link love: 07.09.2011

It's been a crazy few weeks in our house and it's about to get even crazier.  We just returned from an awesome week at Kid's Camp, we have Vacation Bible School this week, follow that with camp with the teenagers, and round out July with 200 students staying at our church for World Changers.  It's been fun and will be even more fun, but it's been busy!  Welcome to the life of a youth pastor's wife! Ha! :)

Our busy pace has me dreaming of a relaxing vacation on a beach somewhere, so this week's link love is based around all things coastal...

                                                                      Source: craftberrybush.blogspot.com via Mary Jo on Pinterest

I'd love to make something similar to this...maybe with a scripture on it??  We have lots of old baseboard molding in the garage...

                                                                  Source: diydesignfanatic.blogspot.com via Mary Jo on Pinterest

Beautiful, simple, coastal decor...

                                                                             Source: theletteredcottage.net via Mary Jo on Pinterest

I love this coastal, summery mantle designed by Layla at The Lettered Cottage...

                                                                         Source: coastalliving.com via Mary Jo on Pinterest

I'd decorate my (imaginary) beach house just like this...

                                                                                   Source: etsy.com via Mary Jo on Pinterest

For those of us who don't live close to the sea, this print is a beautiful reminder for the summer...

{blessings} printable...

One of my new favorite songs is "Blessings" by Laura Story.  It's an amazing song, but an amazing songwriter!  We actually had the chance to have her lead worship at our church in Austin - she's wonderful! Anyway, my friend Erin (over at Worthy of the Prize) asked me to design another printable, this time based on the lyrics from "Blessings".  I thought I'd post it here for download, too!

Simply right click on it and save it to your computer.  It's an 8x10, but let me know if you need it in a different size!  I'd love to know if you download it, so leave me a comment!

a conversation with Grayson...

My child is saying the funniest things these days and I want to remember them. So when I came across this idea on Pinterest, I knew that I had to re-create it.

 

I took most of the questions used on the original idea and simply had a little "interview" with Grayson while he was playing.  He LOVES to tell me stories, so this was right up his alley.

Some of his answers crack me up...he calls pepperoni pizza, "macaroni" pizza; Bart is my husband's intern (my hubs is a youth pastor); Trenton Moeller is one of the students in my husband's student ministry; and Grayson thinks it really is a dining board, instead of a diving board.

I'd love to do these little interviews a couple of times a year to remember all of the funny things that Grayson says!