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Monday, August 8, 2011

A look into my iPhone.

Two posts in one day! I can't believe I'm doing this, ha!

This is so random and I'm not expecting many of you to read this post. It's mainly for myself, sort of as a virtual scrapbook. Here's the deal.. my iPhone was getting wayyyy too full from photos so I decided to clean it out. I'm uploading many, many photos onto this post that were found in my phone and will caption them so I can relive the memories. Like I said, my virtual scrapbook/photo journal.

If you read this, enjoy :)
If not, I don't blame you :)

Our little Romeo, thinking he's king of the world.

Peanut- the baby squirrel some youth girls rescued last summer.

Me and my baby boy :)

My sister and me at a football game.

After a visit to the groomer's.

Claire and myself headed to the fair.

With my sweet nephew at my father-in-law's wedding

Playing dress-up in a "Gary" (from Spongebob) costume

Oldie but goodie- me and William one Christmas

Another oldie- me, Claire, William, and Mandi

haha, William scared of the Easter bunny

Some things never change- like my love for fruit

With my mommy at a basketball game

My first deer! A buck :)

First deer blood

With my sissy after church

Birthday dinner :)

Romeo in his hoodie

Our cat- Sampson. I miss him

Romeo loves to grin

With my Gaggy on Christmas Day

after church.. 
if you haven't noticed, my sister and I are best friends.

Gaggy's birthday!

mommy and son

all my hair's gone!
@ my cousin's wedding

with mom at the wedding

playing dress up at my Nana's in all the old clothes!
cute, i know.. not.

beautiful Smoky Mountain sunrise

Sunrising into the shape of a cross

Matt and I cramming youth in my car

with Claire at my grandparent's 50th Anniversary party!

..just monkeying around..


the boys I kept all summer, who call me "KK"





most recently.. I got to play with a little monkey! 
Her name is Abbie :)

Now, as a result of this post, I have a clean iPhone :)

Our exciting news :)

As most of y'all have already read on facebook, Matt and I have some exciting news to share. No, we aren't pregnant. Yes, it does involve kids..

Matt and I finally found a church that we are able to call home, Crossroads of Life in Byram. Well, about three months ago, the youth pastor resigned and moved to a different state. Matt and I had already chaperoned a youth trip with Crossroads and had grown to love the youth. We began to pray that if God had called us to Crossroads for ministry, to show us. Well, after many weeks of prayer and involvement with the youth, the church asked Matt if he would like to come on staff as interim youth minister. Matt and I discussed the opportunity and prayed about. We decided he should take the offer. As of this week, Matthew will be in office each week on Wednesdays and receiving training from our lead pastor. He will lead Wednesday night services and do everything else that comes with youth minister. We are so excited to start this new chapter in our life and see what God does with this opportunity and what it may progress into. We ask that y'all pray for wisdom, guidance, patience, and open hearts as we embark upon this journey.

We love these kids with all of our hearts already and are so thrilled to spend each week with them.

Much love,

Saturday, August 6, 2011

DIY: my Saturday projects!

Ok, so I started today out by going to a few garage sales EARLY with my mom and sister. To my disappointment, we did not find a single thing that caught my eye. However, we decided to run into Gateway thrift store and the Butterchurn in Clinton. After looking around for quite some while, I settled on some ideas I KNEW would be perfect in our home with a little makeover. So, here's what I got.. and what we transformed it into! Enjoy :)

Gateway thrift store- $2.00

..we added some hooks at the bottom (0.60 cents)

..removed the stars and the eagle
craft paint and brush ($2.50)



finished product- mail and key holder
TOTAL: $5.10
here it is on our wall :)

so proud of this!


brass candlesticks- $1.00/each
craft paint- $3.00
two candles- $0.88


with a little paint and new candles, they look perfect with my display on our bar!
TOTAL- $5.88

I also bought this cute little basket for $1 and use it in our bathroom to hold our washcloths now!



I had so much fun today finding old "trash" and turning it into "treasure." I love to save money and DIY projects are both fun and money saving. Hopefully, soon, I'll have some projects to share (because I sent the hubby to pick up some pallets for me today to turn into shelves!).


Hope you all have a lovely Saturday.