The Weekend

We had a wonderfully relaxing weekend.

I think it is our only weekend for awhile that we didn't have anything major going on.

Life.is.Full

but we are thankful

We started the weekend by going to the park on friday with the new students from Jayden's new school.

it was a great way to meet people and let the kids see some faces that they will be seeing during the year.

On Friday night we had our favorite little 4 year old girl's birthday party :)

more pics from the party later

I decided (or jordan helped me decide) to take advantage of the down time

to get caught up on a few projects before the beginning of the school year.

It worked out great because jordan was super busy finishing up his summer semester

(12 hours!) and has 3 - 10 page papers due this week.

So I worked on my kind of projects (crafting) :)

and he worked on his kind of projects (studying, writing, reading) :)

i wrote a How We post on this here

but i thought i would show it again :)

i also recovered all of my dining room chairs

my mom and sister recovered these chairs when jordan and i got married (9 years ago)

and i haven't recovered them since.

and they were gross

i mean, i felt bad for people having to sit on them :)

so i decided it was time -

and now i am so mad i didn't do this YEARS ago

so sorry to all my friends who had to sit on nasty chairs at our house

please forgive me!

i don't know if i love the material i picked out,

but i do LOVE that it is clean and it matches the carpet next to it and

that all the seats are bolted in.

so that makes me happy.

my last project this weekend was organizing, storing, and ordering pictures

i try to do this twice a year.

i am not completely finished with this project -

but i made good headway.

hope your weekend was good. :)

what did you do?

How we . . . Paint a Table

so i haven't been too good about posting more

"How we . . . " posts

i am sorry

i was telling a friend yesterday that i think about it

but then i am in the middle of doing it,

and taking pictures isn't always the easiest :)

however . . .

i am going to try to be better

i have several ideas up my sleeve

yesterday we decided to paint the kids table

so i thought it would be the perfect "how we" post

here it goes:

1. make sure baby sister is taking a nap

2. make sure that daddy is available to help

3. dress the kids in clothes (or no clothes at all) that are okay to get messy

4. lay plastic underneath the table to prevent paint from dripping on your deck

5. give the boys their own paint brush

6. have daddy mix the paint with a random object found in the backyard

(b/c mommy somehow lost the stirrer that came with the paint:))

7. give each child a specific job

jayden was in charge of the legs

duncan - couldn't really do it but felt important and like he was apart

8. have daddy remove duncan after he gets paint on his hand for the umpteenth time :)

9. go over legs (or whatever part that you had your child paint) to smooth the paint

10. allow the table to dry in the hot texas sun

(and get some random creature on the table)

11. put back in its proper place with the help of your two boys

12. admire your work and marvel at how pleased you are with your paint color :)

13. thank your husband for making you do the project and for teaching your kids how to paint along the way

14. thank your parents for getting campbell the precious green chair for her birthday

15. realize you need to frame the darrah dean gooden artwork for above the table to complete the room

and that's "How We Paint a Table"

Fantastic Mr. Fleix

on saturday we went to sweet Felix's birthday party

the theme was fantastic mr. felix

it was so cute

tom made all of the above figurines

i mean - he is amazing

look at all of the babies

so fun

the baucum's made their first outing with sweet eden

to the party

emery kate is trying to get duncan to look up for the picture :)

they loved this hammock

i love these pictures

this was right before they flipped backwards and both fell :)

sweet luke

marci, amy, and molly

(molly had a blow out on the way to the party and amy didn't have an extra set of clothes)

i think molly might have know what she was doing in this heat

i love this picture of jordan and jayden

notice the little miss

every picture her mouth is filled with food

they were back by the hammock - doing just fine

here is the sweet birthday boy

i can't believe he is already TWO

life goes by so fast

do i say that every blog post?

watching the amazing movie that

casey made of felix's second year of life

cutie love jack

campbell says "GOODBYE!"

Coffee Date

Jayden and I went on a coffee date last week.


Most of you know that this is my favorite place to spend one on one time with a friend.


Now that I have kids I get my coffee to go :)


But it is nice to have a date (with my oldest boy every now and then too!

Happy Monday!

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The Ogden's 40th Anniversary

greg & alice celebrated 40 years of wedded bliss on monday

what an amazing accomplishment and wonderful legacy to give us

we are so very thankful for their commitment to one another,

in these days - that is a rare thing.

so we celebrated on friday night

with a "best of Big D" tour

in a fun stretch limo :)

it pulled up to our house and swept us away

alice was wearing earrings that she wore at her rehearsal dinner 40 years ago

she came prepared with the limo stocked with food and drinks

and these adorable napkins

"forced family fun"

i thought they were funny :)

the fun wasn't "forced" at all,

but i still thought the napkins were funny

i didn't get any pictures of where we went for appetizers

(jordan banned me from taking too many pics :))

but we ate dinner at tillman's roadhouse in bishop arts district

it was our first time to go and we all LOVED it

it is such a treat to have a nice dinner with family without the kids

i love my kids and love them being with me -

but that makes times like this even more special

we got the trio of fries appetizer

yummy!

and ended with their famous s'mores

after dinner we headed to another "Best of Big D"

called "Dude, Sweet chocolate"

it was such a fun, different place

and had

AMAZING chocolate and the most unique flavors!

i can't describe it well,

but it would be a great date spot after eating dinner somewhere in bishop arts district

it is really fun and unique

geoffrey & jordan got sorbet's from here

the flavor was amazing -

i told jordan it tickled your tongue when you tasted it :)

thank you alice & greg for such a fun, memorial night and

including us in your celebration of 40 years!

we love you and are so thankful for your legacy to us

of a healthy, loving, strong marriage!

greg's advice for the secret of a long lasting marriage

"marry your best friend"

i couldn't agree more.

more pics of Hallie (& fam)

as you probably saw in my previous post,

my newest niece was born!

she came a month early -

but is doing great!

alex went fast

and she is amazing.

i am just saying -

i am super impressed with how she handled everything.

hallie is such a sweet little bundle of joy

i can't wait to watch jason & alex be parents

they are going to do an awesome job

they will be loving, caring, and super FUN

here is a pic of alex when she was born and hallie

i thought that was pretty cool

hallie came on the perfect day -

my dad works half days on wednesdays and they didn't have lg that night either

she's so sweet and thoughtful :)

duncan is such a lover

this is the second newborn he has seen in a week and for both of them he wanted to kiss their head

what a little LOVER

here is the ogden fam with jason & hallie

i will say i feel like we are a like a tornado coming into the room,

and the peace after a storm once we leave

thankfully alex & jason were gracious with us :)

we love you already hallie and can't wait to watch you grow!