Busy redoing a little bit of everything! ;)

   I know the past couple posts have been about Baylor Birthday party, but I am so excited about it and thankfully it is coming up quick!  I have a little over 2 weeks to finalize everything and get invitations in the mail by Monday! AHHH I still don't have the invites or any idea what they might look like!  I just feel like I have been so busy doing some updates around the house since I know we are going to have a lot of guests in our home soon!  When I say updates I mean I look around my house for things I don't like and figure out how I can redo them ;) Which brings me to my latest redo!

   Oh sweet little 2 drawer chest in our entryway you look like the perfect candidate for an update!

Thanks to Pinterest I have been dying to do some sort of turquoise piece in my house!  So I finally just said I can/am going to do it!  After painting the high chair I decided I can try a small piece and see what happens and let me just tell you, I am more than excited about the finished piece!  Here she is in all her turquoise and glazed glory!

I am pretty smitten with this!  ;)  I used this blog as my over view, but I will go over briefly what I used since I am not good at following directions, and not so patient when I want to just see the end result.  I rolled it with Kilz that we had in the garage, followed by Rustoleum Lagoon, Rustoleum Transformations Java Glaze, and finally a few coats of polycrylic!  I am so happy with the results but now I feel like I need a new lamp and some flowers for the entry way instead of my drab decor now ;)  Super excited my house is coming together slowly but surely thanks to Pinterest and all you other wonderful bloggers out there!  

  In other things we did finally paint our pergola, but I have yet to take a picture!  Gotta get on that! We are getting our son dedicated this Sunday at our new church that we absolutely LOVE!  Its Gracepointe Church in Peachtree City, Ga and it is so fabulous!  I knew it was home for me when we were singing during worship, the first Sunday we visited, and we were singing Agnus Dei, it was just so powerful I couldn't help but let the tears flow as I felt the Lord just envelop my heart! So happy we are there and already excited that this past Sunday I got to serve in the nursery!  Thank you Lord!  Well hate to cute this short, but Baylor has woken up from his nap and my tea stain outdoor curtain probably needs to be taken out! Pictures to come!  Have a great rest of the week and weekend! :)

HIGH CHAIR REVEAL!!

Baylor is turning 1 in about 6 weeks, and being obsessed with Pinterest, I am getting a little too excited about having his birthday party!!  I am trying to keep it within reason, and not go crazy with the overload of ideas, but I am narrowing down all my final details!  One thing I have known I wanted to have at his birthday was a wooden high chair that coordinated with the party colors so it would look good in pictures (I know crazy right ;) ).  After scouring Craigslist for months one came up not far from us for $20.00!  UM SOLD!

After mulling over green or turquoise, for what seemed like forever, since I wanted to start as soon as Zach picked it up, I finally settled on turquoise, Gem Turquoise by Behr to be exact!  When I was finished with the first coat I kept thinking it still looked kinda girly, but then I remembered I had some java glaze left over from a previous project. As soon as I began wiping away the glaze I knew I was looking at what I envisioned in my head! So with that said here it is...

I am so excited to see everything together when his big day comes, but I am very excited that this total "redo" was not expensive at all!  Chair-$20.00, Paint-$3.15 (the sample was the perfect amount and I still have a good bit left), Glaze- Already on hand!  so $23.15 and a few hours of my time and I got a good looking chair!  I still need to pick up clear coat so all in all it will probably be a little over $25.00 with is fine with me! :)  Well hope everyone is having a great week! 

DIY Outdoor Project!

      With my sweet boy's birthday approaching in May, I am having a blast planning his birthday.  More like Pinning any idea that has anything to do with a mustache or little man first birthday party. I am so excited to celebrate his first birthday and hopefully put together a well thought out and sweet first birthday party.  Well, thanks to Pinterest,  I decided I really wanted his party to be inside and outside since our living room isn't huge, and I don't want things to feel cramped.  We were already planning something for our outdoor area,  since it was so drab, so  I enlisted my hubby in building a pergola to make it feel a little more cozy and together. 

      So this is a small before and after of the back area. Clearly we have a lot of work to do!  I forgot to take the picture before he got the first part up! 

                     BEFORE                            AFTER

I have to brag on my husband though he did not use one plan, he visualized it in his head, bought the wood and screws, and VOILA instant PERGOLA! He really shouldn't have shown me how skilled he is, so many plans in my head now!  We still need to paint it, but it has been soo rainy here it has yet to be sunny and nice for 3 days in a row!  I have big plans (on a small budget) for this area, so stay tuned to see, hopefully, a big reveal!  

     I am super excited for this weekend;  our sweet friends are coming down from Michigan to visit, and our boys are only 6 weeks apart, so  I can't wait to see how they play together! Hope everyone is having a great start to their week and hopefully will update more often!! :)

Church

     Hm what can I say...I know I haven't done the best at blogging lately, but this certain topic has been so heavy on my heart lately.... So here goes (side note- I am not posting this as a bashing of any sort this is my thoughts on this thing and please do not get offended because I in no way intend for this to be offensive)  Zach and I have been visiting churches off and on for the past year and a half in search of a place we can call our home church.  Since that time we have probably visited 5 to 7 churches, a couple of them we visited more than once thinking we had found some potential only to realize it wasn't the right fit after all.  I have to say though the absolutely most heart breaking thing about visiting all of those churches was only 1,  can I say that again ONE,  at some point during the service offered salvation!!!  A lot of the services ended in a prayer, but not even a  "if you felt Jesus pulling you during the service maybe now is the time to let Him in"....NOTHING!  I am on the road to getting my relationship back on track with God and I'm not one to say oh this is how things should be, but if we are the body of Christ and our mission while on this earth is to reach out to the unbeliever, shouldn't we be offering this one simple part of a service to the possible unbeliever sitting in the midst?  I am not placing all the blame on the church because we as believers should be prepared to share the good news whenever asked or if someone just wants to know why we are so happy!  It's just really been hitting me the great impact we can have on people in the smallest of ways and I want to be sure my life is reflecting a humble believer who has the joy of the Lord!
        Which brings me to the next point on church..I believe having this joy and being able to spread it, is being washed in the WORD!!!  Out of all the churches, 3 read from the Bible, yes my friends at church sometimes they don't read from the Bible! If they did have the Bible in the sermon it was a quick reference to the "series" they were currently in.  I am currently doing the Breaking Free bible study and I feel like I have dove deeper in the Word and have the yearning to read beyond what is in the study... Not very often do churches inspire me to do such a thing anymore. Having the knowledge of the Bible is so important to be able to share to the unbeliever... If we are going to church and not hearing it and knowing what it says is true how are we suppose to spread that good news?  I have to say one of the most enjoyable sermons I have heard recently was at my sisters church where the pastor not only read from the bible he made it applicable to my life!  Wait isn't that what its suppose to be?
   What happened to sermons like that?  What happened to reading the Word?  What happened to being the church God called us to be??  Not sweeping sins under the rug for fear of losing members, not speaking the truth in fear of stepping on toes, making the worship more about the lights and the sound instead of the beautiful words of praise to offer up to Him, not making church just a routine to make sure people know we are "christians" and that we went to church, treating church with the respect of what it is a HOLY PLACE,  and not a social club or  HIGH SCHOOL with cliques?  I am pretty sure Jesus didn't mind stepping on toes to make sure people knew He was there and the reason why He was there! I'm sorry if the offends anyone, but I am HIGHLY OFFENDED that church is no longer what it use to be... a place for a sinner to find repentance, a place for the down in out to find joy unspeakable, a place for the sick to be made whole, a place to pray and worship with fellow believers.. I firmly believe that my God is the same yesterday, today, and forever!  I have made it my souls prayer to be the mighty woman of God, that I reflect Christ's love in everyone I come in contact with....I pray God leads me and my family to the right church so we can be useful instruments in the God's kingdom!
    I know this is a little all over the place, but I can't tell you how renewed, convicted, and free  I feel just spending sometime with My God!

The Chandelier revealed!

And here is the picture of the chandelier in our bedroom!  Like I said before there is still some more work to be done in the bedroom, but it is coming along just fine!! :)

GAHH!  I'm in love!  :)