Wordless Wednesday (Ready for Game Day)

Gymnastics Girl

MB couldn't wait to get signed up for gymnastics in our new town.  It turns out that gymnastics is kind of a bid deal here, I had no idea.  I was talking to one of the other moms (who graciously told me not to take pictures with flashes as it could be dangerous for the kids practicing, that should have been my first clue) and she was telling me that her 12 year old practices five days a week for four hours a day.  It was all I could do not to go pull MB from the middle of her class.  Wow, that is hardcore and these people drive 1.5 hours round trip everyday to this gym.  We just want a short class where she can learn some new tricks and meet friends.  Note to self, try to get MB to switch to something else by age five.  :-)

She was in total amazement at all of the big girls and boys that were practicing.  There is so much to look at and she could have stayed there all night.

Getting instructions from her coach.  Can you believe all of these three year olds sat still on the line for more than 30 seconds?  I was impressed.

I knew that MB would go crazy over a real leotard but I looked on Amazon and those jokers are expensive.  (Side note, I never thought I would be searching online for a unitard!  That was a first.)  Anyway, I stumbled upon some at this awesome consignment sale that a local church puts on and bought her three for $6.  I was so pumped and couldn't wait to get home and show her.  I wish I would have waited until Dan got home so he could see the joy.  She yelled in a high pitch voice, "I get to be like the big girls!!!" and then did a happy dance.  Totally worth the $6!  We added some shorts so her daddy would be comfortable with her modesty level.  :-)  Doesn't she look so proud and happy?

Quick Recover

I have a zillion posts (yes, that many) rattling around in my brain and I don't know if they will all make it on here but I am going to try.  We have had major issues with our wireless router so we finally have another new one and it is working famously!  Post onward.

So, I have mentioned that we moved this summer and have a new place to call home.  Y'all, we absolutely love it!  The people who lived here before us were moving to their farm so they already had a furnished house and were not planning to move everything.  This worked out so well for us as our square footage almost doubled and we didn't want to have to buy a bunch of furniture right away.  We were able to pick and choose the items that they were planning to sell and work some of them into the price of the house.  It was perfect!  Neither one of us had to move the furniture and bam, we had a dining room set, leather couch, big screen TV and a hot tub plus a few other goodies!  The dining room was a little too formal for me (I'm more of a rustic farm table kind of girl) and it wasn't something that I would have picked out but it was too good of a deal to pass up and I thought I could change the look by swapping out the fabric.  I really think it helped give the room a more casual feel.  This project was done on day four of moving into our house.  I was afraid to attempt this alone so I rushed to do it while we had family in town helping us get settled (I'm so thankful!).  So, hear is a peak into phase one of the makeover.  I feel so grown up having a real dining room.  It's a first for us!

The before.  The fabric had a shine to it and said way too fancy for this messy family.

The table/chairs before they were dressed down.  We also got the buffet from them.  They hold some of my plates from Mexico so nicely!

The old chair practically begging for its makeover.  Such a great improvement!

I love the new fabric!  It took some serious concentration to make sure that each chair had the same pattern on it.

They are all newly dressed and tucked under for safety from sticky fingers and goldfish paste.

We just got our rug back from a one month stint at the cleaners (AKA vacation at the spa) and we haven't had a chance to roll it out yet.  That rug is going to be so excited that we have chosen a less traveled space for it to rest in.  It worked overtime in our other house as it was in our living room-snack area-playroom all in one space.  We have plans to put picture molding on the bottom of the room and paint the  space below the chair rail white.  Those are our Jamaican women dancing in the background, a piece we bought on our honeymoon.  Most all of the rooms in the house have plantation shudders and we love them.  Phase one complete and hopefully phase two will be complete in the next year or so.  Well, the rug should be rolled out earlier than a year at least. 

Wordless Wednesday (Messiest Cake Eater Ever!)

 

 

Wordless Wednesday (30 years apart but just as confident and ready for life's next adventure)

Lasting Impression

We have been church shopping since our move to Cartersville and I think Ben wants to make sure all of the sweet nursery volunteers don't forget him....

 

We got so tickled when we were driving home and saw this nursery update.  Mary Beth told us that one of the ladies changing him said "it's everywhere!".  Those poor ladies!  They may hope the Milams land elsewhere and I'll be sure to pack more supplies since they went through the three diapers I packed.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Y'all, he is the loudest eater ever and says mmmmmmm with EVERY bite!  Fortunately, he loves food and we don't have to stand on our heads and do crazy things to get him to eat like we did/do with MB.  It's so freeing to be able to put food down and not have to worry about him eating it.  Thank you Lord that he loves food!  It would be nice if he was a little quieter when we eating out in public but we don't even care since he EATS!  :-)