Rollercoasters scare me to death!! The feeling of falling and almost dying is not fun for me at all. But I don't want my kids to feel like me. I want them to love the excitement. When I was younger, I remember doing Space Mountain at Disney World, which is a rollercoaster in the dark, over and […]
Month: June 2013
ADOPTION ~ introducing our beautiful monkey girl!
Eight years ago plus one day, we sat in an orphanage office half way around the world awaiting the arrival of our two new daughters. Today is our youngest daughter's ninth birthday. Time flew by so fast in between these two occurences in my life it's unbelievable! It seems like yesterday that I met this […]
PICTURES ARE THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL ~ of the family!
I LOVE using old and discarded things as creative decorations. I also LOVE pictures. I love creating photo albums, cool photo gallery walls, unique pictures inside cool frames. So when I see an AWESOME picture frame like this Source I copy, copy, copy!!!! On one of my many trips to the ReStore […]
KICKING OUT THE KICK SPACE ~ trimming off the bottom space of our cabinets
We got a little work done on our family room built-ins last week. How exciting!! If you can remember we bought a whole set of kitchen cabinets from The Habitat for Humanity ReStore. We got a little side tracked with the tv niche. But the LOML thinks he wants to do "easy" cuts […]
RIPPING OUT BASEBOARD ~ and getting a little frustration out!
We were very busy this weekend getting a little frustration out and getting a lot of work done all at the same time! We're building built-in bookcases on one whole side of our family room. I've primed the ReStore cabinets we bought with two coats of KILZ. Tomorrow I'll paint two coats of white […]