Love List

I know that Valentine's Day was last week, but it is still the month of love, so I thought I would share a list of things that I am loving right now.....

*Pinterest - Oh, Pinterest, how much do I love you?  If you are at all into decorating, cute ideas or recipes and you haven't gotten on pinterest yet.....it is time.  My sister in law first introduced it to me and I have been hooked ever since.  I love decorating and doing new things around our house and also trying new recipes.  And, it turns out, people have all sorts of creative things on this site.  Just looking around on pinterest makes me happy and here are a few things I have found on there lately that I am really loving....

Green Monster Smoothie.....so good

I have heard several people talk about spinach smoothies and as much as it sounded like a good idea it just didn't sound good enough for me to want to make one.  Until one day on pinterest I saw a pretty picture of one (that always draws me in) and people saying that it tasted really good.  Honestly, to me that means it tastes like a blizzard from DQ.  I was highly doubting that a spinach smoothie would taste like that and to be truthful, this doesn't taste quite that good, but it is really good.  I make one several times a week.  If you are on pinterest, look it up and give it a try. My other favorite from pinterest is this photo collage that is now on our living room wall.....

Here it is all laid out on our floor before being put up

I had so bad been wanting a photo collage for one of our walls, but left to my own devices to try to come up with all the right frames all the right distance apart, it never happened.  Enter pinterest and all of the creative, pretty and inspiring ideas.  And, this particular project gave very detailed instructions, was not hard and did not cost a lot of money....all of my favorite things.

Finished product.....we all love it.  The girls love it! They were so excited to see it and Kyla loves to talk about the memories associated with each picture.  So much more meaningful than the wall art that was hanging there before.

*Message Board - This is another thing I am really loving right now....

My friend, Nicole, recently had what is called a Blessings Party, which sells DaySpring products.  They have beautiful products and I chose this.  I love it!  It is a dry erase marker board....it is in our kitchen and I put Bible verses on it.  It is a great way for our family to see Scripture as we walk through the house and also to help the girls memorize verses.  

*The phrase, "Not cool"- I am loving this right now because it is one of Kyla's new phrases.  It is so big kid sounding and makes me laugh.  She uses it in several circumstances.  The other day she was building blocks and Ashlyn knocked them over and she said, "Ashlyn, that is not cool." :)  And just a few days ago I accidentally dropped a plate in the kitchen.  She walked in, looked at me and just said, "Not cool."  She cracks me up.

 *Morning devotional time -  I have for so long wanted to get up early in the morning and have quiet time with God reading the Bible and praying before my day starts.  The problem here is I am not a morning person.  I tried it in college, it lasted a few days.  I have tried it several times over the years, never lasted long.  I always did better with devotional time in the afternoon.  The problem I was running into recently though, was that my afternoon time is becoming very limited.  I just don't have a lot of uninterrupted time and was feeling like I couldn't really focus.  I knew it was time to try the morning thing again but I was nervous about it.  And, the deal is, I really need this time and really want it.  I kept thinking about doing it in the mornings and finally tried it again.  I am going on a month now and loving it.  Both of my girls are good morning sleepers, neither of them getting up super early, so I am able to get up before they are awake and have that time.  It has been wonderful.

*Date nights - This will always be on the list of things that I love.  The other thing I really love about date nights right now, though, is that my friend Tracy and I swap date nights with each other once a month.  One Friday night a month her kids come to our house so she and her husband can go out and vice versa.  We each get a night out with our husbands, free babysitting and our kids get to play together, which they love.  Everybody is happy.

The very top of my love list.  On our date this past weekend

Woohoo!!!  We are getting ready to celebrate being married 10 years and we are taking a trip to celebrate.  Add in some travel research to our date.

The love is shared with our kids on date night too.....Kyla came home with this note of sweetness from her friend, Alyssa

This is what I am loving these days.  How about you....anything on your love list right now?