Pics N Stuff

Night View to the tree and banister.

Night view of my fabulous lighting job.

I had these cool poinsettias framing my front door at one point....did you know they die when frozen? Who knew, so I replaced with something that will never ever disintegrate :)

Wes's Masterpiece! It started out a joint venture, but I wasn't seeing the vision. I got to be the ornament hander/chronicler instead :)

I'm not sure what happened here..? I tried to photo shop and ended up making my handsome hubby look quite devilish!

We got SNOW!! This must be a record accumulation for Nashville. This was 7am, it was melted by 10am.

My masterpiece, 1/2 completed. It was so much fun to decorate our own house. This is the first year we've stayed in Nashville for Christmas so we really got into it. See that space above the door? Next year I'm gonna figure out how to get up there to put some kind of obnoxious Santa/Snowman/Homer Simpson with a Santa Hat, etc!

So I have a BIGG wood featurey thing above the fireplace begging for art...and I just happened to have married an artist. So for Christmas I get a green canvas! J/k this is the starter coat the painting comes next...it is a fascinating process for me to get to see how a painting comes to life.

Said space above mantel w/ canvas prior to its greening.


Naked tree getting scoped out by our minions. They love sleeping under it and trying to drink the Sprite out of its feeder. I'm taking a poll: Do Christmas trees really drink Sprite, or was the Christmas tree guy full of it?

Cuz Everyone Else Is...Merry Christmas Luv the Garlands

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

WoooHoooo

Wes and I are happy to announce that we are now the proud owners of 1 house...not 2!!!! We closed late Friday night, it was quite an adventure.
After work we headed to the site we were supposed to close at thinking it would take an hour tops.... 3 hours later we were still sitting in a parking lot, waiting for the closing papers to finally get to where the buyer was working (he couldn't get off work, so we all went to him). Seems the lender and broker were quibbling over $200, after 3 hours of listening to Rush Limbaugh in Wes's truck, in a dark parking lot, I'd have gladly written the check to them myself!
The building we were meeting at was in a really sketchy neighborhood and 2 kids were smoking pot outside our truck window. People kept calling me and so every time I picked up my phone these 2 guys would circle our truck, I think they were afraid I was calling the cops. I told Wes to turn up Rush Limbaugh really loud and open the truck window, the sound of Rush's voice always gets me to leave any area I can still here him at!!! :)
Anyway around 8pm the papers came through and we all met in the Red Cross's break room, buyers and sellers, to sign the papers....talk about awkward!!! In the end it is done and we can't believe we sold our house in 12 days in a market like this one-!!

So good bye guest house, we will always have the memories...

It's the Wesley James Show

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Wish us Luck

I probably shouldn't post this as it might be bad luck, but we put our 'guest' house under contract last night! If all goes well it will close in mid November.... now I need to find a big hunk of wood to knock on.

It's so cute :) and so many happy memories live there!

Eight is Greater...Beat Ya Kiers

I stole this off my sister's blog....

8 Favorite TV Shows:

1. Pushing Daisies

2. Gossip Girl...I know how immature, but at least I didn't say High School Musical!

3. SATC

4. The Office

5. South Park

6. reruns of Law & Order (original version)

7. Sopranos

8. Anything on the Food Network or HGTV




8 Things I did yesterday:

1. Found old friends via the internet, HI HOLLY :)

2. Drove incident free to work....in 20 minutes!!! Yeah for my new ride to work!!

3. Work, work, work.

4. Forgot my lunch, found an old packet of oatmeal for lunch in my file cabinet :(



5. Gym time, Boot Camp kicks my tail

6. Made dinner with my sous chef Wes

7. Listened to an at home concert, courtesy of maestro Wesley

8. Finished the day with the Colbert Report, shoulda listed it above....

8 Things I look forward to:

1. Selling our "guest" house

2. Thanksgiving – everyone will be home including the babies :)

3. Getting a new bedroom set

4. Taming the wild jungle that is our backyard

5. Our European adventure (Prague, Vienna and Budapest)

6. Training with Wes for the 100 mile Tour de Cure in May

7. Having an excuse to go shopping, although I usually don't need an excuse per se

8. Its a secret, I'll let ya know when it happens


8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. Red Iguana in SLC, I seriously miss mole

2. Daily Catch in Boston, poor lobsters

3. Roy's in Oahu, the Butterfish is the best!

4. Sage's Cafe, yummy vegan food, which is against the law in the South :)

5. Monell's in Nashville whenever I feel the need to clog a major blood vessel

6. Bar Americain in NYC

7. Ceviche in Colombia, no particular restaurant, just the dish itself

8. La Usulteca in Brentwood, yummy $2 papusas

8 Things on my wish list:

1. A new dinette set, we're back to using the card table

2. I LOVE my job, I wish to stay at Vandy for a LONG time

3. No Nashville winter, although the 5 snow days they have per season without it actually snowing is quite amusing.

4. to be someplace warm

5. Go on a health mission soon, I'd love to go back to Haiti

6. Geesh, I don't know.... I have more than I need and everything I want...it'd be nice to have our families closer, group move to Nashville :)

Pumpkin Power

Fun with Pumpkins.....

Our Minions

Here are the fuzzy family members...who we refer to as our minions due to the fact they follow us any and everywhere

There is Chester (aka Monkey) whose favorite pastimes include lounging in the sun, wrastling with Wes or hunting his favorite banana (more on that later). We are trying to train him to pull the plow around the house, but so far we just get contemptuous glares before he goes back to his lounging.



Action shot, its a Chester in the Box



Then we have our little Chiquita (aka the Banana) who loves chin scratches, kitty kibble, hiding from the hungry Monkey and avoiding Wes torture (he loves to put butter on her back and watch her do spinnerettes.) She is our special needs kitten as she can't jump, land on her feet, or run without flipping over. She suffers from identity crisis, she thinks she's a puppy, rolls over on command, begs for food and will eat ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.



Action Shot...Chiquita the Puppy

New House, Old House....Does Anyone need a House?

Wes and I were lucky to buy a beautiful new home in Nolensville, TN...about 20 minutes outside of Nashville. I absolutely adore my new ride to work! Friends and family also adore my new ride to work as I'm not calling them every afternoon complaining about sitting in the horendous Nashville gridlock...

So here is an outside look of the new digs....pretty :)

Leaving us with our previous home to sell....also pretty :)

It's only been on the market 3 days....patience is a virtue right?

A,B,C's of Nephewdom

Wes and I have 3 new nephews that somehow ended up being named alphabetically....

There's Asher, look at that smile :)

There's Brendan, or as we know him, Mr. Bubbers:

And the newest addition, Carter: