Random Pictures

My newest creation. I wanted to make a memory board for my

favorite pictures that I don't have room for in my house to frame. Most of these are priceless to me and I couldn't ever bear to part with them!

I made it in less than 15 mins. I need to work on making straight lines though.

It proudly hangs in my craft room. can you guess which cat is the imposter? That sneaky goat cat! Ryan, our favorite

Missouri State Patrol Man, Trent and I. Getting ready to go tubing on the river. Current River weekend

So long, So. IL

Today Ryan and I leaving for a little weekend getaway to Memphis. We are seeing Dave Matthews on Saturday night and are excited just to see the sights of Memphis and finally get away even if it is for three days! Everyone have a wonderful weekend! I'll post when I get home. Can't wait to see those ducks at the Peabody Hotel!

Poor Poor Cat..........

I bought this awesome book where you turn socks and gloves into cute little animals. The modern version of the Sock Monkey. I didn't have any gloves to cut up so I took one of Ryan's socks and tried to replicate this cute little cat. This is what it turned out to look like. A armless goat cat. One, I broke my sewing machine and two I was so disapointed with my cat that I didn't bother sewing arms on the poor thing. I showed Ryan what it was supposed to look like and he just gave me the most pitiful look. I will not let this defeat me. I will march on and try to make the bunny when I find gloves in JULY!

My Fabulous Friend Katie.........

Katie and Bronson ran up to Chicago on Saturday and she brought me back one of my most favorite foods in the world!!!!!!! Garretts Popcorn! I could eat the cheese popcorn all day long if my tounge didn't fall off from all the sodium. If you don't know about Garrett's it's truly a mecca in Chicago. I have seen a line of at least 50 people waiting to get some of their famous popcorn. My favorite is the cheese. I have eaten in the last 30 mins of owning this fabulous tin of cheese lard at least 1/3 of it. I'm sure if I looked up the calorie content my head would explode. But then I'd piece it back together and go right on eating it again. Thank you Katie and Bronson. It was so nice of you guys to wait in line just to make me look that much nicer this weekend in my bathing suit. Much love!

Me and my ONE GALLON of cheese popcorn. The Bears tin is for Ryan of course!

I tried to take a picture of it to capture the fantasticness of the popcorn but it didn't turn out due to the glare of all the CALORIES

PerezHilton just posted this today!!!!! Pretty Exciting!

Very exciting news musical theater lovers!!!
Finally, a feature film adaptation of the Broadway smash Wicked is in the works.
Yay!
Some names that we could easily see playing either role are: Anne Hathaway, Mandy Moore, Emmy Rossum, Kristen Bell and…..
Who would U love to see in the film????

Baby Jack and cabinets!

Bronson and Katie brought baby Jackson over tonight to play while the guys hung our cabinets! It was soooo good to see Katie. She is just a natural with the new mom role. Jack cried once for the whole time he was over. It wasn't even a cry though. We laughed how "cute" it was. Probably not as cute at 4 in the morning.

Katie and Jackson

I love his hands in this picture!
He was a little gassy here. He was ready for a bottle and a nap at this point!
Some cabinets and our new wall color!

More of the 4th!

We spent the 5th watching fireworks in Herrin at the High School parking lot.

Ryan sat and enjoyed the view of the parking lot

Vance waved at all the fireworks as they shot up in the air.
Caden sat up here for about 2 seconds. He then entertained all of us with his bike tricks.

The 4th!

We were suppose to go to St. Louis for the 4th, to meet up with friends from work and go to a concert. But we experienced a little paint catastrophy and we had to stay here to decide how to fix it. We visited with Ryan's family for a bit and then went over to a friends home for fireworks.

Ry and I

Casey, Brylan, and Dillan taking a break during the firework launch Ry and Angie his mom
Ry and Dave his dad

Hanging out with the BEETLES!!!

I'm here to sing praises of the Beetle Bag. This thing is AMAZING! I bet there are 300 beetles in the bag already! Scroll down if you want to be grossed out!

Garden in full bloom almost half full!

Watching Paint Dry (Boring Post)

The walls in our new drywalled kitchen and living room are filled now with about 15 different paint swatches. As you can see it looks like a nautical rainbow had a head on collision with my walls. Finally today we found one we agreed on and liked. So it's now onto painting.

Night Vision

I woke up this weekend to find this. I just had to take the picture. I don't know why cats always seem to think you want them to sleep on your head but they do.. It's almost as though little kitty thinks hes doing Ryan a favor. As you can tell, Ryan didn't seem to mind.

Baby Parrish has Arrived

Jackson arrived early this morning at 12:14 a.m. 7 lbs and 12 oz. 20 inches long. Katie and Bronson are doing wonderfully! He will be coming home on Wednesday afternoon. This is the first child for the Parrish's. Warm wishes to you three!

Sunday Night T.V.

Just a cute picture of Ry and Little Kitty. Intently watching some ridiculous show on the largest fish ever caught.

Beetles, Bees & Birds

We have some new visitors this summer. Bees and Beetles. The Beetles have chewed up all of my sweet daisies. Ryan's mom suggested I buy a Beetle bag from Wal-Mart. Boy and I glad I did. Within 2 mins of putting it together and hanging it on our light post it was full of Beetles. By the end of the day I bet we had over 200 of those suckers in the bag. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone with those jerky bugs. The smell that atracts them to the bag is quite similar to a Chai Latte strangely. Our other visitor is attracted to my huge lavendar bush. Bees are constantly swarming it! I enjoy them though. I like to try to take pictures of them while they are taking out the nectar. Another issue we are having is birds slamming into our bedroom and sunroom windows early in the morning. Dead birds laying around is quite gross! Anyone have any ideas to stop these kamikazi birds?

Chewed up daisies from those jerky beetles

Beetle Death RowAfter about 10 mins!!!!! Crazy huh?A view of my little flower gardenMy prized lavendar bush that was a little tiny plant last year! Bees and the lavendar
Bee Balm this smells wonderful and grows like crazy
Green eyed Suzies
Just a fun picture of my lavendar

Popcorn Anyone?

Yesterday the workers came to scrape the popcorn texture off our ceiling. I walked out of my bathroom while they were doing it and you could have cut the dust with a knife. Thank goodness the weather is nice right now. We can't turn on our air until they are done because of our ac getting clogged. Plastic is down everywhere. We are down to 2 rooms we can live in. Our den and our bedroom. Hopefully this phase will be done soon. Everything in my house including me are covered in sheetrock dust.

Officially Done!!! Well, for awhile that is!

Ryan just finished his job in the kitchen. Tomorrow the pros are coming in to finish the rest. I'm so glad to have my husband back in the evenings now!

Blueberry Hill........

Ry and I went to Blueberry Hill this afternoon to pick blueberries. But were a little too early. Blueberries aren't ready until the week of the 23rd. Raspberries are available next Saturday but today all we could pick were strawberries! Here are some shots of our pickins!

More Kitchen photos!

I know, I know, these are sooo boring! But to have actually sheetrock on our kitchen walls makes me thrilled! Ryan has worked like crazy to get this all done in time for our sheetrock guy to come and finish it.

Burp Cloths for Baby Parrish

I'm helping throw a baby shower tomorrow for my friend Katie. These are the burp cloths I made for her and baby Parrish. We know it's a boy but Bronson and Katie are keeping his name a surprise. She is doing a beautiful nautical theme for his room. Here's what I came up with.

Blue and white seersucker and a plaid polo like fabric

Katie has a blanket with all of the nautical flags on

it in his room. I thought they would be cute on the cloths.

New Kitchen Photos

We are totally bare to the floors to the walls. We are awaiting the cabinets to come in and our new appliances are patiently waiting in the livingroom.