the purple room

i had a blue room in my house...

it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't my favorite either.

but i needed inspiration. i didn't know what to do with it. then it all came together beautifully.

a friend of ours found a futon that a neighbor was getting rid of... the best price free. how could we pass up this offer? so we went and picked up the futon, bought a new cover and a couple of pillows and the room looked great.

besides a few small details

the room did look great with the futon, but it was still blue and didn't match my newly purchased yellow and purple pillows...so what is a girl to do...

the only thing i could possibly do i bought purple paint, of course, and painted three walls purple. the accent wall is an ivory/cream color which we mixed ourselves with some paint that we found in our garage from the previous owners.

thanks to the help of some visitors this weekend we finished the entire room in less then 2 hours. i must admit... i love it. i never thought i would like a purple room... but i do!!

now i am just going to take my time to either buy or paint a perfect picture for the accent wall.

reading with daddy

the other day i went to Bible study and when i got home this is what i found...

the loves of my life reading together.

gemma has a new found love for books and

eric and i love to read to her

so it works out quite nicely.

just the 2 of us

trying to plan a surprise date night with the hubs.

it is kind of difficult...and it is actually more of a date afternoon/evening.

it seems like it has been forever since we have been on a date with just the 2 of us. i heard several times before we had gemma that we need to keep spending 'just us' time together. stuff happens though and schedules get crazy.

i am going to make it happen tomorrow though...

plan so far... drop gems off with aunt adrian and the kids, surprise eric at work (he only works 1/2 day on fridays), have a picnic lunch somewhere, this is the part of the date i am not too sure about yet (any suggestions are greatly appreciated; can you think of anything to do on a hot afternoon with the hubsters?), then for dinner i am planning on going out to eat for an early dinner. then we will head back to pick up gems and actually spend the night at ryan and adrian's. (we are going to a wedding saturday so... jenni and tim are staying the night there as well... we are probably going to stay up way to late and eat too much junk food, but that's what makes 'slumber parties fun, right?!)

so that's the plan...i am also planning on bringing my camera to take some pictures of just the two of us. i was trying to find some today and can't find many so i better make that a priority!!

let me know if you have any suggestions as far as something to do on a sunny afternoon!

kiddie pool

after a hot morning at play group and a nice walk around the park

of course, after a short nap, quick lunch and some time with grandmama

we finally got around to...

gemma's new-to-her-kiddie pool

we got a small kiddie pool from some friends and gemma enjoyed it immensely.

i think we will be spending lots of these hot afternoons there.

my girl

i've got sunshine on a cloudy day

when it's cold outside, i've got the month of may.

well, i guess you say what can make me feel this way

my girl

talkin' bout my girl

whats the magic word

it is unbelievable how quickly and how young kids can pick up on things.

eric and i have seen the benefits of sign language with babies...

so we have been working on baby sign with gemma. she is doing really well too. she has 'please' down for the most part (with a little help.)

now we just need to work on 'more' 'thank you' and 'all done'.

maybe we will just name him 'kitty'

after 14 years...we said goodbye to the family cat. ole' zeus.

it is now time to find a replacement...

cy and nolan, i think, picked just the right one...

he doesn't have a name yet, but he will soon!

(it is either this kitty or another one...i will let you know which one gets chosen)