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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Why have a white door, when it can be BLUE?!

So it took some real convincing, but I was able to persuade my hubs into painting the front door a color! I know that some people really don't prefer to do this, but I am not one of them!!! I think it makes a house stand out, to really be different then the neighbors, and gives it some extra curb appeal.

Since most of our home things are in the blue tones, we found it only suiting to paint the door a shade of blue...but what shade??? There are so many to blues choose from [thanks to my father in law for loaning us his color wheel]. It made our decision that much more difficult.

One day while I was at OSH, I spotted a white discounted outdoor paint, so I decided to snatch it up, until we could make our color decision. We finally came to the conclusion at we wanted a sort of grayish-blue, so we took the paint and had it mixed to a blue we thought was perfect. It ended up coming out looking much more like a light baby blue, which was just not going to work...



So back to OSH I went with the color wheel. I explained it just wasn't the color we had envisioned and they gladly remixed the paint to a more "grayish blue" and we are quite pleased with the outcome![Please look past the missing wreath, unpainted fixture, and dying plant].I will put up more pictures when we get the front looking more "complete".

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

There is a purpose!

I know I have been absent for awhile. As much as I am a planner, life doesn't always go the way planned. I have so many things I've been wanting to share, but it has been one of the most hectic times in my life. As grateful as I am for everything I have been given, and believe everything has a purpose, sometimes I just can't help but to sulk and ask, why? Why have all these things happened and keep happening to my family...but I don't stay in this phase for too long. I try to refocus on the positive things that have happened in my life. The feelings also make me realize that you never know what someone else might be going through in there life! I really don't think that even some of my closest acquaintances, would believe me if I told them things some of the things that have happened throughout my life.

Since today is Valentines day I wanted to share some loving encouragement to my friends!

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28)

Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together. I hope you are able to enjoy this day with your loves! I have had the pleasure of getting to spend the day with 2 of the sweetest little girls and I am looking forward to getting to spend the evening with my wonderful husband.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!