nie nIE on oprAH

nie on oprah

         nie on oprah

            nie on oprah

                nie on oprah

                            nie on oprah

did you hear that nienie will be 

on oprah on wed?

i think i might get a babysitter for the kids for the 4 o'clock hour:)

     wed

                     wed

                                        wed

                                                          wed

                                                                                                                                  wednesday!

am i really an adult?

 

i'm so glad i'm not in high school anymore...

but so glad that great friends came from it.

kelly, shay, amanda, matthew, kavi

aunt jackies' visit ended by driving her up to san fransisco.

so kelly drove up with us to meet amanda (visiting from idaho) 

and matt who lives in SF.

these really are by best friends from high school 

(minus a couple in southern cali)

the evening involved:

*walking by 184 homeless people

(this might sound weird, but i love big cities for that reason)

 & breathing in secondhand smoke by the pack

while walking to dinner.

*new york style pizza was taken back to matt's apartment

&

* adult conversation was had

while

* my kids ran around loving all the attention

(it's rare that they are the only kids in a room full of adults.)

i loved the evening.

later i couldn't help but think about all of our current lives:

kelly is teaching 2nd grade. a TEACHER!

amanda is in grad school for psychology/social work?!

matt is in freaking law school!!!

and i'm married with two kids!

this definitely qualifies us as adults. 

so my question is...

when did we grow up?

lamp vamp

this $20 lamp (marked down from $100) was looking 

too drab from the couch today

as i watched a session of conference

for my church.

this is what happened during the next hour:

these roses were so easy to make. i used THIS tutorial.

although mine came out totally different and involved hot glue.

ahhhh, 

much better eye candy.

marriage

the mister and i have had a hard couple of days together. 

no real reason,but just sarcastic, sassy, and 

insensitive to each other. 

so like any woman would do (right?), i was sulking in bed last night when he came and scooped me up (literally) and plopped 

me on the couch. he then proceeded to:

*set a movie up for the kids on the laptop

*put a movie on for us.

his pick? pride and prejudice. yep, i married the right man. if for this reason only! but for many others as well.

*bring me cookie dough on a spoon (that he had just made)

*followed by a glass of milk

*tuck me in with a cozy blanket and pull the ottoman under my feet

*bring me a cookie fresh from the oven

*bring me my contacts case and solution so i could take them out and put on my glasses

and then cuddled me for the whole movie.

all this was done with no words between us.

sometimes, makeups don't have to be a long drawn out talk fest.

i liked this kind much better.

 

and of course i ate up every minute of my favorite movie while the mister enjoyed it too. (he knows my favorite parts:)

as the movie came to an end and my favorite part of all closed, 

i looked over to my mister darcy;

 mister pruett and said a quiet 

thank you.

aunt jackie

an evening at the beach

was followed by clam chowder on the wharf.

all with aunt jackie who came to visit us from utah.

the kids loved having her here for a couple days!

thanks auntie!

be thou humble

our new home. 

although this is not our exact house, this is what our new neighborhood looks like.

all duplexes built in the 1950's.

do you love the car ports, lucious lawns, storage by the kitchen window,

and electric boxes pasted right to the front of the house? 

me too.

i'm definitely being humbled at this point in my life, but can't complain

 because it is a roof over our head. 

it's slowly becoming "home"

kitchen curtain

i love windows.

and

i love the light that shines through them.

but i also love me some curtains.

when i saw this fabric, i had to have it my kitchen.

so here's the outrageous curtain i made for my dish doing days:)

color?

check.

floral?

check.

houndstooth?

check.

heaven.

this fabric is paula prass' new line called summer soiree.

it is divine.

check it out here.