Tonight...

was our monthly squadron spouses meeting and we hosted it at our house this month.  As always it was good food and company.  Thank- you to all of you who were able to come...it was good to see you again.  An incredibly huge thanks to my wonderful husband who lovingly put up with my stress and helped with whatever needed to be done, my sister who was invaluable in the kitchen with the food and cleaning, and to Amy for bringing over two large pots of coffee.  I'm not usually one to host larger get-togethers, but it was good to step out of my comfort zone and do something different.  And I must say that it felt good to get some "spring/deep" cleaning done in preparation for it.  Now to sit down with a cup of coffee and relax for a few minutes! 

A beautiful evening...

An unplanned baseball game took place in our backyard this evening- kid style- and it was great! Morgan wanted to play with her new bat and ball which in turn ended up attracting some of our neighbor's children and a couple parents. It was so much fun just to watch them play and of course the dad's went easy on them so they could run the bases! I love it when the weather gets warmer!

For those of you who have been wondering...

what I've been painting and up to the past couple of weeks...well here you go! Below is our closet at its worse. This house has the smallest closets of any place that we've lived so far and the fact that Aaron and I have to share a closet makes it even more interesting! So the first 2 pics are of the messy closet and half of the mess dumped out on my bed so we could work in the closet!

After pulling out the old shelves and rods we had to patch the walls, sand, and then paint -and here is Aaron after sanding the spackling in our closet...you would have thought that there was a dust storm in our room!

And finally after 4 days of a complete and total mess- here is the finished closet...it is so nice to be able to actually walk in and find what you're looking for! Aaron calls it his superman closet because there's actually room to changed in there! And we actually have done Morgan's closet and the office closet, so they're functioning spaces too-thank goodness!

Yes I love shoes! this is only half of them...the rest of them are hanging on the back of the closet door!(they're just not in the picture!)

And our room restored back to functioning order!

Then here's a little sneak peak at the office which is almost done...still working on the window trim. Yeah, being a southern girl, I really like white trim work in houses, so after 2 years I decided that I didn't really want to live with the wood trim work in our house so I've begun painting it room by room (It's a royal pain, but worth it) The green is a little softer in person. (And since someone asked me what the color was...it's jalapeno pepper by Benjamin Moore Paints picked by Pottery Barn for the Fall pallete.)

And I finally finish painting Morgan's bathroom tonight. The yellow is softer than the picture shows. It turned out nice. So that among other things is what we've been up to over the past couple of weeks!

He lives!

This verse and chorus from a hymn has been running through my head this evening, so I thought I'd share it.
"I serve a risen Savior. He's in the world today. I know that He is living whatever men may say. I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer, and just the time I need Him, He's always near. He Lives...He Lives...Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me and talks with me along lifes narrow way. He Lives...He Lives...Salvation to impart. You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart. "

What an amazing gift that God gave to us through is Son, Jesus, the gift of eternal life. And how amazing to serve our risen Lord. I'm so thankful that He is Risen!

90% done...

with my office. For the first time in 4 weeks I can see the entire floor of my office. The walls are painted, the trim work is painted white, the closet has been updated with awesome shelving, and almost everything has been organized and put in place. The few things left are painting the window and window ledge white, installing bi-folding doors, hanging the blind, and putting some more artwork on the walls. I can't wait. For the first time, I can finally say I have a room that is all my own -sanctuary- in which to create to my heart's desire! I will gladly post pictures when it is 100% done! (Now if only the rest of the house was this put together!!!)

Spring????!

ok so the only sign of spring around here is the completely opened tulips on my kitchen table...did I mention that they are in a vase of H2O?! It was actually cold enough again today that it tried to snow-even if it was just a little and it didn't stick. This should be spring with flowers blooming and the world starting to turn from grey to green. And the sun should be in it's full glory-shining all the time!!! ok, so it was a dull drab day here. Maybe tomorrow will start to look like spring...I'm ready to plant flowers in my planter outside...real flowers with roots!

The Airforce Ball...

this is my favorite picture from the ball Saturday night. We had a really nice time...will post more pictures later on in the week. (I think we both clean up alright...what do you think?)