Wednesday project

Hello everyone,

Today I made this " Family rules " board project. I saw this idea on ourhappilyeverafters blog and wanted to make one too! I didn't do it on canvas because I didn't want to paint it, so I decided to make it on a watercolor paper and to frame it . I originally bought this frame for one of my oil painting portraits but it didn't look right so I used it for this project.

So here it is:

I hope you have a wonderful week!

A Birthday gift for Nolan

 A week ago Nolan received his birthday gift from my friend Dasha and her husband that live in Ukraine. I was so excited to open it (so was he:) . Dasha is making these beautiful handmade wooden and plastic letters . You can see all her work here: http://bukva8house.blog.com, so she made one letter "N" for Nolan (so sweet and thoughtful) .Thank you Dasha! There was also a cd of an orchestra worship music from my home church in Ukraine that Dasha's husband directing. It's there first cd, and I am so proud of them. He is so passinate in his service for God and doing a great job as a condactor!

When I was listening to the music and singing in russian some of the songs that I know Nolan started to dance. It was so cute to see him dancing and glorifying God with me!

I love you and miss you guys! 

Front door decor

This week I've been slowly working on a fall decor around the house. I made this jute-wrapped letter. I saw this idea on pinterest and wanted to make it myself. :)

Happy fall everyone!

Blog Day Of Silence & Prayers For Julee & Preslee

Nolan likes to vacuum

Nolan always liked the vacuum cleaner sound , but now he is able to vacuum himself  :) We can't believe how fast he is growing and learning. He just turned 1 year old last week...and every day he shows us something interesting. Sometimes I feel like he is a 2-3 year old toddler. Time goes way too fast.
Here is a video of him vacuuming:

                                                                  my cuty boy

First weekend of October

The weather changed a lot  during the last couple of days. Its been really cold and windy. Every fall we usually go up north to Duluth to enjoy  some colors and beautiful time, but this fall we decided to stay home. I love the fall season but this year it went too fast, and I feel like we didn't get to see that many colors of the leaves.  We had a really warm September, but October brought some real cold. ( I think I even heard a Christmas song on the radio while driving in the car). 

Today we went to Church, then had some family brunch at home before we went for a walk outside. 

Here are some of our weekend pictures:

Nolan's first birthday party!

 Yesterday we celebrated Nolan's 1st birthday with friends and family! It was a beautiful weather just like on the day when he was born....sunny with blue sky and a fresh air. The theme for the party was "little prince" . There was a big chocolate passersby  cake for the guests and a smash cake "car" just like his favorite toy with a poppy on top.  Nolan has a dairy products allergy, and Jan did a wonderful job to make his cake without dairies and kept it as healthy as possible. We also had a red velvet cupcakes that my husband made and lots of goodies :)  (you can see it all on pictures below)

All of the birthday decor I did myself and I was pretty happy how it all looked when we put it all up. 

Thank you all for a thoughtful gifts and for celebrating this special day with us! 

xoxo

Inna