Author: Family and the Lake House

Our Lake Michigan Getaway 2015

Attention!  Attention!  This is be the world’s largest and longest picture heavy blog post in all of blogging history!  Okay, well, I don’t know if that’s actually true or not.    I just couldn’t help myself when posting these pictures of our amazing time in South Haven!  We had so, so, soooo much fun!   I’ll keep it…

The Monthly Meet Up #2

Welcome to The Monthly Meet Up!     Sara from Great Days of Hayes and I will be hosting The Monthly Meet Up the first Thursday of every month.  Our party will last all month long, so feel free to keep linking up and be sure to stop by often to see what’s new.  Every month we’ll have…

A Frozen Themed Birthday Party – Eliza’s Frozen Birthday Party Recap

Let It Goooooo!  Let It Goooooooooo!  Sound familiar?    That’s right, we threw our little Eliza a Frozen Themed Birthday Party – mostly a family gathering, but a party nevertheless.   FYI:  This is going to be a Frozen-themed-picture-heavy-all-over-the-place-type-of-post.    You’ve been warned. 😉   Let’s start with my little munchkin nibbling on a cracker. …

Rubber Band Spray Painted Vase

Today I wanted to share an incredibly simple and cheap project that I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time – A Rubber Band Spray Painted Vase.  Golf claps, please.   I’m sure you’ve seen this project on Pinterest – possibly here, here or even here.  All you need is a glass vase, some rubber bands and a…

Kitchen Range Hood Cleaner

“If you scrub long enough, it’ll come out.” -My Mom Okay, guys, here’s the deal – my range hood was looking nasty.  Nasty, nasty.  Seriously, I always tried to clean it, but nothing EVER worked.  Ever.  I finally decided to try using a Magic Eraser, the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Kitchen and Dish Scrubber, to be…

Mother’s Day 2015

Hey all!  I hope you all had a beautiful weekend and a wonderful Mother’s Day!  I thought I’d swing by the bloggity blog and share some pictures from our Mother’s Day outing.  We had a great day!  I mean, who wouldn’t with these two adorable faces…   Jon made us reservations for brunch and I was…

Henry is 4!

Gosh, four?  FOUR?  How can that be?   Oh my little Henry,   Our lives were forever changed the day you were born.      I can’t believe a year ago yesterday you were still two.  Wow.  That makes me realize how little you were then and how little you are now.   You’ve brought us…

The Monthly Meet Up #1

Hey, Hey, Hey!   Welcome to The Monthly Meet Up!     Sara from Great Days of Hayes and I will be hosting The Monthly Meet Up the first Thursday of every month.  Our party will last all month long, so feel free to keep linking up and be sure to stop by often to see what’s…

Five on Friday – Already?

Whoa!  I can’t believe it’s already Friday! We’ve had an exciting week over here.  Lots of fun stuff!  Let’s get to it. {ONE} Earlier in the week I blogged about a couple of diy projects.  I made a cedar shim sunburst mirror and I made a fake plant look real.  Both were fun, easy and…