Flash Me Friday! (is back!)

Interested in what everyone else lives like?
Curious to see where others live, but don’t feel comfortable asking?
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Then join along in our weekly blog hop! Go on over to Jen's Blog to join in and link up!

This week's flash....your dishes!

It has been a while since I have done a FMF, but we are back!

My dishes are probably not that cool, and are quite hefty at times. We have gone through several cheap kinds which we have remnants of now, but my dear husband got me this set a few Christmas's ago!

Here are is the cabinet with the other pieces and sweet wine glasses that I use for about any liquid. Gotta have those to-go coffee mugs:-)

Here is the cupboard for our boys' dishes. We were running out of room fast (we have horrible cabinet space) so we put their dishes somewhere else, but in reach for them. They love getting their own dishes and Logan can help me put his away when I am unloading the dishwasher!

Flash Me Friday!- Favorite piece of furniture

Unfortunately I can't show you all a picture of my favorite piece of furniture which more than likely would be our kitchen table. I don't love it for the looks. It is probably one of the most tore up pieces we have; it's been hammered on, picked with forks, has a 1/4 inch layer of syrup on it, the head of the chairs are falling off, etc. I love it because it is one of three remaining first pieces of furniture we bought as a married couple. So many family dinners as two, then three, then four...family and friend gatherings, long discussions, funny jokes and major decisions made at that table. Even though I am begging mike for a new dinning room set, I think I might actually shed a tear when I see that table go someday. Perhaps when we return home I will snap a picture of the ugly thing so even more people can create more memories with our family:-)

Flash Me Friday!- Artwork

Every Friday I will post pictures of our house/outside/or other things around our living area. Just a fun way to "see" inside my life! Want to join me? Go on over to Molly's Blog or to Jen's Blog.

This week is ARTWORK! When I first saw this was this weeks Flash...i thought "I have nothing!" But then I looked around my house and actually started to realize how much I love the art/pictures hanging in my house. If it isn't a picture of family/friends, then it is usually something I made! This one from our bedroom I made last year in the very beginning of Mike's Deployment. I bought wood, had it cut, sanded and stained it. Then I painted the letters, glued them on and hung the ribbon! I think it speaks so much for us because I pray every day that there is love going on in our house. In Love with each other, our boys, our house, our Lord!

This was another piece that I love and has so much meaning. In the early months of marriage, so broke and yet in love, Mike bought this Thomas Kincaid (wish I had ALL his paintings!) picture for our first place. Not quite the biggest painting, but so loving and meaningingful to us. We have always hung it in our homes where we are the most. Maybe someday we will have a cottage like that!

Flash Me Friday!- Your outdoor Space

This is a new thing I am going to try and do every Friday. My girlfriend Molly has been doing this on her blog and it has been fun to "see" inside her house/life! Every Friday I will post pictures of our house/outside/or other things around our living area. Just a fun way to "see" inside my life! Want to join me? Go on over to Molly's Blog or to Jen's Blog.

We have a massive deck in our backyard, which is a good thing due the very steep slanted ground underneath. However, it was not a professionally made deck (or if it was, they did a poor job!) and we are still waiting for the budget to fix it up. Of course Mike has been gone so much that we also haven't had the man power. We love it though and use it for lazy evenings, grilling, get togethers, and picnics!

This massive tree is actually dying. We had pulled off the vine, but as you can see it is growing back already. It would cost thousands and us removing the deck in order to get the tree out. Oh well!

The patio furniture we got at Big Lots...they have the best deals! The other chair and another table is by the front door.
Ok...now DONT' Laugh!!!!

Here is the first pictures of our garden in progress. We just planted these plants last night. When we were buying them from the store I thought it would fill it up...but no way! I tried to make a panorama of it but my computer wouldn't upload it. Grrr.. anyways, there are huge empty spaces between the flowers and veggies. It will get filled though!
We have all Perennials such as Creeping Jenny, Butterlfy Flowers, and Verbania. There are others, but I don't remember the names at the moment. Lots of color though!

You can kinda see how long the planter is and the space between the front and back. The far plants on the left and in the back are the veggies! Red pepper plant, two pumpkin plants, and green beans! We shall see if I am lucky to have a homegrown pumpkin this year for Halloween! You can also see the other planter along our house in the background. We are slowly but surly going to have that "secret garden" looking garden...if you know what I mean!