Quick Refresh

 We have two refrigerators at our house. One in the kitchen and our second one is in the laundry room, like, a whole 5 feet away from the first one. When we first moved in I tried to keep the clutter to the second one, but having kids, it didn't take long for them both to fill up with art work and school work.

Every couple of months I clear off both refrigerators. I made the mistake of doing it during the day once and quickly learned it must be done in the cover of night. (You know, to avoid the tears and accusations. "YOU'RE THROWING AWAY MY SCRIBBLE-SCRABBLE?!?!" Seriously, those exact words have been thrown at me. I'm the worst.)

Ok, to the point. We have quite a few of those brightly colored letter magnets. They must hand them out at the hospital. They just seemed to appear. The letters got pretty close to not making the cut. That is, until I figured out how to give them a quick refresh. Enter my old friend...spray paint.

A very tiny change, but I'm enjoying it.

Around my Home

 Rebuilt kitchen table.

 My mom built this little table in high school shop class. I gave it a little update with paint.

 Used the same paint for the door out to the garage.

 Front door, minus the ugly black storm door.

New entry table. I used my new welding skills (and lots of help at the metals studio).

Gave our blah fireplace an update. We'll do something about the black and brass doors at some point.

 I tried my hardest to hide all of those cords back there.

A few photos from around my house. 

These Guys

This is my dad. He had knee replacement surgery...2 DAYS AGO! Can you believe he is walking around the block?

This is my husband. He's been working really hard and long hours. I felt like a kid, I was so excited to see him last night. I know two little people that were equally as excited. I would rather see my happy husband for 5 minutes, than my unhappy husband for hours...and I totally mean that.

This is my son's toe. He hurt it at the park and did not shed one single tear. Can you believe he's 3 years old? He did put his hands on his head and say, "Augh, it's hurting!"

Three pretty amazing guys. I've been blessed much more than I deserve.

Instagram Days

Instagram for Android was released on April 3, and I've had so much fun using it to take and share pictures. 

Sidenote: April 3 is my birthday so it was a super awesome birthday gift!

If you're on Instagram find me, I'm candyapplemayhem.

The Art Show

It was really more of a performance piece, but cute nonetheless.

Ducks

We went to the park to feed the ducks. I planned on getting lots of cute outdoor photos. What happened was this...we pulled into the parking lot and see probably 40 ducks. We get out of the car and they start to head our way. By the time I get the bread out, they are upon us. I start tearing and tossing the bread and the kids are scared/screaming because the ducks are getting too close to them.

I quickly emptied our bread bag and hurried the kids into the car...as the ducks followed us. 

I may have gotten a little hysterical myself and I may have had a quick daymare (is that what a daydream/night mare would be called?) of one of the ducks jumping into my car.

This is the only picture I got. We were safe in the car.

But our adventure wasn't quite over. On our way home we got stuck in traffic for about 20 minutes due to a bank robbery/stand off with the cops. After getting around the closed off intersection, we made it home safely. Phew!

What have YOU been up to today?

Sprinkler Kinda Day

It was a beautiful day today. So I said, Yes!

Madeline asked if they could play in the turtle sprinkler, and that's when I said it...you know, YES!

It feels so good to say, YES!

What are your favorite Summer activities?

Egg-cellent Day!

We had a little time...

 some eggs, and paint.

 So we got to work!

We ended up with Easter eggs I will cherish forever.

I'd love to hear about your Easter traditions!

Let's Play!

Playing outside makes everybody happy!

Pay no attention to the little girl picking her nose.

I love this outdoor weather, how about you?

What I've been up to.

Peeps banner (via this tutorial).

Laptop envelope.

Patch job.

Gifts for sweet friends.

WIP birthday banner.

Don't have much to say, just wanted to share a few pictures. These are some of the things I've been working on recently.

What have you been up to?

Monday {Valentine's Day}

I loved today. 

And this morning I was feeling sorry for myself because the husband told me he didn't get me a Valentine.