the chair

We went to visit Leesburg, Fl (and Grandma Bert) a couple days ago to help her with her computer.

We left with smiles, full bellies and a little stow-away in the back seat.

This gem was from Lake Port Square when my Grandma's friend's decided to redecorate… my gma scored it for $5… I swiped it from her for free (by "swipe", I mean she gave it to me for free…)

Well I found this little picture on one of my DIY blogs that I MUST stop reading immediately…

and got a few ideas…  I already loved the color of the chair gma gave us so this would be easy! :)

So we headed to Home Depot and bought the following:

A SAMPLE of paint: $2.97
Paint Brush: $1.99
Blue Tape: $7.49
Sander Blocks: $3.49

Grand Total: $15.94

I laid out garbage bags on our rented carpet and begun taping and covering every area that I knew I would eventually drip paint on…

I really felt like Tim Kinney's daughter when I used the bungee cord to hold the cushion in so I could paint behind there…  Proud to be a Daddy's Girl! :)

I sanded the heck out of the thing-- the shiny, glossy finish came right up!  PLUS I LOVE my new sander blocks… so much easier to maneuver than sand paper…

then I started the painting!  I did two coats to make sure everything was completely covered… plus my brush strokes looked pretty nasty since I didn't spring for the $8.99 brush…

Brady picked out the whitish color I was going for… and I really loved the name of it :)

and voila!  A shabby new chair! :)

i dim sometimes,
jennafer

a duggar evening

we had a girls night

we did our hair

we watched the duggars

it was a success

we do things differently,
jennafer

the eye that loved pink

so I get pink eye.   Like seriously all the time.

This week was no exception.

On Monday a little cutie patootie face pie walked up to me with cute red hair and a blue sundress on.  I looked deep in her eyes and an alarm went off *PINKEYEPINKEYEPINKEYEPINKEYE* but she had it in both eyes… weird.  So I stayed cool.  Didn't do the famous face-to-face hug and blew her a kiss and sent her on her way.

The next morning… I awoke to a little sumfin-sumfin hiding in the corner of my eye.

…..

I've been out of work and missing it!!!!!  Pink eye is not as fun as Elle Woods would think.

Here's a picture diary of my poor left eye:  enjoy!

Day one:

 Day Two:

 Day Three:

 Day Four:

Day Five:

spraying lysol,

jennafer

easter celebrations

We had a great day yesterday!  Brady got to be a part of all of Mosaic Church's festivities and I was able to make magic for guests spending their holiday with Mickey Mouse!

Imagine my surprise when I found out I got to be friends with the Easter Bunny on Easter!!!  HOPPY EASTER TO ME!!!!!

We compared feet sizes… I don't think Mr. Easter Bunny and I will be sharing shoes anytime soon!

This is Mr. Easter Bunny's favorite picture.  Who would have thought that the Easter Bunny was such amazing friends with the princesses!!

Mr. Easter Bunny and his beautiful wife, Mrs. Easter Bunny…

Then a few of my friends from work came with me to church and then a few of them came to our house to dye eggs and eat yummy easter snacks!!!!!

We had a major easter egg competition…

It's so fun making holidays special for people with families far away!  I hope all of these guys and gals felt so loved and at "home" with us! :)

hoppy easter,
jennafer

ps- how cute is this yorky poo helping her momma color eggs??

happy easter

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

1Peter 1:3-5

the music continues

Anabelle has quite the singing talent.  And although she has been featured on the blog before for her amazingly good looks and fantastic disposition… she has never been acclaimed for her talented voice… but here she is in all her glory… enjoy world!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSAu2kpB3E

ursula can't touch that,
jennafer

haunted mansion

Last month a new and exciting adventure opened up in the Haunted Mansion que line!  When you get towards the front of the line you can choose to go right, straight towards the ride, or head to the left which takes you through a haunted interactive grave-yard.

This is all part of Disney's new "Next Generation Experience" and it is SO FUN to be here and watch all of these exciting new transitions happen!

Here's a tour through the haunted grave yard..

 You are greeted by these heads with riddles on how they died… at least we think they are riddles… we couldn't even figure one out… so maybe they are just rhymes that don't make sense…  

 When you walk by this large wall, if you touch any of these instruments you can magically hear it play for you!

 the haunted keyboard!!  Just touch the keys and they will play…  but they don't press down…  weird.

 this is fun… this grave spills water everywhere… as soon as you touch one of the holes then water comes out another escape…  

This was our favorite!  Voice recognition!!  They would magically write out a death and we would have to figure out how it happened…  usually they were pretty easy, but she wouldn't go on to the next one until we got it right!  We were purposely saying the wrong answers and it still wouldn't move!  It's so smart!!!!

So, just like the fork Anastasia comes to in her movie… I would recommend you "GO LEFT" next time you ride Haunted Mansion and tell all your friends you like to play in graveyards in your spare time…

happy haunting,

jennafer