living in the country....

These were taken off my back deck last night. Even though driving all the way out here everyday can be such a pain......I still think it is one of the most beautiful places to live!

I heard on the news last night that they are not expecting any flooding down here! :) Huge relief.

Enjoy the wonderful weather!

Liz's Birthday!!

Well, her birthday isn't for a few more days but last night we all got to go out and celebrate at the Copper Room in Harrison. It was a fun night. Below is a pic of me and my sis. And please note that all the pics of me from last night suck.....I have issues with my eyes, for some reason they like to half close when my picture is being taken. Nice.

Gary and I, not sure where I was looking.
My mom and her 3 girls, this picture is a little blurry but I thought the expression on the waiter's face was hilarious. Totally like a deer caught in headlights.
So this is a picture of my dad........he forgot to bring his new glasses and when he made a comment about not being able to see the menu the waiter came running back with a fancy magnifying glass with a light on it. We had a good laugh.

All in all it was a fun night out. The band was playing, people were dancing, the food was awesome and there was plenty of wine.

In other news, we are still packing up around here just in case we turn into a lake. It's kind of depressing but I'm thankful we at least have warning and we are not going to be caught in an unexpected disaster. Other than that not much new round here.

The perfect shade of blue

Well, It took me about 2 weeks to find the colour I had in my head. I had like a gazillion paint chips and even bought 2 different shades to try on the wall. I painted one half of the room one colour and the other half the other colour. I had a few people come and give me their opinions and they all responded the same "hmmm.....I could go either way" Helpful. I finally just chose one because I was having trouble deciding. Believe it or not the pictures below are both the same colour....it's just the way the light hits it. It's kind of a sky blueish/greenish colour. Anyhow, there you go Leah....the winning colour.

One year ago today.......

We moved into this place. We are spending this weekend packing up again. I guess the flood threat this year is pretty high and we've been given notice to move our valuables to higher ground. Most of our stuff is still packed away in the garage waiting for the addition on our place to be done.......and it is almost finished....sigh. So instead of starting the tile and flooring this weekend we are beginning the process of sorting, organizing and moving. The new room is on hold till the flood threat is over. I'm trying not to worry about it. It might not happen but it's better to be prepared just in case it does.

Our new bedroom!

It's almost there. I'm still waiting on the the drywallers to finish up and then we move onto paint, tile and flooring. I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. The room will be large enough to basically be our own retreat center (or as I say...... my escape from reality) As for new bedding.......still looking. Oh, and no, the toliet will not remain in the middle of the room.

The drywall is up. I don't know how well I'm going to deal with the dust though. It gets into everything!! If all goes well it should be done by the end of the week and I'll be painting.

Today I'm going to pick out some new bedding so I can decide what color to paint the walls. Yay!! Gary is so great......he took one look at me this morning and said " You look exhausted, why don't you go shopping and get all the new bedding." He knew I wasn't so much physically tired as just plain all "kidded" out. I need a non-mom day badly.

So I'm out of here very shortly. I'll try to post pics of the room shortly.

Spring is here! The tree in our front yard has bloomed into pretty pink flowers and with it comes the bees. Our tree is covered in hundreds of bees right now. Seriously the buzz is so loud that I can hear it from my front door. I have never seen a swarm of bees before but I am thinking that this just might be one. We are steering clear of the front yard right now.

So the drywallers are set to arrive at 7:30am tomorrow to begin putting up the board. So much for sleeping in. In other news we took a closer look at our roof last night as there has been a leak and sure enough the whole roof needs to be re-done. Yuk. We will have to put up some tarps till then. We are hoping for nice weather next weekend and a few helping hands so we can just get it done quickly.

Caleb's quote for today

While driving home today he says to his friend "See that building we just passed. It's been there all my life."