a peek inside my camera bag

Today and Thursday are picture days for me. I feel blessed to be taking pictures for one of our local Mother's Day Outs. Not only am I really excited, but I am really nervous too! I guess it's only natural when you are taking pictures of 70+ kids in two days. But on the flip side, I am extremely excited that they chose me to take their Spring pictures. And I really like meeting the kids and seeing all their  different personalities. They are so full of life at this age!

I thought that today would be the perfect day to let y'all peek inside my camera bag that I will be taking with me. It's nothing fancy but I like her. She hold most of what I need her to and then some. But I am still on the look out for the perfect camera bag. If there is such a thing.

Here she is in all her turquoise glory...

insta-weekend

Howdy guys! 

I saw somewhere that someone posted about their weekend through the eyes of Instagram and thought that was a wonderful idea. 

We are going to call it Insta-Weekend. 

(Yes, I know that is very un-original)

My weekend started and ended great! 

Here is the new entertainment center my sweet hubby bought me! Isn't it wonderful?

This little guy was found under our truck on a cold, rainy morning. He had no tags and and was so tiny. 1.5 lb. tiny! Luckily, after two days of searching I found his owner and she was happy to have him home.

I made a mistake and accidentally mixed up my washing machine pod thingy with my dishwasher one and well, lets just say there were a tone of bubble and my dishes smelled mountain fresh :)

Saturday morning I was so excited that one of our local farmers markets was open and going full force. There is just something about walking around picking out home grown veggies. Love it!

My new shirt. Love the color!

Road trippin' it west for a ranch rodeo. Aren't West Texas skies are so beautiful?

Rodeo time!!!!!

My little cowboy in training.

He absolutely loves riding horses and playing in the dirt!

Hope you guys all had a blessed weekend!

deep in the {heart} of texas

Today I am showing some TeXaS pride! 

~ Hope y'all have a blessed Saturday ~

(all pictures via Pinterest)

guess what?!

pedestal tables and a kitchen that needs some love

As I was cleaning my kitchen today I couldn't help but notice how horrible my kitchen and dining area look. It's not a big area and so you would think I would be able to do something with it and make it look pretty. But apparently not! Everything I do to it never comes out right. It's kind of depressing.

Here is my kitchen/dining room right now...

I know that it's not that bad and could be a whole lot worse, but when I think of my kitchen I think of someplace that is light and bright. Someplace I won't mind sitting for hours and blogging or drinking coffee. Someplace that makes people say "I love your kitchen". I also needed something that looked great with white appliances because that is what I have and can't justify replacing perfectly good ones (well except for the stove with the front glass that kind of fell off...). So naturally I started looking for some inspiration on Pinterest.

I had to add this kitchen at the top. I fell in love with it the moment that I saw it! I know that my kitchen differs from this one in several ways, but I can so see my kitchen looking like this. I love it!!

(picture source)

There is also this wonderful kitchen from Flower Patch Farmgirl.
Didn't she do a wonderful job? Her curtains are even made from old napkins!

(image via Flower Patch Farmgirl)

This next one I found on Pinterest but could not find an original source. I really like the open cabinets as well as the chalkboard. Great for kids. And that farmhouse sink! LOVE!

(image via Pinterest)

Now when it comes to the dining room my table desperately needs to be refinished and my chairs need to be painted. But I will get to that eventually. Someday. Right now I am trying to figure out what I am going to do with the space. With it being so small it poses the challenge of making it functional and pretty.

I really like bench here. It adds something different and gives you one extra seat. I'm just not sure how it would look in my kitchen. My light is placed a little further out and I don't know if I could make the bench work if it were not flush up against a wall.

(image via Pinterest)

This one here is my favorite. My table looks almost exactly like this one. You know when it is refinished and all. But what I like most about it is that they left the table it's natural color. Which is exactly what I want to do! Seeing this makes me want to go refinish my table now! 

(picture via BHG)

I also took this screen shot of my latest issue of Country Living Magazine. 

I am in love with this little dining nook!

(picture via my iPad)

easter inspiration

I can't believe that Easter is in two weeks! 

Can you?

This year has flown by so much faster than I have realized so I am a little sad today. Spring will be here in like two days and then everything is going to just start rolling. Easter, Mothers Day, Fathers Day and so on. I'm not ready! I am still trying to get all my winter stuff put up and things ready for all this warmer weather we have been having.

Since I have done nothing Easter related all month I thought that I would post some Easter inspiration that I found this morning on Pinterest :)

(all images from Pinterest)

san antonio mini spring break: heading home

Monday was our last day of vacation. *sniffle sniffle*

I was so sad that we had to pack up and leave. I really enjoy spending time with my boys. And I love it that Mike gets to do thing with us since he works so much while we are at home. 

We were on the road pretty early since people had to be at work the next day and Mike was still feeling ill. Poor guy. He was awesome the whole weekend even though he was sick.

Road trippin it west...

We stopped for lunch in Ozona and they had a Sonic you could go inside and eat. It was very weird. 

But I got a vanilla dr. pepper to enjoy on the rest of the trip :)

And that is the end of my vacation posts. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. 

Thanks for looking through oodles and oodles of pics!