Happy Birthday - My Mom

Happy Birthday to my wonderful mother! Thank you for all your love and support!

Here's a picture (I believe engagement) of my parent's back in 1978?!

Chatty Cathy!

Book Club Tuesday - Breaking Dawn Part 1

So, I am about 200 pages into Breaking Dawn, which is about 700 pages long. Long as it is, it doesn't cease to entertain. This is all coming from the girl who was certain she wouldn't enjoy this series at all. Yes, I am 29 and reading literature for 15 year old girls, but it is so good!!! That being said, I do need to admit something... Recently, while running errands at Target.... I found myself in the book section flipping through the pages of a photo book for the movie New Moon, which I have yet to see. Yes, I am a Twilight junkie!

Eli's 1st Kiss

Eli's lil' friend Piper came over yesterday...

Piper puckers up and Eli just lays it on...

Piper isn't sure about this....

Eli kissing Piper's entire face....

Oh... head tilt and all!

Piper says, "That's enough, Eli."

Book Club Tuesday - Eclipse

Holy Crap! What am I going to do when I am finished with "Breaking Dawn"? This is the BEST series of books I have ever read! I am trying to get my sister to read them, but she think they are beneath her.... Anyway, I was just like my sister, thought people who read them were crazy. Stephanie Meyer is an amazing storyteller! I plan to read every and any book she writes! If you haven't read the Twilight series, get started! They are SO GOOD!!!

Home Renovations - A Dishwasher!!!

Yes, good things come to those who wait! One year of the last 12-years since I lived at my parents, did I have a dishwasher. I am not asking for pity, but I am telling ya, it gets old...

Anyway, it was installed today! We have someone coming later this week to do some trim work around it to make look not so ghetto....

So here is my new dishwasher!!! Yay!!!

Home Renovations - Painting the stairway!

Our stairway to the basement seems to have been painted in honor of the Minnesota WILD.... floor to ceiling.... literally! The ceiling was painted green! Who paints a ceiling green? So, I got the urge to paint and with Nick's ladder-configuration-assistance; I tackled the project that I have dreaded.... it's done and it looks great!

Before: Not a color I would pick...

After: Pretty! (If I do say so myself!)
Before: Ish!

After: Pretty!

Before: As if the green isn't bad enough, the ceiling too??? Oh, and the ugly light fixture! (with green paint on it!)

After: A nice white ceiling & pretty light fixture!

A couple more afters: