Welcome to Food Friday where the salmon melts in your mouth and the boys eat lemons. This recipe was based off a Pinterest Pin that didnt take me to any site so here is my variation on the pin with w...
All AJ was waiting for was a special ladder to finish painting the side of the house... it had been a little under two years since he and his friend Brian painted it initially but these awkward eves ...
Last time anyone heard anything about our walkway it looked like this: We had just laid stone dust and didnt do much else. But, when we made our new patio in the back we took the cement pavers (...
After about two and a half years of living here Ive had it with this teal rug. Remember that line from The Wedding Planner when Jennifer Lopez said "teal is the color of gangrene"? Yeah, I th...
I like a good white ceramic bird and a party theme well carried out. Todays post involves birds (albeit, not white ceramic ones) and a theme very well implemented. AJ, Drew and I went to a 2nd birthd...
It all started with a boy and his chickens. A boy with a diaper that was falling off. (Hed been playing in a pool of water. :)) Actually this recipe came about because we get six eggs a day from our ...
I promised I would fill you in on what happened with the chairs in our living room. Well, here is the scoop: They are now making for very comfy seating at the dining room table! I know they are a smi...
I was contacted the other day by Liz, a woman who sells MyMemories digital scrapbooking software, and she wanted to host a giveaway on the blog. {More details at the bottom!} She sent me the MyM...
I found this great tutorial for making a growth ruler (a Pottery Barn knockoff) at the blog 320 Sycamore and we had the perfect spot to place it in our front entryway. Anyone else have an a...
Thank you for all your encouraging words when I shared about feeling like I would fail the real estate test... I passed. :) Saturday was my big day... I told only a few people when my exam would be b...
I mentioned the other day that I told AJ I didnt want anything for Mothers Day except to have the freedom to put some money towards a rug. The living room has been driving me crazy for a while and Iv...
Remember when our bedroom looked like this? Well, this weekend AJ spent some time cutting, sawing, lugging, climbing and generally being precise to install three new windows into our bedroom! He stil...
I had a magnificent Mothers Day weekend... It was so special and fun and relaxing. I feel like we dont nail the relaxing thing so well usually but this weekend we did, and boy was it good... Saturday...
I had a vision, while in the middle of the grocery store at the beginning of last week, to give our moms a giant kitchen herb and make them some cloth napkins for Mothers Day. Id been wanting to try ...
Some images from this month that make me happy this Mothers Day... I love this even though you cant see their faces... they were playing in a tire structure and I love how AJ is holding Drew. :) We h...
I was inspired to create this post after Shannon sent me the link to this amazing invite her friend,Candis, created for her sons first birthday. You know that I love nautical decor (hence, Drews room...
You know what? I had two years after I took the real estate class to take the exam… and here I am in the last few months studying like a crazy person. I’m not normally a procrastinator. It was someth...
I wasnt sure what to blog about today. In all my free time Ive been studying for my real estate exam, not creating. I sort of hate the days I havent created something... even if its just making a bat...
After uploading all the photos Im realizing this post is going to look a little bit "shrine-y". My apologies, you can stop reading now. :) I just wanted to capture our updated mantle fro...
Want a go-to recipe when you have people coming over this spring or summer and dont feel like making something over the top? Try my Summer Salad and add some grilled chicken to it. I promise you wont...
My best friend is having a baby on or around August 8. This calls for a HUGE celebration... okay, well, its not huge, it just calls for an incredibly special celebration... I wanted he...
Youve seen from our master bedroom that we are going for soothing tones of gray and white, right? Well, I love our bedroom, in all of its unfinished glory, but felt the need to add some feminine tone...
I have finally finished putting the finishing touches on my thriller, filler and spiller window boxes. When you last saw them they just had the pansies and arborvitaes, but after my walk through Beac...
First off, before I start talking about Christinas kitchen I want to show you the passage I read in Luke this morning: Then Jesus entered and walked through Jericho. There was a man there, his name Z...
Who of your stopped over to Allisons blog yesterday and saw my guest post on a budget kitchen makeover? Well, if you did, you know today Im going to be giving two blog readers some ideas for their ki...
Please welcome Allison Lundstrom from Whatever the Circumstances blog... I think youll have fun reading about her new house and all that she has planned for it! Allison and I decided to do a guest po...
Ive hesitated to post this, even though its been done since February, because I never wanted Meredith to think I was exploiting her for the sake of a blog post. I asked her last night if she would mi...
The other day I said to AJ that we should have a kitchen herb garden right outside the window above our sink and then I had a brainstorm... I should use the planter we made from the pallet ...
First off, let me just set the scene... Im sitting here at the kitchen island drinking a healthy smoothie with kale (yep, you dont even taste that super food in it) and as Im uploading pict...
Remember my post about the window boxes I found in Boston while visiting Meredith? AJ and I were inspired to make some of our own BUT keep in mind that they arent done. We still need ivy spillin...
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