"Where'd Andy go?"

I often wonder where oh where has my sweet hubby disappeared to, we'll be sitting on the couch and I I don't know if he is just sneaky or if I'm just oblivious to everything around me (pretty sure it's the latter) but I will suddenly realize he isn't there anymore. I know exactly were to go....

I just went snapped this picture because it's a familiar scene. At times it can drive me a little nutty, but I love that Andy is such a hard worker and definitely loves to be tinkering in the garage!

The best things in life are free...the second best things are cheap...

Who doesn't love a good deal? One of my favorite things! Here are a some deal I've done in the last couple of weeks....

Tonight I got all this for $4!


While grocery shopping last week, HEB had a ton of stuff on close-out that was super cheap! Lots of healthy stuff which can be hard to find on sale! I spent about $11 on these items but saved $39!


This Walgreens/CVS trip cost me $14, which I was still really happy with b/c I got a ton of face cleanser which can be expensive!


It's been fun figuring out the deals and Andy and I have even been doing it together. We are a good team b/c I am very timid about trying to stack a bunch of coupons and get intimidated by the process sometimes and he just goes for it and attempts to use as many coupons as possible. Anyways, we have fun and save money which is definitely a good combination!

The not-so-yellow room....

The first room we painted when we moved into the house was 3rd bedroom. We had not yet learned about the best invention known to man kind-tiny paint samples- so we bought the most obnoxiously bright yellow paint and learned to live with this retina-scarring color that made us continually think the light was left on when it wasn't....



It was Molly's room for awhile, for about a month some friends stayed in that room, then it was my office, then it became a guest room. Lots of changes but finally we decided to change the wall color.

What do you think?



The window will get replace as well, but we had to custom order that, so it will be in the next 4-6 weeks. Andy, as always, did a great job installing new crown molding and baseboards. I love me some bright white glossy moldings!
I think I am slowly learning that just because I l-o-v-e bright colors doesn't mean I have to cover every walls with them. There's something to be said for nice calming colors. Oh snap, does that mean I'm growing up?

Super Bowl Par-tay

So we had a Super Bowl party with our young Married group from church last night! It was a lot of fun and we had A LOT of people come. I think I counted 34 adults, 2 kids, and 2 babies! It was a tight squeeze to say the least! It really made me appreciate and love everyone that much more because they were so gracious even though about 1/2 of everyone there spent the evening sitting on the floor!

Watching the game


There was a ton of food, this is just the meats....


I didn't get a good picture, but most of the girls sat on the floor in the completely empty guest room and we ate, talked, and played Loaded Questions. Had so much fun ladies!!!!


The cutest little family that I know!


It was a great evening and I am on a bit of a greasy food and sweets hang-over today but it was totally worth it! God really blessed us with the friendships we have from church and we always enjoy time with everyone. Maybe next time we can have chair to sit in!

Projects, projects, and then some more projects

Sorry for the lack of posts, we have been busy little bees! Unfortunately nothing blog-worthy. I mean, I know you guys are my friends/family, but I'm not going to subject to the perils of dry-walling our garage. Yes, that is what we did all last weekend. Yes, it was 30 degrees. Yes, it was bad timing. No, I did not do it with a joyful heart. I tried to...but it just wasn't happening....
So we got to use our new concrete mixer (who knew concrete could be fun?) and poured a concrete slab on the side of the house for Andy to build a little storage unit for his metal, ripped out a lot of janky rotted dry wall in the garage, replaced it, painted the walls sandstone gray, and are in the process of slowly putting everything back in the garage.
Then I decided I wanted my own project to work on (aka: needed an excuse to not freeze my hiney off in the garage) so I decided to tackle "the yellow room". So I painted the walls and the ceiling! Then I realized painting is just about the only thing I could do on my own, so been waiting for Andy to put up the new baseboards and crown molding, which we worked on last night till about 11pm. Tomorrow I am going to paint them and then we will be done...for now. I am super happy with the way it turned out, and will post pictures next week!
I never really thought that I was a neat freak, but having all the contents of the garage (which is A LOT: imagine a Sears tool dept exploding inside your house) scattered throughout most our house made me insane. Not like "wow, it's really annoying to crawl over this welder to get into bed" but more like "I CANNOT handle this mess one second longer!" and feeling anxiety everything I look at it. I'm very happy that we are having a Super Bowl Party so we have a deadline of this Sunday to "git er done"!
Hope everyone is staying warm on toasty and had a fabulous week!

I went a fight and a hockey game broke out....

So we know/desire to know/care nothing about sports, the one exception to that being hockey. In college we had a friend who would hook us up with free tickets and thus began our interest in hockey. So a few night ago we went to a Texas Stars game and had a blast!

We started our hockey date with something that we hardly ever do- FOOT LONG CHILI CHEESE CONEY! Andy had a hankering for a hotdog, so if you are going to eat junk, do it right and go all the way....Sonic was there to help us with that.


Contemplating how I was going to take down that beast of a hot dog


Then it was off to see some hockey!


Being the cheapo's that we are, we loaded up on free stuff (we felt like it made the sting of paying $10 for parking hurt less). The lady sitting down the row from Andy was clearly upset that she didn't get a rockin' HEB scarf like he did, look at those eyes, green with envy. Who can blame her?


As much as I love how fast paced hockey, and the guilty pleasure and chanting for people to fight (don't lie-it's fun and you know it) my favorite part of hockey has to be hockey fans. Loud. Obnoxious. Enthusiastic. Fun. Okay, so those don't all sound like good words and it's not every single hockey fan for sure. We sat by 3 really loud mouths and heard some horrible jokes, tasteless rips on the opposing team, and of course pure and unadulterated hatred for the refs. Fun times! Already looking forward to our next game! GO STARS!

HELLO LIFE.....I've missed you....

Okay, so after 6 weeks of dragging my lazy bee-hind into the office for training for my new/old job, I'm back! Back to waking up 10 minutes before my shift, back to showering my lunch break, back to wearing sweats for days at a time, that's right- BACK TO WORKING FROM HOME!
Give me a moment, I'm tearing up, I'm just so happy....
I SO took my schedule/situation for granted before training. I was always belly aching about waking up early every day! Pssshhhh- I get off at 3pm! What a blessing!
Looking forward to having a social life again and just having time for getting stuff done!!!!