whatever

the new table.

since moving out to this country house we have been spending a lot more time outside.
pretty much anytime i am awake and not doing chores like cooking or cleaning... i am outside.
and the kids are too.
it is so quiet and peaceful all the time. 

we play games, play with the pets, make camp fires, eat meals, jump on the trampoline, read books.
i blog, email, and edit pictures while sitting outside.
we have music playing most of the time.
the kitten is outside... the chickens are in their coop.
sitting on our patio is the place to be.

and it just got better...
we got a new table from Trex Outdoor Furniture!!!

i am very excited to be working with them!

this table is just my style.
it is so happy & bright and we are LOVING it!

this Trex table and chairs is made from a POLYWOOD®  brand recycled plastic lumber.
it does not absorb moisture; therefore, they will not rot, splinter, or crack.
these products require no water proofing, painting or staining.

i think Trex might be the perfect solution to all outdoor furniture!
they take all the work out of it!
i love that.

it is SO EASY to clean.
we live on a dirt road with cars and trucks and tractors driving by all day long... making things super dusty.
this table wipes clean in seconds!

the way the table is built everyone has plenty of leg room.
(which is good for all of these long legs these duerksen kids are growing.)

aren't those cushions so pretty??!!
i am loving the pop of colors on the bright white chairs! 

they come in lots of different colors but this is the one that i fell in love with immediately.

spending family time outside is my favorite way to be together.

we love this table.
It's sturdy and well built.  
it is my new favorite table and chairs (and that is saying alot...remember my rainbow legs barn wood table?)

and you are going to love this...

TREX OUTDOOR FURNITURE is letting me giveaway a two piece Cape Cod Folding Adirondack Seating Set to ONE of my readers!!!!

there are three ways to enter this giveaway:

1. Leave a comment on ths post.  (you had better at least do that... you would be a crazy person not to)

 

2. PIN this contest photo to Pinterest directing people to this post.    
 

Leave another comment that you did that.

3. Blog about this contest and leave a comment on this post with a link to your post.

i will pick a winner randomly on friday, June 21, 2013

 

i can't wait to see who wins!

UPDATE:  if you have questions about Trex furniture or this contest please email [email protected] thanks!!!

 

mid may is the best

 

       one of the Lord's best creations.... Peonies.
 

and they are all gone.
it goes so fast.

i can't wait for mid May next year.

craft weekend 16 begins today!
we are prepping and cleaning and chopping and stirring and folding and photographing everything to get ready.
it's always so much fun.
we can't wait for everyone to get here already.

have a fabulous weekend everybody!

 

i miss my grandma.

so yesterday i drove out to my hair salon which is several towns away in a reeeally small town.
i am almost always late because it is so many towns away.
i spend most of my drive there worrying that i am late and then usually i am right on time.

occasionally i show up on the wrong day... but that is the not the point of this post.

(i just googled the population of this town... 872! oh my goodness)

so after my hair was colored and cut so nicely i paid and went to my car.

and then i looked to my left and saw poppies!

this man planted all of these.
he was watering with his red tractor... couldn't be any more perfect?!

it was absolutely gorgeous.
it was so sad to me that i did not have my big camera.
i am going to HAVE to go back with it...soon

my grandma loved flowers.
i mean... she LOVED them.

she gave me poppy seeds many times and told me to just sprinkle them in my flower beds & they would come up.
it never worked for me.
she had the magic touch.
as i walked around that little patch of poppies i kept hearing her voice.
she would have been beaming.  
she would have noticed all kinds of details that i missed.
it would have made her day.

i miss her.