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Last week was my Pampered Chef party and man was it fun! Love those ladies so much! Thanks to everyone who came and supported. Ended up with a $600+ party! YAH!

I was able to get the items I wanted plus more for only 28% of retail value. Basically stole them! Needless to say we are set, and now I am due to have a grilling party. :-) Maybe for the Bama/Tenn game?!

I can't wait to test out our new grill!!! Can you tell I'm excited? Hopefully I won't burn everything... Thanks Regina and Steve for the awesome Bdays/Anniv gift. :-) Now we just need to get the patio done so it can be moved out of the garage....eventually...First we need to get a cover for it even if it's in the garage.

Can't wait for Saturday. Craft day with Erica for a couple hours before family dinner. My crafts are to make a football wreath and work on a picture for Aiden's big boy room. Lots of painting. Below are my inspirations for my football.

For Aiden I bought a HUGE world map at Target's clearance. At first I was going to frame it, but hello expensive. Second, I was going to get wooden letters to say "Oh, the places you'll go" but hello expensive again. So I got letter stencils that I'm going to paint on that phrase and no frame just simple 3M poster hanging stuff. This will hang right over his bed. Educational and gives him excitement of travel. Both things mommy approves of.

Underneath I want to put a rain gutter bookshelf. Yes you read correctly I want to hang rain gutters inside. This will promote him to read at night having them so close. I will be the 1st one to admit I'm not a reader. Probably because it takes me a year to read one page. After a few sentences I get bored or look away and lose my spot and have to re-read then I get even more bored because I'm reading the same thing over causing me to get sleepy so I stop. Never ending cycle. lol I don't think I ever have read completely an entire book, learned the art of skimming way early. My brain is so business geared if you can't fit it on 2-3 pages/slides I'm not going to read it. So sad. But I want Aiden to enjoy books, so I'm going to do my best to encourage it. Below are my inspirations...they look AMAZING.

It's official I am a DIYer or it maybe I'm just too cheap to buy something I know I can do myself for half the price. I vote #2. haha