INTRODUCING.....

We have a new addition to our little family we'd like to introduce you to!








Meet.... IT, the creepy zombie baby, Garland.....



Wes is over the moon in love with him!



Here they are bonding, awwww

Man Cub

Our sister in law, the lovely Kendra, and our nephew Carter came to Kentucky/Nashville while she did 5 weeks of clinical work for her Master's in Speech Pathology.
It worked out great as I was able to take off a week to take care of the little guy.
We also had lots of visitors with my brother and parents coming for weekends as well!

Needless to say I ended up with a whole camera full of the little Man Cub, Carter, pictures...

We had a great time:

Playing in the sun and swimming in the neighborhood pool







Driving fast cars




Trying new hairdos




Waiting in lines....



Well maybe not so much fun waiting in lines



Getting into mischief







Eating exotic cuisine



Attacking the Papparazzi



Cage Dancing (Wes would turn on Chuck Berry and Carter would bounce and shake without interruption for several songs)



Taking long NAPS!

For Amber Waves of ..... Grass

So our Saturday was spent installing sod. Two hours into the project we were thinking, 'This isn't so tough.' By the eighth hour we were questioning our sanity in thinking the two of us could install a whole yard.... But we did it, sort of. We were short. Thank heavens the lawn guy said he'd bring more grass and that HE would install it, for FREE! We did a happy dance when we heard that!



Two hours into it.






This is Bermuda grass, which is what they use in the south. You should have seen Wes's face though when they delivered pallet after pallet of this dead looking hay! Its supposed to turn green in the heat, but wouldn't it be sad if we spent our Saturday installing dead grass!



Wes's new best friend, Wilbur the Wheelbarrow. By the end the wheelbarrow was actually squeaking with every move.





Sooooo Close!








See this is what grass is supposed to look like! At least the sides of the house will live.





Victory is mine! BTW after this picture Wes ate an entire Costco chicken! He really toughed this out and worked hard. Poor guy always gets to be the manual labor behind my projects ideas!

Per Mom's Request

My mom wanted to see our new bedroom and requested pictures be posted. So here they are!

It was tough to find something that met the rules set out for me.

1) I had to be okay with Wes laying on the bedspread... check
2) I had to be okay with Wes putting his head on the pillows... check, except for the accent pillows, they are still classified as 'no heads allowed'
3) It couldn't have flowers, or be in any sort of pastelish hue.... check although I might have gone a little 70's-tastic!

These are a few of my FAVORITE things

So I see cute blogs with favorites lists and I always discover new favorite items through them so I decided to make my own 'FAVORITES' list:

Food:
Junky ---
mmmm, there is nothing that can't benefit from the addition of kraft singles!


Interactive --
Wes & I have learned to make pasta. mmmm, so much chewier and satisfying than the dried stuff


Professional Courtesy --
Let's here it for the veggies


Activity:
UnLazy --
Love to dust, by far my favorite chore. I like chasing down the dust balls and zapping them with my magic feather wand.

Every pretty weekend we try to ride, this year we're hoping to do a couple of 40-50 mile rides

Lazy --
See my last post

Ultra Lazy --
Anything better than a bath with bubbles? Especially this bubble stuff, nirvana


Beauty Items:
My Arsenal





Store:
I'm a very predictable shopper, so I only occasionally vary from this store, but from their discounted Joe's Jeans (great for those of us who don't like showing bum cleavage)to their quirky bags... you always look unique in their clothes and they fit me better than any other store. I don't like spending a lot of time shopping (15 minutes and I'd better be done) so I go with what I know and this store is it!



Person:

The happiest, funniest, greatest guy who makes me the luckiest girl! Very convenient that I get to spend all my days with my favorite, FAVORITE!

Designing a Man Cave

Good grief will it ever be warm and sunny again? Not the point of this post but I'm just saying....

On to the Point:

I like to read in bed, lots, until 3-4am if I can do it without becoming grouchy Jen the next day.

So I have one of these


Which works until you fall asleep... and then you wake up with dents in your head from the straps, and really who needs the added forehead wrinkles.

So I thought, lamps. Genius!! I will buy some today!

I picked these:



I was quite surprised when I was met with a decided lack of enthusiasm from Wes. Quote: "Your going to make our room all girly aren't you?" Apparently these lamps are too reminiscent of a perfume bottle and don't make the man cave cut.

Wes picked these:



Which I have to admit, manly or not, are pretty cool.

Just wait till he sees what I ordered for our bedspread:



What do you think? Will it make the Man Cave cut?

Reader's Poll

So my big Christmas present this year from Wes was a painting for the mantle. I found a Pink Flloyd record cover that I thought was really cool and had Wes base a painting off of it. I think it turned out really good, and after a while I think it grew on Wes as well....at first he was not a fan????!

Anyway, I'm taking a reader's poll as to where to put the painting, I think it looks great against the red wall in the dining room, any thoughts out there in blog land?

Plus, if I put it in the dining room then Wes will need to paint me another painting for the mantle, win, win :)!