Show us your life friday...my kid's names

I have 2 precious boys that God so graciously blessed us with! They are my whole world and I love them to bits.  I always thought I would have girls.  God has a sense of humor.  My oldest is Jackson Scott.  Jackson was a name I always loved.  In my twenties, it was one of those names that was always in my head if i had a boy.  After 24 hours of labor and a very traumatic delivery, my husband let me name our first born whatever the heck I wanted to!  :)  My hubby picked the middle name.  Scott is my hubby's best friend and more like a brother to him.  We wanted to honor a key person in my husband's life who put his life on track way back when!
Baby #2, I knew he was another boy almost immediately and deep down wanted to pick a special name in honor of my dad.  I have 2 sisters so my dad was always surrounded by GIRLS!!!  He is James Logan.  My sister already used James so I really wanted a Logan.  After having 3 daughters, my parents are now blessed with 6 grandSONS! and a granddaughter!  There was no real reason he became Logan Maxwell, other than I thought it had a nice ring to it.  Again, my wonderful husband let me name our children after carrying and birthing them (which was less than pretty!) so there you have it, my son's and why we named them what we did, short and sweet version!  TGIF!
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show us your life...it's friday!!!

This week is show us your life friday and if you have no clue what I'm talking about, hop on over to kelly's blog to see what it is all about. I LOVED the home tours and am thrilled about all the other themes that will be hosted! This week is wedding dress preview! YEAH. Has it really been 8 years since I wore this amazing dress?? Yep, next month we will celebrate 8 years of wedded bliss, (with some not so blissful moments in there too). :)

I had my wedding portraits taken in City Park in New Orleans. Unfortunately it wasn't the best photo shoot. First, my veil blew off and into the muddy water of the second picture when I was on the bridge. Then is started pouring down rain and we had to take all of the pictures inside. I was very disappointed and only have 1 or 2 pictures that I like from that day.

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I had to opt for straps and scoop next front dress, (instead of my dream dress that would have been strapless just like hers, because when I get nervous I break out in red, splotchy hives on my chest and shoulders and didn't think that would look too good in my pictures!)


we won't go into the drama that occured when I saw my ORANGE flowers the day of the wedding and burst into tears because that was NOT what I had ordered. It was all I could do to dab my mascara and take this awful picture with the gladiolas that should have gone to a funeral home. But at the end of the day I was still married to the man of my dreams so I got over it.

sorry for the poor quality pictures. well before the digital craze, these pics had to be scanned in, (the horror), and just didn't come out very well!

Here I am with my twin sister (left) and my little sister! Don't they look beautiful?!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!

show us where you live...err..how to party

This is my youngest son's 1st birthday party! (he is now almost 4) but I LOVE the cake and cupcakes we did! My twin sister was just getting her cake business up and running and whipped up this masterpeice for us! We LOVED it and so did Logan! Her website is linked below!

One very happy 1 year old!!!

...and yes, the cake was as big as he was!

I wanted to send you guys to the best cake lady's site EVER! Her cakes are AMAZING and they taste just as good as they look. If you don't live in Louisiana, I really feel sorry for you that you can't order from her, but you can ooohhh and aaahhhh over the cakes!

Check out http://www.sweetlittledesigns.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

show us where you live fridays!!!

Today is entry ways and foyers! I love my furniture peice, it was my 5 year wedding anniversary present! Yes I am practical and that is what I asked for! I keep placemats, napkins, candles, magazines, garden flags, and few other odds and ends in there! I LOVE it!

This is the view from the dining room.


Looking into the living room right when you walk in the front door.

Logan asking to be in the picture!

friday!

show us where you live!!! yards!!!


This is one of my favorite weeks, although my pictures don't do it justice, I don't think. We have had 3 weeks of almost 100 degree heat and NO rain so things are a little dry. Here is my little logan picking out some flowers with me this spring! One of my favorite things to do is work in the yard. It is free therapy for me!!!


This is the front, Happy 4th of July weekend everyone! I usually have 4 pots overflowing with amazing flowers but the weather has gotten the best of them.
This is my fabulous new arbor! Isn't it great?? What is even better is that the bouginvillea vine that is growing up it transfered so beautifully from a trellis to this arbor that I have been shopping for for 2 years! My patience paid off and it is a perfect fit and I love it! Now if the darn plant would stop worrying about it's roots and start BLOOMING in hot pink, well actually magenta, I would be so happy!

I have started planting things that love the louisiana heat and also come back every year! Cost effective and beautiful. This is a bloom off my 4 dollar hibiscus I bought 3 years ago. Comes back every year like a champ and is going crazy this year!! LOVE IT!

I love color and this vinca and zinia are 2 great examples!

This is the front bed and I should have moved that black hose. Oh well. Like I said, everything is SO DRY but you get the idea!

The back yard after you walk through the gate and arbor!

I love this crepe myrtle and hope it grows FAST! I can't wait until it towers over the driveway.

I ran out of places to put more flowers so added this bed this spring along the side of the house. I now have landscape beds 360 degrees around the house. Lots of work (therapy) for me to keep up with but I love it!

This is one side of the front walk. The other side is almost the same, just larger and goes around to the side bed! I have seasonal flags that I change out for football season and holidays.

Thanks for stopping by and happy 4th!

friday...bathrooms

Yeah, it's show us where you live friday on Kelly's blog and today is bathrooms. We have 2 1/2 baths and boy am I thankful for that extra half bathroom with my family. Anyway, first up, our master bathroom. It is a work in progress. Still need new rugs and towels but I love it.

This curtain over the tub was my first home sewing project ever and it got me hooked on doing things myself for cheaper!!! Thanks mom for all the help and sending my on my sewing way!

My only request when we built the house was a 6ft tub and I got it! (I'm 5'10 and we had to take away from closet space but it was well worth it!) You will find me soaking away the day's stress every single night in the jacuzzi tub!!

This is one corner I'm not happy with...I love the mirror but I threw the flowers together and they are lacking and I think the other picture is too close for the space. Any suggestions?

I was thrilled with how my sconces turned out. I made them after seeing a designer version. I am happy to say I spent less than $20 on each of them. Not bad,huh?

Up next, the boy's/guest bathroom. I fell in love with this shower curtain at a model home and was shocked to find out it isn't a shower curtain at all, it's a bed quilt! But it works and I have a double rod with a plastic liner on the inside. I used curtain rings on a heavy duty rod and LOVE it!

My favorite part of this bathroom is the sconces in the mirror.

This is the half bath. It is so small, yes, that is me in the mirror in my jammies tring to get a picture of the whole thing.

It is just off the laundry room and garage. My hubby loves the magazine rack (from southern living home collection!)

My last little tidbit...I couldn't find any wall hangings that I love for this small space and ended up finding place mats on clearance at peir 1 for 3 dollars. The big squares are just hung with little nails and it adds some texture to the room.

Last but not least, some more catching up, just a view of the living room when you walk in the front door. At a loss for what to do with the windows since you can see the breakfast room and red drapes (that I made) all in the same view. Would love any thoughts out there!!!

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by!

catching up...

This is our office! We just converted it from our nursery to the office, since our baby is 3 now! My husband decided on how to do the paint treatment (very talented guy) and I picked the color. We painted the whole room bright yellow first and then used the color I picked in glaze. We rolled it on and then "pulled" it off with (of all things) a vacuum cleaner brush attatchment. I think it turned out great. I still have to decide on curtains and would love any imput on colors. I have done all of the drapes in our house and want to do something a little unique but not too complicated in here. Valance? Drapes? Cornice board? What do y'all think???

The closet in the office is my scrapbooking nook. Unfortunately, I don't get much done anymore, but really want to start again. I wanted a place where I could leave all my stuff and not have little hands all over it. I am hoping the get caught up on my project 365, among other things like starting my 3 year old's baby book!

My dad installed a counter for me to use for my scrapbooking and sewing! I love it. Very reasonably priced project for any do-it-yourselfers!

My husband and I painted the room ourselves. He's quite the decorator and I love how it turned out!!

Catching up really quick, this is our boy's room. They LOVE being together! I want to try to get all the other rooms posted too, I have loved this idea kelly came up with and want to catch up with the tour!

Our kitchen...

Our breakfast area looking in from the living room...




Will update more later...gotta run to the gym!!!