Happy 4 years!

June is a great month for love....

Happy 4 year anniversary to my BRO and SIL. I cant believe its already been 4 years! So happy to have gained an amazing SIL in the process.

Stencil Love

Our guestroom got a little makeover this past month thanks to a stencil! Stencils are back in new fresh , modern, crisp patterns. I created an accent wall with white glossy paint. I'm really happy with the end result.

Here's what you need.
- Stencil (I got mine at Hobby Lobby for cheap)
- Pencil
- Painters Tape
- Paint

- Stencil roller

You start in the upper corner and tape up the stencil. There are small dots on the outside corners of the design. Use your pencil to fill in these dots. When you move the stencil you line up the dots with the dots from the previous stencil placement. This helps the pattern stay in line. You have to stagger the design while you are waiting for the paint to dry from the last stencil. (make sense?) You don't want part of the stencil to overlap the wet paint. After you have staggered for a while the paint from the beginning is dry and you can go back and fill in the blank spots.

This one accent wall took me about 3 days to do. I worked part of the mornings and early evenings. Our AC went out in the middle of the project so that didn't help. You could probably do it in two days. One day if you have a second stencil and a great helper : )

End results looks like wallpaper (without the mess and commitment of wallpaper) Its a fun, easy, and inexpensive way to add interest to your home. Check out some more stencil pics I found .....

HHI

Dutch and I spent the weekend (2 weekends ago) in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina with my Bro & SIL. We were celbrating our 2 year wedding anniversary. We had such a great time. I love when we have time together to just experience new things and places together.

We stayed at Harbortown Yacht club. Our condo had an amazing view of the marina with all the fancy yachts. We went for a boat ride the first night...

We ate at the Crazy Crab for some fresh seafood.

Then we were able to enjoy an amazing sunset. How romantic!

The next night we all went kayaking. It was AWESOME. We saw wild life, a beautiful sunset, and best of all, got to KAYAK!!! Loving it.

Group shot

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Looking forward to our upcoming vacays this year. Toledo for my cousins wedding over labor day, and Boston in October!

Beyoncé - Run The World (Girls)

This song is perfection. Love the choreography. Girl Power!!! Check out her new cd coming on Tuesday June 28th! Cant wait!

Happy 2 years!

Better late than never...

Happy 2nd anniversary to my amazing husband Dutch. I love you! 2 years of marriage and 6.5 years of being together. Way to go us. I loved everything about our wedding and honeymoon. Here are a few pics to reminisce.

                                     

Excitement!

There has been a lot of excitement at the Morgan household the past week..... I am reminded of the truth my SIL has previously written about. God will never give you more than you can handle.....deep breaths people.

- Check engine light goes on at 1am while driving to FL.
- Had a check stolen from my car while It was getting looked at in Destin for check engine light.
- Check was cashed by alleged suspects for $250
- To file a police report we would have to drive to FL with no guaranteed that the cops would do anything.
- Dallas' eye got infected/creepy
- AC went out last night.... our house is so old they may not sell replacement compressor that works with our ancient system.....
- Cops camped out in front of our house this morning

BUT..............

- Check engine light was super minor, thermostat was stuck open so it was reading slightly cooler than should be.
- We got our money back from the Bank for the stolen check.
- Wells Fargo is "looking into" the check fraud situation.... were not holding our breaths
- Dallas' eye was minor and just needed some cream. No creepy eye scraping procedure or anything
- Our house has deep cantilevers so we don't get much direct sunlight into our windows keeping things pretty cool. Only got to 83 yesterday.
- We are blessed Dutchs job has been going so well and we have a few paychecks under our belt. If the AC would have gone out 2 months ago we would truly be in panic mode.
- Since Im off , I can go spend the afternoon floating in my moms pool to cool off!
- Im off all week making it easier to deal with these things.
- Our neighbors got evicted and people were trying to steal there stuff so another neighbor called the cops. No murders or anything! : ) (no one got axed)

AND most of all.... I am thankful for my wonderful husband for reminding me we will take things one day at a time.