My Sweet Sisters Gardens..come and dream with me!

Hey y'all...welcome!

If you've been following along on Instagram, 

you know this past weekend was filled with Celebrations! 

Two of my nephews graduated on the same day, in different towns. We decided to attend ones graduation and the other ones party.

HELLO!

PARTY AT SISTERS!!

My Sister and her hubby can throw some celebrations!! Let me just stop right here and tell you a bit about them. They truly believe in celebrating life, and I promise, their kids will never forget their Grad parties! Their Grad even said " I hope no one knows how to leave". That tells you a bit about their celebrations!! #celebratelife
Every detail is thought of and it's just so sweet to see the joy behind it all! 
As promised, today I welcome you to come peek into her beautiful outdoor spaces.
Come and dream with me...

My sister and her gardens!
LOVE
Her yard is filled with treasures..every which way you look, you find new spaces calling you to come and explore. Do you see it?! Remember Priscilla bought the second church pew?

We giggled our hearts out, right there! Tic-tac-toe on a tree stump waiting to be played with...her grandson painted those sweet rocks, which makes them such great treasures.

 I love it all..its so happy!!

Her hubby Pete can cook!! 

If you've never had his pepper blend (Petes hot stuff), you need to get some. It's so good! We all pretty much know that when Pete says he's cooking, we won't leave hungry. 

  

An old chandelier became new again with added color, which now sits above a table for 2, just begging you to come sit and sip your morning coffee.

Each way you look, her gardens are filled with fun things that make you linger longer! I love going to visit..usually the first thing we do is head outside to go explore her gardens and see what is new. 

Just so fun!! She had her galvanized pond many years before me, I finally couldn't take it any longer and just had to copy her..ha, joys of being the baby sister!!

Then there is her veggie garden..each corner is marked with these sweet buckets from World Market that are spilling with her fun mix of flowers..

Then last we have her White garden, which she added last year. 

It's filled with some of her favorite white flowers..this is where you enter to come to their celebrations..and when the sun has set, lights strung show you the way into the back yard, the heart of their home!

A reclaimed bowl sitting on top of a tree stump has become a bath for the birds that visit.

The rocker which sits in her white garden..she painted it purple, which was her daughters favorite color. 

I love that she celebrates her life in things we remember her most by..her love of purple has our entire family remembering her just by seeing it!! 

Her parsley began to bloom and she just giggled at how she just had to let it bloom "nobody ever lets their parsley bloom! Wondering why not cause its soo cute!"...joy as it's peeking in and out around this sweet rocker...sigh!

Her containers were already spilling with pretty flowers..and they just keep getting bigger. I brought her some blackberry bushes and as we planted them, she just kept praying blessing over them. Her heart, I really love her..she is so special to me..today is her sweet birthday.

So here is to you my Sweet Sister

You inspire me daily.

Your encouraging words always stay with me.

You are my BEST friend,

and I know the miles between us won't ever change that!

 Thank you for just being you.

Thank you for all our every 5 minute calls!

 Thank you for endless giggles!

Thank you for making all our has to be pretty oh so fun..

I hope your day has been filled with so much joy & so much love!

Happy Birthday Priscilla!!

I love you!

Xoxo,
Naomi

A Touch of Sunshine!

...Hi everyone! I hope you find inspiration for your own touch of sunshine in today's post by my sweet sister Priscilla!!

After a busy long weekend,

resting on my couch on Monday, I was telling my sister "I am so in the mood to paint something yellow.  Everything in my living room is brown, staring at the piano I could see it in yellow!

Oh, how fun that would be!!!"

Praying silently "God I need color", knowing to be patient is so hard for me.

That evening my hubby asked if I wanted to go to Lowe's with him?

Yes!

He knows how I love Lowe's :)

...there I saw this beautiful yellow bench!

I love outdoor benches and chairs. (It's an addiction) I had to touch it, lol!

Pete looked and me and said no, saying I think we have enough don't you?

I sorta agreed.

We came home, worked in our backyard and our hose froze since someone forgot to turn off the water...hmmm, wonder who could have done that!

This meant another trip to Lowe's, but before going we cleaned out the yard and when we look in the alley somebody had left this beautiful chair on our fence line.

Can you see the potential?!!!

Sunshine Yellow is what I could see with a little TLC.

Oh the JOY!!!

Is it not just perfect?

I think God put it there. He Knew I needed some Yellow bad!

...those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. Psalm 34:10

I love how He blesses me daily.

We would love to hear from you and your recent blessing!

Love, 
Priscilla

Valentines!!

*Thank you to my sweet sister Priscilla  for being a guest writer today...

Oh, how I love this Day!

To know the Love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Eph 3:19

In Elementary school we use to say "es un dia de amor!" I always got so spoiled by a certain someone with candy and heart drawn pictures that said I love you. My family teases me to this day about that!!!

Then in Jr High I met the guy of my dreams and to this day he spoils me so!

In March we celebrate 24 years of marriage!!!

Oh, I love him!

To me, Valentines day is a day to do something extra special for my family.

One of the things I used to do for Natasha is send her flowers

"from someone who admires you"

...I started this tradition when she was in 5th grade.

She had no clue who had sent her flowers and it drove her crazy.

Haha! She would call everybody she knew and asked if they had sent her flowers!

She loved that she had an admirer.

Every year she got excited and wondered if this year she would get flowers again and sure enough she would.

Then when we moved to Lubbock she started to get antsy a few days before Valentines day and I asked what was going on and she was wondering if her admirer knew that she had moved, LOL

...sure enough she came home with a bundle of flowers!

Listening to her phone calls to her friends back in OK was priceless! Her admirer had followed her to Lubbock...

The following year my secrete came to an end. She had a serious boyfriend who was about to break up with her and so I had to tell her that it was me all those years sending her flowers haha!

The look on her face was priceless!

I continued to send her flowers every year and she would tell me with a smile that her stalker sent her flowers again!

Last Valentines Day was super hard!

Natasha is no longer with us and it hurt to not see her big smile coming through the

door on Valentines Day with her flowers...

Now I bring her flowers at the cemetery and the tag still says

"from someone who admires you"

 I will always admire my little girl! She had strength I dream of.

I love her so much!

As Valentines Day is just around the corner again, Pete and I went to Hobby Lobby last night to get her her Valentine bouquet. Today I made the heart tag that says

"from someone who admires you"!

We also went and bought our boys their Valentine gifts!

I love my Husband and Children with all my heart! Valentines - es un dia de Amor!

Love on your family!

Love,

Priscilla

She said Yes to Writing!!!

You ever wonder why I decided on the name of this blog?

You see for as long as I can remember my sister and I have loved creating beautiful things.

We have crafted many things together.

We have gone on many shopping trips.

We share many decorating books that have us on the phone chatting over this page and that page,

and one phrase has always been ours...it HAS TO BE PRETTY!

At our family gatherings, there is always a time before hand where we will call each other, giggling with complete joy as we chat over the decorations. We really think it makes everyone feel special...time and effort into everything you do shows how you feel about it!

While my sweet sister talked me into starting a blog, I've also kept asking her to come write with me...I've heard a lot a giggles with a no answer.....but WAIT...GUESS WHAT?!!!!!!

With complete JOY, I would like to introduce you to my sweet sister, Priscilla!!! 

She is not only my sister and best friend, she is truly a Proverbs 31 woman, and SHE IS GOING TO WRITE THE NEXT POST!!

It's OUR phrase...HAS TO BE PRETTY, it's only meant to be for her to join me...hehee...PURE HAPPINESS!

Stay tuned..I promise you will be so blessed by her!!

Love,

Naomi