Easter 2011

Hey guys! The hubs and I had a wonderful long weekend with friends and family. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we had friends from college up and we hung out downtown and went climbing on Saturday, it was beautiful outside all weekend! Then Sunday we served in the nursery at church and headed down to see the family for the day. Here are some pics of the weekend!

Climbing...

 The flowers blooming in our front yard!

Our sweet nieces :) 

Hope y'all had a wonderful Easter!

O Happy Day!

Hey lovelies, Happy Valentines day! I hope you had an amazing day, spending time with people you love. I LOVE valentines day, For as long as i can remember i've celebrated this day, my mom always got us a little gift and my dad always took me out for breakfast or brought me flowers.  And this morning my sweet sweet husband woke up at 4:30AM to pick up these beautiful tulips, and the most thoughtful card! 

I realized i never shared with y'all the pictures from when we planted our Christmas tree together, and since that was sweet surprise from the hubs, i thought i'd share the pictures with you on this day of Love. If you want to read the story of the Christmas tree you can do that here.

Now maybe in 10 years we can decorate it :)

My funny Valentine, you make me smile.

I am a bit late decorating for Valentines day but i dove into it a few nights ago after i read Joon's post on her conversation centerpiece! This is my first year decorating for Valentines day, i may have gone a little overboard but i only spent $7. The candy hearts were $5 and i the wire for the button flowers were $2.

In honor of Valentines day i thought i'd post this little song for you to listen to while you read :)

The only decorations i had,i bought last year, were the placemats and plates. The place mats are from Ross for 4 for $4, and the small heart plates were $4 each (I bought 4) at TJ Maxx. Everything else i shopped around my house for or made. 

I made the banner with my cricut, hemp and some old book pages.

I saw this over at Ordy and Joon, her's was much cutter with real flowers :)

But walmart wanted $5 for a small bouquet of carnations! Didn't they used to go for like $1 a piece!?

Have you decorated for Valentines day yet? Did you splurge on some cute decorations or go the homemade route?

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Happy 4th of July!

Holidays are my favorite time of year! Cause it means i get to decorate :) This 4th of July was my first time buying decor for the house and I only spent about $23 on the whole table.

I got the tall red candle stick at Hobby Lobby during their 80% off sale for $6.00. I loved that it was red cause i can use it for Christmas and Valentines day too!

The small red candle on top of the candle holder was $1.50 and the tall red candle was $2 both from Hobby Lobby. 

The glass hurricane i had from a previous project. I bought each piece from the $1 store and hot glued them together. The red, white and blue balls are dog toys that i also got from the $1 store.

The flags were about $2 (i think) from Wal-mart.  The button flowers i made after my friend saw them in an antique store. 

The white plates are what we got for our China for our wedding. It is the Emma Collection from Pottery Barn.  The Red flower plates are plastic and they are from Walmart. When i first saw them a few weeks ago they were $2 each and as cheap as i am i decided to wait until after 4th of July to get them half off. But when i was at Walmart the Friday before the 4th they were alreay down to $1 so i bought six. The Blue napkins are also from Walmart they came 2 in a pack for $1. I tied the napkins with a piece of hemp and attached a white button on top. 

Breakdown:

Red  Candle Stick-Hobby Lobby $6

Red Candles-Hobby Lobby $3.50

Blue Napkins-Walmart $3

Red and white flower plastic plates Walmart $1 each

Flags Walmart-$2

Red, white, and blue knots-$1 Store-$1 each 

Total: $22.50