What I've been up to . . .

i love christmas

but

i also love fresh starts

i love goals, cleaning house, organizing and fun projects!

so because

we have a crazy busy winter/spring

and then we are going to have a new member added to our family

i have been focused with getting things in my house

orderly :)

i made a new wreath for the winter/spring

i love how it turned out and the colors

we also finally got all of our pictures in frames or shelves

(see below)

i was having a hard time figuring out how to display the kids pictures that we had done this summer

(yes summer, i got them in october - but still - i hadn't gotten them all up yet!)

i had tried different types of frames to have three pics of the kids all together

but because they are mounted on a board they wouldn't fit in most frames

so i finally ended up with this shelf

i think it works perfectly

i had to add a couple of bigger pics to make it look right on the wall

(so there is our engagement picture from (gasp) 10 years ago - we look young!)

anyway - so glad to finally have the pics in a place to be displayed!

today we made valentine's mailboxes for the kids

super easy and cheap

i saw it on a blog somewhere - and i am sure it was a lot cuter there,

but i am glad with how ours turned out

i thought it would be fun to put little treats in them during the week of valentines

and jayden is super into drawing pictures and putting them in envelopes

so now we have a place to put them :)

these mailboxes are from target in the dollar spot,

i just put them on top of candlesticks (i didn't glue them b/c i want to be able to reuse the candlesticks)

i had the white ones and bought the black candlesticks at target

i wanted to put wooden letters on them,

but could not find any the right size at michaels

so we ended up with black felt ones and i think they work just fine

i couldn't find another j in the bag - so jordans ended up with an "O"

he was fine with that :)

and my most proud accomplishment since christmas -

jordan and i went through every room, closet, drawer

in our entire house organizing and getting rid of things

we literally filled the back of jordans car with things to give away

plus filled up both trashcan and recycling can

it was a great feeling

this is just one example of a closet that was redone:

so that's what i have been up to in my free time . . .

it feels good to get some things done off my checklist!

happy wednesday night!