Archives for August 2006

I entered this entry last night but for some reason it's gone today.  Oh, well.
I entered a photo contest at Shutterfly.com.  It's Summertime photos.  Please go and vote for me.  Here's the link…..CLICK HERE
If I win….oh, I'd be so excited.
So I'm begging shamelessly……..PPLLEEAASSEE Go vote for my photo (you can also view all the other entries).

And here's a second entry into the School Days contest.  Not quite as good a photo but it captures these two.  CLICK HERE to vote for me in this contest too.
Thanks
Julie

We had a busy weekend.  I much prefer “not busy” weekends.  I don't do well if I try to cram too much into a day.  God has given me the wisdom to know that trying to do too much equals one stressed out mama.  So even the days I plan too much I always end up deleting things off the calender to the point I feel I can get through the day and still be sane.

One of the hardest adjustments for me has been evening football practices.  I love being at home after dinner and having a leisurely evening….well, as leisurely as one can have with 4 small kids.  But now we have football practice three nights a week.  I usually stay home with the baby while my hubbie takes the boys to practice.  He helps to coach so I'm having to get used to evenings that are different than the way our lives have been up to this point.

Our kids love football so it's wonderful to see them come home all sweaty and hot and ready for a shower.   But it's also an indication that my boys are growing up.  I'm so glad I have them at home for school.  I'll blink my eyes and they will be getting married one day.

So here are some pictures from their first football game this weekend.  They won 14-6! 

Enjoy and then go kiss all your kids so they don't grow up too fast.

My hubbie and #1 son

My hubbie encouraging his boys!!

That's my oldest son in the middle on his knee after carrying the ball for 30 yards!!

My hubbie and #2 son waiting to go into the game.

#3 son and baby girl behind his left shoulder (your right) eating an icee.

So, do you need a big OLE dose of some WISDOM??
If so check out OreoSouza's post here!!
She's so wise.
Julie

This weekend my hubbie took the kids to see my mom while my good friend Amy and I pulled a While You Were Out on his office.  He knew we were redoing his office and had given us complete control over it.  We had a theme, Amy shopped for “do-dads”, photo frames and paint.  She's much better at all that than I am and she's a great friend.  Plus, isn't spending someone else's money way more fun than spending your own???

We accomplished the redesign in 48 hours from beginning to end.  The only thing we'd bought before Friday was the chair we were using in his office.  Friday we purchased the desk, the accessories, the paint and all the pictures for the walls.

Friday night I taped off the room and hoped to get it primed but that didn't happen until Saturday morning.  So on Saturday we primed, painted, trimmed and decorated his entire office.  Plus we put two bookshelves together from out of those horrible boxes.

All this and Amy and I are still friends.  I continue to encourage her to design on her own.  She's SO talented.  She's wonderful at using things I already own and adding only what she needs to accomplish the look she wants.  She's helped me in almost every room of my house and she knows I now trust her completely because I'm letting her talk me into blue for the bathroom.  She believes I have a blue and a floral anti-feddish.  I think she's right.  If you ever need her in your neck of the woods just give me a shout!!  I'll send her your way.

Anyway…..here are before and after photos of the office.

BEFORE:::
Some horrid white washed wall board that was a bugger to prime and paint

THE PROCESS:::Priming the walls with OIL paint.  Yep, I lost a few brain cells.

And TA-DA”   the complted project.  What do you think???