Fun with Friends~

This week has been a roller coaster. i'm gonna blog about it over @ Jennblog in a few days. Still not sure if this two blog system is gonna work for me, but we shall see. I'm hoping to tame my creative writer side and have more of a home girl blogger side. LOL I don't know. We'll see.

Anyways! Keith and I just celebrated our 5 year anniversary last friday night (a week ago). We went out for Sushi (of course). to Kabuki, a Japanese Hibachi place close to our house. We were planning this great trip to Birmingham that night to eat at another one of our favorite Thai places, PF Chengs, but we bailed at the last minute. WE were just too hungry to wait that long! HAH! And plus we were just too tired to travel 3 hours round trip just for dinner. SO -- Sushi!

This week we went out two different nights with friends from our church in Wetumpka - which is about 30 minutes from our house. So it's quite a drive to socialize! We don't get to do this very often. So twice in one week is rare! The Lord knew I needed those happy times - with food.

And today we went to a fun football party with several more of our church friends, who made a delicious "country boil" - known on the Gulf Coast as "shrimp boil" - basically a hearty combo of new potato's, chunky sausage, carrots, onions and boiled shrimp...with lots of hot sauce on top. DELISH! Top that off with a crazy round of Phase 10 with the gals, while the guys sulked "in the pit" the living room over Alabama Football. (War Eagle!) Again, I think I was the lone Auburn fan.

But I wore my new grey scarf with my red coco-cola shirt. And that was fun! But, still not sure if I'm still digging this loop scarf look, it was different. But I do like different.


Can i just say Southern Moms are amazing? I mean, I've known this from my oh-so-charming southern mom & the other ladies in my family. Maybe this is all moms in general, I will have to think about this one, but it's amazing to me me to watch their herding skills. You know, when Mom A is totally telling Mom B's kids "you need to calm down or I will beat your little hiney." While Mom B is herding in all of Mom's C's kids back into the house to put on jackets and shoes with a quick reminder, "No Ma'am, No sir, get in the house!" It really is a big warm community. Can you feel the love?

I'm sure it's not just north east Montgomery ladies in particular, maybe it's more of a mothering instinct thing. Like the "talent" that I hope to someday supernaturally posses upon the birth of our first child, where I can simultaneously listen to two conversations at once, and know exactly what each child is doing at any given moment, and correct them and still counsel my BFF with the most tender consoling compassion. What a fantastic gift!

So I hung out with some pretty amazing mom friends this week. Several of them are adoptive or foster parents, which is a beauty all in a class of its own. So beautiful! A 30-something mom to over 60 kids, now that is a story! And I feel these amazing super-skill mothers have ushered me: the one track conversation non-mom, right on into their herd. And, "yes ma'am" you better betcha, I am putting on my coat and shoes, RIGHT now missy!

Cute little scarf project.

I found this really easy t-shirt scarf project on a few sites buzzing through my google reader. My nifty friend Nikki, from Nikki's NACS has my favorite instructions

>>She heard it from KevinandAmanda - who makes it with awesome orange and blue Auburn tees!

>>>and I found it on cutoutandkeep. But I thought for sure I read it first on my make up artist hero blogger Kandee Johnson, but I can't seem to find where I read that one.

Anyway, here's my version:


I had fun late one night catching up on some TV while spreading this project out on out coffee table. I used an old t-shirt tunic that had a few holes in the armpits and the safety pins just weren't working any longer (did I mention, I don't sew?) - "Crafty girl" is not first on my list of personality adjectives. But it's certainly my dream to someday become one!

My friend from church, Tiffany Anderson, is a natural. A genius craftee queen. I will show her something I love and that girl will whip out a sewing machine and fabric from her purse/diaper bag, right there in the church foyer and start making it! Well, not exactly. But she does have a genius way of creating something with no pattern or experience. Look what she made me last week, while sitting in our church parking lot at the trunk or treat! (again, just kidding). Isn't it adorable! A cute notebook cover for my journals....

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That's what I love about all off these mom bloggers and craftie gals that I follow, they have a special way of making something out of nothing. Creating beauty from junk.

I wonder what else i can make useful and beautiful, from the old things just laying around the house?

And of course, a song for this moment!