So i have been busy to say the least and enjoying being able to move about - and enjoying the wonderful weather and breezes that come through - this short time before it gets hot in mississippi is my fav. time of the year next to fall.
I've been nesting , as usual. But the bebe room is finished! (well minus the pillows for the bed) I'm actually washing some of Riley's baby clothes to put in the room. Today she saw what david and i worked on last night - basically hanging everything and putting up new pictures in the house - and she noticed zoe's bookshelf was empty- her response- She needs some books i'll give her some of mine- just about melted my heart. So i put some books on that girls shelf so riley would be happy =)

The week Carrie was here was absolutely wonderful. i reallly enjoyed having her here. It was so nice to have a sister here, and to talk to , and to watch our kids play together - even if sometimes the girls would not share. It was nice. I'm hoping maybe she will be able to come back down in august when i am due. we'll see.
I also got to make strawberry preserves with a woman from my church this past weekend- and i have to say that was my fav. day - we stayed home ALL day. we made preserves in the morning and did gardening in the afternoon and finished off the day with putting the crib together. And waht was amazing was the crib was so easy to put together and david and i didn't try to kill eachother once - it was the best! usually we have a spat when we put things together but not this time =) .

Monday i spent the entire day painting while david was out of town - which was really nice - the painting part that is. And today i waged war on the things in my yard - moles and ants.
Carrie for my birthday gave me some of mary's flowers- probally the best gift ever- so i'm very protective of them- i've created this little garden get away in the back yard and play area for us to relax. well there are moles in the area and i want them gone - so i found out this really nifty trick - put a piece of bounce dryer sheets in the mole holes - regular bounce is perfumed with oleander which is a poison - and the animals smell it and move away - then for the ants i put grits - the regular kind uncooked , not the instant , around their ant hills - well when they eat them they pop, and they take the food back to the queen and she pops.
Now for my flowers i added two tablespoons of maple syrup around the base of the flowers - this helps bring in the moisture better and draw in the good bugs to help the soil.
i know i can't believe any of this either - but you can find all this and more in this nifty book called gardening magic by joey greene- simply the best.

Anyways so i took pictures today of all that we have been up too and i'm going to attempt to post them here - we'll see how it goes.





the painting above the crib is one of the ones i did on monday , in the middle i'm going to put a verse and then around it in the white border i'll add the birthdate , weight , and time born , plus full name.

this is so you can see the cutsy chester drawer david and i painted and re did - the day pic didn't turn out great.


there are some cute pillows we are having done by my friends mom , that have the same colours as the painting a did , one with the strips , and then the other is green with the polk a dots- real cutsy.
































the blue room is our room we added in my old bed , and the picture above the dresser is one i painted as well. we moved my fav. chair in our room - which was great i was scared i wasn't gonna have a place for it .
in the orange room our living room we added a picture above the rocker- which is a collage of our trip to new york last year that i put together monday as well.






the crazy line painting is mine as well. it's a personal take on the picture of community.




this is my outside area that i made last week . the concrete area is riley's play and picnic area -


this is the garage behind david's band room- he cleaned it out and organized it for me - what a sweety.

that is riley's playground. it's really fun to lay on the ground on a quilt underneath that tree.

these are growing along the fence line in the other part of the yard- i absolutely love them- they are a pure gift from God cause we never planted them and this is the first year they appeared. fun fun.

david cleared out all my boxes and put in pine straw , i planted some seedlings - we'll see if they grow.
my fav. tree in the whole yard- it's white and just beautiful .

riley made this pot for my last year for mothers day. it's sitting at the back door and i just added that flower to it .

Hope you enjoyed the pictures- there sure where a lot. =) i took them with my semi new canon that i have no idea how to work - i've got the manual and i think i'm going to actually read thru it tonight- cuase i know it can do wonders.

Anyways
Thanks for reading.