Just taking it back to high school, y’all. You remember LFO, right?

Anyways, we’ve been busy soaking up the sun and splashing around in our awesome (kiddie) pool. It’s the first summer in years that I’ve been outside this much. With little ones, it’s hard to keep them out. When I was pregnant with Big Sister, I was outside all the time, then when she was little, we didn’t get out too much to the pool or outside to play in the 90+ heat. When she was Little Sister’s age - I was pregnant with Little Sister, so again, there was only so much a huge preggo like myself could do. Last summer, with Little Sister being so small, we didn’t swim much or play outside much. Oh, but this summer - y’all, I’m not pregnant and I don’t have  a little tiny one. It’s good. Things are slowly getting easier. A promise my sweet ex-neighbor still friend told me when I was about to lose my mind. The simple promise of “Life will get easier”.

Praise the Lord for life getting easier (physically, anyways)!

Here’s what we’ve been up to :

Ahhh… summer:)

We’re still going back & forth on the selling of our house. I found a house we BOTH LOVE. And I’m pretty sure our house would sell quickly if we have it listed at just the right price. I think it’s atleast worth giving it a shot. We’ll see what the Jamesy says after he visits in the bank in a little while.

Fingers crossed!

I’ve been busy. Too busy for the blog. One day I’ll be really consistent with updating and keeping track of things.

And I’ll have pictures from James’ big birthday weekend tomorrow.

But right now - I want to talk about how insane it is to try to get ones house ready to put up for sale with two small kids.

The minute I have one room cleaned out and move to the next - the girls go to the cleaned room and destroy. And it’s not just pulling out a few things - it’s pulling out everything, putting more stuff on top and then kicking it all around. It’s crazy what these small precious little girls are capable of.

Today I cleaned from behind the oven  (holy nastiness!). I hung the curtain rod in our bedroom all by myself(!!). And I attempted to (finally) finish painting the girls bathroom. But realized, yet again, that I’m a really awful painter.

I have a list of all the things we need to do before listing the house and it’s pretty overwhelming.

PAINT:

• -finish girls bathroom
• master bedroom
• master bath
• living room
• bonus room
• office
• upstairs bathroom (?)

And then there’s all the getting rid of stuff. Like boxes of cards and just tons of random junk that I have no idea why we have. Some of it’s my husbands (like, alot of it since he’s a major pack rat). Hopefully this will help him get rid of tons of college books, notes, magazines, clothes from high school, etc.

And - if we decide to not sale our house - then everything will be painted and clean and pretty and I’ll just enjoy our cute little house a few more years!

30 reasons why i love you.

1. You love me just the way I am.
2. You look at me like we just fell in love.
3. You are the most terrific daddy to our girls.
4. We made really, really cute kids together.
5. You are kind and gentle to us.
6. You would do anything for us.
7. You speak your mind - there’s no guessing with what you’re thinking!
8. You are more than willing to watch a chick flick with me.
9. You play Cinderella with Adeline.
10. You are quick to love and very, very, very slow to anger
11. You are a bad cook - but you TRY and would make dinner everynight if I asked.
12. You fold my laundry and put it away!
13. You let me sleep in on Saturdays
14. You are thoughtful and caring in the things you do.
15. You sing silly songs for the girls (and me!)
16. You’ve been nothing but supportive in helping me with newborn babies
17. You are handsome
18. You still give me chill bumps when we kiss
19. You spoiled me from the first date with foot rubs!
20. You open doors for me (when I slow down enough to let you open them)
21. You never complain when I burn dinner or you come home and the house looks like a tornado hit.
22. You always give me the best hugs.
23. You always TRY HARD in everything you do.
24. You are smarter than most people can even dream to be
25. You are extremely modest about number 24.
26. You have the dorkiest laugh ever - but I would be so sad to never hear it.
27. You whistle like no one I’ve ever known. Maybe you should make a cd?
28. You say the weirdest, oldest people things ever
29. You make me laugh until I cry - or pee my pants
30. You are amazing and I am amazed that you love me.
and one to grow on…
31. You love Jesus and you always pray for me when I need it (which is alot!)
and one more…
31. You’re my bestfriend, James. I love you.

James, you are the kindest, most gentle man I have ever met. I don’t know why God gave you to me - but I am ever so thankful. I love you sweetie. I can’t wait for forever with you. You’re my husband for good times and for the bad, forever and ever and I will love every minute (just about!) of it.

I could write 100 more reasons why I love you. I pray I’ll be able to do that one day!!

Forever and ever,
me:)

We’ve been so super busy with our Vacation Bible School this week! It’s been a huge blast and it’s awesome to see all these kids (almost 200!) come together to learn more about Jesus and to praise and worship Him!

It’s exactly the kind of awakening I’ve been yearning for. God is good to bring exactly what we need to us exactly when we need it. He never lets us down, He never leaves us even for a minute.

Today, by far, was my favorite day. We all know that Day THREE is the best, most important day of VBS. It’s the invitation day. Asking kids to accept Jesus into their hearts - what an amazing thing to see!  I don’t know the numbers yet, but I heard there were about 15 who either made a descision to become a believer or to want more information about what all that means. God is good to be using CBC for His Glory!

I’ll have pictures soon - it’s just been a whirl wind of business here in the Live Laugh Blog house!

There’ s just something about this time of year that makes me want to do things. Lots of things. My ideas far outweigh my capabilities.

I just wanted to share some of my Summer Projects with you all - and I can also just direct Jamesy to the blog incase he’s slacking on his Honey Do List:)

1. FINISH the girls bathroom. I recently took everything off the walls, their shower curtain down, and started to paint. Soon after starting to paint, I remembered why I don’t paint. I’m REALLY REALLY bad at it. So, I taped it off for Jamesy. We ran out of paint - so we’re kind of in this weird in between- and my in between, I mean it’s totally non functional.

BEFORE:

RIGHT NOW:

My super big helper!

2.  Reorganize Our Closest.When we bought our house - we knew the master closet was a problem. But - we had four more closests in the house to use. Well, Big Sister was born so we have three more closests to use. Then Little Sister - so we are down to two. Jamesy has most of his clothes in our bonus room’s closet, but we’d REALLY like to use that for a craft/game closet. So… we’ve been talking about it for almost 5 years (I can’t believe we’ve been here for almost 5 years!), and we’re finally going to install closet organization stuff.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

(hopefully something like this!)

3. Paint Our Bedroom & Bathroom. Oh, it’s true- this has YET to be done. I’m not really sure what we’re waiting on (I know I’m waiting on James because I’m an awful painter).Our bedroom has vaulted ceilings, a weird cubby hole thing and is just going to take lots of ladder climbing and paint. I really, really, really wish James would let us hire someone.

4. Chalkboard Paint. I can’t decide what I’m going to paint with it - but I will be busting out some chalkboard paint soon, I hope! I’m thinking on the inside of the pantry door - or I would LOVE to do the office door. Or maybe I’ll take off a big square in the office and frame it? I just don’t know.

LOVE this idea!

What are some of your summer projects?