Brenda & The Boys

Here is Matthew spelling words on the fridge last night. Not unusual. He's been playing with these letters since he was two. Thank you, Cokers . It is this fridge toy that started him reading a year ago. Thank you Leap Frog . Now as you can see he likes to spell words that well...words I don't think a four year old should say much less spell out! I usually spot the words after the fact. Today I caught him red handed. I miss finding words like cat and bat. Sigh. This b-o-y is always u-p to something. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry ®

I bought this super fun Jack 'O Lantern for 1.99 last year at Goodwill. I added the garland. I already had it and stuck it in the top of it and voila! A super fun mantle deco. **I found a tag in the bottom of the pumpkin. It turns out it is a Poliwoggs designed by David Critchfield and Vic Fortunato. OK. News to me. Never heard. So I Googled it. Check out this site. http://www.ghoulgallery.com/Ghouls/Page_Poliwoggs.htm . If you scroll down to about center page you will see my pumpkin. This site is selling it for $69.95!! What?! Do I seriously have a collectible on my hands? Did not know. Thank you, Goodwill!

Got home from soccer & earned major cool points. KP ran over a small snake in the driveway. RIP. My boys being all about snakes were so excited. So, iPad in hand we looked up snake anatomy & w/a snake guide found what kind we think it might have been. I then busted out some gloves & a razor (not from my purse, TG but in the house) & bam dissection in the driveway. Don't show me even a pic of a rat cause I will freak way out! Snake dissection. Cake. Boys & I now know the parts of a snake inside and out. KP watched. Very fun moment w/my boys. An impromtu driveway dissection...and that people is how I roll.

Took my weathered brown door and painted it black one year ago! Its held up well. Good before. Better after!

Here are the photos of my latest flip. I got these two tables from my SIL. I had been looking for a sofa table to use in my kitchen as a buffet table and had been wanting to change out my coffee table which was really a trunk. When she got new tables I jumped on it and asked her if I could have them. She said yes! Thanks, Jenny! I took the tables and gave them a litte makeover. Both were a light wood. Pine I think. I took the sofa table and spray painted it black. In Feburary, I took my natural wood kitchen table and painted the chairs and table legs black and stained the top walnut. See the link below to see the before/afters of that project. So, I took the sofa table and painted it black to match my new/old kitchen table. http://brendaandtheboys.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-2010-continued-and-bunch-of-before.html The coffee table was also a pine color. Like I said I had a trunk that I used as a coffee table. I had been wanting to find and buy a coffee table to switch out for a while n...