June 28

It's not often in life that you can wear such a mix of colors, but babies can pull it off.  And every color in those pants IS on that shirt.

June 20

Extended Vacation with Silvers

We traveled to Orlando, Florida with Jared's family in May.  You can see all the pictures here, here, and here.

finish planting garden and map out what plants are where

I used the plot of our property from when we purchased our house.  I took out the measurements and drew in the plants.  We realized we don't know what all the plants are, even some that we planted, but will move the peonies to a sunnier spot.  Currently they are under the crabapple tree off the patio, and they stretch out to the sun.  By moving them to next to our neighbor to the north's fence they should get a lot more sun.

As for finishing planting, I don't know if we'll ever FINISH.  We will probably modify the vegetables we grow each year, and still need to purchase and plant a tree for Caitlyn, though we do know where we want to put it.

Begin And Maintain A Gratitude Journal

I have been keeping a gratitude journal since the middle of May.  While I don't get to enter something everyday, I have been doing a good job of a couple times per week.  First I list 20 things I am grateful for currently.  I seem to write things I am thankful more than grateful, but nonetheless.  Then I write 20 things I would really like, as if it has already happened.  It has really helped me to visualize how I imagine our life to be in 5 or 20 years.  Amazingly, having done so, I found that the end of May, beginning of June had a lot of reorders in my business.  Not that I should be, but I am always amazed that the energy I put out in to the universe, comes back to me.

June 17

June 16

June 15

conan

http://silverfamilyil.blogspot.com/2012/06/conan.html

a little different for a day time date, but it was fun.  Still made it home in time to put Josh to bed

June 9

Etsy

I finally bought something on Etsy.  I had looked before when we were designing Josh's new room and the nursery back last fall.  I just never took the plunge.  Well, I needed some invitations for Josh's 3rd birthday.  We are having it at Make a Messterpiece and I wanted something to go along with the paint splotches theme.  I don't know if there might have been anything in stores, but since we've been stuck home after Josh's surgery, I went looking.

I love these, they are personalized and I even got some thank you notes for him.  Though I'll probably still be writing these thank you notes, (hopefully with input from him).  I got a few extra too so that he has some for the future.  plus each purchase from this seller came with envelopes and free shipping.  I think it was worth it!

I think I might be using Etsy more in the future.