Please Excuse Us...

...while we go on but another brief haitus. This one, courtesy of our little milkmaid who had a little (big) spillage problem near the newly remodeled computer. We'll be in touch...

Happy 2nd Year, Honey!

Thanks, babes, for 2 glorious years. Looking back, we've accomplished quite a bit. And we still love each other. What could be more beautiful?

And thank you for the beautiful flowers (not pictured: another vase with white and red roses.) and the great night out.

I love them.

A Scene out of Twister

On Monday, Trav subbed for the church softball game. I watched Adalynn and kept score, all the while looking off to a scary dark cloud to the southwest. Trav's pager went off twice signaling a tornado watch and severe thunderstorm warning, so we were somewhat prepared that something was headed our way.

As soon as the game ended we packed up, and were buckling Adalynn into the carseat as the first raindrops plopped on the windshield. Trav started the truck and as we drove the 5miles home the weather grew worse and worse. Across the farm fields we could see the wave of rain moving towards us, and then engulfing the truck as the trees started blowing. Debris began flying across the pavement and on the dirt road near our house we heard a clunk on the top of the truck...an large unwelcome tree branch meeting the truck's roof.

Once home, we found the garage door wouldn't rise because the power was off. Trav secretly opened up the house (i can't tell you how, i'd have to kill you. it's super secret.) and ran back for Adalynn. We stumbled through the garage to the door, and Trav's pager went off. Turns out that at the intersection we had just driven through, a tree came down on the electrical wires and they sparked across the intersection. Close call, but Thank God we're safe!

"Huh."

I just love this girl.

The Master Bath Redo

BEFORE:

Not the best, but you get the picture...

On our little vacation from the blogworld, we (and by "we", i really mean trav & co.) took the vanity, countertop, and sink out of our master bath...and replaced it with a new vanity, counter, and DouBle (read that: 2!) sinks. Which means that I no longer have to deal with his sticky, messy sinkside...I get my own to get dirty!

In the "demo" process. In our effort to "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle" (it sounds better than "We're Cheap, so...") we moved this vanity downstairs, where it is happy in it's new home in the guest bath.

We chose clear black glass vessel sinks. We had decided on vessel sinks to maximize our countertop space. These blackies were the only ones that made Trav go "Ooh", and were within our budget. I had picked up, for some unknown reason, this tile at a garage sale eons ago. It just happened to be black, and there was just enough for the countertop...so, as fate had it, black tile landed on the replaced vanity.

For some reason, I don't have any finished pictures of the bath with the mirror up. Huh. I'm blaming that one on the preggo brain.

Adalynn so loves to "help" with all of our household tasks. She's going to be so lost if we ever finish our list. Good for her, I don't forsee it happening soon.

And this is the finished (-mirror) product. I'm quite proud of you, T. You dun good.