Howdy! We’re going to the Wild Wild West for Halloween this year! I love Halloween. I love dressing up. I love the creativity of making a costume, and I always start thinking about it really, really early. Like, I’m already thinking about next year, when we...
I’m in the final countdown of this pregnancy with less than four weeks to go before my due date. I’m feeling well, but just like with Joey, I’m having fake contractions pretty much all the time, no matter how well-rested, well-hydrated, and well-relaxed I am....
Prep prep preppy prep. This weekend was dedicated to prep work. It’s boring, but it has to happen. We cleaned, we scrubbed, we took down the old curtain/curtain rod, we patched holes, and we started priming. And by “we” I mean Andy did every one of...
This weekend we bundled up and picked out our very first Christmas tree together. It was love at first sight when we saw this tree, which was also the very first tree we looked at! I’m sure this is the most beautiful Christmas tree ever, and...
This is what failure looks like. We decided to hang curtains in our bedroom this weekend. No big deal, right? It’ll take maybe an hour for four windows, right? Wrong. When you live in a house built in 1890, everything is a big deal. Two trips...
If you’ve been reading for a while you know that we’ve always been a little iffy on the outside of our house. It’s a typical split-level, brick-and-vinyl-siding home built in 1962 that isn’t exactly the most exciting architecturally, but the big problem is the color: beige and...
Resolutions suck. Right? I mean, we always say we’re going to exercise and then we don’t. Or we do for like a week and a half. So this year I wanted to focus on some really easy things we all can do to make our...
That Kerry, she is a sneaky one. On Thursday of last week she had asked if I wanted to go out to dinner with our buddies on Saturday to our favorite Mexican restaurant, Villa y Zapata. I of course said yes. The Ecto-Cooler colored margaritas at...
You may remember that we have a pink dining room. A bubble gum pink dining room. A bold move, maybe, but I love it. What I didn’t love were the dark wood shades that came with the house. They were nice, but well, I hate...
Sometimes I just crave change. Change of seasons. Change of scenery. New shoes. It can take many forms, but I guess that’s pretty obvious given how many blog posts we do about changes we make in our house… yeah, a lot. That’s actually kind of...