Decorating Dilemmas

Yesterday my mom and I went shopping for the first time since her knee replacement. We had a blast and I am looking forward to many more shopping trips now that she can walk better.  :) It was a quick little trip to Twin Falls, but that's OK the only place we really wanted to go was Real Deals.  I found this cute little candle stick, I loved it-I didn't know what I wanted to use it for but I couldn't pass it up. The little nest just screams spring and I am SO ready for spring. Here's what I came up with:

I got the bird last year at Tai Pan--♥ it!

I also got this clock:

I have this shelf above my bed and it needed something else, I thought this clock would be perfect.  I am having mixed feelings towards the clock- at first when I put it up I liked it. When I went in the room an hour later I wrapped it back up in the bubble wrap and I was going to take it back. Two hours later I unwrapped it and started playing around with it. I like it sitting on the decorative book here are some options:

Clock in the middle- family picture on the left.

Clock on the left family picture in the middle---NAH!

See- something has to be in the middle.

Think.


Think.


Think.


Go digging.

Wicker balls:

This is how it sits now. Tell me- what do you think. Maybe there's something I am missing.  Should I take the clock back and get something different, or give it a chance?

On to the next decorating dilemma.  I had a wreath over the fireplace at Christmas time, I just barely took it down. I loved the way it looked up there and the way it filled the space.  Looking around I decided to try putting my big clock up there:

I just hung it on the wreath nail so it is about 3-4 inches higher than I would like, I hate putting another hole in the wall though. 

Or should I just put the family pic back up there:

What do you think?

The problem with putting the clock up there is:

Now I have a blank wall above my couch. But, I would love to do something like this on that wall:

♥♥♥    {sigh}   ♥♥♥

Moving on...

I was looking at Brody the other day and noticed a little bit of hair missing from the front of his head:

it's just  a little. Nothing like Braiden's butcher job he did when he was about 4-- take a look- it's funny  (well it wasn't at the time.)

I believe that all kids are going to cut their own hair at some point.  Luckily Brody chose to be conservative, unlike our friend above. :) Oh and I never could get Brody to admit to it.

Also Joslyn is now an expert walker

She officially walks more than she crawls. 

All of my kids have walked at 13 months--just keeping tradition.

Double Stuff

I was getting ready to transfer pics from my camera to the computer this morning when I came upon these:

Someone had left the pantry door open and moved the oreos to the bottom shelf so she decided to try one...or two...or...when I found her she was starting to gag because they were too much!



Our highchair had seen it's better day.  It had a cloth cover that I had to wash every other day. It had too many crevices for crumbs to get caught in and that drove me CRAZY.  Every night I would get out a toothpick to try to clean out those small spaces--yeah I'm like that.  AND it didn't have a seat belt and that was the # 1 problem!!! SO- I got Joslyn this little booster, I didn't want to spend $140 on a new highchair-she's #4 for heavens sake! So I settled for this little $25 version, no cloth cover, no crevices and best of all it has a SEAT BELT!!

I think she's happy with it! At least until she tries to stand up and she can't and then she won't like it any more. :)


Looky-she has a clip in her hair! She barely has enough hair-but "barely" is good enough for me.  I gave up on headbands a long time ago.  Hopefully these clips are discreet enough that she will forget about them and leave them alone-hopefully.

In other news: I am in the dog house with Braiden because I missed him making a basket the other night at his basketball game.  He said I was too busy "talking". I felt so bad! :( BAD MOMMY!

Some of my friends talked me into doing the Sawtooth Relay (click on the link if your curious) with them.  WHAT was I thinking??? I am not a runner!!  The race starts in Stanley Id and ends in Ketchum that means each member of the 6 person team has to run/walk 2 legs of the relay which are about 5 miles ea.  One of the girls gladly volunteered to run UP Galena summit, and another brave soul volunteered to run down--and neither one of those was me!  I have ALOT of work to do before June 11.  Now if it would warm up a little so I could get out and start running!  The best part of this is our team name: The Housewives of Heyburn- ha-ha love it!

Note: new pics of the kids on the sidebar--its about time, I know.