FINALLY!! WE HAVE CARPET!! AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
OK, sorry for yelling, but I am REALLY excited.
Want a peek?

Eeeeeeek!! I love it! Obviously, the room still needs trim and the baseboards need to be installed, which will look really cool. But for now, we have carpet!
The cats were hilarious. After about two years of pining at the closed doorway, [...]

So, I went to a wedding last night as Andi’s date, and boy, did we have FUN!! I’m definitely recovering today, hahaha. I’ll post some pics later once I’m able to go through them.
I did want to post the results of the painting of the bedroom Friday night. I’m SOOOO happy with the color we [...]

I’m really sad to hear about the passing of Michael Jackson.
I was at dinner tonight with my friend, Laura, at a local sports bar and our waitress came up to our table. “I just heard Michael Jackson died. Did you guys hear that? Do you think it’s true?” Laura, the entertainment editor at our local [...]

So, I’m rather anal about the paint colors in my house.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, I usually know what color I’m going for when I decide to paint a room. Second, paint is expensive, so I don’t want to buy a non-refundable color. And third, it’s a lot of work to [...]

So, we’re a mean family and made my dad cook us all breakfast on Sunday morning for Father’s Day.
I kid. Well, sort of. He did cook for us, but my dad LOVES to cook in his kitchen and entertain, so I know he loved it. My mom is  a perfectly fine cook, but [...]

I hope all the Dads had a good Father’s Day. Neal and I had breakfast at my parents’ and then visited his parents’ for dinner. It was a long day, but it was really nice. I’ll post some pics later this week.
For breakfast at my parents’, I made some strawberry scones. I had this recipe [...]

So, it’s late and Neal and I are ready to hit the hay. It was another long day of working in the attic for us. Friday, we completed the first coat of primer, and today we finished the second coat, plus other odds and ends. It’s seriously starting to look like a room now! It’s [...]

So, I think strawberry season in my county is close to the most wonderful time of the year. Seriously.
We have the THE best strawberries. I love making strawberry shortcake (the Bisquick mix in a 9×9 pan), because it reminds me of when I was little. My mom used to make it as a special treat [...]

First of all, I have to do this – Hi Shawn! **waving** We miss you!
OK, so I had to give a shout out to Shawn, who is very, very far away, but yet took the time to leave Neal such a supportive message on my blog. And yes, I know I’m a sorry ass, haha. [...]

So, since the contractors started working on our HVAC unit in the attic 8 a.m. Sunday morning, I kind of had to get up. It was sort of hard to sleep when two men were tramping back and forth in the hallway outside the bedroom door and making loud banging noises in the attic.
I have [...]

So, are you ready for another attic update? Neal and I and his parents worked out butts off this weekend mudding and taping drywall seams.
Numerous people told me that mudding and taping was way worse than hanging drywall. This discouraged me greatly, because I pretty much LOATHED putting up drywall. Seriously, it made me angry [...]

So since today’s weather SUCKS, I thought I’d post some pictures of my beautiful peony! It finally started to bloom before the rain came down, so I haven’t been out to check on the blooms since.
I love peonies so much, and light pink is one of my favorite colors!

Isn’t it pretty? I need to lighten [...]

My friend Wendy posted a feature on her blog today, and I don’t really do these Internet survey-type things, but I thought this one sounded like fun. It’s five things I would say to my high school self and five things my high school self would probably say to me today.
I have often thought how [...]

OK, so my thoughts are pretty much consumed with our attic at this point. All I do is stare at calendar and try to figure out how much time I have available to get this stuff done.
Saturday, we stopped in at the carpet store. Turns out that was the last day for their 6 months [...]

So, I held a baby this weekend. For longer than 30 seconds.
And I liked it.
And the baby didn’t cry. I think it was a win-win situation.
Brett is the son of college friends of ours, and I just love him to pieces.
Here he is with his mommy.

Oh my. Look at that face.

He smiled at me! Amazing! [...]