Appreciation

This week and today I am thankful for:

• A great early morning workout!
• A filling and tasty (and healthy) breakfast.
• Everyone that’s working on building our house. They are going so fast and doing a great job!
• A dinner and movie double date with friends on Saturday night.
• The fact that I haven’t had a sensory migraine (affect’s vision rather then getting a typical headache/migraine) in a long time; despite the fact that I’m having one now.

House Progress, Part V

Ladies and gentlemen we have the start of walls! Its so much easier to see the rooms and how the house will be laid out. SO EXCITING! Here are the pictures from tonight's visit:

Front of the house

View from garage - looking at mudroom and doorway into house

Kitchen pantry on left, mudroom straight ahead



This will be either a den or D's man's room

On the other side of the stairs - this will be a den or D's man's room

 Dining room (view from kitchen/mud room)



Kitchen pantry

 View of the kitchen from the start of the dining room

 View of the dining room, kitchen and pantry from stairs

 The stairs (the den will be on one side and D's man's room will be on the other)

 Door to the (future) back porch

Garage

Dorky picture of me and the front of the house :)



Casual Dresser

This I’m loving so far this week:

1. Today is the summer picnic and we get to dress down.
2. Because of the summer picnic we get a longer lunch today.
3. Icing my knee and really stretching my hamstrings have made them less stiff and tight, respectively.
4. I love that the NFL lockout is over – I was getting really sick of hearing about it every five minutes. (Although now it will be all about training camps and who’s being released and who’s being picked up….)
5. D and I listened to our wedding song last night (it was a You Tube version of the band on Oprah and not KB singing, but it was nice).

Oh the mystery and suspense of randomness…

You never know quite what you’ll get to find out about me on Triple Tangent Tuesdays. I won’t keep you in suspense any longer ….

1. I am very particular about my food. I don’t like it touching. I don’t mix a little bit of everything together for one big bite. I usually eat all of one thing first, then move to the next thing (For example: I would eat my green beans, then my steak, then my rice).
2. I like my socks to be tight and fitted. They always match. Unless I am under some dire circumstances, I will not wear the same socks twice without washing. Even if I wore them for a few hours and took them off to wear flip flops. If I need to put socks back on, I’ll get a new pair.
3. I miss my brother. He’s living in California for the summer and heading back to Colorado for school in August / September. I haven’t seen him since Christmas 2010 and probably won’t see him until Christmas 2011. That makes me sad and I wish we lived closer or could visit each other more often / easily.

House Progress, Part IV

On Friday (7/22) my parents were in town so I took them up to the house to show them the progress. The last time they had been to the land was before it was cleared so we had to trek through mud and trees to show them "about" where the house would be. So needless to say, things had change a lot for them (yes they have seen the progress pictures, but it was the first time in person) and they were excited. Here are the newest pictures:

View from the garage looking in

(The wall on left is the front of the house)

The dining room

(The large "holes" are going to be windows)

Front of the house

 

The back of the dining room

The back of the house

The back / side of the house

(And Mama M!)



Gratefulness

This week I am thankful for:

• Another great workout last night.
• A good nights sleep last night
• Tomorrow being Friday AND a short day for me.
• Getting to spend time with family Friday & Saturday.
• The fact that our trip to SC is a month away (on Sunday)!

Loving Mood

This week (at least so far) I am loving -

* The awesome workout I had last night. I really needed it to help me get back in the groove.
* That all the sugar cookies I made are now gone. (No, I didn't eat them all either, but it was close!)
* That my parents are coming into town on Friday and I get to hang out with them and show them all the house progress.
* The fact that we'll get to see so much of D's family this weekend.
* That it's P's first birthday this weekend :)
* The fact that after this weekend, we don't have much, if anything, going on. It will be nice to have a few relaxing weekends with no plans.