Confession Wednesday

I confess I have lost all sense of creativity at the moment so I am posting a confession day.

I confess we are doing biggest loser at work and we did our first official weighing today and I wanted to cry. Excess baby weight is depressing when your baby is almost a year old!

I confess I'm going to struggle with the biggest loser contest now that I have found a new cookie idea-Oreos baked inside of chocolate chip cookies. I am serious. I am having a serious craving for them!

I confess I am giving up soda to help with my 'diet'...I am now a sweet tea addict and I am not sure if it's much healthier than soda but it's def yummy!

I confess Tyler is sleeping next to me right now and that I could go upstairs and post pictures too but, since I am in my nice warm bed next to my sleeping husband it just isn't going to happen,haha!

I confess I am addicted to playing scrabble on my iPad. Seriously. Angry birds doesn't have anything on scrabble in my book! It is my personal goal to beat the computer without using the 'best word' cheat button on the highest level.

I confess one of my students asked me to rap on his phone into a new app he got and i did then all could think is that I sounded like Kip from napoleon dynamite when he sang to lafawnduh at their wedding.

I confess I almost cried when a few of my students said they didn't know what napoleon dynamite was. When did I get to be the old one?!

I confess there is a cricket stuck in the wall of our bedroom and it's making me want to go insane. It just keeps making noise and I want it to go away. Desperately.

I confess I wish I had more time to blog.I love it but it's insanely busy these days.:(

I confess I have no free nights this week since Monday...tuesday I had our churches christain Ed meeting, wednesday night is youth group, Thursday we are going to the volleyball game and Tyler is working out of town that night, Friday is the football game and then 5th quarter, Saturday is a bonfire for my youth group, Sunday is impact. I can't believe I am saying this but, I am ready for Monday so I can have a night home with my family!

That's all for tonight!

3rd Time is a Charm? and a Recipie to say I'm sorry for being a terrible blogger!

Well, clearly I am the worst person at consistently blogging. I just don't have time to keep up with it so, instead, I'm going to shoot for more like once or twice a week. I'll be realistic and be honest when I say I have just not had time. Being a wife, mommy, youth pastor, house keeper, etc doesn't allow me much extra time. It's sad, I know. But, I miss blogging. I really enjoy it. So instead of feeling like I need to blog every day I'm going to try out be more realistic about it.
Last week I tried out a new recipie that I thought I would share with you- it was super easy and yummy!

Easy Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas

(It came in my Better Home's and Garden's Magazine that my mom got me for christmas!)

1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1.2 cup sour cream
1 cup salsa
2tsp chili powder
2 cups chopped cooked chicken
1/2 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
6 flour tortillas warmed
1 small tomato chopped (optional)
1 green onion sliced (optional)

Heat oven to 350. Stir soup, sour cream, salsa, and chili powder in medicum bowl.
Combine 1 cup of the soup mixture, chicken, and cheese and stir together.
Divide chicken mixture among tortillas, roll up the tortillas, and place seam side down in a baking dish.
Pour the remaining soup mixture over tortillas. Cover the baking dish.
Bake 40 mins or until enchiladas are hot and bubbling. Top with tomato and onion (optional)

Enjoy and hopefully I'll be much better about blogging randomly throughout the week instead of feeling like I should every day!

Posting from an iPad!!

So I officially have the coolest husband ever. And he isnt just cool because of this He is also loving, kind, a great father, and he can be pretty thoughtful...well sometimes;) I'm being incredibly serious about this too!! Tomorrow morning I leave for a trip with my youth group and I was crying and feeling rather upset since it's my first official time away from Lucy so when Tyler came home, what does he have with him?? A freakin iPad!! As an early birthday present! So anyway sorry I haven't been posting I promise I will be better about it I have just been super busy getting ready for my trip! Speaking of which I need to finish packing! Hope you have a great night!!

Random Hopeful Plans!

Hello there blog world! It's been a crazy monday. Tyler is working tonight and I hate it. It always keeps me from sleeping and I get anxious. I am a worrier, I can't help it. So here's a slightly A.D.D. post...it's monday and my mind is going a million miles an hour so you get random hopes for our home in this post today!

So anyway I've been working on the beginning stages of my new cushions and I have a confession to make...I got different fabric then the one I was looking at originally... I decided I wanted to go with a more subtle color and use bolder colors for pillows and such. Here's a preview of what the new fabric will look like:

So far I've got one of the cushion forms cut to size/shape and now I'm just needing to get some more foam and make the other one so when the fabric gets here it will be all ready to go!

I am trying to decide how I could convince Tyler to let me paint the light fixture that goes over our bathroom mirror. It's gold- which I'm not a huge fan of and I would love to get it to match our more rustic bronzed ones.

this picture was taken when we bought our house in 2008

It's on my list of someday projects... a list which also includes either getting new mirrors above the sinks or framing them out with some trim...

I'd also love to paint our bedroom...we have one wall painted the same as the red in our living room and I'd love to paint it a basic color so I can have more options when it comes to bedding...someday maybe! Tyler is one of those guys who thinks if it isn't broke, why fix it? And well the blog world makes me dream of new things I'd love to do in our house!

If I weren't so addicted to "Better After" and other makeover blogs I wouldn't have so many ideas running through my mind! Hey, a girl can dream, right? And who knows, one of these weekends Tyler is out hunting maybe he'll come home to a newly painted bedroom!

I can't wait to get my fabric in the mail and show you finished cushions!!

Custom Picture Frame How To

So we recently went on vacation to beautiful Myrtle Beach, SC. It was awesome. I love having pictures of special memories and as our first family vacation it was definitely special! I was looking for a nice frame while we were there but they were all insanely priced and I didn't have the heart to pay that much for a picture frame so, I decided as we were hunting sea shells I would use some to make my own custom frame!

Here's what I started off with- I forgot to take a before picture but basically it's just a plain ol' frame.

 I had some white paint left from the growth chart I made for Lucy so I did a couple of coats.

I then used a basic kitchen knife and scraped some of the edges to give it a bit of a distressed look. 

 Then I gathered some of the shells from our trip (the star fish was from home but it was too cute not to use) I was originally intending to cover the frame in shells but I didn't want to over do it once I started I thought the simpler the better...

and wah-laaah! a finished frame! I like it, it's simple but it has special memories having used shells from our walks on the beach (my favorite memories from our vacation!)
Custom frame with special memories on the cheap!

Thanks Christine for sharing your opinion yesterday! I was nervous about the fabric but I'm falling in love with it! I'm going to order the fabric tomorrow and hopefully soon I'll have a beautiful new window bench cushion to show you! Well, I've got to get making some more baby food for Lucy. I'll have to share with you sometime how I do all of her baby food. It's super easy and helps save lots of money! Hope you have a wonderful day!

I need your opinion please!

Okay I'm really wanting to make a new cushion or my window bench. I've got a few fabrics that I'm loving but I can't decide....I'm wanting to use outdoor fabric since my dogs love to jump up there and look outside...So I'd looove to have your opinion! Here are my favorite options at this point....

solid cushion with patterned pillows? patterned cushion with solid pillows? oh the choices! Here are some of my favorite fabrics- we have greens, reds, tans, etc in our living room so I tried to stick with those colors...

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

 I am reaaaaally loving option 1 but I don't know if it's too much for a cushion....
here is a picture of our living room from a family get together- the red wall was there and we liked it so we kept it red. we have a tan/green couch and love seat and a red rug. I'll also be making a matching cushion that will go on my hope chest my dad made. the window bench is on the far back wall in the bay window...

This is our dog Ryah's favorite spot in the whole house...

Since she likes to lay up there I'm tempted to do a tan/solid color so it won't show as much wear as a darker fabric...the stripes I have now I'm just sick of haha, I made them rather poorly and I'm really wanting to do a better job and use actual cushion forms.

So, what do you think would look best?

Long Time No See!

Oh boy has life been insane around here. So last I was on here was pretty much March. Let me tell you about the past few months of craziness! April I had youth conferences/concerts/fundraisers/events with my youth group pretty much every other weekend. Not including Easter. Plus, Lucy got sick, Tyler got sick, and I got sick. It was a bad month all around. May was just as crazy with mother's day, graduations, weddings, family get togethers and lots of craziness with work! And then came June...my goal had been to be back on here much earlier but holy cow it was like a bad habit I couldn't break! Things just kept piling up! They still are but, I'm making it a goal to get back to blogging!
So, all six of my subscribers I hope you're happy I'm back!
Here's some pictures from the past few months!

March 31- Lucy's first time with food- cereal- it was so funny watching her eat!

she kept lunging forward after the spoon!

I took my youth group to Winter Jam in St. Charles April 1st the above pic is Francesca Battistelli it was an awesome concert!

my mom opening her birthday gift- floral arrangement and wine

Lucy on her 5 month birthday!

playing outside with daddy!

she now loves baths so much she cries when you get her out of the tub!

having a breathing treatment from when she was sick in April- she was on the brink of pneumonia :(

green beans! yum!

Lucy's 6 month birthday!

The beautiful flowers Tyler got me for our Anniversary, May 12

our drooling baby!

Lucy's first time as a flower girl!

Lucy's first 4-wheeler ride with daddy!

playing in the pool for the first time!

happy girl playing at Grammy's on memorial day!

So there's some pictures from April and May! I hope you enjoyed them! I've got lots of recipes and fun stuff to share with you all so I hope you enjoy the fact that I'm back! I promise I'll do better about not taking such long breaks again!