not so wordless Wednesday

Ron and I got to have a wonderful little getaway this past weekend.

It was super relaxing, we got to catch up with

some of our best friends,

we made some new friends,

and my man got to golf on a course that had views like this...

I'm pretty sure that's what heaven will look like for Ron.

Now I'm off to the airport to pick up my mom.

Hope she's ready for the insane amount of work I've got waiting for her.

You just gotta love moms!

And maybe while she's packing up my house

I'll have a chance to post some more pictures from

our super fun fantastic weekend.

colorful morning

As we were leaving our neighborhood this morning,

we saw this hot air balloon

lifting off from our neighbors yard.

Too cool!

After I dropped the kids off and was almost home

I saw it out over some corn fields near our house.

I'd say that's a pretty good way to spend a beautiful morning.

flea market :: edited to add pictures

This was one of the first booths (tents actually) that we saw when we arrived.
I immediately fell in love with the distressed green bed for Kate.
I decided to keep on walking and if it was still there
when we made our way back around...

Long story short, Kate has a new bed!

It was super cold (high 40's)
and drizzling the whole time we were there,
so we didn't stay too long
and I didn't get very many pictures.

But it was still a lot of fun and I'm really glad we went.
We even ran in to a couple girls that I know from church.
They had some awesome art work that I would
have loved to have gotten, but the bed won this time.
Maybe next month.

My sister and I are headed here this morning.

I can't wait!

I'll be back later today with some pictures of what we saw

and hopefully some treasures that we got to bring home.

In the meantime, you can watch this.

It's way cool!

charming handbag

After much frustration,

more time than I cared to spend with my seam ripper,

help from a friend,

and a couple of re-do's...

I finally finished the Charming Handbag.

It wasn't feeling so charming to me by the time I finished it.

But now that I know what I'm doing,

the next one will go much more smoothly.

Besides, the fabric is so darn cute it kind of makes up

for the mistakes I made and the words that may or may not

have slipped from my mouth as I was making it.

I'm just saying...

The bag is from this book if you're interested.

10 on 10 {september}

The idea is from here.

Take a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours on the tenth of each month. Document a day of your life and find beauty among the ordinary moments. Then share your beauty with us!

9am :: Procrastination = Laundry Mountain

10 am :: Picking out a sewing project for the day

11am :: Lunch

Noon :: Loving the all the colors in these fabrics

1pm :: Happily playing

2pm :: Listening to Pandora while we work

3pm :: Picking the kids up from school

4pm :: Project central

5pm :: Adam is home from Camp T

6pm :: Lazy dinner

They're here...

We're so excited to have my sister and niece here for a visit.

It's a short one, but we're going to pack in

tons of fun and have a blast!

(photo taken by 3 year old natalie)

The kids are all at school and we're heading to Snooze

and then the fabric store.

For starters...

Tuesday Tidbit

Bible study started up again this morning,

and as usual

I was smacked up-side the head

with some good stuff.

I was thinking that maybe

if I took the time to write some of it down,

it would sink in and last a little longer.

I'm doing the Beth Moore study

To Live Is Christ

and it's about the life of the apostle Paul.

Should be good.

Anyway, in the midst of her teaching

that we were watching

she said...

"God is more interested in our restoration

than in our rescue."

It goes right along with something a friend

said to me yesterday,

that in our constantly searching to know

God's will for our lives,

the one thing we know for sure

is that His will is our sanctification.

UGH! To be honest,

sometimes I just don't like to hear the truth!

But... I believe it to be The Truth,

so I will continue to press on,

knowing that the Lord loves me

in spite of me,

and being so, so thankful

that He is patient with me.

excitement

...in the cul de sac.

There was a brush fire at the entrance to our neighborhood

the other day (which is not exciting, by the way).

This firefighter was sent to our street to fill up his tank with water

and the kids got a front row seat to watch the action.

They were too cute sitting on that rock watching him the whole time.

Thankfully, the fire(s) were all put out fairly quickly and no one was hurt.

Praise God for brave firefighters!