Painted pottery

I never gave much thought to the whole paint your own pottery deal. Until a good friend opened her shop a few wks ago. I've been painting things for display, as well as light switch covers to sell. Now, I'm not the artsy one in the family. Leave that to my sister. But it's been fun. And pretty therapeutic :)

Bird and Egg :) This is the plate my sister thought was a snowman worshipping the sun!. (yea, I sent a pic to her phone, and she had it turned upside down!!) Mindy said there's someone almost every day talking about my chicken. I was in one day when some old dude who runs a shop across the street came in. Saying he'd seen it through the window for wks, and it just "summed it all up". No clue what that meant... But he said he loved it!

Asher's hand, turned into an octopus!

Yep, it's another chicken!

All the little leaves, and flowers were Asher's finger prints.

A friend of Mindy's had a baby, so I did this little plate for display. She'll get it eventually.
:)

There seems to be some discussion that I'm not over my "chicken phase". Hmm...maybe I'm not :)

Light switch covers

I just glued the tag alongs on this one before I took a pic. So, couldn't prop it up.

lil' armoire update

So, the little boys have this beaten up armoire in there "cowboy" theme room. I've intended to repaint it. Still plan on it one day, after our 138 other projects get done. We slapped some wallies on it a few months ago, much to my dislike. Couple wks ago while at Hobby Lobby, I found some cute horse shoe fabric. Considering I'm soooo not crafty, knew I couldn't whip out curtains or pillow cases with it. So, I bought some foam board, an exacto knife and went on my way. It's all been sitting around for a bit, but since today is a miserable and COLD snowy day. I busted it all out...and handed it to my wonderful husband :) :)
He measured, made his cuts. I did however, help hot glue the frabic, ty very much.
We slapped it on the doors, and fini! Quick, little project. Kind of looks girly, I know..lol. But, the kids are impressed. And hey..that's what REALLY matters, right????

before

after

playdough and out with mom

Who needs Xbox, Wii, or Nintendo DS???? :)
For the last hour, my boys have been playing nicely...with playdough.

Yesterday was a little more of a fun filled day. Kyle got a hair cut ("the best in his life", he says. lol) We shopped for shoes, which was a bust. Sorry kid, but mama ain't gonna buy you $80 shoes. We'll keep looking. Stopped in at Petsmart to revisit the idea of getting Charlotte a new cage. But, again..I'm too cheap. Hers is chewed up pretty bad. From the OUTSIDE, thanks to the dogs. And just impossisble to get totally clean in the corners. It needs to be sand blasted, I swear. Again, gonna keep working on this one.

I wanted to do a little something with them on their spring break, so we hit Locomotion. Ah, good times. They played a game of mini golf, all got to ride the cars and play some video games. Of course, the trip ended with little Asher in tears, because his 5 cent parachut man he "won" from his FIVE dollars in tokens, "got broked". UGH!!! Ungrateful, lil'.....:)

healing

We're home and doing great!!

Ethan was really stressed going in. He was mostly worried about the needle for the IV. Luckily, we found out pretty quickly they do it AFTER they put you under. We were allowed to go back with him to the cath lab for a few mins until he was asleep. He kind of freaked out a bit when they put the mask over his face :( He looked soooo scared. Just when they were telling me he was almost asleep, he jolted up. And started to grab the mask. Took a few people to hold him down. I was holding his hand, telling him it was ok. Then all of a sudden his hand went limp, his eyes rolled back, and his head fell to the side. Gotta say...I knew what was happening, and remained VERY calm..but it was kind of a sickening thing to watch. I still can't get that image out of my head.
An hour into the study they called and said they'd found the pathway, and were starting the ablation. An hour later..said they found ANOTHER, which guess isn't all that common. That one was a bit deeper, and a higher risk spot. But luckily Dr. Tuzcu is trained :) Waking up was hard on him, too. He started to cry the minute he saw us. He was just confused with the way his body felt, and his throat was hurting from the tube. Wasn't long that he was miserable not being able to move his legs (had to lay still for 5 hours) After a few hours of sleeping, crying, trying to move.. I told him he HAD to eat some ice cream. Not too long after that, he started to perk up and was ready to be dischared. We left around 6:00pm.

The hospital experience wasn't much fun, that's for sure. But I think we all enjoyed being just the three of us. We went to the zoo the day we got there. Ate out a LOT (not off the dollar menu at mickey d's , BIG treat, lol) My sister hooked us up with a room at the Peabody, which was great. Yes, she ROCKS!!

He'll be sore for a couple days. More stiff tomorrow, they said. Needs to keep walking around and get back into things slowly.
All in all, we feel blessed it went so well.

talent show..my poor dad!

Kyle and his best bud Ethan D are taking part in the talent show this wk. I'm going to post the rehearsal, because I will most likely not make it to the real deal on Friday. (due to being out of town with Ethan).
I'm hoping I can get someone to video it for me, if not. I at least have this to haunt Kyle with for the rest of his life :)
This was a rough practice, and they didn't remember a few steps. And have changed the end a bit. This is my super quiet, JOCK. Not goofball that he portrays here. He's been cracking us up with all his expressions, and endless pratice in the mirror. My parents have NO clue he's doing this, and my dad will likely walk out 5 shades of red, lol. Yes, they're going, but believe he's doing a poetic reading of Shakespere or something, hehehe.

don't forget to pause music on my playlist!!!

Talent show

Catheter Ablation

Or electrophysiology procedure as his docs call it. Is what my "baby" is having Thursday morning. The episodes of rapid heart rate, and dizziness will hopefully be no more!

I'm nervous, of course. I'll be even more so come that morning. But, I also have read up on this as much as I could. I know the risks, and they appear minimal. He's worried about the backless gown and the iv in his arm. Please say a prayer for our kiddo that he sails through this.

kitchen eye candy

I've had visions of a mini kitchen make-over for some time now. I'm hoping to keep track of our progress through this blog. I hope one day our dream will come to fruition. We'll be attempting a VERY low budget knock off of the pic with the green lower cabs, and white uppers. The homeowner raised the cabinets which I'm DYING to do. And, am thinking my husband just very well may die attempting this, lol.

Here are some of my favorite kitchens!

Can you sense a pattern here? I heart two toned cabinets!

t-ball

After years of growing up on a baseball field, watching his big brothers. It's FINALLY my little Asher buns turn to play baseball !!!! Last wk was his little meet and greet deal. It was dark, so we didn't get any pics. Even though while leaving the house, he was yelling "don't forget the camera!!" :) He looks so little, and cute out there. All the other kids are bouncing around, yelling, being kind of obnoxious (ok, just being kids) And my sweetie is just taking it all in. he's the youngest, and one of the smallest guys out there. Most of them are 6 and in kindy. A few in 1st grade. My baby JUST turned 5 last wk !!! He made the April 1st cut off by just a few wks.

I was excited about all the others playing for the first time. But, for some reason...watching him out there brought tears to my eyes. Maybe because he's sooo excited. Or maybe because he's officially my last t-baller :(

Only in Arkansas do the other playesr show up to practice in Camo, lol.

BFF

I have some very dear friends, there's no question about it. I got some sweets and balloons from one on my birthday this yr. Out for a surprise dinner with a couple others.

But, Kyle and Ethan D's relationship takes the cake. Kyle informed me today that he went to detention. Before I could get out "what did you do????", he quickly informed he it was ETHAN who got in trouble (chattin' in the hall again :) ) He only went in to keep him company. He missed his recess, and let the detention teacher and everyone else think he was sent there for a punishment. When he really just wanted to be near his friend. Now really, how sweet is that??

sweet pup