table refinishing by l & j

sand away, leslie!

in house, ready for paint - way too hot outside!

roll it out!

mixing in floetrol, the best additive on earth! it makes strokes smooth, so there are little-to-no lines when dry!

these are the pics i have from my table refinishing adventure with leslie. i will post a picture of the finished product soon.

office is finished... for now!

so, the plan to get the office finished wasn't thwarted by babies or husbands, by work or socializing... i started painting and HATED the color i chose. i ended up with a shade lighter than a room in my parents' house, which i chose after my mom suggested that smoke (the original paint i liked and the color in their house) was a lot darker than she expected. i didn't want a dark room... okay i love dark rooms, i just didn't want a dark BLUE room. enter iceburg!


a little jen decorating background: for those that know me (or those that have seen pics of our house), you know that i am not a blue girl. i bought blue towels for our master to go with some neat chocolate brown and blue pictures from hamilton house. hated the towels (still love the pics, they are so neat. will post about them someday). lived with them for about a year, then decided to move the blue from our room to the guest room and ended up with our sandy and chocolate brown room with hints of orangy-red. way more my scene. no room in my house is missing chocolate brown or red, except our guest bath which is painted green (but, come to think of it, has some red flowers and a chocolate brown shower curtain). i love green. i had a green room at alpha phi and green bathroom at my townhouse. in fact, if i had the nerve, we'd have way more green in our house. the nerve to pick it out (tricky color) and the nerve to have the green's live in the land o' green. ha!


anyway, i now LOVE the color iceburg and have done a little accessorizing, but plan on adding a few more pieces (shelf, mirrors, family pictures of yester-year, etc. that's why there is a ....for now! in the title of this blog). but, alas, i would consider this room done and will check it off my list of things to do in that crazy week (or two, whatever, try to get that list done in a week with a baby jack-jack and hubby pete and two dogs, a crazy job, time to breathe, etc.!!)


presenting:



THE OFFICE/CRAFT ROOM!!

a space for crafting. we got this huge oldish table at a furniture sale for $5!

a place for all things paychex. this executive desk was $5, too!

a little storage stand. a cheap one. maybe $10 at most.

jack update

all the tests came back fine! he's just a little dude. thanks for all the support :)

goals for the week...

(besides spending q/t with hubby and baby boy, a.k.a. business to be taken care of while jack is napping and pete is watching a sporting event or working out)

a. work my positively paychex butt off. i have a few pending sales and a few appointments this week. i am also having lunch with a couple cpas, attending two bank branch meetings, an introduction meeting with another banker, a day with my terrirory's ex-rep, a meeting with our marketing manager, and a one-on-one with the new zone manager. man, i'm already tired. i am excited, though, because i like to be successful. and busy. i'm much better that way.
** totally great week at work! a bit stressful, but totally sucessful... on to the next month!

b. eat great and exercise even greater. i would love to shed the remaining baby pounds sooner rather than later and i've been slacking in that department since i returned to work.
** ok in this department, not great, but ok. at least it's a start!

c. redecorate. paint office iceburg blue/gray and reorganize to make a peaceful, efficient work-place (and craft-place). staple-gun new fabric on cork boards, paint large G, arrange family pictures, hang finishing touches.
** got the cutting in done... rolling is on the list for tonight!

d. refinish/paint dining room table with leslie. hopefully complete this project tuesday evening when she comes to town. keep us in your crafty thoughts throughout the evening!!
** check! post to come...

e. go through paperwork (business and personal), pay bills, rsvp to weddings/showers, start wedding shower present ideas, etc.
** not yet...

wish me luck -- will update as i progress!!

wild fire

** UPDATE ** my parents' house is fine, the fire is 60% contained and no houses were lost!!

yesterday, after jack and i finished lounging by the garben pool, we left (around 4) and noticed a plume of smoke rising from behind twin sisters (a range with two 'bumps' - get where the name came from? picture it). pete and i went out around 9 and noticed the plume was much larger. we woke this morning to ash all over our deck, jack's outside play-yard, and our patio furniture. this is not little fire at about 3,500 acres burned at this time. luckily, only one home has been taken by the flames.

this very minute, we are sitting by the side of the road, investigating the possibility of the fire reaching my parents' land and home. meanwhile, there are many residents being evacuated and many more on alert. it is terrifying. i think this site will keep up with details, so check it out for more.

poor jack-jack

little jack had to get blood drawn today at his appointment :(. jack is a little underweight, and after introducing cereal and taking close note of his eating habits, we ventured to the doctor for a weight check. jack didn't gain as much as the doctor hoped, so he's running a few tests. the tests are just to confirm that there isn't anything else going on with jack that we can 'see' during his visits. he's not as worried as he was during our last appointment as he's seen how very active jack is! jack's been rolling around our house and scooting for toys. he is always on the move, ready to run we feel, so he must be burning more calories than a more sedentary baby. watch out for our little crawler in the near future!! uh, i can see the crazy days ahead...

teddy makes it all better!

happy graduation alicia!

alicia green graduated high school last weekend... here is jack enjoying his first graduation, very well behaved i might add, a pic of the grad, and a pic with patrick:

from hot to cold!

from shirtless and swimming in our backyard to the dog park on the bay - hats def. needed!

happy first father's day, daddy!

jack purchased a nice bbq for daddy so we can enjoy our backyard even more! now we can limit the use of the old ultra-mini webber everytime we want tritip or chicken! our guests will enjoy being able to chow all the meat at once, too :)

a lazy sunday at the shack

with some desserts, too!

jack meets marley

cory promised a pig + cow for dowry. they'll totally end up great friends and really gross out about this blog, but it's fun to talk about :) jack knew that marley was another baby and reached out to play with her. awww.

bbq

how professional does that look?
the grillmasters
my strawberry dessert
sleeping jack

we had a great dinner with jason & kristin and wilson & heidi the other night. jason and wilson are friends of pete's from high school (kristin and heidi being their significant others). we had a yummy steak, potatoes, corn, and grilled veggies: peppers, onions, tomatoes. jason & kristin are expecting twins (def something to celebrate!) and heidi just returned from studying in canada (she's home for the summer!)... we look forward to many more bbqs catching up on movies, horticulture, buggying, and things pregnancy/infant related. thanks for hosting, willis', we'll host the next shin-dig :)

off to the races!

pete & i met les & jamie for dollar days at the local track. we bet a few races (no big winners, but i did get a surprise $25 from a ticket) and then ate dinner at pyramid brewhouse. this was pete and my first jack-free outting, we had a great time but we defnitiely missed him!!

genius. part two.

jack crawled (with the assistance of daddy) to his toy!! jack has been great during tummy time, so we decided to take it a step further. while jack lays on the ground, he moves his legs as though he's crawling, so we put out our hands to give him some leverage. he pushed off and made his way to this flashing, brightly colored toy. we are so proud!

genius.

here's a pic of the first time i saw him grasp the rattle with his hands and shake! we know that the shake was accidental, but our parental pride says he's figured it out already :)