My Husband Rocks Birthday Bash!!

My husband rocks at my wonderful, amazing sister in law Katy's blog is celebrating their first birthday. Go visit her and enter the great giveaways!!

Finally, pictures!!

Ok, I am alive lol it has been so crazy around here, and I apologize for promising pictures and then taking forever...but here they are!! We are loving the carpet and all the new changes we have made. Oh and please excuse all the spots or weird things in the pictures...its my camera...grrr...

These are the beautiful peonies that Tom cut outside for me :) Just had to add a picture of them!

Up close picture of the carpet and railing, and this was taken over the weekend before the carpet was in downstairs thats why you still see bare floors in the bottom of the picture lol
Going down the hallway from our bedroom to our bathroom....
Our bedroom...
Another of our bedroom...this was also taken before the door was back on...
end table in our bedroom...
Stairway from the foyer...where that panelling is, used to be the doorway into the middle room, wow how things have changed! 
Here is what the foyer looks like now, carpet and laminte flooring by the front door...
We were finally able to hang up some decorations we got from a family friend for CHRISTMAS! seriously, its about time...lol...these are hung in the foyer....
our name doile that we got as a wedding gift, hanging in the foyer as well...
This says "Live by faith, one day at a time" got that on clearance at a craft store...also hanging in the foyer...
This is from the middle room into the living room(Hi Tom) disregard the spots...grrr...
Our new ceiling fan...
One side of the middle room/sitting room, and yes thats a coffee table with no top lol...I am going to paint it, it has a lot cool detail to it and we got it at a garage sale for $5, and we are going to put cool tile in the top or something...oh and that desk, has really cool handles on it and stuff, got that on freecycle, also going to paint that too...
Another Christmas gift decoration...
Bigger overview of the middle room/sitting room...
Our buffet thing we got from Tom's parents, we love this thing!...also the cross in the middle we got for $1.50 at hobby lobby in their Christmas clearance because it was a stocking holder and the hook was broken, but Tom ground the hook off, and wa-la! :) I have a beautiful quilt that was also a Christmas gift that will hang above here when we get something made to hold it up there...
Another(brighter) view...
the other side of the same room...
new stairway to the basement, and those are bookshelves that will have shelves in the eventually...
My new closet :)
Another Christmas gift decoration...love it!
looking up the basement stairs....
looking up, just from further down...
looking down the stairs....
This shows the first set of stairs before the landing, and also the cute baskets I also got for Christmas, love it all so much!!...

There ya have it...finally! lol...whatcha think? I love it, and hope you all do as well!! 

Exhausted

It has been a really long time since I last blogged, but like I said awhile back, we've been super busy with finishing up the house...and right now I barely know what day it is, I'm exhausted, and can seriously barely move...and yet I still have a bunch of cleaning, laundry and then helping Tom move furniture tonight, all for carpet tomorrow, but thats just the upstairs, then this weekend we will move the downstairs furniture for carpet downstairs on Monday...and then I am taking a BREAK!! lol Well sorta, our summers are always so busy....anyways...sorry to rattle on. I am not complaining, I am so grateful that we can get all this stuff done, and feel beyond blessed that after wanting carpet for 3 years or so, we are getting it...I need to write a post on paitence=good deals sometime lol another day...

Anyways, I will post all sorts of pictures after the carpet is in...nothing else is really new right now....so until next week...hope you guys have a great weekend!!

NEW BALANCE shoes giveaway, check it out!!

I love shoes, and I really like New Balance tennis shoes! over at Peanut Butter and Smelly's Dad's blog, there are some great giveaways to enter, this being one of them...and man oh man are there TONS of ways to enter...so go over to their blog by clicking on the blog title.. :)

Mother's Day

I'm not always best with words, but I heard about this first over at my friend Molly's 2nd blog...make sure to check out her personal blog too, she is a really great friend!! (click on Molly's name and it will take you to her personal blog, and click on "2nd blog" and it will take you to the 2nd blog, that I am referring to) but after reading it on her blog, Tom read a story about it in the newspaper as well...but as many women anticipate mother's day with the flowers , the applause to recognize mothers at church, and the cute gifts from your children...there are many other women who dread that day...who think about skipping church, JUST so they don't have to deal with the pain of empty arms and staying seated during the applause for mothers, knowing their story in their heart, and fight back tears...

That's why this Saturday is Birth mother's day...from what I understand it was first intended for birth mothers who have selflessly given their babies up for adoption, and then they decided to include all women who have empty arms....birth mothers, women who can not have children, those who have had miscarriages, those who have met their children, and then had to give them back to Jesus...so this weekend, when you are celebrating with your family, and standing in church, think about the women who won't be.Who won't be celebrating with their children physically, but who will be thinking of them and remembering them in their hearts,or the women who have never been pregnant,but long to be a mother as well, and hold HER baby in her arms. 

I am so excited this is being recognized! I really think this sort of thing isn't talked about enough...people don't know how to handle grief or uncomfortable situations with others who might be feeling down...but it really isn't hard...most times, women who are experiencing this pain of empty arms, all they want is for someone to acknowledge them and their feelings, and that what they are feeling is REAL...so this Saturday AND Sunday...let a mother know you are thinking about them or praying for them...and remembering them this weekend...weather their children are in Heaven, in their arms, or in their heart. 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!! 

busy,busy,busy!!

Well its been awhile since I have blogged...but I was hoping to have my next giveaway project done before blogging again...but I don't...I'm trying to get our house back in order from the finish of the construction project of the middle room and basement stairs...and now my next important thing is to get the foyer,upstairs hallway and the stairway in between painted, before the carpet is installed in a few weeks! So that is where I have been, just busy around the house...anyways...i will be back soon!! :) I can't wait till I can post pictures of everything when its done too..:)

FREE stuff!

I am part of our local freecycle group, which it really pays to live in a bigger city in this area for sure, because we have gotten a lot of great stuff from it for us, as well as our friends and family! Check it out, if you haven't looked into it at www.freecycle.org, there is probably a group in your area as well! 

Anyways, take a look at all this...

I got ALL of that beautiful china from a fellow freeecycler! :) and it looks great in our china cabinet we got from our Tom's parents. (I had a picture of it by itself, but Blogger is being tempermental tonight) (also disregard all the dust...lol)