Spring Cleaning!

P.S. this may be the longest blog entry in America...... :)

Well, so in the past month, I have gotten some burr under my behind and decided it was time for SPRING CLEANING! Yes, I know it is a tad bit early, but what can I say! Bless Brian, he had to stay with the motto.... "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" I had wonderful help from him...... I couldn't have done all of this with out him! (Thank you B! You are the best! I love you!) By the end of the 4 weeks of cleaning, cleaning OUT, painting, throwing away, recycling ....B looked at me and said "Stace, there are easier ways to kill me, you know?" Bless his heart!!! We have been exhausted, but I feel a lot better about getting things done. Don't get me wrong I still have LOTS to accomplish, but at least those projects can be after work one night! Needless to say that is why I haven't blogged lately or even added to my pictures!

What have we done you ask? We have painted 2 bedrooms, a hallway, cleaned out 4 closets and the attic. We have bought and put together furniture for our study and a bookcase for our hallway! I found 73dollars in our cleaning out, and treated us to dinner! ;) But like I said, I have several under the sinks to go through and a few piles that can't seem to quit growing! I am proud of us and if I can boast a minute, I think the rooms look professionally done!!! BUT we can not be bought, we will not come to your house to clean out your attic or paint your bedrooms! ha!!

Below are some pictures that have happened over the past 4 weeks of chaos and fun......they are somewhat out of order, but just try to picture it...... :)

Sophe watching us come IN & OUT of the bedroom that we were painting! I am sure she was like "seriously ya'll, can you QUIT making so much noise?!" :)

I sat down to dinner at our dining table on Sunday night and looked up and it was like singing angels!!! My Pineapple Plant is having a Pineapple! :) I was so excited! A friend of mine gave this to me after her Hawaiian themed wedding and 3 years later, I AM HAVING A PINEAPPLE! I used to know how to say "I am a Pineapple" in French, but that was in high school......ha!!!



This is the Underseas Bedroom. I don't like the bedspread with it, so I am on the hunt for a cutie one! Once I get it all pretty-ed up, I will post another picture!!! But I do love the color!!!


We were so excited that this was the LAST ROOM of the house we had to paint..... I wanted to make a "sign" before we painted over it! ;) This is the Underseas room!

This is the Cavern Clay room. I really really really love this color, it is so calming and has such a warm feeling. I think I am going to start making B & I sleep in that room! ;)

This is the hallway between both guest bedrooms. We painted it the same color as our living room & kitchen. It is Empire Gold. I also love this color too!!! As a side note, The Sunflower picture was painted for me, by my brother John! I love it and I think it looks great now with an Empire Gold background!!

This was the first night of the Cavern Clay room. B & I didn't have enough rollers, so I had gone around all the doors and windows with the paint brush and I was done, so I didn't really have a job, so I grafftti'd the room with LOVE TO BRIAN!!! :) I did make him laugh really hard, so it was WELL worth it!

Also this month I got to spend a Monday night with my friend Audra & her sweet little girl, Whitten, while Daddy, Marty was in class for the night! We ate dinner and talked and talked, then we took a bath and look at those sweet jammies that Whitten got to sleep in that night...She is the sweetest!!!!

MY BUTTERCUPS ARE UP AND BLOOMING IN FEBURARY!!!!!!!!! I am not really sure how I feel about that!!!!!!!!! But they are pretty and smell so good! I believe these are my favorite flowers!!!!!

We got to spend a few hours this past Friday night with our friends Amy & Joe. Amy is ~7months pregnant and cute as a Bug In A Rug! They are getting Miss Brooklyn's room ready and we got to see the new paint job! It is awesome! She said once it was ready I could come "document" it with my pictures! This coming weekend (Feburary 28th, all the girls from Paris are giving her a shower! So, there will be another blog Sunday!). But anyways, Amy & Joe thought they had to bribe or "bride" (I wrote that in an email to Amy -I am such a spelling freak!) us with pizza to come to "fix" her computer, which was already fixed when we got there! We had a great time!! Thank you for the Pizza guys!! Love you too!!!

The Gateway....

This past weekend Brian & I went to St. Louis with our friends Courtney & Todd. We had such a good time!! In the photo section of our website there is a WHOLE album of the trip! Enjoy!



We also went to a place called The Chocolate Bar! It was DELICIOUS! :)

3 Generations Go To A Show....

This past weekend my Mom, MeeMaw & I went to a Cirque De Soliel show - Saltimbanco! We had such a good time! The show was a amazing and we had AWESOME seats!! Some of the acts made us nervous; we were so afraid they were going to fall! There were also such cute, funny acts mixed in the nervous ones! It was just a mixture of joy & excitement! I didn't want the show to end and I certainly didn't want the weekend to end, but we had precious girl time and I enjoyed every minute of it!!!

Before Mom & MeeMaw got to the house, Sophe was "baking in the sun"! :)

Happy New Year!!! 2009

Happy New Year!! It is 2009 and I am ready to start off a new year on a good start!!! B got me these glasses after 9 years of me saying "Awe, I really would like to have a pair of those 2000 glasses!!" Well, this year, I got my wish! I am and was so excited to get them! Cause next year they won't be able to look like that!! :( BUT they have TONS of glitter on them!!! If you know me, then you know HOW I LOOOOOOVE SOME GLITTER!! ha!!! B even got himself a pair!! =) But, don't I kind look like Ozzy Osbourne!???! SCARY!!!!!
Happy New Year everyone!

Below is the coolest family I have ever seen/met! We spent New Years with Brian's coworker and friend Robert & his family! They are honestly the most fun, down to earth people that I have ever been around! We had such a good time being with them! I felt like I had known them FOREVER! They are an AWESOME group of people and we are so excited that they invited us to ring in the New Year with them!!! We love the Amundson's!!!!!!

Burrrr!

Just wanted to show what the temperature was when I was headed to work this morning! I LOVE IT!!!! and p.s. I was sitting at a STOP light, NOT DRIVING down the road, for all of you who would be worried! ha!!!

Rummaging........

I was rummaging through some pictures this morning and found 2 pictures from our Disney World Trip this year! They made me wish I was there enjoying the "Happiest Place on Earth!" We have gone the past 3 years and I think we are planning on going back this coming year too! We are NUTS! ha!

Me & Stitch

B & I in France....since I am from Paris and all! ha!

Run, Run, Run......

So, I work with the girl name Caitlin, she is also my friend. :) She ran in the St. Jude Marathon today. The track that all the runners take is just a couple of blocks away from the hospital. Court & I had to work today, so we decided along with another co-worker/friend of ours, Lisa, that we would just leave work for a little bit and walk up and see her run by and cheer her on! Well, as we are walking up to the intersection we are to cheer her on at, we see her! We are a BLOCK away, she can't see us but we see her!! It was so sad we didn't get up there to cheer her on, but we DID see her from a distance!! I mean, I brought my camera and everything! I was bummed! So, I just took a picture of the pack of people that was behind her! It was really neat.... all along the side of the road people were cheering the runners on, I mean, I would need some heavy cheering on if I was running a 26 mile trek! Whew!! but she DID IT and she is awesome for doing so and for such a great charity! Way to go Cait!!!



Also, tonight after work I went to Audra & Marty's house. She has asked me, ever so nicely, :) if I would mind taking their family picture for Christmas cards. Man, I was nervous. And have totally learned if I want to do this for a living, I have to be quick, think quickly and have fun, fresh ideas on the top of my head to get things accomplished, I have ALOT of learning to do! and Audra, you just know that I will totally come back and take more ANYTIME, if you don't like these, I want you to be pleased!!! k??? But Audra was sweet enough to take a picture of me and Whitten! Isn't she precious!? and posing in the sweet shirt her Grandmother Matthews made for her!!
Love you guys!