Creative Outlets

Happy Summer Everyone!  

I know you might be thinking... well, technically summer doesn't begin until June 21.  However, in my world, summer began TODAY, June 7, at approximately 1:30p.m..  After I hugged each sweet kiddo, wiped away my tear-stained eyes... Summer arrived!

I have lots of fun summer plans in the works.  We have multiple trips to Clear Lake planned, a cruise to Alaska, and most importantly, down-time!  I am also looking forward to my first summer in the our home.  It will be great to have time to continue organizing, decorating, and perhaps even a little shopping??

May was a great month. Busy, but wonderful.  As a teacher I always find my creative juices flowing freely during May.  We have our big display night called Open House and a lot of time and energy goes into putting it together.  Here are a couple photos of my classroom on the big evening.  

 Around the house, we have worked on a couple of projects as well.  Our front door is old and full of issues, but we are determined to make it work for now.  We bought and installed a new door sweep which helped to actually "seal" the door.  Before there was a bunch of air that could come in from underneath the door.  Not a very exciting project, but a useful and necessary one!

While we are talking about practical, not glamorous projects, here's another!  Nick and his dad worked on the roof last weekend and added a vent into our master bathroom.  Hopefully they will forgive me for the butt-shot!

For the past six months or so, I've had this idea of wanting to create a blackboard for our home.  I've seen cute ones one Pinterest where you can write sweet notes, menus for parties, or welcome notes to guests.  I told Nick about my vision, and he went to town!  I now have a finished product and am excited to put it to use.  In a few weeks, we are having an event at our house which will be the perfect opportunity to break it in!

Hmm.. sorry about those blurry, stretched photos!  Can't figure out how to fix that! What a gem that Nick is!!  Making my little dreams a reality!  Excited to use the board soon!

That's it for now.  I am expecting that I'll have a lot more to write about in the near future.  Having long, lazy days seem to help the blogging process!

Cheers!