HGTV Green Home

Every year, HGTV designs a 'Green Home.' The homes are always beautiful and filled with lots of great ideas!! This year was no exception....

The 2011 home was built in the sustainable community of Stapleton in Denver, Colorado.

It looks like an amazing place to live...

Here's the home!

Cozy front porch

Living room - not really me, but I like it for this house

Dinning Room - looove all that natural light!! And those curtains...gorgeous.

Kitchen - I'm in love with all of it...

Upstairs loft, I really like the idea of having a space like this...what a fun area for the family to hang out!

Guest Bath, lotta white. ;)

Girl's bedroom...it's very pink!

Boy's bedroom, I like it a lot for a little boys room! Just adorable!

Master Suite...

Gorgeous master bath....love that color!!

Back deck...kinda smallish but when you have the fab front porch, why would you need a huge back deck - ya know?!?

Another view of the front...

Great house, huh? And, the community looks pretty amazing too!! What a fun place to live! Great job HGTV!!

Hope you enjoyed the tour!

Happy Friday!

Thankful Thursday

Those of you who follow me on twitter, or who are friends with me in real life know that I have soooo much to be thankful for today. Most of all, I am so thankful for your friendship and prayers! I'm so lucky to have such amazing and prayerful friends!!

I'm also thankful for getting a little break with my amazing husband

And, I'm super thankful that we were able to bring along our little Molly!!!

How cute is that little face?!?!

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23

*What I'm Loving Wednesday*

I'm loving hanging out in Albuquerque!!

It's so relaxing here....or maybe I'm just so relaxed here. ;)

I'm loving this dress!!

I'm just loving stripes lately!! You can find this dress here

I'm LOVING my amazing friends!!

I happen to think I have the most amazing friends ever!! And lately, these friends have been above and beyond a-mazing!! I'm so thankful to have such great friends!!

Guilty...

Every now and then a girl's gotta indulge in some guilty pleasures....right???

I'll start with my current TV guilty pleasure...yes, it's One Tree Hill. I know, I know....my husband makes fun of me every time I watch it - which includes last night!! Ha!!

It's like a Soap Opera with great music...I mean really, what's not to love?!?

And then there's my current shopping guilty pleasures, where to begin....

Why does she have to make such cute things??? I'm in love with everything on her site. No, seriously, e v e r y t h i n g.

If you have been yet, I recommend cautiously heading over to her site.

Her designs are a-mazing too!!! Between these two designers, I'm in big trouble!!!

Delia's summer dresses are just perfect!! I've already have a few but definitely have my eye on a few others!!

Adorable 'little white dress'

Love the polka dots!!!!

Could any shopping post really be complete without Forever 21?!?

Love, LOVE these maxis!!

These colors are soooo fun for summer!

I think this one would be perfect for the beach!!

Last but not least, my fav guilty pleasure foods...

Popcorn!! I cannot get enough!! It's crazy!! In fact, when I get done writing this post, I'm going to make some!! Ha!!

Cherries, there is something about cherries and summer time that just so well together. Since they are going to be out of season soon (tear...) so I'm eating them by the ton right now.

What are some of your favorite guilty pleasures???

Turquoise!

Whew!! Thanks to Pinterest, I have recently fallen in love with the color turquoise!! I just don't know what it is but I'm just in LOVE!!

I love all the contrasting colors in this picture - just beautiful.

Hello dream library...

Just adorable!! And, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need that bag. ;)

Welcome to my future beach house...hey, a girl can dream right?!? Ha!!

Gorgeous vintage inspired number!!

Sorry it's such a small pic but the details were just too good to leave out.

I'm in love with this laundry room!! I would LOVE to have a window in my laundry room, I think it would change my whole outlook on the laundry process.

I'm sure I will have more Pinterest favs to share sooner than later...ha!!

Happy Monday!!

Ashley Brooke Designs

Hi friends!! There isn't much time left to get in on this a-mazing deal!!

Ashley's store is full of fun, new product and a great price point ($12.00-22.00). There are tons of fabulous new design enclosure cards, notepads, folded notes and invitations — everything you need for any occasion!!

In honor of these news products, Ashley Brooke is hosting a game of iSpy! There's a list of five items (champagne, limes, a pink typerwriter, giraffe and a cup of tea) and everyone who finds the items and submits their list via the form below will receive, a $25 gift certificate good toward a $50 purchase. This fabulous opportunity is only good until tonight at midnight - so hurry!!

Here's a few of my favs...

Love these - soooo adorable!!

I wish this was my real office...love

How fab is this list?!?

....May need these sooner than later ;)

Inspiration

My weekend has been F U L L of inspiration!! And, in God's perfect time, it came at a when I was in desperate need of a hefty dose of inspiration!

It all started Friday evening...while watching the news, I learned about Jonathan Stark and his 'little' social experiment. Basically, he loaded a Starbucks' card then put it on the internet - kinda on a first come, first serve basis. But then, people started reloading the card...how inspiring!! In a time when there is so much sadness happening it's refreshing to hear stories like this one.

It seems like such a small thing - buying a coffee for someone but really, it's all about the little things, ya know?!? Plus, it's Starbucks!! What a fun way to bless someone!!! ;)

Saturday, I went to the Women of Faith conference. It was fabulously wonderful. Truly, I was so blessed by each speaker and performer, and their worship team - incredible!!!! The event really was 'Over the Top.' Really, that's the best way to describe it!!

***Side note, I would love and I mean LOVE if there was an mp3 of the whole event - if anyone knows of such a thing I'd looooove it if you could pass the info my way. Thanks! ;)

Saturday evening, Kevin and I went to our favorite frozen custard place (yum!!) and then decided rented Soul Surfer. The movie was really just an after thought - I had no idea how amazing it would be, no idea how much I needed to see it, no idea how much God would speak to me through it. Seriously, amazing.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend seeing it as soon as possible. ....It's available at Red Box. ;)

Sunday, I met two good friends for brunch at the Wheatfields - which might just be the best place for brunch in town.

We had some fantastic food and even better conversation!! Catching up with good friends on a gorgeous and lazy Sunday morning - does it get better than that?!?! Nope, didn't think so. ;) Plus, these ladies gave me a HUGE boost of inspiration!! It's soooooo wonderful to know I have some amazing Christian women praying for/with me. Love those girls! So blessed by their friendship.

I think the rest of the day is going to be spent finishing up The Help while drinking green tea-lemonades (my newest Starbucks fav).

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend full of inspiration