Butterfly House Sayn

Friday we decided to go somewhere special....and chose to go to Sayn Butterfly house & Castle. And I was so glad I got to go.....I love butterflies! I took the most pictures in the butterfly house....and here are only a very few.

When we first came in about 7 big blue butterfly greeted us....the blue butterflies that are the most beautiful there & the most naughty. They did NOT sit still a minute...if they did they closed their wings and just looked plain and ugly.

This one landed on my friend's finger.

These were about as big as your face.

One even sat on my stomach.....a rough looking blue butterfly.

I could share more and more pictures....but tell me, have you ever been to a butterfly house?
How was your experience?

Church Camp Hohegrete 2013

I am back and I had sooooooooo much fun! I took about 1,000 pictures...deleted some and will show my favorite pictures over the next few days.

Today I thought I'd share with you the fun in all the activities we did with church people. There were yummy meals three times a day, hiking, volleyball, soccer, playing music, bond fire, singing, hanging out, water games, board games....something for everyone!!

We're here!!!

We tried to get a picture many times....finally?

Volley ball

The Guest Preacher

Axis & Allies

Guest Moth.....looks grumpy.

Friday we went to a butterfly house & a castle which I will show you tomorrow. ☺

Co-Hosting a Big Friend Connect Blog Hop

I'm back and I get to cohost the fun Friend Connect Blog Hop!

You can meet new friends and find new blogs. You can choose to follow the cohosts in whatever way is best for YOU! Here are some of my favorite ways: GFC, BlogLovin', HelloCotton, RSS, Twitter, Facebook.

Ok, so let's get to the party, shall we?

RULES are simple:

1. Follow your host 

The First link below

2. Follow your co-hosts 

The Next 6 links below

3. Link up below using your main blog url not a specific post.

4. Make sure to visit some of the blogs in the link up and follow them 

and if you want to leave them a comment, I'm sure they'd appreciate that as well.

5. Tweet about this blog hop

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6. Share about this blog hop by grabbing a button and putting it on your sidebar!

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I have cohost spots available! Email me if you're interested at melissa@thelifeofanotsoordinarywife.com

Ten Ways to Bring your Husband Good Before You’ve Even Met

I wish I would have read this when I was single!

Over on the Tricia Goyer Blog Brittney Melton guest posts and shares 10 ways to bring good to your husband....even before you met!

Go over {Here} to read the the 10 ways.

Proverbs 31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

SO tell me: Are there some ways your prepare for your future husband?

A Picnic & A Hot Paxton

Just a quick journal update before I come with all the pictures from camp.

The Picnic with the Porters

Paxton cooling off:

poor doggy...

decided to half lay in & outside the kiddy pool

proof that it's hot....a melted candle

Aaaaaah......cool and comfy

Do you have a dog? How is he in hot weather?

Funny Photo Mishap

Remember Patrick and I taking our Anniversary pictures....well when going through the pictures later you always find those really strange/funny shots....

like this one:

Who knows what we were doing for real.....but tell me, how would you have captioned this photo?

Goals 2013 Update // July

→Be more efficient with my time- I could do better.

→A glass of water every day**- Hot days...I drink lots of water. Normal days....I tend to forget.

**I don't drink any soda or coffee and when I am not drinking water I drink at least 5 glasses of 1/3 apple juice diluted with 2/3 water .
 
 →Play piano 4x a week- I do pretty good....even if I'm really busy I'll play one song...just to relax.

→Play violin once a week- With all the hours of practice and playing for Handel's Messiah I won't have to play for another 1.5 years. :D

→Exercise 15 minutes- bad bad bad

→Pass out a tract-  Um. no

→read a book every month- Yep. It's called "Competent to Counsel" by Adams. It's a really good book on biblical counseling.

→create something once a month (digital, crafting, sewing)- Designed two blog designs, sewed a men's shirt into a skirt, can't think of anything else right now.....crafting crowns with my Sundayschool class...does that count?


→1 guest post/month- Sadly, no. Who want's to guest post in August? Anybody? Just email me!


→1 vlog/ month- I think I do two or three? Vlogs is "quicker" than writing....I think.


→practice one song a month together- Not really but we'll be singing, playing 2 special music songs for camp.

→continue monthly date night -  In a way....we went on a picnic with a few friends from church.