Domestic Kate

I have been absent from my blog for quite some time and we've had a lot of fun times I've forgotten to blog about. I may fill you in at some point, but for now I'm just going to pick up from the present and try my best at continuing to blog from here on out. We'll see how it goes =-) We had a fabulous Easter weekend celebrating our Christ's resurrection! Tom and I really wanted to remember the Lord this Easter season and prepare our hearts for Easter by reading chapters in the Gospels, Isaiah, and reading commentaries in a devotional book called "Jesus 90 days with the One and Only" by Beth Moore. We read these together on Friday afternoon and then went out to dinner and attended Good Friday service with Tom's mom and her husband. It was a nice service with good time of worship. It is really important to us to truly remember the reason why we celebrate Easter. I really don't want to confuse Hans with mixed meanings of the holiday, but want h...

This Memorial Weekend we had a blast hanging out with friends and family! We were able to head up to one of our favorite spots to go hiking with some friends.... We were invited to our friends pool for Memorial Day. Hans was thrilled with his FIRST swim! Daddy Duty with the babies... Hans goes swimming! Back Stroke!

I've been wanting to do something using pages from a book since this past Christmas when I saw a wreath made from torn book pages. I had a little extra time while my baby was napping so I decided to give it a whirl. The original plan was to make an Easter egg wreath by covering plastic Easter eggs with torn book pages....after gluing pages on about 6 eggs, I decided to head in a different direction....one that didn't require me gluing around 25 eggs... =) The final decision? I made a beautiful spring centerpiece. My table has been sort of neglected ever since the death of the beautiful flowers we received when my son was born. And lately my dining room table has had a mixture of sorted mail and half finished scrap booking pages scattered all over. This centerpiece is a welcome addition to our spring decor. I had the pedestal bowl and nestled the book-page-covered eggs among moss covered rocks (from the dollar store). The squirrel is from Home Goods. My mom bought it for me...