Random Items?

No, these are not random items. You put all these items plus a few more together and you get some pretty cute homemade home decor!!

We bought this set a few months ago but just hung it up this week in our living room. So cute!!

The "bling organizer" Jason made me for my birthday. I LOVE it! It is such a cute piece of wall art for our bedroom, plus I love looking at my cute jewelery!

This is an awesome collage of scrapbooking paper and wallpaper. It is really cute. Even though Jarom sleeps in this room I'm still making it cute for Paisley. Maybe one day they will trade and Paisley can get her "purple" room back.

Paisley needs a place for all her cute hair accessories! This will get hung in her room so she can pick which flower she wants to wear each morning.

This is a combined effort of Jason and me. I designed it, Jason did all the math to make it mostly symmetrical. This is how it was painted...

But this is how it is hung. Pretty tricky. As you can see with the blue tape spot, we will be touch up painting our living room walls soon.

And as always here is a very cute boy and a happy helper! He loved handing daddy the hammer!
Paisley is becoming a very good sharer. They like to ride the scooter together! Pretty cute!

Teaser!! Here is the beginning of the next project!

My Dad has died

Just thought I would let you know. He passed late last night. He has been at deaths door so many times I think we got into the habit of always assuming he would rally as in times past. Not this time.

He taught me about God, to pray, and to attend church. He taught me that I was blessed to be an American Citizen and to live in this incredible country. Through his example, I learned to work hard and to serve others. He made the worlds best tuna salad and I will forever be his "pixie".

I love you Daddy!

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!!Happy Fourth of July!!

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Happy Birthday and Congrats!

I'm just catching up on the family news. Happy Birthday Stef! I'm glad you enjoyed your day. I love your hair cuts and I think the bling organizer is a very good idea!

Yea, Taryn! Congratulations on your swimming success! I'm glad you have found something you love to do.

The Spencers are doing well. We are going to a fireworks display much later tonight. We had a BBQ yesturday and we have a symphony concert tomorrow, so this has been the most celebrated Fourth in our history!

Our rental house has an offer on it, so we are waiting almost patiently to see if the contract closes. We'll let you know.

We are looking forward to our summer travels. Hopefully, we will see most of you this summer. Love to you all.

Swim Meet Results

Well, in this case instead of a 25 meter pool, it was a 50 meter pool! In a 25 meter pool, a 50 would be two laps, but in this case, because the size doubled, you would only do one lap.

50 Freestyle (two laps, but because size of pool 1 lap):

I got 1st place in my heat, and overall, out of all 15 or 16 heats, with about 7 people in each heat, I placed
16th.

100 Backstroke (four laps,again, because of the size of pool, 2 laps):

I got 4th place. If I went just a little faster even though I was sooo tired, I would've gotten 3rd. Overall, out of all the heats.... I don't know. :O( oh well!...

well, there you go! :O)

Swim Meet

I have a swim meet on July 3! I am mostly nervous, but a tiny little bit excited. This is my first one in a couple years. I am going to be doing a 100 back (four laps backstroke), and a 50 free (2 laps freestype). I still don't really know how to do the turns for back stroke, so... :S.... i'll let you know how it went.

Birthday Celebration

We had a two day celebration at our house for my birthday. Jason took Friday off so Paisley and I could go get our hair cut together. This is before

This is after. We both cut our hair to our shoulders. I think Paisley looks a lot older with short hair!

Then we made paninis on the George Foreman. It was a lot of fun and very tasty!

Jarom is just cute!!
The loot! Thanks everyone for the generous gifts! Jason was very clever and made me a necklace and ring holder. That is the frame with chicken wire inside, then I'll hang my rings and necklaces on S hooks. I'm excited to hang it in my bedroom and get all my bling organized!