April run down

Since I have been really bad at blogging (again) I ‘m just going to do a re-cap of April and May. 

For the last few years, Faith’s art work has been featured at the Art Center in Denton.  She is an artsy fartsy little girl, she might have gotten that from me.

 

Faith was a busy little girl in April.  She also had a Spring Orchestra concert at Guyer HS.  Faith has loved being in the orchestra, but has decided she wants to be in the 6th grade band.  We found out yesterday she will be playing the Saxophone. (this is going to be fun)

For Easter we went up to the school and waited for the Easter bunny to drop Easter eggs from his helicopter.  It was really neat.  Carson had a great time hunting eggs, getting picture made with the bunny (first time ever) and playing in the bounce houses.  Faith not so much.  She is officially too old for this.  But was a good sport.

Here he comes!

Carson and Haden

That Saturday night our church had a night service and we decided to go, so we could sleep in and wake up and find Easter eggs and not be in a rush! (I actually wish they had Saturday night service every week I really liked it.) We took a few pictures before we went since we were dressed up.  (or should I say looked descent)

Faith's 11th Birthday

Faith turned the BIG 11 this year.  For her Birthday she wanted a slumber party.(Agghhhh)  But I decided to go with it and we invited 10 lovely little girls to the party.  Thankfully my parents and my friend Geri were planning on staying the night too. (I needed all the help I could get)  We had Pizza, Ice Cream bar, opened presents, girls ran wild in the hood, played Wii and watched movies.  There were a few fights  (girls are so dramatic),  and we had to go upstairs and regulate a couple times, but other than that it was good and the girls had fun. (probably won't do it again) ha

Faith got a lot of gift cards and money, which is perfect for her age.  Because she loves to shop now!

The girls playing the just dance.

Carson wanting to fit in with the girls, and recording on his IPOD. haha  

Me and Geri working our tails off



Another Makeover

I am addicted now!  I cant stop looking for old or ugly furniture to makeover.  (maybe this will be a new career for me) shhh don't tell my hubby until I figure out all the details.  I have decided that each room in my house needs a little TLC.  I made a list of what I would like to do in each room, and decided to start with the entry way.  It's pretty boring and needs a little work.  I am going to paint the walls possibly a dark grey( I'm into Grey right now). Hopefully  talk my hubby into putting up some bead board, and fix up this old dresser I found at a shop last weekend, and hang some stuff on the wall.  Here is what the area looks like now!


This is what my entry way looks like right now!!  Dont make fun of the frame.  My idea was to make something for every Holiday or season to go in the middle of the huge frame.  I think it's a cute idea but it looks lonely.

This is my new project for my entry way!  Stay Tuned.

Soccer

Spring Sports have begun.  I asked Carson a while back if he wanted to play soccer or baseball and he said FOOTBALL.  I informed him that football was not an option yet.  So he picked Soccer.  I was hoping for the other, but oh well we signed up for soccer.  I know nothing about soccer, so this is new for all of us.  He is on the Broncos with his best buddy Haden from school.  It is hysterical to watch these kids.   Carson is so nonchalant in this sport.  He just jogs where ever the ball is, just like he is playing follow the leader.  But it's cute and fun to watch, and we get a lot of laughs out of it.  Faith  started softball practice last week, so now we will be busy busy with both kiddos playing ball.

This is him playing follow the leader.  (That little girl was all over the field beating up those boys!)

Faith's last Valentines Party

It's really hard for me to believe that Faith will be in middle school next year.  (FYI it's not called Jr. High anymore)  I said that the other day and she looked at me like I was crazy.  It's middle school.  I went to her Valenties party at school.  They had coke floats, did a craft project(like they always do) and passed out cards. 

Petes Piano Bar

I love to go to Petes Piano Bar.  We planned a trip a few months back to go in February and get a hotel and stay.  We all met at the hotel and then went to Champs sports bar for dinner first and then headed to Petes.  I always have a great time when Im with these peeps.  I am ready to make plans to go again.

this week at the Fielder house

The snow and ice came again this week.  I only worked 2 days  and my kids only went to school one day.  I have NEVER experienced this.  NO school and work!  Not really how I want to spend my vacation time but hey I'm not driving on this stuff.  Just in case you don't know I DON'T and WILL NOT drive when the weather is like this.  My hubby took me the 2nd day I worked and a co-worker brought me home.  So we have enjoyed our vacation together hanging out at home.  Faith has been running around the hood with friends playing, and Carson has been doing crafts, watching movies, and playing games.  I  have also had the chance to finish my next piece of furniture.  and I LOVE IT just as much as my last one.  I told my hubby today, What can we do next!  So I will be looking. 


  Fun in the snow!!!

NOT so much!  ICE

Now on to my project.  I started with this nice yellow (bright Yellow) dresser that my parents had at their house.  I like to call it OLD YELLER.  It had 3 different types of knobs on it and probably 15 coats if yellow paint.  We sanded and sanded but still couldn't get the yellow paint off.

What a beauty!!

After we were done sanding and taking off the knobs we painted the entire dresser FLAT BLACK.  (I decided to spray paint this project, the last one I brushed)  So we painted and let dry!

Yes that is a frame that I am working on too!!

We then lightly sanded all of it and then started painting it gray! 

I forgot to take a picture of it all painted grey before i started glazing.  So lets skip to that.  I painted it all gray and then sanded the edges lightly and brushed and wiped all the dust off.  Then I took my glaze black paint and brushed over each drawer one at a time.  I let it set for a couple minutes and then wipe off with an old rag over and over until you get the look you are going for.

Here is the glaze (and the chip bag) haha It's hard not to eat eat eat while stuck in the house. Anyways!

 Here are my drawers!  You could still see some of the yellow after I glazed them, so I had to get crafty and mix grey and black acrylic paint and touch up the yellow.  But this is the outcome after that.  I LOVE them.  Then we moved the dresser inside wiped it down and then glazed it!

I had to put my drawers in immediately so I could see it all done.

Here you go!  All it needs now are the knobs.  So when I CAN get out of my driveway I will be going to get those.  So I guess being stuck in the house for a few days wasn't too bad.  I got to finish my project.  YAY