don't adjust your screens...

you're in the right place!! hope you like our new nest!! have a great weekend. hopefully next week as we get ready to head out for the beach, i'll have things to say. if not, i'll be rubbing it in your face coming to you live from the sand the next week. we'll be celebrating this little cutie's first birthday while we are there! can you believe it? this is a sad mama. i may eat her face with the cupcakes.

it's not that i don't love you...

it's just that i've been trying to keep myself busy and teach myself a few new tricks. remember those end tables and lamps i bought the day before the folks backed out of our house... i didn't mention that now they just sit in my garage waiting patiently b/c there isn't room for them in my current house, did i? sad, but true.

this is a shirt i made for our friend/"cousin", Maddie. she lives in Nevada these days and we miss her terribly. we hope to see her this summer!! (can i just tell you that the "m" was a booger for this novice? i'm not good at turns. any advice would be appreciated for real, yo.)

and for my angel girl...

and for anderson...cause suzie asked! i hope it's ok! and i hope he feels better soon!!

thank you!!

to all who have died for my freedoms...THANK YOU!! those words seem insignificant.

we have a responsibility:

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is FREEDOM." 2 Corinthians 3:17

"It is for FREEDOM that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1

"You my brothers, were called to be FREE. Do not use your FREEDOM to indulge the sinful nature. Rather, serve one another in love." Galatians 5:13

giveaway

giveaway at KK's Kreations / Engraved Euniques today!! don't miss it! her stuff is soooo cute!!

a butterfly for my butterfly...

i've had several projects going on lately. and the other night, i decided to whip out my sewing machine and try something i have been putting off...applique. i knew it wouldn't be too hard, but i am a seriously novice seamstress. (i originally wrote sewer right there, but that doesn't look right. even though, seamstress is sooooo--or sew-far from what i do.) anyway, here is my first attempt. it is so far from perfect, but still, darn cute.

why on earth i chose something so curvy for my first attempt, i have no clue. just call me ambitious.

and i absolutely did NOT sew the shirt together in one place. not me!!

did i happen to mention that the fabric i used is from a patch kit. you know, like the kind you use to patch jeans and whatnot?? well, it is. it was so first time and practice, i didn't even use stablizer. i'm sure i'll regret it after i wash it once. but oh well, i'm good with that. i have the next pattern all cut out. and it's gonna be equally as insane...but more. cause again...i'm crazy ambitious.

she liked it...and that's all that matters.

there's a word for people like her...

Amy Butler that is...and it think it's GENIUS!! I can't wait for my little angel to have a big girl room. just can't wait. too bad she has to be a big girl to get a big girl room. that part...i don't like so much.

house update

**UPDATE**micah talked to the inspector and the realtors. turns out that the couple decided to back out before getting the report. the inspector said our house was nice and well taken care of. the wiring he was talking about was to the appliances. turns out that outside of madison county, electrical inspections aren't required up here. what we have is up to code, but it could be a grade better i guess. he said it was easily fixable and could be done in a day. he even called an electrician while here to be sure he was right and it was not a big issue. apparently they just wanted out. so we are gonna keep it up for sale until august 1st. if it hasn't sold by then, we will take it off of the market until next march so that luke's school isn't interrupted this year and go from there. thanks for your prayers. i really appreciate them. we are sad that we'll lose the other house, but God will provide.