Just in case you were wondering. I mean, we have so many similarities and you know I look just like her, but I'm afraid our cooking skills just aren't on the same level.

Wow! That was quite a party Nester threw last week! I don't think I ever made it through all of them, but I was completely inspired, found lots of fun new blogs, and wanted to share some mis-treatments I am putting in my "file" of home ideas. Does anyone else keep a file like this that they just put ideas in for future reference?

I put links to all of them, and I hope these ladies are okay with me sharing them on my blog. If not, let me know and I'll take them down pronto!

Look at this cute one in a laundry room with the animal print:

You all know that I love the Nester . Well, today she is having a window mistreatment party. What is a window mistreatment you ask? Here is her definition from her own words:
Mistreatment: (n). covering for a window that is quick, cheap and pretty. may or may not need hardware does not require sewing. a real designer's worst nightmare.
Mistreating: (v). the act of treating a window with dignity and respect without use of the following: hundreds of dollars, sewing, time, crying, divorce, child neglect...
She has the best ideas and takes you through step by step, and these are all borrowed, stolen, lifted from her~thanks, Nester!
Everyone is posting pictures of the mistreatments they have done, so here are mine. *WELCOME* if you are visiting from her site! I'm going to head on over there and check all of them out~I love getting new ideas!

We have never had much luck with a garden, but this year has been good to us! Logan planted this corn and was so proud of how it turned out! He loves to show everyone his corn:

This is what it looked like when we moved in:

My daughter and I made these for FHE last night: we just made the standard cake mix cookies (we used devils food) and then put store bought mint chocolate chip ice cream in the middle instead of frosting. They were really good, cold, rich, and easy! The best part was smashing the ice cream between the cookies.
We got the idea from a favorite new website, Our Best Bites. These girls are amazing~you will be salivating as you scroll through all of the pictures and recipes~check them out! They give lots of great step by step instructions and pictures to follow. For all you Utah girls, they are doing a free class at Macey's too! They made homemade peppermint ice cream to go in their cookies, but we took the easy route and they were still delish. Here is their recipe we followed. Have fun!

The old door we took out (you can see the old storm door behind it) That blasted storm door was my enemy. The latch always stuck so my kids could barely open it. My 4 year old would just sit there and ring the doorbell until someone came and half the time ended up waking up the baby. The main door made our hallway like a cave because no natural light came in. I told my husband the best Mother's Day gift would be a new door.

I LOVE having such an ugly bathroom before, because no matter what, this is going to look better, right? Oh, and I just have to clarify: all of those Valspar cans in the post below are *trial* little half pint cans, not the full size. Yes, I'm a paint spaz, but not that bad, yet. We're still not finished attaching baseboards, but you don't care, right?