Love is in the Food

For Valentine's day morning I made Stan a tasty and sweet breakfast to show him how much I love him.

Both of us were in our p.j.s and not presentable for pictures, so instead we included Miriam, who always looks cute.

Pink pankcakes with berries, whippped topping and strawberry milk. And of course no delectable breakfast is complete without bacon. As Stan would say, "bacon makes everything better."

Hope your day was sweet!

Master Bedroom Makeover

So I've been a bit on a painting frenzy the past few weeks. With Stan's help, I've painted the kitchen, entry way, hall, laundry room and now...

the
MASTER BEDROOM

Here is what it looked like before
same old "dromedary camel" flat color throughout the whole house.

We got a new head board and two coats of "Belle Groove Brass" and

voila!
(the ceiling still has the old color)
As my friend Renee said, it looks like an adult room.

Less than a year ago we had two childhood mismatched dressers, a stack of storage tubs, mismatched nightstands (one of them being a plastic tub), no headboard and a flimsy $5 mirror from Wal-Mart.

Now thanks to Ikea furniture, a fancy new headboard, mirror and paint, we can as they would say on HGTV "enjoy the space."

Stay tuned for the next home project...

the living room!

Little Mozart

I love to play the piano.

The other day I was playing the piano with Miriam in my lap and she quietly sat and listened.

Then I stopped and let her play and away she went.

Since babies don't talk in our language, I'll interpret:


"Pictures again Dad??"

"This song is rather difficult."

"Oh those darn page turns!"

"Who needs to look at the music?"

"You liked it? Really? It was nothing..."

My little musician.

Golden Slumber Whim

So my Dad likes to brag that I am a do-er. I get things done. When I have an assignment, you can count on me to get it done, he says.

I admit, when I get excited about a project or finally decide to do something, I suddenly lose all patience and have to get it done NOW.

I think this past Friday Stan was disliking this quality of mine.

I have had an itch to paint some rooms in our house for awhile now, my biggest dilemma was deciding on colors. I finally got some inspiration from my sister Rebecca's kitchen and decided on...

Golden Slumber

So I went to Lowes Friday morning, only intending to choose colors and purchase paint for the kitchen. When Stan came home for lunch, I showed him the colors and we decided that for now I should only paint the actual kitchen area (and not the dining area) yellow.
I started thinking...Miriam is about to take a nap, the actual wall space in the kitchen is so small, Jody could come over at 3:00 to help, I could paint the kitchen this afternoon!
Luckily Miriam did nap (for 4 hours!) and Jody did come over. But I didn't take into consideration how tedious it is to get around all the cabinets, that it would take 3 coats of paint and that my large roller brush was worthless (it left piece of fuzz from the roller on the wall--I quickly disposed of that).

So Stan came home from work on a Friday, looking forward to the weekend only to find a disaster area in the kitchen with only one coat of paint.
I finished by 9:30 p.m.

Here's the before color: Dromedary Camel
And here is Golden Sumber
Isn't it nice? Good thing Stan loves me!

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

It's officially winter in Arkansas. This is the third snow we've had since Christmas Eve. Last weekend this nice storm moved in and dumped at least 4" on us. These pictures are about halfway through the storm.
When I was a kid on the farm in Missouri, we would have been out in the fields sledding down our enormous hills with a snow like this. Sadly, I live in suburbia now, and as we were out driving around a few days after, the one great hill in the city was PACKED with sledders. No thanks.
The strangest thing is that the snow has now been on the ground for a week now. It dusted some snow last night, and there is a possibility of more tonight and tomorrow. Those of you that don't live around here should know that this is abnormal for this neck of the woods (thanks Al Roker). We might normally get 1-2 good snows a winter. I think it's officially time for NWA to invest in some more snow plows. Especially since there's supposed to be 6 more weeks of winter. And it might finally be time for Stan and I to get a snow shovel. If only the weren't always sold out every time I remember!
I know, I know...we haven't taken down the Christmas lights yet. I blame it on the bad weather every weekend (and procrastination on the only nice Saturday in January).

Saturday, when the sun was shining, I took Miriam out for some snow time. It lasted all of about 3 minutes. She didn't care much for it (I think because the sun was way bright). But, at least we got some good pictures (which I doctored up on Picassa--thanks for the tip Meredith).
6 More weeks of winter?! Come on Spring, I'm ready to get my jogging stroller and get out running again with Miriam. Stupid Groundhog.