Meal Plan Monday

I am going to join the Organized Junkie blog this week and do a meal plan for the week, I have unofficially been doing them for a while, but now I am getting more organized :)

Monday - Johnny Cash Breakfast (Avery's pick). Peameal bacon, eggs, toast, and beans.

Tuesday - BBQ Pork chops and foil potatoes.

Wednesday - Spagetti (Annaley's pick)

Thursday - Chicken Stir Fry with rice

Friday - Steak, Potatoes, and Broccoli Salad (my pick)

Saturday - Pizza (Brad's Pick)

Sunday - Roast Chicken, sweet potatoes, and carrots.


So now I can't wait for friday.

8 Things I Look Forward To...
#1.) finishing my rock garden
#2.) my wedding
#3.) garage sales
#4.) renovating my kitchen
#5.) the weekends
#6.) scrapbooking
#7.) reading blogs
#8.) christmas

8 Things I Did Yesterday
#1.) gardening
#2.) geocaching
#3.) BBQ dinner...yum
#4.) watched The Tudors
#5.) played with my kids
#6.) sat by the bonfire enjoying my morning coffee
#7.) laundry
#8.) fed the cows :)

8 Things I Wish I Could Do:
#1.) sing
#2.) be motivated to exercise
#3.) travel
#4.) be a stay at home mom
#5.) speak a different language
#6.) play guitar
#7.) take photography classes
#8.) buy a new truck

8 Shows I watch:
#1.) The Tudors
#2.) The Office
#3.) Friday Night Lights
#4.) Cold Case
#5.) Big Love
#6.) Property Virgins
#7.) The Locator
#8.) coughcoughicarlycoughcough. Don't Tell.

Those are my 8's.

It has been a while....

Well I haven't blogged in a long time, but I don't want to give up on blogging so here we go again :)

Today I looked up what geocaching is (I always thought it had something to do with catching bugs) and I am so excited to do it. What a neat idea. I think it is something my whole family will love and it will give Brad an excuse to use his GPS! There are so many caches out there!! There is one literally about 50 steps from my front door that I never knew existed! I am off to find it tonight if I get time. How cool.

I am also thinking I am going to start a mini book of them, every time we find one I will get a picture, and have the picture and the date and maybe a little journalling about the location and stuff. Really neat!

Can't wait to start!

Catch Up on scrapbooking...

I have been busy scrapbooking lately (as in the last couple of months). I know my time is coming closer to going back to work and I am trying to get as many pages done that I can. While keeping the house clean of course ;)

This is the page about finding out I was pregnant with Isaac.

The next two are pages from our trip to PEI. Where all of us (minus Isaac because he wasn't born yet) met the ocean for the first time. I had only seen it from an airplane up until that point. It was as magical as I though it would be. I think a piece of my heart stayed on the beach in PEI. I am also aware that it is supposed to be she sells sea shells by the sea shore, Brad filled me in after I glued it all down!! *rolling eyes* I would have been fine to know it as sea shell, sea shell by the sea shore but now I have to look at the page every time and know it is wrong.

This is probably my favourite Basic Grey line of all time, Urban Prairie. I love the colours designs of all the papers.

This is about Annaley and Avery's first day of school, I cried...don't all moms? I was fine about the school but the school bus made me cry, they just seemed so small to be getting on a bus by themselves! At least they had each other though.

I have quite a few more done but I have yet to take pictures of them. I usually scan them as well but since we moved to the farm I have not been able to find my scanner cord! I probably shouldn't call it a scanner anymore and switch the name to dust collector.

Home from vacation.

We got home from a week in Myrtle Beach on Sunday, we had a great time but it always feels so good to be home. I missed my bed the most I think but I really missed my whole house.

Some of the trip highlights were the aquarium, it is definitely a must if you are visiting. We also went to Charleston which was a beautiful city. The beach was probably the favourite spot for the kids though, they had a blast. We had beautiful weather too. I have a few pictures I would like to share of the trip. I just started editing some.

Annaley's Room

In addition to doing the nursery I have been trying to organize Annaley's room and do the finishing touches. We painted it when we moved in and bought a new quilt for her bed but other than that not much has been done. So here is the almost finished product. I really love her room now and even sit up there sometimes, just to look around and enjoy it!

Here is a picture of her bed and Isaac helping me take pictures. The quilt was a baby gift handmade by he great grandmother.




This is her beautiful light fixture.


This dresser was free, it was on the side of the street on garbage day. It is an antique with a bad paint job. I would like to repaint it a cream colour but I haven't got around to it yet, as you can see.

Here is Isaac and his big smiles!

This is her make shift closet. We live in an old farmhouse which we love but it doesn't have closets. We have an armoire picked out that we want to make but for now I painted a wood shelf that we had in the basement and my sisters boyfriend made a couple ends for me that would hold the doweling...presto, and you have a shelf/closet. Works great!

Here is her desk...also a garage sale find (are you seeing a pattern?). It also still needs a paint job.

I made this page for her room a while ago bit just found the frame at a local junk shop for 2 bucks, I painted it and love the way it turned out.

I found a long mirror as well for 3 bucks, painted that and plan on hanging it, you can see the red mark at the same height as the scrapbook page. This task is on Brads to do list.

So that is it, what do you think?

Isaac's Room

It has been so nice to be getting his room finished. I can't believe he will be sleeping in the crib soon, and not his cradle anymore :(. I am trying to savour each step with him because the twins are growing up so fast.

This quilt was the starting point in the room. Brad bought it for me and brought it to the hospital the day after Isaac was born. I love it! So the blue cow colour is what is on the upper half of the walls and the light green from the leaves is the accent. The tan pig is the lower half of the walls.


Here is the changing table, it was a gift from my in laws when we had the twins.

Here is the crib (we do have the front part but we were using it as a toddler bed for Avery), notice the chew marks on the wood, that would be from Avery...

We had this rocking chair in the living room but I moved it up to the bedroom.

Here is my dump dresser...I found it at the dump seriously. I took the hardware off so that I could paint it, I am still unsure what colour to paint it. Any suggestions? The little suitcase I bought at a yard sale for 10 bucks, it was filled with Polly pocket stuff so both Annaley and I were very happy with the find!

Here is the toy box out of Annaley's room with a new coat of paint on it. I forgot to get a picture of the window with the drapery but you can see the colour of it in this picture. I love that all his toys are waiting for him to be old enough....it wont be long!

I still need quite a bit of things for the room. I have paper lanterns to hang above his bed but Brad is not loving the idea. He feels it doesn't fit with a 100 year old farm house decor...please tell him he is wrong! I also need some artwork and a shelf above the changing table. It will all come in time. We are actually going away in a couple of weeks and I want to find some neat artwork second hand if I can.

So there you have it. Do you like it? Anything you would change? I am open always for ideas I love creative people!