Where do I start?

I can't believe it's almost been 2 months since my last post.
Well sorta.  We had our 1st Housewarming.  It was just an opportunity for our Church, Family & Friends to come see where we are, and the progress we are making on the house.
I know you who  have followed forever (whom I love and adore) know we've been working slowly.
So here are some of the pictures from what we've done.  I FINALLY got our bedroom painted.
Sumatra is the color from Lowe's and we LOVE it.  Yes, it made the room "smaller" looking but warm and cozy.  That is to come later with the rest of the house pictures.
For now I will show you a peek at a couple of other projects I had been working on.

First is a rocking chair my Papaw bought for my Nannie years ago.  He has been gone since I was 6 so, let's just go with this chair has seen it's day.  I LOVE rocking chairs.  They are my passion next to dishes.  So a few years ago, she gave me this chair.  It was eat up, literally by the flood water.  I was almost hopeless, but I thought I would paint it and see what happened.

before pictures

this is how the water had eat up most of the wood.

These aren't the greatest pics.  I took them with my IPhone. 

I think the rocker turned out great! 

If you  notice in the first picture that there is a gold "flowery" looking print on the chair,

it actually bled through the black paint.  

You can barely see it unless the light hits it just right, but it is gorgeous!

(Yes, I did all my paint projects in the master bath, don't ask me why I have no idea)

my WONDERFUL DH painting the kitchenette. 

I have found all the colors I picked at Lowe's this season were Matte's.

Not my favorite, but they are pretty. 

This is my pantry door.

Have I mentioned, I LOVE my Pantry.

Anyways, I got the bright idea to paint the squares inside & out with chalkboard paint.

This allows us to leave notes & messages as needed, 

along with notes & grocery list on the inside.

LOVE IT!!

(disregard the overflowing trash)

So that is just a sneak peek of what's been going on here.

I will try to have DH take some more pictures of the house now that we are moving along with projects.

AND since I am feeling SO generous this evening here are some random pictures of late

My lil "Mini Me"  

My brother swears she looks just like me, I say she looks just like him 

but I'm pretty sure she acts just like me, LOL. 

Don't ya just wanna pinch those cheeks???

This is me acting silly for Cousin Kat.

We were comparing silliness.

(see the goofy resemblance between "Mini Me" and myself?)

Here I am thrilled to be in FL!!

This is me at the housewarming with "Brandywine" 

My partner is most all crimes since 6th grade.

Yeah, let's not get into years here. 

This is my wonderful Aunt Mattie 

She is doing lots of last minute things for the housewarming here.

I couldn't have made it without her & Kat.

And my Momma.  I didn't find any pics of her from the gathering.

Btw, don't you just LOVE the red in the kitchen???

Oh and did I mention I just returned this past Saturday from a girls only vacation to FL?

I have lots of pictures of that trip as well.

Lots of blogging to come. 

Stay tuned!!

Vacation

We are currently on vacation.

We left first thing Saturday morning, headed for Charleston, SC. 

We ended up staying in Spartanburg, SC the first night.  This was suppose to be a lazy trip. 

No schedule, no "have to be" anywhere.  We just knew we wanted to hit several places.

Charleston, Hilton Head, Savannah & St. Augustine. 

We are day 4 and are in Savannah.  

We went to Charleston, Isle of Palms, & Folly Beach (Sunday & Monday)

Monday night we stayed in Hilton Head, then spending the morning & early afternoon until it wouldn't stop raining.  How much can you do at the beach with it raining??  I guess I could have let DH hold the umbrella over me while I shelled, huh?

So we drove on into Savannah this afternoon.  

We stopped at Old Town Trolley where we got set up and will be doing the tour thing tomorrow.  They let us do one for free this afternoon so we would know what we wanted to do tomorrow.  They also recommended River Street Inn.  They are running a special, whatever the temperature is, that's your  room rate!!  

It's 77 here today.  How awesome is that?!?!?!  The rooms generally start out around $159 a night. 

It is one of the coolest places ever.  It's also down in the historic/river district. 

Here are some of the pictures from our trip so far. 

Isle of Palms

This was from Old Towne Grill & Seafood in Historic Charleston.

The review on this Gyro said it was better than the Gyro's from Greek Restaurants in NYC.

I would have to agree.  DH loved the Greek potatoes.

this was a picture hanging in our booth there.

It looked literally like a window with shutters that were open.

Picture inside.  Each tables was different.

Loved it!

We would go back a dozen or more times.

This was my feet enjoying Hilton Head before the rain set in.

Nothing like a good dose of sand for exfoliation!

 Pictures below are from our room at River St. Inn.

These are pictures I took from the balcony.

It's raining here too.

At least here we can walk/ride around and it's not so bad.

Here is DH during dinner at Tubby's Tank House.

Crab dip appetizer.

DH ate the whole thing!! 

Oh yeah!  We "rolled" away we were so full!

Can't wait until tomorrow and to see the town.

I loved seeing all the "squares" here.

For now I am going to prop my feet up where I can watch boats coming in and out and read my book I brought just in case I was able to read. 

1 More Night

We have finally come to the last and final night of this visit with my MNL.  I cannot lie and say that I am not happy she will be departing this one horse town tomorrow night.
She really is a nice lady (I have to assume, other people like her, and she does have friends she's just never cared to share that "personality" with me) she just has an "air" to her let's say.
This visit has been focused around how "FAT" people are.  Mostly DH, me, my family and DH's family.
According to her everyone has got fat and ugly.  No she does not know what the word tact means.  (And you thought I was bad Momma, shame!!)

Since she's been here I have fixed the following menus:
Arrival: baked chicken, new potatoes w/parsley, green beans, fresh tomatoes, pone of cornbread, snicker-doodle cake (which for the record according to her was too dry)
Day 2: chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, green beans, yeast rolls
Day 3: skillet cabbage and pone cornbread and brown sugar chewies
Day 4: Birthday supper at Momma's for Dad, fried fish, french fries, hushpuppies, macaroni salad, red velvet cake, cherry cheesecake.
Day 5: grilled rib-eye steak, mashed potatoes w/green onions, cheese and bacon.
Day 6: Pasquales, (where she asked if we were eating here) she had a stromboli
Day 7: biscuits, gravy, eggs, breakfast rice, tomatoes.  For dinner we were at a cookout
Day 8: biscuits, eggs w/bacon, spinach, mushrooms & cheese, fresh strawberries.
supper consisted of a buffet at a local state park,
Please know the lady never eats less than two plates, she goes on and on and on about how she can eat and stay thin.
Did I mention she can't do ANYTHING for herself?  She won't can't fix her own cup of hot tea that she HAS to have before bed, and as soon as she wakes up.

Tonight as we're sitting at the table, DH makes the mistake of telling his Mom that her hair fell into her corn.
Where she tells him her hair would not fall out and it's not hers.

Me: Way to go telling her "her" hair fell in her plate. You knew it wasn't going to be hers.
So far your mother hasn't liked anything I've fixed or one place we've taken her to eat.
DH: Yes she has, you don't know what you're talking about.
(the MNL then sits down with a piece of cake)
MNL: This is not good cake, this is not german chocolate cake, only Grandma makes german chocolate cake. This is nasty cake.
(I give DH the "I told you so" look, looked at the MNL smiled, and went back to eating my chicken)

She did thank me for taking her to the Lodge tonight to eat even though the meal was horrible. LOL.
God Love Her.
One more night, One more night, One more night.........I can DO IT!!!!

8 Things about DH

Last night as I was laying in bed, warm and snug as a bug in a rug I was thinking.
(I know, sometimes that is very dangerous.)
I was thinking about DH.  He was still downstairs working on some stuff he had brought home.
I realized it's the little things he does that are sometimes the biggest.

1. He sets the alarm early so he can snuggle me before we have to get ready for work.

2. He lets me have free reign in the morning to get ready and stays out of my way.

3. He goes out and starts the car so that it's warm when I get in.

4. He holds my hand in the car to and from work.

5. He drops me off at the front door and tells me I look pretty, to have a good do and kisses me goodbye.

6. He goes up way before bed and starts the fireplace so it's nice and warm when I go up for bed.

7. He snuggles me in good when he comes to bed, and pets my head until I relax and am sound asleep.

8. We get to start all over again the next morning.

Did I mention how much I love this guy??

Happy Anniversary DH

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABY!

I LOVE YOU!

THANK YOU FOR THE GREATEST 9YRS 

Week of Flashback

I didn't have much chance to blog about the past week or so.
I just got home from a dr's appt where I was so unimpressed.
Use to it annoyed me how people stereotyped people from Ky.
Today sitting in the dr's office waiting room I know why they do.
A young boy, with his Mom, & his dog.

He managed to consume 4 pkgs of reese cups, a bag of gum drops
and a bag of gummy bears in less than 10mins while his Mom slept.
Then his dog perched itself on "mother's" foot and relieved it's self.
Seriously, when did it become ok to bring your dogs to the dr's office??

So we celebrated Nan's 80th Birthday.
She received 97 cards from family and friends.

We had a wonderful lemon & strawberry cake with lemon curd filling

and strawberry butter cream icing.  All made from scratch by yours truly 

.

Yes, it was delicious!! 

DH also was able to get a turkey the first day of season this year.

I am so thankful so that I don't have to hear it :)

Although he says he could still get another one. 

I have also applied for a new position at work. 

I'm kind of unsure about it, but I guess we will see what happens this week.

We are down til 24 day until we leave out for our missions trip to Norway

to be with Bro & Sis Speer.  We can't wait to see all this

I also received some updated pictures of our God Children I guess you could say.

These are their pictures with their cousins, and their Mom & Dad from Easter.

I just can't believe how big they're getting!!

Time does fly.