Insert Sad Face

It's pretty much inevitable that I miss the following every day when I go to work: my hubby, my kitties, and sleep.





SO...here is a recent picture of my kitties. I'd post one of J, but there are too many good ones to chose from. He's a cutie!





(Vit looks like he swallowed two of our Christmas lights! LOL!)

November Parties!

We got him! This was from my Dad's surprise 50th birthday party! We were anxious to see if he was surprised for REAL, but this picture assured me that we had been victorious! Nice! My sister-in-law Lauren, my mom, and I had been planning and planning for a long time. The party was a success for sure! The only glitch was the one typo in the zip code on the invitations I had made at a local print shop. I gave them the text on a Word document online and triple checked it, but there was a communication error somewhere=( Other than that, Mom did a great job with the food and Lauren's decorations were awesome!

That same weekend, I threw a baby shower for my long-time friend Angela. Sadly, my camera died and I couldn't take pictures. I had a wonderful decoration idea that ended up being very cute! I will give credit to my dance studio, Dance World, for this idea. I didn't come up with it myself. This was their centerpiece idea at a baby shower for one of the instructors.

Here it was in a nutshell:

1. I ordered a few dozen high float (better than helium) balloons from a local florist.
2. We separated all the balloons into bunches of 4-5 balloons.
3. Individual centerpieces: We tied the pretty ribbons of each bunch of balloons together, in a bow, around a jar of baby food. We kept the balloons 4-5 feet above the baby food jar
4. We placed 5 of these centerpieces in a row going down the long table where the guests sat.

It was really pretty! You walked in and immediately noticed the high balloons. However, when people took a closer look they noticed they were stationed to baby food jars.

Welcome Back!

I would say she's about 80% back! Go Britney=)

Three-Room Update

Recently I posted pictures of the three room project we have been working on for some time. We were generously blessed with hardwood flooring from some dear friends. You can read my below post to see what all we had to do to these rooms. Here is the finished project....so far!

Please take note that we still have to "accessorize (lol)" and put in lamps, curtains, pictures, small tables....you know the deal! Therefore, it's a work in progress. This is the end of stage 1...if you will=) My hubby did an amazing job with the floor, trim, knocking down cabinets, and more! We also enjoyed getting to paint together.

****Picture of the entryway. This color is a more dark grayish-blue color than the picture lets on. I think it looks almost hunter green here.

Here is a picture from the entryway to the living room to the dining room. As you can see, all three rooms flow into each other. The entryway is painted Restoration Hardware-Blue Sage. The living room is painted RH-Light Silver Sage. The Dining Room is painted RH-Silver Sage. We painted RH-Light Silver on all of the trim. The lovely couch and chaise lounge are fro American Signature.

This is the reverse view coming from the dining room. Look at that GORGEOUS floor my husband put down!

Chaise lounge with added picture bonus...our kittie Vit!

Close-up picture of the floor.

Crown molding my hubby put up.

View of the dining room from the living room. The color in this room is more green than the living room, but it doesn't show up so well in these pictures.

I'm so embarrassed I didn't clean the mirror before taking this picture=( I promise I dust and Windex every day. It must have been the dining room's turn this day!

Dining room curtains.




The lovely, useful china cabinet my parents gave us.

Baseboards.