Mother Goose

When I was little, I absolutely LOVED my very own "Mother Goose". (I know what you're thinking and No, I did not have an imaginary goose friend that I called Mother) the reason you ask? Because she actually talked to me...well, she told me stories... well, stories that were on tapes that she was programed to tell me... but still it was outstandingly amazing to me. My favorite story was "Sleeping Beauty", I would follow along as Mother Goose read and turned the pages when she "honked" (ha, ha... you know, because that's what geese say)
Dax loves to look at books and because he does, so does Dubby... I had the brilliant idea of asking my Mom if she had held onto my sweet Mother Goose...she had and she brought her over and now my Mother Goose (I've literally debated with Dax over the fact that she IS mine...he's just borrowing her) is the story teller at bed time... MAN do I appreciate that! Dax loves that her mouth moves and that she sings the songs.
It was quite the blast from the past to be watching the excitement in the boys eyes and remembering quite well how that feeling surged through me at one time... oh a good 23 years ago. I remembered it so well, I got a little teary... that's been happening a lot lately. I get so sentimental.
So as you'll see, her eyes have turned yellow with age and she's missing an eye lash, but she still works... and as Kevin said: I wonder how many toys they make now days will still work 23 years from now. I guess we will see.... but I certainly hope that my sweet Mother Goose still does :)


Wyatt could not believe that she was actually talking to him... he kept touching her beak...

When one door closes, another door opens....

Or in my case, when one door color gets old... another color is chosen...

So, on Thursday evening me and the boys were sitting on the porch. I noticed that the door was chipping and wondered to myself, " I wonder if we have any of that color left over." I turned the shed inside out and searched the basement top to bottom... never found it. So I talked to Kev about maybe doing a burnt orange color. He was all for it... so after texting Amy what her thoughts were and calling Dev and getting their go ahead (not that Kevin's ok wasn't enough, it's just always nice to get another woman's, or two, opinions) I headed off to Home Depot and grabbed some swatches. Chose "dropping leaves" as the new door color.
The next morning, before any of the boys were up... I began the change over... starting with the trim... by the time I got to the door, Kevin was up and my painting skills weren't exactly up to par, so he took the paint brush to "show" me how I should do it... it turned out that he didn't stop showing me and painted the entire thing.
When it was all finished up, we went the the middle of the yard to check it out and I was like "hmmmm, I'm not sure"..... So I called my across the street neighbor, Rose and asked her to give me her opinion, she graciously told me that she's from a generation that doesn't really like orange... I texted a picture to the friends that would tell me what they really thought. Amy even stopped by. Everyone liked it, or so they said.
That afternoon, Kev and I took off on a little decorating adventure to find things to decorate our new door. ( I would have came home with a lot more decor for the basement had he not been with me...)
When we pulled into the driveway, we were both like "oh my gosh, the door is TOO bright!" I'm serious, I was SO embarrassed that people had been driving by it all day! Rose must have seen us pull up and she came running over with two really cute orange Gerber Daisey's to put in our baskets hanging from the windows to kind of balance the in your face orange that now covered our door. I seriously wouldn't shut the door because I didn't want anyone to get the full effect! I thought the trim was enough to get a chuckle of every passing car...
Kev and I got to brain storming and I got to going through our many paint cans of different hue browns, and found one that matched the house pretty darn well.... SO, I painted the trim brown... and here is the finished product... I really like it. It's different and it's bold... definitely not what you see in every neighborhood, which now that I think about it, maybe that's a bad thing :)
Either way, I needed change and that's what I got.... I wish that I had a before, during, and after picture of the door. I do have it on my phone. Is there a way to upload pictures to a blog?

Just a Thought

I came across this quote today. I know how crazy this will make me sound but you all know me so it probably won't shock you. When I read it, I got a little teary because it summed up how I felt today... odd, yes. But I've been thinking about the trials I've had to face over the past little bit and I know that things really do happen for a reason. I look around at what I have and I look back on where I've been, and I see that I have so much to fall back on. There has been a lot that has fallen a part.... but so many great things have fallen together... I'm a lucky girl.

My New Find...

I said I would and I did... I headed over to the D.I not long after my post yesterday. The second I saw this chair I just had to have it. My initial reasoning was for photo shoots... when I set it in the house, I decided it was just fine in the living room...until a photo shoot that calls for it comes along of course ;) Kevin isn't the chair's biggest fan but I love it! It's totally retro and that is what I love most. What do you think? Do you like or dislike? You wont offend me if you don't, I promise. Is the pillow too much? I already had the pillow and almost sold it in a yard sale, glad I didn't.



The entire living room shot...


I was pretty excited about this. The vase has been sitting on top of my cupboards as decoration but I think it fits in well here...

Deseret Industries... HERE I COME!

So we went to a Hair Family Reunion on Saturday, it was a blast. Seeing as the reunion was in Idaho, we decided to stop by our good friends the Courville's... YOU SHOULD SEE the cute decorations that Dev has found for super cheap and made all her own...so now I've been bitten by the decorating bug...that's all I need...right?! Anyway... I've fallen in love with this blog... check it out, I'm sure that you will get some ideas or at the very least get the butterfly tickles in your belly... It's killing me waiting to go buy some stuff.... What can I say, I've gotten bored with my decorations, I want to spice things up a bit... :)

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***I should give a shout out to Amy too, she has actually been FEATURED on the blog. I keep telling her she should go into business re finishing stuff... she's got an incredible eye at seeing the potential in old and tattered things. She's amazing!

Reba McEntire - I Keep On Lovin' You

Kevin and I just celebrated our FIVE year anniversary on July 30. It was a pretty sentimental day for me. I looked at a lot of our wedding pictures as well as some from when we were dating. I really did love him from the second he called my house in ninth grade, with my best friend Chris. I think I've shared that the whole reason he wanted to talk to me was because I admittedly liked Taco Bell...(wouldn't it have been great if we would have incorporated that in our wedding food?! Wish I had thought of it... eh, but I guess that wouldn't have been to classy)...anyway... It's funny how things just work out... I really believe I met Chris to introduce me to Kevin. We were capital DRAMA couple in high school and even a bit of drama trickled out after high school as well, but we made it and we really do look at where we are and think "look at us now". Kev absolutely loathes Reba but I don't and when I first heard this song it got me teary because it reminded me of him. Then, when I saw the video, I saw different parts of us in it everywhere. It was the instance where the wife is getting on all the kids for goofing off and the husband waves her over to have a stiff one... I had to laugh out loud, that's TOTALLY us... not that we drink, but we would do something just like that to make each other smile. Especially him to me. He's definitely good at making me smile at all the wrong times AND at all the right times too. I've loved every second I've gotten to spend with him and can't wait for the next five years of memories...I love you Kev, you're the absolute LOVE OF MY LIFE... Happy Five Year Mark Babe... :) I'll keep on lovin' you ;)

(You'll want to pause the music player on the side when you listen/watch the video)