Summer Days

the summer days have been long here..........these girls are soooo full of it. but yet time is flying by sooo fast. kennedy starts kindergarten in less than one month. august 17th to be exact.

 We are on week 2 of swim lessons. The girls are in different levels. So lessons have been consuming half of our day........in the scorching heat. They don't even seem to notice it though.

Kennedy has been seeing some of her friends a lot this summer! Swim lessons and play dates seem to be her life.

It feels as if summer is almost over with school nearing. The heat has been exhausting BUT strangely enough it i actually kind of like it. If we could get some much needed rain then I would love it.  I am already starting to miss summer with the thought of it being gone. It's just so easy to love when you have little faces like these to enjoy it with.

Visitors!!!

We recently had some visitors......our friends Layne & Beth and their kids Caden and Brynn.
They came to visit for the day.  It was the beginning of this inferno heat wave that seems to be here to stay in Kansas.  So needless to say it was HOT.

The Mom's sucked it up and put on their suits to enjoy some fun with the kiddos while the Dads grilled and held down the shade.  I think our high that particular day was somewhere around 105degrees.

It's crazy how the kid comes out in ya once you bust out a kid pool and slip n' slide. Only these days as a grown up you "feel it" the next day where as when you were a kid............you didn't even know what it meant to "feel it".

Dana had to tend to his peppers, jalapenos, watermelons, onions and corn during the scorching day too

And Layne pulled through for Gentry and Brynn with some swing time

It was such a laid back visit.  So enjoyable. At ease.  Good food. Good conversation. Great friends. And the kids (w/ the normal meltdown or two) did pretty darn good themselves!

Thanks for coming!
You can visit the Parry's over @ their blog on my sidebar
You also may have to slick the little film strip of pictures to really catch the moves Kennedy and Caden had jumping in the pool.  Pretty Priceless!!!

Our 4th

We had a really nice 4th. Spent a lot of time with family. And didn't take too many pics. So here is just a little taste.

We watched the fireworks back home on Saturday night.  Kennedy loved them this year.  She didn't even plug her ears........but that was not the case for these two who have probably set some kind of record for number of ear infections and tubes.  Dylan is on his second set.  So they watched from the suburban!

And on Sunday spent some quality time on the farm

Ryan and Krista playing with their dog Bailey and Mom & Dad's dog Zoey

 And the girls getting spoiled by Grammy.  She let them watch a movie on her iPad.

Part 2....THE REVEAL!!!!

OK.......SO YOU HAVE WAITED AND WAITED.......AND WAITED SOME MORE
Here it is.........thank you for being so patient............HA! as if you had a choice

I had major issues while taking these pics........it's summer.....which means lots of light.  Sometimes that's good for pics.  Sometimes it's not.  It was not working for me while taking these pics.  So sorry if they.......well....suck.

The shelf came from Michael's.  I got a 40% off coupon. You know, the ones they give out all the time towards one regular priced item.  The letters came from Hobby Lobby.  They were gold and 50% off.  I spray painted them.  A lot of my frames were ones I had that I spray painted as well.  Any new ones came from Target.

Here is the view from the doorway of Dana's bathroom. Trying to decide whether to decorate the walls to the sides of the dresser.  Don't want to go overboard though.

My $8 mirror from Joanie's Junk. Didn't even paint it.  She did.  You can also get a look at the wallpaper on the wall behind the bed.  I am in love with it.  It's paintable and you can't even tell that I papered over paneling. It came from Lowe's.  And YES...........I hung it all my self.

These candle sticks came from Joanie's Junk as well.  Already painted too. I bought the glass @ Walmart for majorly cheap along w/ the gold sand and sea shells.The votives in the inside are flameless and they flicker. Works great with the little kiddos.  They are turning them on all the time at night.  They think its awesome.

I LOVE PLANTS (and flowers too).  They are sooooo one of my weaknesses.  I could spend my life savings on them.  I got this one at Lowe's and I absolutely adore it.  It was $8!!!!

Curtain rods and shades came from Lowe's.  Shades were on Clearance!!! Had to get 4 of them.  Two per window b/c they didn't make one big enough for the whole window.  I payed $40 for all of the shades TOTAL. The curtains are actually FLAT BED SHEETS!!! Walmart sells flat bed sheets for $10.  I got one for each window.  Split them down the middle.  Hemmed the sides and bottoms. And made a pocket for the rods. Curtains = $20 TOTAL!!!

Uppercase Living is where I got this.  I chose the colors and put it above our closet doors.

Bedding is from Target..........and I can not tell you how much I love it.  So soft and comfy.

Lamp and shade are from Target as well.  The side table has a small piece of burlap under the glass that I had cut in the fabric section @ Hobby Lobby.

And that's it folks!!! Hope you have enjoyed the long awaited tour!!!!

Oh and a few more things.  I used the Valspar paint from Lowe's with the primer in it to cover my old paint. It was well worth the money and probably saved me money in the end since I didn't do any primering.

Bedroom Makeover Part 1

So here's the deal.........the camera battery died and needs to be recharged before I can load the "After" pics onto my computer. So I am making a "Part 1" post that will only give the before and during.  Tomorrow though will have the after pictures.

Here is what our bedroom looked like before...................

I liked it.  I really did.  But I was tired of it.  It was this way for 5 years.  Probably the longest any room in our entire house has gone with out being changed.

I love white trim.  My whole house would have thick, wide, chunky white trim if it were up to me.
So I decided to paint it white (not the first room in our house to get trim painted)
The wall behind our bed got papered and painted w/ paintable wallpaper.  Probably one of my most favorite things about the "after".
Here is a taste of what it looked like while "in transformation"

I KNOW.........looks scary......like super duper messy
BUT wait til you see the after.................!!!!!

T-Ball

This week marks the last week of t-ball for the summer.....and I am actually really going to miss it.  It has been so fun watching Miss Kennedy play.  She has done a fabulous job playing all this summer!  Some moments are so funny you are in tears.

After all it is just t-ball....it's all about the fundamentals!

There were 4 t-ball teams here this summer!  Quite a few for such a small town.  So pretty much every team has some of Kennedy's friends on it.  If you click on the collage and enlarge it you can see her friend Lane doing his happy dance in the upper right corner!!!!  Too Dang Funny!!! And in the lower right corner you can see her friend Jill.....shading her eyes from the sun........with her glove!!!!!

Here you can see what happens to poor Miss Emery's hair when caught in the wind while watching her big sis play.....like i said....the girl can grow some serious hair on top but we're still working on the sides!!!!

Here is Kennedy getting some hits off of her coach!  They now get 4 pitches from their coach before they hit off the tee.

Gentry and Emery are giving some love in the middle.  And on the bottom right is Brock.....the coache's son.....Mr. ALL-STAR.  Literally....no joke.  This kid is amazing at the age of 5.  There is no doubt in my mind this kid will play college ball someday.

This is Amie. She is the coaches daughter....aka Brock's sister.  She is also Kennedy's friend.  Kennedy just loooooves her.  She is the sweetest little girl and Amie is no bigger than a minute. So petite!

 As you can see in the upper right the "glove shade" has really been a popular UV barrier!!!  In the bottom right pic is Jill hitting and her Dad watching her in the background.  Sooo cute!  And of course Mr. Lane with his ornery grin! And the teams giving each other some good sportsmanship "good game fives" after it was over.

Brock fielding the ball and throwing to first baseman.

This is Jessica. She is one of three girls in her family too.  She plays on Kennedy's team and she has the prettiest blonde hair!

Well that pretty much sums it up in a nutshell of pictures!!!  My turn to bring drinks and snacks for after the game tomorrow night!.......sure hope I remember

Insanity

I promise you that I have not fallen off of the face of the earth!  Life here has been C.R.A.Z.Y
It's been t-ball games, summer reading, swimming, working and lots more. 

Gentry spent all of Father's Day throwing up but is back to norm!  So far the rest of us have managed to escape it!.....so far

I have tons of pics to share with you.  Not enough time tonight.
t-ball pics
and....wait....Gasp....!!!!!
MY BEDROOM REVEAL!!!

It has actually been done for quite some time now.  Just haven't had the time to take the pics. So I am solemnly swearing to you all right now that some time next week I will show you the before and after pics!!! Yahoo!!!!

And one more thing....yesterday Dana and I marked 8 years of marriage!!!  We are going out friday night to celebrate!!!!

So bear with me and hang tight.
B/c I'll be baaaaack real soon!

I'll leave you with this pic after church 2 Sundays ago

 Aren't they some cutie patooties!!!!