Getting ready for baby

SNAKES!

Is there such thing as snake season?  Yesterday when Ryan and I were out in our back yard, I saw a snake about 2.5 feet long.  This is the second snake I have seen in this neighborhood in the past 10 days.  I do NOT like it!  I'm scared to go outside of my own house now!  Today I was taking out the trash and a little gecko slithered out of no where and scared the bejeezers out of me.  I'm a prisoner in my own home...

UNCLE MICHAEL came to visit unexpectedly.  I suppose I will not be caught off guard in the future...this is the second year in a row that he has come down to go to the Master's in Augusta.  Only this time he gave us 2 days notice.  While he was here we got a package in the mail from him and Kelly.  They sent us a baby swing!  I wanted to assemble it while he was here so he could see how much I appreciate it, and how cool it is.  Here is the finished product:

Another thing I have been busy working on, is trying things I find on PINTEREST.  We had a potluck at school the other day, and I made fruit shish-kabobs; a slice of kiwi in the center, a blackberry on each side of that, a raspberry on each end of those, and then a strawberry on the each end of the skewer.  It was a lot more work than just making fruit salad and throwing everything in a bowl, but well worth the time since they were fun to eat!

At my Lia Sophia party a couple weeks ago, I tried an appetizer recipe i found on Pinterest.  The website said to make mini french dips, buy a can of croissants, roll them up with roast beef and cheese, bake them in the oven, and then have us jus sauce to dip.  I tweaked it slightly and rolled up salami and provolone instead.  Delish!

My latest creation resulted from my Lia Sophia party.  I earned a ton of free jewelry and have been looking for a way to organize the jewelry I already have, for years.  I've tried jewelry boxes, necklace hangers, fishing lure boxes, etc.  I wasn't satisfied with any of it.  On Pinterest I found something to try... I went to Walmart and bought a bulletin board, some push pins, and some fabric.  I simply wrapped the fabric around the entire bulletin board, and used a staple gun to secure the fabric on the back.  Then I put a bunch of push pins in, hung my jewelry from it, and viola: