Photo Shoot

Here's a favorite pic from our Saturday morning photo shoot done by NSMPHOTO!

(Can you tell we like our boots in this family?)

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For Your Browsing Pleasure...

I decided to add a category to my sidebar...

all those projects that I come across on other sites and would someday like to get to.

I just started, so there's just a few, but check it often!

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Ladies...Start Your Saws!

Nicole shared a GREAT blog with me the other day...

It's called Knock-Off Wood. If you can build, would like to learn or have someone in you life that just loves to build you things...than this is the blog for you!

Truly inspiring!

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Another Christmas Post?

Yes, I'm doing it again....another post about Christmas.

This time I thought I would share with you a gift(s) that I received this year...

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I LOVE all of them...but if I had to pick a favorite (picture, not child) it would be the last one, of my little 2 year old Sophia.

It captures so much...the sweet days of pigtails and baby curls....of her sitting on my lap and me putting my nose in her hair that smells still of baby shampoo.

The messy craziness that is Sophia.

The artist, Leia, is a friend of my sister (who was the gift giver). She's a very talented artist who has a blog and an etsy shop. Check her out.

Those beauties are still not hung up though...I know exactly where I will put them...but am waiting to do a wall collage until I find the right piece of furniture to hang them above.

Side note...a batch of these just came out of the oven...I may have a burned tongue in a few minutes!

(FYI-I omit about a 1/4 cup of oatmeal and replace it with ground flax seed)

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A Great Resource

Happy 2010 everyone! Hope the holidays were good ones!

I wanted to share a website my sis shared with me.

It's houzz.com

It's like having 100 great design and decorating magazines at your fingertips...and without all the advertisements!

Search by your pesonal style and room.

Check it out and enjoy!

(Vicki-I picked this pic for you...fireplace along the long wall...vaulted beamed ceiling...beautiful windows for the view!)

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Not Always a House but Always A Home...

Since being married and establishing our own household we've lived in about every type of "housing" you can think of. Here's the order:

1. Married Student Housing at the University

2. A One Bedroom Apartment (for 3 of us)

3. The in-laws house

4. A double wide trailer

5. A Two Bedroom Apartment (for the 5 of us)

6. And now, finally a "traditional" house.

I was always on a tight budget... #1-#4 was when my husband was in school full time and I was a stay at home mom. (For the first seven years of marriage)

#5 and #6 my husband has a "real job". But there's still a budget.

What #1-#6 did have in common...it was always home. No matter what form it came in, it was slowly and thoughtfully transformed into our home.

That's one of the reasons I wanted to share this blog with you:

The Copy Cat Cottage

She loves cottages...but lives in a 1960's split level.

She is slowly (one month per room) turning that house into her home.

For around $100 per room! What inspiration!

Oh...and....she's my sister!

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Is It Worth It?

On a whim, sort of, I traded in some of our credit card cash back dollars for a Sams Club Membership. After receiving the card in the mail, I started having a little remorse...

was it going to be worth it?

am i going to find things cheaper than shopping sales with coupons?

what will i do with 1000 rolls of toilet paper....

a week or two later I came across this post at the Prudent Homemaker .

I love it when people far smarter than I share their vast wealth of Sams Club knowledge and research!

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Feeding Baby Link Love

My sister had her first child 6 months ago, and is now at the beginnings of feeding her daughter, Isabel, solid foods. I wanted to share a website that I found and loved with her and all of you!

It's called

wholesomebabyfood.com

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Link Love!

I wanted to pass on a blog to all of you...A Year of Crock Potting.

Lots and lots and lots of recipes and the majority of them are gluten free!

I've been loving the crock pot lately with working over at the new house, a lot of times I'm so tired by the end of the day the thought of preparing supper seems too much. Plus now that it's warming up outside, I don't want my oven warming my kitchen up. Enjoy!

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