Pillow Project

So before I decide to go all out and paint a wall, I'm making pillows to practice!

Slowly they're coming along ..

So here is my first step, tracing the template, took FOREVER!

Second step two: begin painting!

(this was tricky because there is no real line to follow. 

 you're actually paining in the middle of each shape it was called double lines.)

Finished one side of the pillow, and I love it!

Now I just need to finish painting the other side and sew them together!

I will add the finished pictures as soon as I am done ..

Here is to a new chapter

It is the month of September and well school has started back up for everyone but yours truly.  Yes that is right I am not attending college this semester and well, mostly because I have NO idea what it is I feel like spending the rest of my life doing, besides being a wife and mother.  I seem to hear a lot of grief about not going to school and blah blah blah.  But this is what I have to say: I believe in myself that I can do great things for not only me but for my family.  I have and will continue to make the right choices as they come into my life and follow down the path that I feel is right.  So thank you for your comments but this is OUR (mine and Steven's) life and we know what were doing :)


So as for now, my plan is to get back into decorating and reading some good books!

My Project list:


1. Reupholster my free chair I picked up from down the street

2. Painted Wallpaper in one of the rooms of the house-(guest bedroom or bathroom, kitchen or living room?)

3. Pallet bookshelves

4. New night stands and lights for master bedroom

and of course enjoy my life with Steven and planning our future together!  :)

Look back for project updates!
Happy Tuesday everyone ..

"LESSONS FORGED from the PURPOSE, PASSION, and MAGIC of BASEBALL".

So my girlfriend was telling me about a book that she is in love with .. She is constantly posting quotes from it and I can't help but be inspired by the words from this man I have never met. So I decided to buy and read this book!!

Augie Garrido is "the winningest coach in NCAA Division 1 history! Life Is Yours to Win is said to appeal to anyone who appreciates the wisdom of a proven winner in sports and in life.

I plan to read every inch of this book and plan to keep you guys up on it as I go! Cross your fingers! I'm excited :)

Adventures of House Hunting

About a month ago we decided to take one of the biggest steps to creating a great future together, buy a home!  

We got approved for our loan and now it's time to look for the perfect house!  It is amazing to think that at our age we're able to purchase a home, somewhere we can raise our family and grow old in together.  It was so much work just to get approved, they want so much information it is crazy.  But as I kept telling Steven if they want you to give a urine sample do it!  We would do anything to be able to buy a house!!  Right now we are at the point where it's all down to patients.  :(  I do not really have patients but I will however, try my hardest for this because we have certain things on our list that need to be met and if that means we have to wait a year to get into the perfect home for us, then that means we have to wait a year.   

I constantly look every day on the web to see if there are any new homes, seems to be the same every time.  We have found a few we love and of course just our luck an offer has already been out on them!  But I think that just means that a house much better will come along :)

I am very blessed to have Steven in my life and be in a place where we can afford to do all these amazing things together and continue on this road to making a great life for one another and for our children one day.

Well that's it for now, Ill post again soon as more happens!

Auf ewig in unseren Herzen -forever in our hearts

We often find out the hard way that life is too short.  We should never take the precious moments we have with the ones we love for granite, because we never know when they'll be taken away. 
Growing up you think not only you but everyone you love is invinsible.  As you get older and begin to understand more about life and how it works, that  perseption will change.  You see people get sick, get in accidents, or want to stop the pain and be taken by god to a better place.  We must learn not to be selfish, wishing they could remain here with us and understand that they are in gods hands and no longer in pain.  However the amazing part is they forever stay in our hearts and watch over us as we grow. 

You never know when it can happen, when someone you love so dear, who inspires you to do great things, encourages you to be a better person and who has cheered you on in every step in your life, is taken from us and put in gods hands. 


So enjoy every moment that comes into our lives and take every opportunity that is given to us and run with it.  Love harder than ever before, laugh till you cry, smile it's contagious, and regret nothing.

For those we've lost -
"God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be.  So he put his arms around you and whispered "come with me".  With tearful eyes we watched and saw you pass away.  Although we loved you dearly we know you couldn't stay.  A golden heart stopped beating and hard working hands at rest.  God broke our hearts to prove to us he only takes the best!" -Unknown

Grandpa Carl, Grandma Beverly, Grandma Eleanor, Grandpa Emil, Grandma Joy, Michael, Shannon