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This is the wind chime I got for my step mom for her birthday. I love the way my wind chimes sound outside and I didn't think she had one. So I was on a mission to find one for her. I found it at The Bibelot. They always have such fun things in there...

I have been on a kick of painting my nails in crazy ways! I started with black, then red, then bright pink. Then I decided to try various french manicures. I first tried this one. Which is silver polish with silver sparkles over the top (the sparkles are hard to see in this picture). I...

Not too long ago, I was looking at my flowers out front and found this horribly disgusting fellow! (I do recommend enlarging him to see him better!) Of course, the first thing I do is go tell Chuck about it, but he was up on a ladder doing something, so I next went to get...

I am in a book club with a few friends and we just finished the book Love in the Time of Cholera. It wasn't really a bad book, I just couldn't get into it. No one had anything great or terrible to say about it. I think we were just kind of indifferent. I have...

It's always fun to get a new haircut. But it's not always good to try to take a picture of yourself after a new haircut. I never think it looks good. But here is a picture anyway. And I know I was supposed to write sooner like I promised, but I wasn't real good about...

I have been a bit quiet on here and I promise I do have things to say. I have just been really lazy and haven't uploaded any pictures recently that I have been meaning to show. So I will be sure I get to that tonight and have something more read-worthy tomorrow or later tonight....

My friend, Katie has a new site. She cracks me up with all the funny things she says! And it's not just her saying funny things…her son is getting to be quite the funny guy, too! She's always posting pictures of her adorable kids and I just can't get enough! Plus, if you know her,...

I am sure most of you know this about me, but I hate to clean. When I get started and get in the groove of it, I can be a maniac. But the thought of cleaning as often as I should is not something I look forward to. I am not even happy when I...

I came acros this funny site. I have to admit, I didn't go through all the pages, but once I found you could make a bee, I was sold and had to share. You can create a bee and email it to someone or save it. I could make a whole family of bees! The...

Some of you have been wondering how the new counters turned out. Well, they are lovely! I am so excited about them! My favorite part is the sink! I think everyone should have one of these! There are also some pictures as we took out the old counters. Enjoy! Counter Pictures

Since Chuck and I have both started working and get home at 6ish, we decided to give Let's Dish a try. We went last weekend and made 4 meals (we split each meal into two meals, so we really made 8) and then you freeze them and thaw them when you want to have them....

Sunday morning…EARLY (4:40)…I drove Chuck to the airport so he could go out to Redmond, Washington for his orientation stuff for the week. He will be out there until Friday afternoon. I think Sadie is very upset that he is gone. She keeps looking for him and doesn't seem too pleased when I am the...

I am just finishing up my 4th week of work. I can't believe it's been that long already. It doesn't seem like it. I still like it and still love going to work every day. Fridays are a little slow since so many of the attorneys work from home and the ones that are in...

Chuck and I ordered a new counter for the kitchen the other day. Since we have been looking at new houses, we are also getting ours ready to sell and new counters was about the only thing we had left to do. So we picked out this pattern. It's really going to look nice in...

Chuck just accepted a position as a Software Developer with Microsoft! I am so excited for him and so very proud! He's really excited about the job and they gave him a great offer. He'll be starting in a couple weeks. He will be one of the first few people working in the Minneapolis location...

So today we get an email saying that there is going to be a “Meet & Greet” for people to say hello to the new people in the office. (I think there are 4 of us that have started recently.) So we got Dairy Queen Pizzas! How yummy! I just recently realized how close the...

Not too long ago, all the ice went off the lake. It's so nice to see that because it's when I start to feel like Spring is really here. Then, Saturday morning, we wake up to a lovely little gift from Mother Nature….an inch of snow! Lovely. The end of April and it's snowing. Thankfully...

This commercial cracks me up. I just thought I would share it for you to enjoy, too! VW Commercial

This was from the most recent Kraft Foods catalog I got in the mail. Chuck made it recently and said it was really easy. I really liked it. He used fresh peppers and onions instead of a frozen pack. He made some brown rice to go with and it was so good! I was reminded...

One day last week I got home and found this on my office ceiling. Well, I didn't notice it at first. Chuck put this together for me and it's so cute. He pinned it up to the ceiling. It looks like there is a cat looking down at you from a hole in the ceiling....