Deck Progress

This weekend Dad & John came to help B frame the new deck in! It was extremely muddy and chilly AND windy but they got alittle bit done! I just wanted to show a picture of us (and p.s. John HAD to make a silly face!) !! I had to get myself in with the group too, even though I was the "go for" person!!! Thanks so much Dad & John for taking time out to help B! I enjoyed being with ya'll!!! Love you much!!!!

Happy National Registered Dietitian's Day and WELCOME SPRING!!!

On March 11, 2009, Dietitians were honored with a Day to be acknowledged and appreciated!! One of my floors, my Skilled Nursing Facility, made a banner for me and gave me a "happy" of a pretty pad of paper & a pen! I felt very special that they would think of me! One of my individual nurses also gave me some fun happies!!

Our boss send us an Edible Arrangements! The fruit was delicious and cut so pretty!!! I had never had one of those before and enjoyed it so much!!! Thanks to all!!!!!

My buttercups have been blooming like crazy this year! I don't remember in the past there being so many! I have not been frugile with them this year, I have actually picked a few, brought them in the house or taken them to work to enjoy! But some of the cold weather and SNOW has really beat them up! I just thought I would share a few of the buttercup pictures and of my "vandalisim" in the snow!!! :)

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Also, one last thing, I am excited about this! I crocheted a bouquet of buttercups! I thought I would do that for MeeMaw since she has been in Rehab and is missing all the buttercups bloom! That has really upset her. I just mailed them off, so hopefully she will be very excited about them and she will enjoy them all Spring long!! :) See what you think!!!

HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE!!!!!!

There were 4 & NOW there will be 5!!!!!!

There were 4 & NOW there will be 5......girls, that is! We all have been friends since high school and Amy is making an addition to our "group"!!! Brooklyn Avery!!! She is due on May 19th!! This weekend Ellen, Julie & I gave Amy a Rockin' Baby shower!!! We had a good turn out and Amy got tons of "loot" (per Ellen) :) We also just had a good time visiting and catching up! I think we cherish every moment we have together because we don't get to see one another that often! Enjoy the pictures in the Photos section if you would like! :)

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!!!!!!