Sunday Social and Stuck Birds

I wanted to post this while I was thinking of it. If you are a regular reader you have read my post about the bench my husband made, if not you can read it HERE.

Right before we started working on our bench we had to rescue a little birdie. We had left our garage door open all day so it flew in and could not get out. 

My husband decides to get out the tiny little fish net to catch the little bird.

And after about 30 minutes of chasing him around he finally caught him and was able to let him out, outside!

I wonder if this is one of the chickadees that comes to visit every morning?

Over at Ashleys Carnival Ride I stumbled upon a new blog hop called The Sunday Social, so if you would like to join and meet new bloggers go HERE! 

Looks like there are six question to answer. 

1. What is your Dream job?

As a kid and even a teenager and still yet I would love to be a lawyer. Yes one of those scum sucking S.O.B.s. Just something about finding loop holes in the law, the research and all those shows make it look so...well...fun! I love to argue so what better way right? As a lawyer you have permission to. 

2. If you had just won the lottery, and did not have to work for money, what would you do with your time. 

Well what I do now. Blog and photography. 

3. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up.

Refer to #1

4. What piece of career advice would you give someone starting out in your field?

What field? The field of being a stay at home momma? If so then what I can say is do what you want with your child, it is your kid. And never turn down help!

5. What are your biggest pet peeves in life, blogging and at work.

My biggest ever pet peeve is eating with your mouth full. I can not stand that. In blogging I do not like the captcha thing when you comment. I would probably comment on others blogs much more if it was not for those annoying little things that I can hardly ever get right. In life, that would be lieing. Nothing more I hate in this world is a lier. 

6. What are your biggest fear?

Snakes, drowning and losing my kids. Not necessarily in that order.

From Beginning To End--To A New Beginning

I meant to post this blog a week ago but have been doing my other blogging stuff, that I am just now getting around to doing. (watch, I will be struggling this weekend to find a post to write.)


Anyway last week my husband decided to make a surprise for me. He went and bought the lumber and I kept guessing and guessing but he never would tell me. When we got home from his Lowes trip I had to lay down and take a nap because I was wiped out.

When I woke up this is what he had done. Well he had it a bit more put together. He asked me to help him put it up on some saw horses so he could work on it some more. I honestly can not remember what he said for me to pose this question but I said "Why, its just a bench?" His reply was.."Yeah and?" Ha Ha he told on himself! I knew what my surprise was. Well not so much of a surprise now.


So here is the work of my bench in progress.

 Logan had to help too!

 Then of course I had to help also. 

Here it is! My hand-built, custom made 8ft. bench. Trust me it has gotten great use just this one week of its new life. Its nice having a place to sit outside and watch my son play or watch the birds. I have been getting up in the mornings when my husband comes home from work and sitting, just me and him outside watching the birds and just chatting. This is the beginning of new memories for us. It is amazing how such a small thing can play such a role in our everyday life. Especially an 8ft. bench.

Linking up with some weekend blog hops

Birds and Bubbles

I am still waiting for birds to come to my feeders. I have seen ONE hummingbird. *sigh* What do I need to do to get these little guys to come around?

In the meantime it was a pretty quiet week. The husband working on his bike to get it ready for riding, kids trying to stay out of trouble and just evenings at the park.  When you have four kids and on a tight budget you really can not take the kids out and do extravagant things. That is okay for them. They enjoy the small things.

Last night we were all sitting outside and I thought I would get some bubble pictures with Logan. I have seen these and have just thought they were the cutest photos! Here are my first tries ever getting bubble shots with the baby.

I have taken a lot more but have not gotten around to editing them all yet. This is was just two of my most favorite that I wanted to share. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Do not forget your Dad's tomorrow.






If you like my Logan picture with his bubble go on over to the hop and like my pic. Click on the image below

Bird Frenzy

So I went to Clarksville to pick up my oldest daughter for the summer and afterwards I decided to visit my mother. She lives 2 hours away from me so I try to get there as often as I can. We sat outside most of the visit and of course I brought along my camera and the birds were going nuts. Especially the little hummingbirds. There was one certain ruby red throated one that would run all the others off if they even came close the feeders. I did my best at capturing some pictures but unfortunately the lighting was not very well. 

Not my best job ever but hey. 

Not only was there these fussy little hummingbirds but there were some beautiful Yellow Finches. Feel free to tell me exactly what these birds are called.

On the way home we seen the most beautiful sunset that I have seen in a very long long time

 The further we went the pinker the sky was.

When we got home my oldest caught a lizard. Then she was outside looking for some crickets under wood to feed this thing and this is what she ran across

I'm hoping to see some baby lizards in a couple months, maybe if they make it. 

Hope everyone has a great weekend and please feel free to join in the weekend blog hops.