A Fabulously Flawed Life

I babysat a 4 month old and a 2 year old. I was a little worried because I thought Drake would be jealous . Oh no. He loved the baby and was very gentle with him. Good Boy. He enjoyed the baby's car seat too. Here are some fellow bloggers right in my church (above pic)! I knew Jen had a blog but I thought it was a food blog. Y'all know I can't cook so I haven't visited much. Now, I'm excited to see what's been going on in her life. Mandy just moved in today and has been reading my blog. It was so fun to meet her. Yeah!! They completely rock and you'll have to check out their blogs. Tonight we had an ice-cream social for church. I had 3 goals. One to finally meet people, two to bring up blogging, and three to introduce a friend who just moved in. I'm proud to say that I did all 3! It was really fun to try to work in blogging into every conversation I had with every person there. FOTFL!! It gave me something to do and I quite enjoyed it. I got everyone ...

Summer Theme I want to welcome Katrina to the blogging world! Yeah! Be sure to check out her blog and leave her a nice comment. You're going to love all her decor ideas. So I've practically been begging Katrina to take pictures of her seasonal table top decor . She finally did. Katrina decorates her formal dining room table according to the season. It's like nothing I've ever seen before! It's so beautiful and every arrangement is unique, warm, and colorful. I feel like she should show it to the world. So enjoy! btw : I added the rolling pin picture into the post below. Katrina said it was her fav so in her honor I added it. I also added a link to my boys Cowboy bathroom.

ONEHM has challenged us to post pics of our homes. I really hesitated posting mine, because only the boys rooms are finished. I have a ton of painting and window treatments to do. We moved in 1 1/2 years ago but I had a baby. I guess I just thought I'd be farther along by now. Ok , enough of my disclaimer. (I know that was silly.) Here's my formal dining room. I want to paint it soon - any suggestions? I'm still looking for fabric for the window treatment. Living Room Kitchen. After I paint the kitchen, I'm going to have vinyl lettering put under the rolling pin that says, 'I Kiss Better Than I Cook!'. (he he) Breakfast Nook Master Bedroom Master Bathroom Here is my second flower arrangement attempt. Now I need to figure out what color to paint my bathroom and what kind of faux paint for this niche . Any suggestions? Stair Way (Boys will be Boys) Media Room Davis' Rocket Room Dylan & Drake's Sports Room I've posted a lot of decor stuff from my ...

We had a girls night dinner to celebrate my friend's birthday. We had such a fun night with great conversation. We each brought the birthday girl a flower, put it in a vase, and I attached a Friends Are Like Flowers poem. We also gave her a gift card to Hobby Lobby. You can print out the poem free on Executive Homemaker.com Friends are Like Flowers Poem Friends are like flowers each unique in their own way, put them all together what a wonderful bouquet. Some are really brilliant full of light sharp and clear, while other are more subdued to both you can adhere. You are a flower in my garden that makes up my bouquet, my friends you all make a very impressive display. I also like the saying, "Friends are like flowers because they let each other grow seperately without growing apart." Near the middle of dinner we realized that the left side of the table blogged and the right side didn't. Yeah, I have 2 new blogging friends! Here we are Blogger vs. Non-Blogger. W...

My kids are finally in school and my exhausting summer has officially ended. Time to celebrate! Here we are at Pei Wei for lunch. Yummy! I folded a ton of laundry that was on my lazy boy in my room. And I finally had some time to think and get together something that I've been wanting to do for a while now... The 'Great Tip Award' from TipJunkie .com. It will work just like all the other meme's we've been doing. Please follow the rules to assure the integrity of the award. It will be a blog version of Maven's so to speak. I award this to: Rochelle for detailing her entire house and all her home improvement projects, complete with before and after pictures. I have been inspired so much by her talent and decor tips. Every time I'm over I see something new and get a new idea. ONEHM for always sharing her amazing digital scrapbooking layouts complete with what kits she used. I love her layouts so much and am inspired by her dedication to doing something s...

I was going to splurge and get my boys a monogrammed backpack this year. However, I was in The Children's Place and found these backpacks for $12! They boys asked for them and I thought, "That's a no- brainer ". So I bought them and was a little bummed but moved on. Then last week I was completed inspired by Mique's back to school post where she not only monogrammed her kids backpacks herself but also made them some really cool tags too. I was back to being excited and drove over to Micheal's that day (yes with all 3 boys) and they picked these iron-on letters for their backpacks. Yeah!! (I feel a lot better considering how many of these backpacks I saw at school today.) So I got an e-mail from Mer who was inspired by my placemats . Don't you think hers turned out so great! I really like the fabric she chose. She wanted to know how I frayed the edges and I e-mailed her back with pics and told her I cut all along the edges and then washed them. I'...

Julie , or crazymamaof 6, awarded me the Tiara Award. I am truly honored that she would think of me for this great award. I do actually have my own tiara. I bought it for myself when a friend of mine and I had a shopping day to celebrate my birthday. My 3rd boy was still an infant and I was feeling seriously juked in the girl department. I award just a couple of the fabulous bloggers I know that have inspired me.... Heather from Unwrapped, because she has a kiddo that has some health problems and recently went through surgery. Not to mention, she's oober creative and just had a girl's craft night with a bunch of friends. I'm completely inspired by her creations and her mothering. Wendi from Dancin Queen, because I've really been impressed by her sincerity and warmth on her blog. She talks a lot about her beliefs and what inspires her spiritually. I feel strengthened and challenged by that. Lacie from Forever Flamingo, because she recently moved away from her...

My life is seriously cutting into my blogging time. Dagumit, what's up with that!?! (j/k) Friday night Jason and I went out to dinner with 3 other couples to celebrate my friend's birthday . We met at Outback Steak House (yummy) and then went home and played 'Imagine If' . It was a fun game although I'm horrible at it. I just decided that I rock to the beat of a different tune and so not being able to think the same way other people think is fine with me. :) What do you think, good justification for coming in last? ha ha We had a really great time. My husband gets along well with all of their husbands so it couldn't have worked out better! It's such a fun group of friends. (Thanks Rochelle for photoshopping me in the pic! You rock girl.) Friday night I got home late and baked the potatoes for baked potato soup, cooked the bacon, made braclets for the girls, and made the black bean salsa. Saturday morning I got up early cleaned and finished cooking. I hat...

Remember how I said that I can tell what I do alot by what my boys do? Well here's another example. I came in to the living room and this is what I saw. All the boys where wearing my headbands. Yes, even Drake. In fact, he had one around his head and one around his neck like a necklace. Here, he did not want Dylan to grab him. (Notice Davis has his tounge out! ;) I guess there is a little of me in him after all. So proud.) Another thing I've been doing a lot lately is getting Sonic drinks. My friends are famous for them! I just keep forgetting to buy sodas at the grocery store and have had to resort to going to Sonic. The thought of dragging all 3 of the boys into the store just for a case of Diet Coke is exhausting. When I wasn't looking Drake grabbed my drink. The route 44 is almost as big as he is! The funny thing about it is that it was pretty much empty. So all he could taste was the watered down Coke and a LOT of lime. ;) I cut Drake's hair finally. It was an im...

Ok ladies. You can't get me hooked on your blogs and then make it private. Therefore yanking yourself away from me so suddenly. I'm not sure what Jill said or what has caused this sudden rash of needed privacy but it's just not nice. I'm sorry I've been a bad blogger and haven't read some of your blogs in 2 weeks. I got caught up in a book and some needed girls nights. I am repentant and am trying my best to catch up. Therefore, if you read my blog regularly, odds are I read yours and expect an invite! You can e-mail me at laurie[at]turksworks[dot]com . That's my personal e-mail. It looks like I've already missed the deadlines to contact you personally, like yours Donna & Jen. So if you have a private blog invite me dadgum it. I miss you, I really do.

The boys were so excited to meet their teachers! Davis made a Texas flag (using orange paper because we didn't have red) and Dylan made a card for his teacher. At the beginning of every year I make an " All About Me Card " for each of the boys to help their teacher get to know them a little faster. This is Dylan and his new teacher. Dylan's now in 1st grade and will be at school all day. He is so excited! Last year at 1/2 day Kindergarten he called it "the baby school". Mainly because his pre -school was 5 hours and Kindergarten was 3. Dylan is so pumped to be able to eat in the cafeteria, go to P.E., and art class. I was very impressed by his teacher. She had a little gift for each child on their assigned desks as well as all the paperwork we needed. She has 3 boys as well. This is Davis' teacher. As always there's a ton of anxiety wondering if he will get a teacher that has not only has worked with autistic children before but will also be struct...

I got the cards back from my card exchange. Yeah! One of the things I want to do when the kids get back into school is make a ton of cards and replenish my supply. I have completely gotten out of the habit of sending impromptu cards. I really want to develop that habit again.

I have a lot of blogging to catch up on. We moved our anniversary trip to Saturday because we had to have a High School Musical 2 party Friday night! Jason laughed when I informed him. ;-) Everyone had such a great time. However, I will admit that 1/2 way through the movie my kids left and went to play with their toys. All the other kids stayed and watched it. I don't know who had more fun the kids or the adults! Here's my friend, Lisa striking a pose. Everyone was getting into the signing and dancing! Here's Tyson (Drake's BFF ).

I'm back in town. Lisa did an amazing job watching my kiddos so my honey and I could reconnect and have some alone time. The cabin was secluded deep in the Oklahoma mountains. I read, slept, ate alot, and snuggled with my honey. (he he) It was a much needed break. Thanks for all your encouraging comments while I was gone. Sorry, I can't post any of the picture we took. (he he) Here's more pics of Lisa's house since she hasn't posted them on her blog yet. I was so bummed, I left Lisa's trees in my garage. We bought two to go on each side of the couch. Here's Lisa's amazing flat screen. Her builder made her a built-in electronics cupboard . So we got the vase, rafia , and this cabinet all at Wal -Mart! Cabinet $80, Vase $25, Rafia $6, a wall completed with one-stop shopping in less than a hour. Priceless! Here's all angles of her dining room. I'm loving the iron and tin we got at Canton. I love this tin mirror. Great pic Lisa! I think she n...