The Junk O Rama Prom was (as usual) – a HUGE Success!

Thanks Junk Gypsy Gals for another fun night!!

Can’t wait to share more Pics Soon. . .

Until Then off to find more finds in the cow pastures of gold finds. . . Think we will shop Warrenton this afternoon!

Deep in the Heart of Texas.

I shall now rename this as

THE BEST WEEK IN THE FALL EVER. . . HANDS DOWN!

( other than Thanksgiving weekend, because its Thanksgiving and that means family and Aggie football, but back to

THE BEST WEEK IN THE FALL EVER. . . HANDS DOWN)

I have written about it HERE and HERE ohh and HERE and plenty more

Saturday

I can be found shopping the fields ( a nicer term for cow pastures) with my mom and my dear friend Brandy from Nashville plus a 100,000 new friends.

Sunday

More fields. Miles upon Miles of fields!

 Monday. . .

OHHH is it Monday yet? I have been so excited to share this with yall!!

Monday I get to hang with 30 other women and chat about blogging, our love of junk, antiques, and all things rusted. . .

and enjoy lunch from one of my favs – Royers

as we sit on a Prairie, but not just ANY Prairie.

Its “The Prairie” the  newest adventure from Rachel Ashwell.

I have loved Rachel’s eye for design, texture and photo for some time and I cannot WAIT to see what she has added in my favorite little Texas town.

I have to give you a sneak peak of the photos from her site cause I . JUST . CANT . WAIT! And seriously aren’t these photos DIVINE!

I apologize in advance if you find me sleeping in this bed after I eat Royer's Pie. AMEN.

Look at all the places to stay!

umm yeah, if I go missing after Antique Week I am more than likely HERE.

The chair and the deer. . .just did me in. LOVE!

Clawfoot tub?? Don't mind if I do!

And. . . the award for best pullout couch goes to THIS ONE!

And here is one of the best parts. . .a portion of the cost of the lunch is benefiting ‘Dwell With Dignity‘.

They are all about inspiring lives with design! I Love what they are doing!

Dwell With Dignity was recently featured on the Nate Burkus Show.  You can see a clip HERE

But please take a second to click over and check out the Dwell With Dignity blog.

Okay welcome back, good to see you again! Wasn’t Dwell with Dignity great?? Told you so!

Be sure to check back in as I will have the full lowdown on The Prairie with pics, info, and I am sure so much more!

Seriously . . .IS IT MONDAY YET???

AND Thanks in advance to Kelley at The Hidden List for organizing the day!

Ohh there is still a WEEK left sooooo. . . .

Tuesday

The Marburger Farm Show will start. Get ready for that blog! It takes two days just to feel as though you MAYBE saw it all! MAYBE!

So Tuesday will probably carry over to Wednesday too!

WEDNESDAY

Here we go. . .

But not before fueling up on coffee and maybe some pie ( fruit pie for bfast anyone?) at the new PIE HAVEN. The newest addition from Team Royer! Yall I have seen some pics of the décor and I have tasted the pies so I know this will be THE PLACE to be (it’s in the NEW Henkel Square). Go visit my friend Tara, You will be glad you did! I hear the muffins are a MUST too. Save one for me Tara!

There’s still so much to see: Warrenton, Excess, Blue Hills, The Red Barn …. My heart is starting to skip beats just thinking about it.

But Thursday

SWEET Thursday!

I will be hanging with my dear friends the JUNK GYPSY Gals!

If you are in Warrenton that day you do not want to miss this invite. . .

ZAPP HALL . THURSDAY . AT TWILIGHT . THE JUNK O RAMA PROM!

Trust me the “Junk o Rama Prom” is calling your name. . .

And your dancing skills are needed!!

I will be around that day and prom-i-fied by night, but don’t ask me what I am wearing, cause I don’t know yet! That old prom dress is hopefully hanging in a cow pasture ( I mean field) waiting to be found and I just know it will match my turquoise and boots!

EXCITING NEW NEWS. . .

This year there is an addition to Warrenton, Tx that I am excited to check out! HGTV will be there. Be sure to follow them on twitter #hgtvjunk  I hear they will have some good tweets about their new Texas Adventure and all the happenings in their tent! They will be at Zapp Hall near the Junk Gypsy Tent!

Friday

I think you know by now. . . more fields to walk and finds to be found.

Saturday

The show starts coming to an end and the sweet quiet town of Round Top begins to breathe again. But just for a bit cause we gotta start hunting for the Spring otherwise known as THE BEST WEEK OF THE SPRING EVER… HANDS DOWN!

Will you be at Round Top this year?? If so let me know! Send me a tweet @keelymarie maybe we will bump into each other as we are looking for our

NEXT BEST FIND!

Can’t wait to share more pictures from our time there!

Today we are back in Quito.

Spending the day with some of our Leadership Development Students and some of the sponsor kids!

More from the Equator. . . .

Way Down Yonder on the Chattahoochee!

( you can thank me later for that song now being stuck in your head for the day)

Did you click that link? You totally Should!

ANYWAYS. . .

It was such a great way to start the summer!

Friends, boats, wake boarding, sun, cooking, relaxing. . .the works!

Here is some iphoneography from the week.

Little Willis Bud didn’t go with us but he had a vacay of his own out on the farm!

He is WIPED out. I so wish you could hear the snores that were occurring when this photo was taken.

Have I mentioned my new OBSESSION with

Pinterest!

If you are Pinning your life away like myself follow me here!

I noticed that on my “eats” board

( yes I realize that is a foreign language to you non-pinteresters)

I have a few different recipes for grilled corn, avocado and tomato salad.

Thinking THIS needs to make an appearance at the Scott House this weekend.

Speaking of The Weekend. . .

Yall have a good one!!!

Keely,
Check it out.  We taught our dog to sing…
Grace put this video together for you to prove that Levi rocks.  Check it out.

Patricia

 

So we checked it out. . .

Willis even sang along. . .

please excuse the iphone photo but it was a "too cute & worth it" moment.

And then we politely responded to their email:

Girls + Levi. . .

I watched and Willis came running over…
Competitive much??
A sing-off might occur.

ALL

THAT

TO

SAY

LEVI GET READY!!! WILLIS IS A COMIN

xoxo
keely & willis

 

And so today we sent over this little video.

Although Levi may “rock” Willis is not afraid to belt out a lil Ethel Merman. . .

What do you think?

Thankful for Ann, Lindsey, Amanda and Lisa Jo

And as always the awesome people I get to work with Shaun, Patricia and Dustin.

Keep following our stories there are More to come. . .

And Thank YOU for sponsoring, writing, reading and loving on these kids!

Continuing to pray with a heavy heart for the country, the people, the workers, the families. . . .

Senye,

Ala nou kontan

se pa nou k’ap kenbe ou

men se ou k’ap kenbe nou.

Lord,

How glad we are

that we don’t hold you,

but that you hold us.

I was with my friend Clint (aka @difted aka videographer extraordinaire ) last week in El Salvador.

We first met on a trip to Haiti in 2009 with Compassion.

Clint posted a video this morning ( from that trip in 2009)

that

is

breathtaking.

it so captures the beauty of Haiti and her people. . .

Continue to pray & give to Haiti

“Remember The Times
Do You. Do You, Do You,
Do You,
Remember The Times”

So then I had to google that song and listen and watch some youtubes and 15 min later I am back!

Speaking of back. . .back to “Do you Remember” .

I started singing this to myself “Do you Remember the times. . .you used to blog keely oh oh keely oh?” I did . no lie. sang it. . .Out Loud and Proud!

Anyways I do remember and I do miss it! Both blogging and reading blogs. I opened my blog reader for the first time the other day and no lie there were 6,976 unread post in there. I marked all as “read” and was excited to see the new ones the next day and thankful I didnt have a weakness in my obsessiveness to feel the need to read through each . un . read . po . st!!

So here I am starting right back up  . . . fresh!

Since we last talked here’s a lil recap of my happenings. . .

Nashville . The flood

Thankful we did not have any damage in the flood ( We live downtown,but on a hill) however our neighborhood and many many others were badly damaged.

Here’s a quick little video from the morning of the flood in our area. . .

It has been so amazing to see the community of Nashville come together! There are people working endlessly on helping their neighbors rebuild!

It is beautiful!

A few of my Nashville Compassion Co-Workers & friends helping clean up a house!

The flood happened the first weekend in May and early that Sunday morning I had to catch a flight to El Salvador.

So after some tricky driving and back roads I made it to the flight!

It was hard to leave Nashville that morning but we had an amazing trip!

So many new friends and new stories!

ooooo AND how is zip-lining through the mountains of El Salvador for a new experience??

I changed my flight home from El Salvador to make a lil stop in The great state of Texas to visit my mom for Mothers Day!

And one of my best friends Cassie ( from Nashville) was in Houston visiting with her husband Nate AND (extra bonus) her parents from Australia!

Sooo We finally got to have our parents meet and hang. . .

The month of May flew by

and before I knew it We were on a plane headed to Texas for an amazing weekend retreat outside of San Antonio, in the hill country!

We floated in the Frio River

photo courtesy of CassieNash

We Read

We Relaxed

We Watched

We. . .

well I could go on and on but I wont today!

There is a whole post about the weekend on my “need to finish this post” list!

So that is To Be Continued!

And now we are at the end of June.

END OF JUNE.

Craziness!

The end of June is one of my favorite times of the year. . .

The 26th is our anniversary ( happy 6th this year!)

It’s also my daddy-O’s bday!

Happy 60th!!!

Thats a Big Time Bday!!

And Then . . .

The 27th is my Gabey’s bday!

Happy 35th!!!

Also a Big Time Bday!!

And now we are Caught Up!

See? that wasn’t too bad! We are all caught up! Did you stick with me?

Caught Up!

Which is also how I feel in life. . .

Caught Up!

well as caught up as you can be!

The last couple months have been so refreshing and such a great time at home with my cute huz and our fun friends!

Loving these moments!

Hope you are enjoying moments this summer!

and speaking of moments & summer & enjoying. . .

It’s crazy hot this year huh?

Phew. . .its been a while since I have written! I have had a great week 1/2 just catching up from my travels! But now I am out again. . .

I am in Texas visiting family for Easter

as a friend of mine twittered to me “Welcome home! So fitting that you should spend Easter in the promise land of Texas!”

And did I tell you. . .

It’s Antique Week in Round Top!!

One of my favorite things of the year. . .

First may I just say the wildflowers ( bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush’s) are DIVINE!!!

And question would ya’ll still be my friend if I hung a cow on my wall? My husband said “No”.

Last night was the Junk Gypsy Junk O Rama Prom O Rama. . .the biggest and best party in Round Top. Great music, Great outfits, Great Junk and more. . .

It makes me want to move back to Texas EV-ER-Y -TIME!

Off to do more antique-ing today.

Good thing these boots are comfy. . .