I'm THANKFUL for...

 

One of my greatest blessings in life has been the opportunity

to be BORN into a family

where the FULNESS of the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST

was taught.

A wonderful example was set

by two

LOVING parents.

And yes...it was even a blessing to have seven siblings!

And while I spent another

THANKSGIVING

without my siblings or parents,

I was able to have my brother Kent come the following day to spend a few days with our family!

Yippee...I love him so much!

And his wonderful wife Whitney...

well I love her just AS MUCH!

She is pretty much amazing and fits into our family perfectly!

I regret not taking more pictures of all that we did...

but we did enjoy an afternoon of 

BOCCE BALL

and they pretty much "killed" us...

but lucky for me

I was too busy enjoying there company!

Jacob only wanted to COLOR!

Side note: Ron had to work the entire weekend including the night before Thanksgiving and the following day after Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately he wasn't able to participate in all our activities. While I am thankful he has a job...and a good job at that, I'm sad that we can't spend more time with him during holidays and weekends!

Being BLUE makes me happy....

I am so "giddy" over my new

CHOICE

of colors.

 TURQUOISE 

It has made me so happy as of late that I've decided to change up my LIVING ROOM

and create a piece that makes me happy to look at!

It may not make everyone as happy as it makes me...

and you might find it a little shocking at first,

but I am just downright

HAPPY

with it!

Here is what the table sort of looked like BEFORE...

(well not really because this is nicely painted and mine was a VERY used table)

Ron cut the legs down so I could have a coffee table for my front room.

After I painted it, sanded it and distressed it...

it now looks like this in my room.

 

 Of course I had to do a little shopping...

and find the perfect accessories,

and I still have a few more things to do...

but I'm so happy with it!

And I think I must like the word Happy today!

Originally I had only planned on only painting the legs

turquoise but when I stripped the black paint off the top of this pretty little table,

there was nothing there but ugly MDF board!

To me it is always fun to find what's hidden underneath and sometimes you get beautiful wood and 

other times ugly MDF or particle board.

But the exciting part is just taking the time to discover it and create a custom piece that just makes you

SMILE!