~A Snapshot of Our Week~

Lauren got her new cheer uniform.  She looks so cute!  She is getting ready to go out of town with one of her friends and stay at a lake house.  I hope she makes some great child hood memories.

We hooked up a old PlayStation in our guest room and Justin and Daddy have been enjoying playing the old games.  We even have a game that has Pac-man and other 80's arcade games on it!

We have had some nice rainy afternoons.  So I have been burning a lot of candles.

Of course it doesn't have to be rainy for me to want to burn candles.

I tried a new scent of wax to melt.  It is called Fresh Pulled Taffy.  I like to melt it down stairs because it is a scent that my girls like a lot.  I have certain scents I like for different rooms in our little home.

I watched a series on You Tube called Living with the Amish.  I thought it was really good.

I purchased a second hurricane for my bedroom from Wal-mart.  I love how it cast the pretty pattern on my wall.  Lauren and Megan went to the eye doctors this week and are getting new glasses.  It is so nice to have the children home for the summer.  I enjoy getting to spend more time with them.  That is pretty much a little snapshot of our week!

~A Snapshot of Our Week~

Steven finally got a little rest and relaxation after a pretty long work week!

He enjoyed Father's Day!  He is truly such a wonderful father and husband, we are all very blessed.

I've been burning a lot of candles.  I bought a Better Homes and Gardens hurricane for my table that I love, and I found a brand new Yankee candle illuma lid for 50 cents at a yard sale!!!

I adore candles, but I discovered something I adore just as much.  They are called wax melts.  I had seen them for years, and never really thought I'd like them.  I love them!  They can scent my home better than any candle of any brand I've tried.  I use a glade wax melt warmer and really like it.  They only cost $10.00 to purchase.  I don't care for the glade wax melts.  What I do love is Wal-marts wax melts in the Better Homes and Gardens brand and the Scent Sationals brand.  They are only $2.00 per clam shell. (which includes six wax melts.)  I burn only one at a time and I find they last for around 10 hours.  If I only burn them for say five one day, I can turn off my melter and re-melt it the next day with a good scent throw.  I can say I am addicted to them.  I love to watch the reviews of them on youtube.  I have included three of my favorite scents.  Sugared Lavender Twits is awesome!  I like to burn it in my bathroom.  The scent travels to my bedroom, as it is near to the bathroom.  It smells pretty much just like Bath and Body Works Paris candle.  Another scent I love is Pink Velvet, it is so light and good smelling.  I burn this one in my living room.  I have four wax burners in my home.  One in each of my daughter's bed rooms and one in my living room and one in our larger bath room.  The last fragrance I want to share is Tea Thyme.  It smells like a nice hotel lobby.  It is a gender neutral scent.  I really like burning this one in my living room.  The mail lady came to my door the other day when I had it going and she said, your house smells so nice.  I love the look of candles, but the scent throw in larger rooms are just not that great, so I burn my wax melts along with having a candle lit.  If you like scenting your home, and have never tried these, they are really quite nice.

Bath and Body Works had their big sale going on and I had a 20% off coupon on top of the sale price, so their I got four of the Paris candles for about $9.00 each.  I love this scent for the bedroom, and the scent throw is really good.  I also love the picture on the front of this candle.

Okay, enough about candles and wax.  :)

I have not been reading as much since the children have been home from school, so I'm still not done with the books I was reading weeks ago.

My sweet little fella is the only child that likes to have his photo taken.  He is such a blessing in my life and is so kind and sweet to me.

I'm decorating our guest room in a Walt Disney theme.  It reminds me of good childhood memories from when I lived in Orlando for two years and went to Walt Disney World all the time.

I found some really cute Mickey Mouse fabric at Walmart, the I used on top of a little side table.  I have a little mickey Hallmark Christmas ornament on our clock.

I have a little Mickey above the closet.  I got it about seven years ago when our family went to Walt Disney World.  It used to be a key chain and it broke, I think it looks cute!

Kaylee, my son`s fiance surprised me the other night with this adorable wooden picture!  She found out I was doing the guest room in Disney, and got it for me.  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful future daughter in law.  I adore her!

Speaking of sweet adorable girls, my daughter Megan made me this picture for my guest room.  I love it so much!  She is such a great artist!

I found this cute little night light at Walmart.  Now I just need a dresser and a TV for the room and it will be almost complete.  I ordered a plush Minnie mouse to sit beside Mickey on the bed from Ebay.  I also have a really neat canvis print of Walt Disney World on the way.  The dresser and TV will have to wait for a bit as I am on a budget.  I just love making our home cute and homey.  I am excited because we plan to paint our house sometime soon.  It will be grey with black shutters.  We also want to put in egress windows in our basement bedrooms and Steven wants underground sprinkling systems in the front and back yard.  Someday I really would like a screened in porch, but we have to just do a bit at a time.  That is what we have been up to this week!

~Our Branson Vacation 2016~

The day we drove to Branson, Mo. we stopped in Lawrence, Ks at our favorite bakery for some yummy donuts. 

Here is the view of the swimming pool from our condo.  I awoke early before anyone else in our family, so I'd go sit on the balcony and enjoy a cup of coffee!

We go to this condo once every other year for a week.  It has three bedrooms with three full bathrooms and can sleep up to eight people.  Tristyn and Kaylee came with us again this year!

We got season passes for Silver Dollar City so we can all come and go as we please.  We tend to go in the mornings and leave when it gets hot.  That was a nice time to visit the pool!

Here is Steven and Justin on a water ride!!!

Because I love Christmas, I spent a good amount of time in Silver Dollar City's Christmas shop!

We also visited the huge outlet store mall in Branson!

Justin enjoyed a strawberry shake, while the girls got caramel apples.

I enjoyed visiting the Yankee outlet store!  I love candles and wax melts!!!

We always go to the Grand Country Buffet for dinner when we visit Branson.  The children always do the love chair.  

When I was a little girl, my family lived in Orlando, Florida for two years, so we visited Walt Disney World a lot.  Now I love Disney because it brings back good childhood memories.  The Disney store in Branson, is so fun to visit.  

The girls got huge funnel cakes that they could not finish, so Steven and I helped them!

Megan wanted her photo taken with Popeye.

 Steven got some much needed down time!

One of the best things about this vacation was getting to visit my family.  We went through Lawrence and stayed with my parents coming and going back.  On the way back we stopped in to visit my Grandma Kelly.  It was so nice to see her and visit her!

Since we have gotten home, both Justin and Lauren have gone to space camp and Megan has been hanging out with her friends quite a lot.  I am happy to have gone on our little trip, but there is no place for me like my cozy little home.  I am enjoying being home and relaxing!