Crafty.

My baby brother is graduating from Army Boot Camp on September 4 so I was bound and determined to find some Army Pants that fit me for a decent price. I searched in Fayetteville at 2 Army stores with no luck, so I looked online and found pants. So, I cut them into Capri's when I got them and then bedazzled away!

I am not a hat kinda gal but I do like this hat and I ended up designing the cross myself because the cross that I had for the hat I made a boo boo on. Oh well!

The back of the hat

Front of the hat

Back of the pants

Front of the pants

Here's some pictures that I edited recently on picnik.com, I LOVE this website, it is so much faster than trying to use Photoshop.

Finally getting some things for our bedroom...

So after 2 1/2 years of having nothing on the walls in our bedroom or bathroom, I finally picked out a few things I wanted and had my friend Katie paint them for me. She is so crafty!

This painting has James 1:2-3 on it, I recently read this verse in a book that I am reading, Never Say Diet.

These two are for our bathroom just above our closets. I think they are perfect!

And, I couldn't post without a picture of my and my sweet little boy. I was listening to the radio this morning at work and they were asking a Trivia question about what animal is the happiest to see you when you get home and I instantly knew it was your dog and thought of this little boy! He makes my day:)

New Floors...

Last Friday we got new carpet installed in all 3 bedrooms. It was needed badly! We got new carpet before we moved in 2 1/2 years ago but didn't know that the cheap stuff didn't last very long, plus it was very stained and I had cut some of it up that the cat had peed on, so none the less WE NEEDED NEW CARPET!


Guest Bedroom

Office

Master Bedroom

This past Saturday an AWESOME friend helped us install laminate floors in our living room, we already had them in the hall so it wasn't that much but it was still hard work!

The new floors





Saturday while William was mowing and I was working in the yard, Jack found this little friend and thought he was suppose to pick it up by his shell and carry him around.


William with some kind of saw while laying the floors


This is how Rylee spent almost all weekend, she hates our couch any other time


The new sign that I got for our Anniversary

Show Us Your Wedding Reception & Honeymoon...

Wedding Reception & Honeymoon Edition

Kelly is doing this and you can view her blog to see more.

Our "Reception" was so sweet, my mom had gotten a lovely lady that had been a GREAT example to be growing up and had previously made me a Pooh Bear cake for one of my birthday's, to make our wedding cake. It was DELICIOUS! I think I was her to make us another if she can get it all the way up here!:) Thanks to Sue Cash!

I am glad you can't tell on here but somehow, still not really sure how it happened, but me and my sister and law had both used a roll of the same film and almost all of my wedding pictures were ruined, but luckily you can't see the 2nd picture on here...:)

Us cutting the cake, and nicely feeding it to each other. I would have done something like shoved it in William's face but they told me not to before hand, I think they could see it in my eyes!

My Aunt bought us some Champagne for our toast, champagne is not for me. But, none the less, it was FUN!

The "Honeymoon", if you want to call it that. We didn't have any money, I had lost my job, moved to William's dad's house, had a car note and William started school in a week of so after we go married. So, We stayed at The French Quarter in Mid-town Memphis, TN. Pictures below of our room. After we arrived, we left our things and went to downtown, I still had on my dress and vail and William was still in his shirt and tie. We got lots of sweet words, weird looks and free stuff at the restaurant. We are at TGIFriday's. When we got back to our car, some sweet girls had left a note on our window saying CONGRATS! My mom had wrote on our car with window chalk and tied cans to the bumper, but the cans came off as soon as we got off my grandma's street.

Hope you have enjoyed our Wedding! Our 5 year Wedding Anniversary is tomorrow, Friday August 7, 2009. So, if you would like to see a video of us, check back tomorrow. It will be of us throughout of past years together.

Show Us Your Wedding Party & Flowers...

Wedding Party & Flowers Edition

Kelly is doing this and you can view her blog to see more.

I didn't really have a "wedding party". It was me, William and my Uncle Lee who married us. Our guests were, I can name all of them for you, My parents, William's parents, my dad's mom and my cousin, my mom's mom and step dad, my aunt and cousin, my youngest brother, my uncle(who married us) and his wife. That's it!

Our "First Kiss" as husband and wife.

My 2 cousins, Amanda and Kali, were my flower girls. I don't think I have a picture of me holding my flowers, but if you look close in the pictue of our "first kiss" you can see my grandmother holding the pink roses, my father-in-law put it together for me.

That was an ordeal in it's self. I had ordered my calilillies a month in advance and the day before our wedding when I went to pick the flowers up the lady told me that she wasn't able to get them, so I was very angry to say the least. Oh well, I went to Sam's and bought Pink Roses and they worked well because my mom pulled some of the outer pettles off and my cousins dropped them for me.

Our wedding was at my grandmothers house in the Den at 6:30 on a Saturday afternoon.

I walked in with a Jessica Simpson playing, it's sad I can't remember:(

My uncle prayed, we said our vows, lit the unity candles, exchanged rings and kissed. While we lit the unity candles I wanna love you forever by Jessica Simpson played.

I made this sometime after we were married to go in my scrapbook.

If you look at the picture above of the lady with the blonde hair and the pink/white dress suit on and the picture below of the lady in the red dress with brown hair. That is the same lady! That's my Grandmother, just with a 13-14 year difference.

I put these pictures in because they are FUN! My Uncles Lee married my mom and dad as well. So here is a picture of my Uncle Lee with us, and a picture of my mom with us, the picture on the bottom is my mom and Uncle Lee when he married my mom and dad, I think that was in 1980 or 1981.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed!

The Great Passion Play...

Some of our friend's from back home came to visit for the weekend. They arrived Thursday evening and we toured a little of the Bentonville/Rogers area to show them around. Then on Friday we headed off to go antiquing and to Eureka Springs to see the Great Passion Play. I enjoyed it, it was good just not something I am dieing to go see again. Saturday we spent the day playing bowling, shopping at the Promenade and playing the Wii. Sunday they attended church with us, and then had to be on their way home to lead church service tonight. None the less, it was a FUN weekend.

William & I waiting to see the Tabernacle at The Living Bible Tour.

William & I at the bottom of the hill at Christ of the Ozarks.

Just to show you just how big Christ of the Ozarks is.

William & I at the foot of Christ at the Ozarks.

Show Us Your Wedding Dress...

Wedding Dress Edition

Kelly is doing this and you can view her blog to see more.

I will tell a little about our wedding first and then show some pictures.
William and I got engaged Christmas day 2003. We got married August 7, 2004. For the 3 months prior to us being married, I lived in West Memphis, AR with my grandparents and William lived in Northwest Arkansas doing a Summer Internship for Wal-Mart. William came back home on August 6 just in enough time for us to get to the courthouse and get our marriage license before they closed for the weekend. We had only known that we were getting married for 6 weeks, he found out that he would be getting a job offer on his last day of his internship and wanted me to move here with him when he came back in January 2005. So, we talked about it and the only time that worked well with him finishing school and moving here was August. It turned out perfect! I had been 19 for 30 days when we got married. I bought "the dress" the day before we got married, just before William arrived home. I wasn't nervous about it, just had a hard time finding a white dress in August that wasn't at a bridal shop and that I had enough money for.

My dress came from Cato's or Holiday's, I can't remember. I know it was on clearance for $20. I already had bought a vail and garter from David's Bridal. I did have something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. My old and borrowed were my grandmother pearl necklace and earrings, my new was my dress, vail and shoes and my something blue was my garter.



My dad showed up 30 minutes before my wedding started, I didn't know he was going to be there. My grandmother got him the shirt that he has on from my grandfathers closet and he gave me away! I loved it! My mom and dad were divorced when I was young and I always dreamed that my dad would be there when I graduated high school, when I got married, when I graduate college and when I have a baby. So far he is 2 for 2!

This is my dress, hanging in my closet, I still have it and my vail.

This is the dress that I tried on, just after we decided on a date. I worked full-time at Wal-mart and had a car note, so I couldn't afford the $600 for this dress. Someday though! William and I are planning on doing a big wedding the right way for our 10 year reunion, we will see how that works out since we will have been married 5 years soon, it is creeping up really fast!