Fireflies Art

before + after!

i got his desk at a yard sale for $1 last month!

and this is what it looks like now! some stripper, a whole lot of scraping, home depot oops pain, and i LOVE it now! jim polished the original handles for me even!

ok. so i'm not feeling up for a lengthy post yet.

but click HERE to click more pictures from our weekend.

copper.

this is one of the hardest things i've ever been through.

i'm sitting here with tears running down my face.

we were up at jim's grandpa's property for the weekend.

and yesterday morning when we got there copper was playing with the big dogs (like he always does) and one of the big dogs bit copper really bad.

it was so hard to see him in so much pain...and he died within an hour of getting hurt.

we were able to bury him on the farm there.

i've never been so attached to an animal before.

and i've never lost a pet before.

he was the perfect dog for our family.

and he was my buddy. he'd always sit with me.

and the kids adored him.

it was so hard on jim to have to tell sage what happened.

and to be honest i'm having a much harder time with it than i anticipated.

coming home and having emerson call for "coppy" was so hard.

he was such a big part of our everyday lives...and he will be missed so very very much.

i know it will get easier...and that eventually we'll find another dog that we'll love.

but right now my heart just hurts.

blue eye design

ok. so i'm such a bad sister. i've been meaning to post about my baby sister's darling little business forever now!! she has a blog HERE where she makes custom letters! they are SO cute! go check her out! i love the ones she did for my soon to be niece harley!

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i have lots more stuff i want to post...but i've had a headache for 3 days now + it's driving me batty. hoping the allergy medicine + the excedrine i just took will help me enjoy the american idol finale party i'm going to tonight!  go KRIS!

so proud of her.

here's my little preschool graduate.

i can't even believe how much she's changed.

she went from being the most shy girl in class to having lots of friends!

she can read so good.

she can write.

she loves to make up stories.

and she's starting to write down lists + stories.

and she's a good girl.

with a big heart.

and a huge imagination.

so proud of my little girl.

 

my friend kristin made this incredible cake for sage!

and my friend tammy came over too tonight to have cake + ice cream with us!

she brought sage the cutest caterpillar sprinkler for the backyard.

ry got someone to cover his shop for a while so that he could come to sage's graduation. and nancee was sweet enough to make time to come too! (that's her behind emerson's face.)

we're so grateful for such sweet friends and family who love our kids + support us.

sage is looking forward to a summer of hanging out with her momma + sleeping in.

promises...promises!

i really am trying to be good at posting! we've just had a lot going on over here.

tomorrow is sage's preschool graduation. she's SO excited.

her cousins ry + nancee are both coming. and a couple of friends are coming over tomorrow night who can't make it. so thankful for the friends + family that show my kids so much love!!

there will be more tomorrow about the festivites...

but i wanted to share what i made for all of the kids in sage's class!

i got the idea from this blog...unwrapped.

she had done the same thing...but with fancier wood + vinyl.

the pine i bought cost $2 + the magnets were $5 + everything else i already had!

i love the way they turned out...and i hope the kids love them too!

 

 

 

 

since i knew sage would get sick of writing her name 16 times i had her right it once + then i scanned it + printed it out. she put the cap stickers on the tags + stapled her name on them. she's quite proud!

honestly...

how cute is he?

meet baby eric.

his big brother is grant who i've been taking pictures of for the last year + a half.

i got that adorable doll bed at a yard sale a month ago for $3. love it!

lots more to come from this session...

our internet was down yesterday...so i have a good excuse for not posting!

last week.

ok. i still have to share the glass etching we did this week...which turned out SO awesome by the way. and i have to show off my $1 desk that i refinished! but for now i wanted to share some pictures from the picnic we went on last week.

sage decided she wanted to go on a picnic...and she was so excited about packing everything up! she started packing for it 24 hours in advance...ha! her cousin nancee came with us too! and afterwards we went to a few garage sales. so happy she likes to hang out with us. :)

 

 

whew!

that was close! i almost let another day pass by without posting!

a couple of weeks ago i got to take 2 month pictures of kelly's youngest.  

grayson is such a sweetie.  

and last weekend i got to take maternity pictures for my friend maria!

we used to work together in arizona + now she lives a few hours north of us.

it was so fun to meet up at jim's grandpas farm + take pictures of her!

we hadn't seen each other in years...so it was great to catch up too.

click HERE to head over to my photography blog to see more!