Distressed Frames Project

For a couple of years I've looked at the distressed picture frames at the Canton Flea Market and a few other places and have never wanted to spend the money they ask for them so I went ahead and tried to make my own. Here are a couple of the ones I've done for my mom for her desk at work, I think they turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. Let me know what you think, I'm thinking of making several more. I have all of the materials to do this and was going to start today, but it is just entirely to hot outside to do anything after 7am and I'm not getting up before then to work.

As you can tell, these are not picture FRAMES exactly, but the pictures are held up by small clothes pins attached to the board, I felt like I needed to add my own personal touch to them. The "family" board doesn't have anything on it yet, but I'll get to that later. Maybe after my air gets fixed I'll go outside (I have to have a cool place to come back into) and work on some more and post pictures later tonight.
By the way, I am thinking about selling these after I get some more made, these will probably sale for around $30 so if anyone is interested email me or leave a comment. I'm always open for more ideas also, so let me hear from you!

Feeling baby brother...

After Hayden woke up this morning he we did our usual, which is to sit in the recliner, rock for a few minutes and watch cartoons. As we are rocking this morning baby brother is dancing in the belly so I asked Hayden if he wanted to feel his baby brother kick. He put his hand on my stomach and his little face just lit up when he felt him kick his hand, so he put his head on my stomach, and thought it was the funniest thing for his baby brother to kick him in the head. After that game, he decided that he wanted to see my belly button (he always like to poke people in the belly buttons for some strange reason), so he poked me in the belly button and I told him that he was going to poke his brother in the head if he didn't stop. At that moment he put his head down like he was looking in my belly and said, "I see baby, mama". Oh, out of the mouth of babes is all I could think. He is to funny, and I think now it's starting to become reality that he is about to be a big brother!

To cry or not to cry...

I don't know whether I should cry or rejoice for my little man growing up like he is.

For starters, I took him to the Reservoir this past Friday and he had a blast. At first he didn't even want to get in the water, but after a few minutes of sitting on the edge of water we walked in, after a few minutes of holding my hand he wanted to walk around in the water by himself. For a while he refused to hold my hand even though I told him that not all parts were as shallow as where he was first standing.

Saturday, Jeff took him on his first real 4-wheeler ride to Copiah Creek. No we don't have pictures because I didn't go, but I did get play by plays a lot of the time. The first call Jeff told me that they had ridden for a while and then it was time to eat lunch, but Hayden refused to eat a thing because he was to busy playing in the creek. Then after Jeff and our friends ate they went off to ride some more, but like his mama and daddy, that little dude is a fish out of water. Jeff said he preferred acting like a fish in the creek over 4-wheeling, but of course LOVED that also.

He is now potty trained (for the most part) he still wears the pull-ups when he sleeps because I'm not very brave yet, but will still wake up on occassions to go to the bathroom.

This morning was when I knew I wasn't needed, or wanted for that matter, when he was going #2 and I went to check on him (normally he wants me in there with him) and he said, "get out mama". Many tears wanted to form at that moment, but I held back realizing my little baby is not a baby anymore. Not to mention the fact that he is now taking showers instead of baths and loves those also, not afraid at all!