Reviews coming!! Stay tuned!

Okay, so I apologize that it has been just over a week since I last blogged. Shame on me!  BUT, I will be doing some blog posts soon. One thing I will be blogging is a book review. I recently started reading books to review and blog about through a couple different companies. I am very excited about this!  I choose one of their new books to read, they send it to me for free, and I promise to read it and write a review of it on my blog, and other sites like Amazon, within a few months of receiving the book.  I just finished reading Lisa Welchel's new book Friendship for Grown Ups, so I'll be giving my review here shortly.

And today I just received some products in the mail to sample and review, along with a giveaway!!  Woo hoo!!!  So I'll be posting on that soon as well.  In the meantime, enjoy a few recent photos. :)

Nashville flood

Some of you may have heard about the flooding here in Nashville almost two weeks ago. We were okay out here, but many areas in Nashville, and counties throughout the state, had serious damage. The last I heard 21 people died as a result of the flooding. This is the worst flooding we've seen here in 80 years. I watched the TV in disbelief when they showed footage of the Opryland Hotel under 10 feet of water. As well as The Grand Old Opry and Opry Mills mall. Places I have been to over and over many times through the years. Tennessee is called the Volunteer State, and we lived up to our name immediately following this disaster. People helped get their neighbors out to safety, and volunteer efforts continue to go on daily. And it will until everything is cleaned up and restored. One way you can help, and get a fun shirt too, is to purchase a shirt from this site. Proceeds go to help flood victims. This is a much better way to give than through the Red Cross where we aren't sure exactly which place the money will go to.

http://nashvilleflood.myshopify.com/

Declutter swap meet. You need to do one!!

Last week I held a "declutter swap meet" at my house. I had read a blog post about having a declutter and purge party, and I thought it was a great idea. So I put it on Facebook and sent a message to several other local women to see if there was any interest. We ended up with 5 women and 12 kids! (for the record, one woman only brought 1 of her 6 kids, so there would've been more!) I meant to take photos of everything, but didn't even think about it until we had everything almost completely packed up. What a bummer! We all had a great time and we all were able to get rid of lots of items, and take some nice things home too. Everything that was left over went to a local church who is taking the items to the flood victims here in Nashville.  Below are a couple of the nice toys that Ronnie got, he has been enjoying them! I think we will definitely do this again next year!

My little man!

This is Ronnie's infamous "cheesey" smile. It cracks us up every time!

Working on his little schoolhouse project at Lowe's with daddy. They have been enjoying their father and son time on Saturday mornings.

Trying on hats with daddy at Target. Being cheesey of course!

First time we had the sprinkler out this year, he LOVED it!!

Now there is a "normal" smile from him!  I cannot believe he turns 3 years old next month!  Wow!  My little man is getting so big!!  It almost makes me tear up just thinking about it. I sure love my babies!!

Enter the giveaway at Gather In Spirit!

I am featured on another blog today, with a giveaway!  Go check it out HERE!

My little sweetheart

Elise is at that fun age (11 months) where she is so social and interactive with us now.  Here she is doing her fun new thing of kicking her feet out of excitement.

She likes to smile for the camera. :)

Once again smiling for the camera, and holding her new doll that Mamaw and Paps sent her (Ron's parents).

Hamming it up and kicking her feet again! LOL!  That baby girl just melts my heart!  I love her more than words can express.  Of course I love her big brother too, I'll do a post about him later this week. :)

Made-by-me Monday!

I saw this post idea on my friend Jen's blog, so I thought I should start doing it too! Especially since I do have two blogs, this one and my Beadworks by Marcy one for my jewelry business.  So without further ado, here are some of the items I've made in the last week.  Be sure and visit my Etsy shop if you would like to purchase any of them.