Life at the Anderson’s

The Great Garage Clean-Out

The Great Garage Clean-Out

FINALLY!  It’s done, really done, this time!!  We’ve cleaned the garage half a dozen times over the past couple of years.  Invariably, it always turns into a disaster zone again.  I think part of the reason why that happened is because we usually just re-arranged […]

Lampshade Makeover

Lampshade Makeover

Another project crossed off my To-Do list, sort of!  I finished the fabric strip lampshade that I’ve been wanting to create since I saw it on Pinterest.  The problem is that the lampshade that I got the other day, (remember my Thrift Store Score post?) well, […]

Strawberry Success

Strawberry Success

                    We have stawberries!!  We planted these strawberry plants way back in 2009.  We unearthed them a few weeks ago when we were planting our garden.  I wasn’t sure exactly when they were planted, so I […]

Chace is a Graduate

Chace is a Graduate

It’s hard to believe, my first sweet little baby boy has graduated.  I am really having a hard time wrapping my brain around it.  You hear the cliche all the time, how fast time flies – and everyone knows it as they watch their children […]

Vegetable Garden – Phase Three

Vegetable Garden – Phase Three

The next part of the garden was planning what in the world I wanted to plant.  I knew that tomatoes were definitely a given, even though I don’t really like them unless they are fried and green, or in some kind of sauce!  But, you […]

Vegetable Garden – Phase Two

Vegetable Garden – Phase Two

This is the part that wasn’t a lot of fun.  On the left side of the garden plot where I completely yanked out everything that was growing there that shouldn’t have been, I needed some dirt.  A LOT of dirt to be exact.  I had […]

Vegetable Garden – Phase One

Vegetable Garden – Phase One

We’ve decided to go all in and plant a vegetable garden.  Lael got it started with her desire to plant herbs.  We went to Lowe’s and she started picking out herbs left and right.  She grabbed a couple of herbs that I had no idea […]

Puppy Birthday Party

Puppy Birthday Party

Well, it took us a week to finally get our act together enough to have the birthday party we had planned for the puppies.  Lael asked me pretty much every day over the past week if we were having the party today……ok how about today? […]

Puppies are One Year Old

Puppies are One Year Old

Our puppies are one year old today!  I’m not sure we can still call them puppies anymore now 🙁    I like to call them puppies, and they are still pretty small since they are miniature dachsunds!  So, I will just might always call them […]

We’ve been Re-zoned

I am very sad to say that our neighborhood has been re-zoned to a different elementary school.  I completely understand why we have to do this, I really do.  But, it is still difficult to tell my children that they will have to leave Columbia […]

2nd and Charles

2nd and Charles

                    This is a really cool store!  It is in Birmingham, or actually in Hoover.  I have a friend who has been telling me about it for months, that I needed to check it out.  Finally, […]