Mimi & Papa's Day...Hugs & Kisses!!!

Happy Grandparents Day!!!

"Happy Grandparents day Mimi and Papa! I love and miss you guys like crazy! I hope you are having a great day! You both are amazing and I cant wait to see you both soon! Love you!" -Awbrey (:

1st Day of High School

Good morning! I'm a little slow getting these onto the blog since we just finished our first week in H.S. Lets just say its been an adjustment, our alarm clocks start us off at 4:45am...that's stinking early!!!! The first day was good, it went as smooth as you would expect. She enjoys her classes except for one (she might be switching that one) and she likes all of her teachers. She seems to have already adjusted to the change of pace and is settling in. She has several friends on the swim team and we are happy to report that she decided to go for it and has joined the team. She has practice every day after school and sometimes on the weekends. She seems very happy with that decision, she wanted to be involved in some type of sport. She is also thinking of joining one of the several clubs. She keeps herself very busy between school, swimming, church, friends and babysitting. What an exciting time in her life!!!

Ta Da!!!!!!

Remember a few weeks ago I posted that I had a new project, well with the nice long weekend my hubby finally had time to work on it. We had searched and searched for a dresser on craigslist for the longest time. It took forever for us to find one that we both liked at a fabulously frugal price. I picked this one up for $80 bucks, yep  that's all. With paint we paid a total price of $100 :)  I love it!!!!!!!

here it is before





and with some work here it is after

Happy Labor Day!

Yummy Blackberries

Yesterday was a gorgeous day here in the NW, we went to our friends property and picked bowls full of blackberries and had a relaxing day hanging out with them. It is so incredibly beautiful at their property! You look out and see miles and miles of just hills of green trees. Every time I'm there I'm in awe of Gods creation. It's so peaceful and quiet there. With all those berries I suggested making a blackberry crisp...yum!  Ah blackberry crisp, it takes me back to when we lived in California and we used to go to the Bay Side Cafe in Morro Bay (Central California Coast) and have their homemade crisp. But since we no longer live there it tends to be a little more difficult to go. I've tried making store bought boxed crisp but it wasn't the same. So last night we we BBQ's with our friends had a delicious delicious food and I made one from scratch, I have no idea why I thought it was going to be hard because it wasn't...I should have been making them from scratch in the beginning.