From the looks of my recent posts, it's been all house, all the time. And while this is very close to the truth, we have been doing other real-life things. I figured it was high-time for a 'from the camera roll' post in which I share some of the recent happenings in our lives, straight from my ...
Building A House | Framing, First Floor
Confession: I have taken no fewer than 16 million photos of our house building process, and we are still only beginning. Building a house is SO MUCH FUN and the process of framing has my excitement level through the roof. We have walls--we have rooms. We have stairs, for goodness sake. I can ...
Soccer Season 2016, Recap
My girls are as different as night and day. While Libby is a dancing diva, Kyndall is a baller. She is extremely athletic, and basketball and soccer are her sports of choice. (She loves volleyball, too, but at our school she can't play volleyball until the 7th grade!) The 2016 soccer season ...
How To Build A Rustic Barn Door Baby Gate
{This post is sponsored by the Home Depot.} We ran into a little safety problem a few weeks ago--Jase loves to climb the stairs. We knew we needed a baby gate, and fast! We've tried those pre-made plastic gates before for our dogs and they just didn't last. We wanted to build something that ...
How to Make Muscadine Jelly
Last weekend, my dad took the kids out to pick muscadines. They came back with two gallon buckets full. (There were even a few pears thrown in for good measure!) We are big jelly-eaters, so I knew I would use some of those "southern grapes" to make a few jars of muscadine jelly. Muscadine jelly ...
Personal Blog Post Favorites
I have all types of tools that show me which posts you guys love the most. Google Analytics can tell me exactly how many of you have viewed each post, so I can easily tell which blog posts are YOUR favorites. But your favorites aren't always my favorites. And I think maybe that's because you ...