Making Memories – Detail Photos of Our Porch Makeover

04 May Making Memories – Detail Photos of Our Porch Makeover

I have so many great photos from my porch makeover, thanks to the lovely Kat of TheGrayAttic.com.  Since I couldn’t put all of them in my article, I thought it would be fun to share them here.

We didn’t let the kids see our newly revamped porch until they ran out for these pictures.  They were so excited and kept talking about how beautiful it was.  It was very fun and exciting.

Seeing her in her sunshine yellow tulle skirt with her apron and pigtails completely melts my heart.  If you follow me on Twitter (please do!), you probably saw my tweet about me “watching a Lifetime movie and being reminded about how terrified I am sometimes to have teenage daughters”.  Eeks, wish she could stay two forever.  (Oh wait, she’s turning three today, sigh)

By the way, this is how she eats raspberries.  Always.  She thinks it is hilarious, of course.

And this was published in the original article, but how handsome are the men in my life?  Yup, I’m a lucky gal.

Let me tell you, these photos were taken nearly two months ago, and those quirky, beautiful billy balls are still on my table, and they look great!  Love them!

Isn’t that milk bottle adorable?  It looks vintage, but it is not!  I got it from World Market, and the kids think it is so fun to use it.  By the way, the wood charger is from World Market, too.

I will admit that we did “Pancakes on the Porch” for lunch the day we did this photo shoot.  The kids were soooo hungry as it was past lunchtime, and they gobbled their pancakes right up.

It took a great deal of work to get this makeover together, but I am so thankful for this space as a pretty, restful place to gather our family.  A few trips to the hospital the past couple of weeks with my oldest son have reminded me how precious these times and days are.  We always tell ourselves that, right?  These days are few, I need to treasure them, cherish these beautiful moments.  The truth is, yes, there are wonderful moments, but then there is laundry and bills and crying babies and laundry and bills and spills and taking your screaming child out of a restaurant and laundry and bills and trips to the ER and blowout diapers on the way to church and spit up in your hair.  This is Life, and it makes silly moments, happy moments, tender moments, teaching moments, all the sweeter.  I’ve been talking to my kids this week about something my Mom taught me – making memories.  Taking sensorial inventory of special moments you are in and cementing them in your brain, making snapshots you want to remember.  I hope these times on our porch are happy childhood memories for them.

Hope you make some memories this weekend!