My $2 find:)

Good Sunday to you:)

I cannot believe that we have come to the end of summer. It has been a journey for me. I have cried many tears and said many prayers. I interviewed for three 1/2 time jobs that I didn't get. I have been blessed by amazing friends who have held me up in prayer! I know God has a plan for me and I can't wait to find out what it is:) I want to thank all of you my dear friends for ALL of your encouragement, texts, flowers, frosting, and good thoughts😘 I am truly blessed! 

Our family has just returned from a week at the Oregon beach. We had the most beautiful weather:) I am full of sun, sand and seashells😍. On Friday my family found themselves in a car with me driving which can only mean one thing: garage sales:) oh yeah!

$2 baby:)

Ummmm, let's just say Mr. SSH wasn't feeling it as much as me:(

It is filled with ALL of the seashells I found:)

I can't wait to do something with them!

Much of the bucket is filled with sand dollars. We must have found 100!

I love my new bucket:)

This is all of the baby sand dollars I found:). Such fun!

I hope you have enjoyed your summer.

If not.... Get out there and have some fun,

~Dena:)

This & that

Good Wednesday to you:)

I thought I would show you some things we have been up to:

Finding lots of these:)

Lots of sun & sand:)

Some

Camping:)

Some eating:)

Some ooooohing:)

Some ahhhhing:)

Some biking:)

Some

Drooling:)

I am so sad that our summer is coming to an end:(

Are you?

~Dena:)

Fiddling

Good Tuesday to you:)

I hope you are enjoying your day:)

Dylan and I have spent a lot of time together lately at the doctor. Luckily it isn't super serious but it gives me empathy for friends of mine who have really sick children. He has double ear infections and last night got hives due to the antibiotic. We now get to go to the allergist:( ... Anywhooooo, to my post:)

Fiddling~

I do this often:) 

It happened today because I found an amazing box planter of sedum for $5!

I started with this...

And ended up after ohhhhh an hour and a half with...

This

As you can see,

I pulled decor from other places...

Which led to more fiddling:)

When all fiddling had stopped,  a $5 plant took up about two hours of my day!

I love to do this and am so blessed with time to make changes:)

Mr. SSH will not notice... And that is a good thing:) he lets me decorate and that is just one of the reasons I love him:)

Do you fiddle?

~Dena:)

Family camp

Good Monday morning:)

Isn't it great waking up to another sunny day? It never gets old:) This past weekend  we went to our church family camp. Over 700 people came! It is so fun to stroll around the campground talking to wonderful people:)

We ate with 34 people:)

We played

On

The beach:). (As you can see, we don't take selfies often)

We relaxed:)

We

Baked apples:)

We ALL went into town:)

We played games:)

We enjoyed amazing company!

It was a great time:)

~Dena:)

Beer battered onion rings

Good Sunday to you:)

We just got back from a great church camp out. I am waiting on some pictures so I will post pictures tomorrow:) I wanted to share a fun, amazing thing I made:

Beer battered onion rings:). Try to not notice my dirty stove... YIKES!

I used this mix and added a beer.

I know this isn't rocket science... But this girl hasn't EVER fried anything in a frying pan...EVER!

I learned a trick from a friend that you all probably know:

Slice the onions and lay them on a paper towel and blot dry before trying to dip them in the batter... 

They were so yummy!

Happy Sunday,

~Dena:)

Things making me smile:)

Good HOT Monday to you:)

I hope you are staying cool.

I have been finding myself smiling lately and thought I would share:

I can't get enough of plants:)

Love the candle name:)

Flowers, flowers and more flowers:)

Best of all.... They are from my yard!

The sign makes me think about the beach:)

What is making you smile?

~Dena:)

Salt & Straw

Good Saturday to you:)

I hope you are enjoying our seemingly endless days of sunshine:)

I have had a friend in town and I have been racking my brain for ideas of where to go.... She lived here all her life and recently moved away. She hadn't been to Salt & Straw and neither had we...

We had such fun:)

The ice cream is amazing!

It was hard to pick.... I decided on Carmel and sea salt... YUM!

I highly recommend you going:) we went to the one on NW 23rd.

Happy weekend,

~Dena:)

Street of dreams

Good Wednesday to you:)

I hope you are well!

I got to take a day without kids and go with a great friend to The Street of Dreams:) The good news is I still love my house:)

This was a yard not in the show. I had a moment of hmmmmm... Could I? (The sand)

The tile was so sparkly and feminine:)

The view.... The folding doors...

Ummm... Yes please:)

I was in love!

Perfume bottle lights.

Love the barn doors:)

This is a bar with a brick wall.

All of these pictures were from this house... My favorite:)

My friends favorite was this house... I do love the pass through window!

Sigh.......

I want that flag!

I would love to have this marble floor!

Back to reality:)

Happy evening,

~Dena:)