Andy and I just celebrated our one year wedding anniversary with a big party at the bowling alley where we had our first date. It was like coming full circle. Bindernagel Party! Mahall’s is an awesome bowling alley in Lakewood, Ohio that is one of those places that hasn’t changed in so...
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 are definitely going to do...
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. So I’m on doctor’s order...
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 those things and I did...
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 it was a pretty special...
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 to the hardware store and...
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 evergreen, two of our least...
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 homes a little easier to...
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 this place cannot be topped,...
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 shades no matter what, and...