my daughter to read it so I can hear her laugh out loud.