Happy Birthday to me!

I drove to my parents after work on Thursday and met my bestie, Jocelyn, at my favorite Rockwall restaurant - Zanata's. She is due in June and just looking so cute!

Thanks for dinner Joc, you are the best!

 

Yard Update!

Chance and I worked in the yard all day on Sunday when we got home from my parents.

We extended the beds, outlined them with rocks that my parents gave us, moved the original shrubs to the back and planted new ones.

We still need to buy a Crape Myrtle for the corner, add more decorative grasses, line the tree beds with rock and add flowers in the tree bed.

We really appreciated Chance's best friend, Matt - our new roomie, for helping us out. This was no easy task. Apparently we have clay not dirt! All 3 of us were sore the next day.

After working for a few hours, I decided I needed to supervise the guys...this is my kind of gardening!

I also found this great deal on a huge planter at Home Goods!

I'm also growing some baby flowers...really proud of myself, I've never kept anything alive!

Last but not least - I finally put the knobs on the outdoor bar:

This isn't a yard update - but while at Home Goods I found new couch pillows, and some new artwork to grow our collage wall, but I have yet to hang them. I also need to move that mirror into another room. It's seriously been sitting there since we moved in, because I simply needed it out of the way!

Spring Birthdays with the Family

Tonight we all got together and celebrated Spring Birthdays with the family!

MiMi - 2/24
Me - 3/31
Mandy - 4/2
Nate - 4/12
Carolyn - 4/13

I'll have to get the rest of the pictures from my mom, but here is what I have:

MiMi and Granddad

Kyler and Rylee

Happy Birthday you four!!

Dallas Truck Yard

Sam from Houston came in town this weekend and I was so excited to see her. It has been entirely too long!

We met up at the Truck Yard on Lower Greenville for lunch, drinks and ice cream.

I can't wait to see her again!

Another House Update!

I moved a few things around in the kitchen. Until we put the shelves up in the dining room, everything is just sitting on the kitchen counters.

Please ignore the meat that Chance was prepping to grill!

New pots for the front door:

Chance's parents came in town and spent quality family time with us. While they were here Chance and his dad decked the attic, so we were able to move so much up there!

I decided to finally paint this dresser that Ashley gave us. We are using it outside as a bar/hang out area. We have a TV and wireless AT&T box as well, so we can take the TV out and hang on the patio now that the weather is nice! (I will get knobs soon! And yes, pictures of our house at night look SO yellow! It's bad but not as bad in person, pictures just made it look extraordinarily awful!

Before picture (and that is a lamp next to it, that I am getting Edison light bulbs for)

 After (still needs knobs)

While I was doing that - Chance was working on a custom firewood holder for the back patio.

He planned it and built it and I stained it for him. Great job Chance!

I'm behind on showing pictures of decorations, but here are two from St Pattys Day:

And some Easter ones:

If you'll remember, when we were in San Francisco on a sibling/mom trip, all of us girls bought crushed wine bottles as spoon rests. Mine has sat on my oven top for months and I cook almost every single night. All of a sudden, the other night I was sitting there stirring our dinner and I heard a snap noise and saw this :(

Guess it's time to go back to San Fran to buy a new one!

Once we added the wood to our foyer wall, we no longer were able to hang the big red clock, so we did this instead:

We've also decided not to stone the bar area, so for now, Chance painted it grey to match the rest of the house: