Homemade Gift Exchange.. squeal!

I am a serious craftaholic!  I love all things crafty!  Even if I am not that great at anything crafty...I love it!  So when I saw that Linda @ Craftaholics Anonymous was hosting a homemade gift exchange, I knew I wanted to participate at once! I drew a girl named Jaimee and saw on her wish list this super cool mail organizer.  I knew I wanted to attempt it!  You can for sure tell it is homemade, but I promise it was made with love! I hope Jaimee enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Sorry for the horrible pic, but seriously..it is the only one I really got before I sent it out. 

If you would like to make one of these yourself, here is the tutorial: We All Sew.

If you think a homemade gift exchange sounds fun, Linda is hosting another this fall! It starts on November 1st!  Join along!  

I will post again when I receive my gift! I am super excited to see what someone has crafted up! 

Happy Saturday! 

The Little Things

So I follow a sweet blogger named Lindsay over at Hello Hue who does a little things linkup party.  I have never participated before, but I thought, why not!  This is my first linkup party and I am excited to reflect on the little blessings God provides us with each and every day!

Homemade Gift Exchange- I participated in a homemade gift exchange that Linda at Craftaholics Anonymous is hosting and I finally finished my gift.  I made a mail organizer for a sweet girl named Jaimee.  I am excited for her to get it. (more on this later!) Also, while mailing it, I met a sweet man named Darrell who worked at the post office.  He was so helpful and a real joy to be around.  I am pretty sure they should give him a raise!

Swimming with my bug- Our sweet A loves the water!  I think it may be because I swam so much with her when I was pregnant?  Maybe?  But no matter what has caused it, she has a pure love of the water. It is so much fun to see her splash and kick.

Quiet/Study time- My quiet time and study time is one of my favorite times of the day.  It is so refreshing to spend time in God's word, reading and listening to what he has to say.  Yesterday A went to mother's day out and I got to soak up the Word and some sun.

11 months- Wow! Our sweet A is 11 months old.  Pictures are hard to capture, as she NEVER sits still!  A is such a blessing in our lives and we can't imagine life without her!  It has been my joy to watch her grow over these last 11 months and I can't wait to see continue to grow.

God provides us with little blessings all the time!  I pray you enjoy the little things this weekend!

life...

Life has been crazy the past couple of months.  I am not sure what it has been crazy with...I just can tell you it has been crazy! Mr. J has taken on a huge project at work and that has left little extra time for me to sit in front of a computer other than when sweet baby A is napping and that is normally when I do my quiet time. When Mr. J gets home and little A is down, all I want to do is spend time with him (all 30 minutes of it before we head to bed) So therefore, my blogging has been lacking (that is an understatement!).

Speaking of quiet time, I have been following along with SheReadsTruth. I would highly recommend it if you are needing a devotional/study to follow along with. We start a new one tomorrow so it would be a great time to start!  I tried to add the little picture/link thing, but obviously I need to brush up on my html skills.  So...check it out here: SheReadsTruth

Sweet baby A is about to turn one! I can't believe it!  In less than a month we will have a sweet 1 year old running around!  On one hand it seems like just yesterday we were headed to the hospital for her arrival and on the other hand, it seems like she has been with us for ever!  We are planning for her party and excited for her "Tweet to be 1" party.

Mr. J and I both got to celebrate our first mother's and father's day this year.  Mr. J made sure to make mother's day extra special and Sweet A and I tried to make sure and do that for dad.  Below is a sample of what we did for Mr. J.  I wish I had a picture of the actual picture frame and pictures, but it is already proudly displayed in his office! :)

I hope that everyone has a great Wednesday!  The weekend is almost here! :) 

I'm back!

So, I took a little hiatus from blogging...but I am back!  I will post a little life update later...but right now, I am just letting the world know...I'm back!