YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

So, most of you know that the only thing Andy and I can't seem to agree on cars. I feel like a car is something you use to get from point a to point b and andy, well, you've met him, you know.... He has a real passion and talent for cars.
So we had 4 cars, my car, a truck and 2 race/ project cars. These projects cars were very time consuming and not really allowing a lot of energy for much else. It was becoming quite an issue, not just for me either, Andy was drained from always working on them and tired of spending entire weekends in the garage.
Well last Monday we decided we would just look at see what was out there for me when we sell my car. We stumbled upon a car that Andy has wanted for a while, and to make a long boring story short, we bought it. The agreed upon compromise was that since Andy would have this new, sporty car then he would sell the project cars.
Can I have a moment of silence to celebrate just what a huge thing this is....
Alright, enough silence.
So we bought Andy a 2008 Mazda Speed 3, it is practical but with a turbo so Andy is happy.


Since we now have a super reliable vehicle, Andy finally convinced me to sell my car. I won't make you take another moment of silence for the loss of the best car that ever was, but I should-it's THAT great of a car.I've had that car for 8 years! Since high school! I have so many fun memories in that car. We posted it on craigslist and it sold the very next night! As the car drive away from me in the HEB parking lot, I'm not even going to lie, I totally cried. It was a moment.
Good bye my friend, I will miss you!



Andy just got home and apparently a friend of his is planning on buying the RX-7 from him this weekend! YES! 2 cars down 1 to go!
Woooo-hoooooooooooo

Sick and bored.....

So this is day 4 of no work and being sick, I am feeling a little better, I got a doctor's note so I will FINALLY get to use some of my sick time (my work will only let you use it if you have a doctor's note for 5 + days, so I had 180+ hours of sick time!) That is a blessing. What does one do when they are sickly and can't do a whole lot and doesn't have cable???
Watch awesomely bad internet videos of course....here are some of my favorite:










Okay so they are weird, but you gotta admit that Indian Thriller one is catchy....

Projects, Projects, and then more Projects...

Lots of projects the last month or so. The biggest and hairiest has been the CRX. Let me take 1 sec to explain Andy's eternal love of his beloved CRX. He bought this thing in college and has done TONS to it. I wouldn't do the list justice, so I won't even try, but basically anything that could be switched out or amde better has been. As a result of the pampering of this, this 20+ year old beast of a car will just never die. It was covered in rust and a ever flaking cheapo paint job challenged him to learn to do body work and paint it. So, for the past 2 months Andy has taken apart, cut out the rust, did a ton of body work and then painted it. It is beautful paint job, and hopefully we can now sell the car! So, if you know anyone....

Before

Work in progress:

After!!!!!
(still has a tiny bit to go, but you get the point)

We have also bought a RX7, which Andy assures me will just be a daily driver when he's done with it, but when I hear talks of a a corvette motor swap I am a little dubious of that. We will see what happens!!!


We've been able to do some house projects along in between. Most recently we painted the living room "jalepeno jelly". It is bright and probably for most a little much, but I LOVE it. Between the yellow room and now this room I've let go of the fact that everyone will agree with my love of bright colors and that is okay. My brother recently compared my decorating style to that of Elvis...and I told him that my Jungle Room was a-comin'!
;)


We have some curtains up now which helps and Andy is going to make me a window cornice which I am pretty pumped about. I think it will make a huge difference when get some stuff on the walls too. Also looking for new rug and throw pillows since none of the old stuff worked.

Another work in progress is the back yard. It is almost completely shaded and so had little to no grass. The green stuff you see was mostly weeds. It was a sad little back yard.


Being the cheapo's we are we opted for seeding as opposed to sodding the yard. I'm so glad we did because it's been so awesome to see the cute little blades popping up and slowly making us a yard. It still has a ways to go and I'm sure we will continue to seed for a few more falls and springs, but it's so cool to watch the progress.



I would like to say there are no more projects planned ofr right now, but it's just not true. We are attempted to be a little bit more balanced though, we had people over last night to grill out and play Wii and then this we are going to Midlothian this weekend to see Andy's sister graduate (woo-hoo Kari!) and looking forward to hanging out with family!

Happy Easter!

Easter snuck up on us this year...as it tends to do when you don't live around family and having any big plans. The last few years we've gone on picnics, which has been great, and one of my favorite things to do. Today we went to church, which was amazing. Then we came home and Andy grilled some turkey burgers. Andy's been working a lot of his car, but he's taking breaks so we can do some fun stuff today too. We went for bike ride and then later took Molly for a walk.
Going for our bike ride....

The weather has been so stinking nice, so we've been getting out and doing lots of yard work. We finaly planted our grass seeds, so here in about 3 weeks we will either be thrilled that we saved money by planting seed or very frustrated that we have to go another summer without grass in the back yard. Last Saturday we took Molly to a dog park, she was the only dog of about 30 dogs that were there to find the mud pit. We kept losing her and would find her just wallowing in the mud. We, of course, had no towel, so we had a very stinky and gross car ride home with lots of clean up afterwards...


So worn out she can't keep her eyes open....


Okay so not to be dog crazy, but I do have 1 more Molly story, every once in a while Andy and I try to take pictures when we get dressed up, this time was right before church. Molly was not suppose to be in this picture. I had set the 10 second timer on the camera, and she jumped on the couch and posed just perfectly in time for the picture. If we wanted to take a picture with her doing that it wouldn't happen in a million years....


Alrighty, well I hope everyone is having a great Easter and eating at least a few marshmellow or Robin's eggs. Yummmm....

Visitors!

So I love love love (yes, that was 3 loves) having visitors. In the last month or so we've had a few of my favorite people. Our first visitor of the year was Annette, Andy's mom. We had fun watching movies, playing Wii, and my favorite memory of the trip, all 3 of us going to get pedicures. Andy absolutely didn't want to do it, but once we got him there he loved it! It was so great.


Andy LOVING his first pedicure!


Then my mom came down for the weekend! It was the first time just my mom came down which was kinda nice to get to do all the girl stuff we wouldn't probably do if my dad and brother were here. We went to Zilker Park, botanical gardens, saw "She's Just Not That Into You" with a couple of my friends, shopped on South Congress, ate at Home Slice (the best pizza ever, and I say that having done lots of my own research on this topic ;) ). I would say my favorite part of the weekend though was my mom teaching me how to make chicken broth.... Who knew that chicken broth was like a 6 hour process? It was awesome though, and sadly I used the last of it this week. My mom is a great cook and gardener, both things I aspire to be so I try to soak up as much knowledge as I can when I am around her!
I cannot deny that I am turning into my mom, but in my books that is a good thing, because my mom is a pretty awesome person. Love you and miss you little mama!

Our most recent visitor was one of my best friends, Holly. We have been friends since middle school and I am so blessed to know her. It was kind of a rainy weekend without a whole lot going on so we layed low, talked and talked and then talked some more, and of course ate lots of yummy food. We also did a lots and lots of shopping and found all these cute little shops and boutiques which was super fun.


So now that summer is right around the corner, we look forward to many many more visitors!!!!

Bedroom Before and After!

We finished the bedroom! We only really worked on it for about a month, but it seemed like so much longer. Popcorn ceilings aren't looking quite so bad to me anymore....
I am so so so happy with the results. Not the Andy's Wal-Mart clearance 10 year old furniture wasn't fabulous, but it is so nice to actually have stuff that "goes" together. After "the yellow room" disaster (our 2nd bedroom is what has been described as high-liter yellow (and that person was putting it nicely!) I was a bit dubious of my ability to make good house/decorating choices. I think I put all the things we did to it above so I won't repeat myself-but basically anything that could be changed was. Andy did me proud again.

Before




AFTER!!!!!!!!!

Some old pictures...

Still tinkering around, trying to figure out everything.