Easter Egg Hunt

It is always a great joy to watch the little ones enjoy celebrating the holidays. Like Mimi making Barrett a bunny rabbit cake.

Or opening an Easter basket.

One of the best things this weekend was watching all the kids, both young and old do some Easter Egg hunting.

Patiently waiting to hunt eggs

Finally!! Go time!

I even enjoyed watching the guys hide the eggs.

All in all, it was great just watching the kids be kids. Oh, the simple joys!

I am thankful for my friends and family. I love Easter. It is probably my favorite holiday! And more importantly, it is more than just Easter eggs and bunny rabbits. It's about our Lord and Savior and how he came to die on the cross for our sins. That's what makes Easter so very special.



John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Happy Easter!

Sorry I am a little late with my Easter post, but I got a little sidetracked. Turns out the Easter Bunny brought me a stomach virus, so blogging was the least of my problems. Thankfully, I had a wonderful nurse who took care of me. Thanks, Stacey! You were awesome!

Anywhoo, back to Easter festivities. Luckily, I had Good Friday off, which was awesome. David came in on Thursday night after work and he brought his little buddy, Mr. Moxley.

Mox and Bentley became fast friends. Poor Bentley was covered in slobber due to some over zealous playing, but I think he enjoyed having some company to play with.

Friday, we got up and ran downtown quickly to do a little shopping and to eat at Jonah's. Then we loaded up and headed to Blountstown. We ate dinner with his parents and sister. After dinner, we then headed down to David's house down in the swamp to enjoy some nice quiet time in the middle of nowhere.

Here he is welcoming me to his place. His great aunt left him this house when she died, which adjoins his family's land down on the Apalachicola River, close to where Brad and I usually enjoy our 4-wheeler drives that I have posted about before. David hasn't really got to enjoy using it that much, but we gave it a good effort this weekend. We had intentions of getting up early on Saturday to go turkey hunting, but that never came to be. I was too tired to get up at the crack of dawn, so we just slept in and then went and rode around the woods for awhile.

I took this picture as a throw back to the many, many times David and I rode around the swamp in that very truck back in the day. And of course, we had our sidekick joining us as well. He wasn't about to be left behind.

It was a gorgeous day, perfect for being out in the woods.

Later, I got to show David his first love back at my parents house.

This is David's Scrambler that he drove during high school. My father bought this from him to use for spare parts for his Scrambler after David was done with it. He hasn't seen it since selling it to us over 10 years ago. It was a "special" moment. Ha!

His old 8 balls were still hanging from the rear view mirror!

And we both got a kick that his Welcome to Florida, Now go home! Bumper stick was still attached and going strong.

So that's part one of Easter Weekend. Next up: the Easter Egg Hunt!

Monogram Project

I wanted to share a quick little project that I made to display on the shelves in my bedroom. It was quick, simple, and cheap. That's a good project! I love a good monogram and the other day when I was in Hobby Lobby I came across some small gold letters and brainstormed on what I could do with them. So I grabbed up my initials and went on the hunt for something to put them on. This is what I came up with.

Supplies Needed:

• Small letters for your monogram
• Scrapbook paper
• Small painting canvas
• Glue
• Hot Glue Gun
• Scissors

The scrapbook paper was a perfect fit for the size canvas I purchased. I love happy accidents like that. No cutting required! Plus I love a chevron pattern :)

Step One: Get your glue on! Put a healthy amount of glue directly onto the front of the canvas.

Step Two: After putting glue on the front of the canvas lay your paper directly onto it and press firmly to get out any creases/weird bubbles, etc. and to get a good stick onto the canvas. (I went with regular glue for this step because I was afraid that the hot glue would either burn through the paper, or that you would be able to see it.

Step Three: Glue the side of the canvas.

Step Four: Fold paper over the side, being sure to get a good, crisp edge. Then glue onto the back of the canvas. Trim any excess.

Step Five: Repeat on the other side. And your done with that part!

Step Six: Lay out your letters where you want them and hot glue them in place.

Told ya. How easy was that?

Please pardon the "staging" of this on the shelf. I just laid it up there. I'm thinking about hanging it in on the back of the shelf so it can be a little more visible. But that was my little project to make my room a little bit more personal.

On a side note: it has taken me FOREVER to write this post. Mainly because we had a visitor in our office. Meet Han (I am assuming his "last name" is Solo...).

This cat actually jumped into the car of the lady who works next door and my boss had to climb in and get this wild man out. So we are keeping him until we can get up with his owners. For anyone who knows me in real life, I am soooo NOT a fan of cats. Don't like them. I can tolerate them and if they are nice, I don't mind playing/petting them. This guy was pretty friendly, or so I thought. I was at my desk, working away when he slinked in and decided that he wanted to be in my lap, so up he jumped. I took a quick picture, just so I would have proof that I did in fact let a cat in my lap. Ha!

Things were good. He was rubbing up on me, being all nice and for a brief moment I thought I might could handle liking cats. That is until bam! His gentle nuzzle turned into a bite. I may have said a curse word on that one. Bite me, he did. That Han. He of course acted like it wasn't a big deal.

There is my wound in all it's glory! Ha!! Just another day at work, I guess. I can now note, that Han is out on the prowl again. My boss ran him over to his vet so they could keep him kenneled until his owners called. He said they got to the door of the vet, Han heard a dog bark, scratched the mess out of him, and headed for the hills. May the force be with you, Han.

It's the End of the World...

...and the only thing that has survived are clothes from my closet! The move to the new house is still in progress. We are very fortunate to be able to move a little along the way this week until the big move this weekend with all the remaining furniture. Stacey and I have moved just about everything we can from the apartment that we can't live without. So yesterday, I decided to go ahead and move the clothes in my closet to the new place. I figure that I'm over there every night anyways, so I can bring home an outfit for work the next day for two nights, easy.

I loaded up my trunk with all that it could hold . This was load one of three...(I really need to get rid of a bunch of clothes!)

This picture is actually much better than what the room started off as. Imagine a huge piled up mess of clothes that I had just thrown on the floor while unloading the car. Ha! I tried to organize the clothes the best I could. I am having to use the closet in my room and the closet in the guest room. It's not ideal, but it will work.

I put all of the long sleeved clothes in one closet, along with all my sweatshirts, work pants, dresses, etc. and in the closet in my room, I put all my short sleeved clothes. (all color coordinated, thanks to my OCD cousin, Stacey).

I found the cutest baskets at Hobby Lobby yesterday that were the perfect fit for my closet. They aren't something I would normally buy to put out, but I thought they were fun and cute enough to function as laundry hampers hidden in the closet.

Now I can organize my dirty clothes. One hamper for lights and one for darks. They were a perfect fit in the closet. I couldn't have picked out something more perfect dimension wise if I had tried!

Luckily by the end of the evening, I had my room looking a little bit better than it started out.

And if you are wondering, the green Frog tape on the floor marks out the bed placement. We were trying to figure out how to lay the room out.
Hopefully, we can have most stuff organized so on Saturday, all we have to do is unload furniture, make beds, decorate, and we will be done! I guess tonight, I will lug all my shoes over. Oh the joy!