Look what I made!

TADA! my very own

The Family: A Proclamation to the World subway art!

I was gonna wait til the whole wall was "complete"(we'll see how long that takes seeing as I had the "vision" for it 

before we had even officially bought this house over a year ago!)

But then I accidentally erased the post I had already spent too much time on today, and was feeling really bummed about it. 

So now you get to see this instead. 

I'm super happy about how it turned out.

With ALOT of help from a wonderful friend Cara and her fabulous vinyl machine, and her awesome playroom (which my boys promptly trashed!)

She was so patient with me, and, picking font picking (we actually peeled off the word happiness off and did it over). t was so nice to chat with her while we did my "project ". 

We thought her kids had what mine had, but they may have not...help a girl out and she infects your kids, what a way to say thanks. 

So sorry. 

And thanks. 

A big thanks. 

Couldn't and wouldn't have done it with out you!

And I'm glad I did do it, cuz I love it!

See the empty frames beside it above? 

Why is choosing a printing pictures always such a hard job!?!

We usually put it on our wall like this:

But let's face it, it's too small to really read. So I just picked some of my favorite lines and now I feel like I'm reminded of the principles every time I walk by it (which I may be doing a lot lately, just to admire my handy work:)

Principles like:

We did make one "mistake" I hadn't sized the word WORK quite as big and so the machine did it automatically and it ended up being one of the biggest words of all. But Cara said, she really liked it, because it really emphasized it 

"And" she as she put it, "let's face it, family is a lot of work!"

Now every time I look at I think, yup it's a lot of work and it's okay, because of all the other words.."eternal destiny", "Happiness" and of course, "Jesus Christ".

I, of course, eye-balled it, so it's by no means perfect (another useful analogy for family life!) In fact, the most crooked word, ironically, is "forgiveness"...but its okay I forgive myself!

Together with our actual family portrait, I just love it!

 Now the real trick is living by it!