I [heart] Davids It helps me to say these things aloud, I think.

November 22, 2007

Stuffing (ourselves)

Filed under: Family,Granma,Meals & Food,Vacation,Visitors — JeniQ @ 9:52 pm

For the holiday, we’ve got Dave’s parents here and Granma as well. Yay for Mom and Gene, who drove up to Virginia Beach on Wednesday and brought Granma back!

Dad and I
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Mom and I polish silver on Thursday morning
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Granma and Mom indulge in some waffles for breakfast
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It has been such a beautiful day out! The weather was perfect! We spent a few hours on the front porch enjoying the day.
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The cats got to enjoy the lovely weather, as well, with a mega-dose of outdoor time on the front lawn, eating grass and chasing leaves in the wind.
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Several hours later, we sat down to a lovely Thanksgiving day meal. We had turkey, stuffing, potatoes, green beans, cranberries and chopped salad.
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After dinner, and then dessert, everyone collapsed in front of the TV.
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What a great day!! Happy Turkey Day to everyone!!

November 21, 2007

Kermit!

Filed under: Movies — JeniQ @ 10:47 pm

Kermit is co-hosting the movies tonight on Turner Classic Movies!!!

Thinking of you

Filed under: Friends — JeniQ @ 5:17 pm

You are important, and I think about you lots. I wish we were neighbors. Or at least in neighboring states.

See what I keep on top of my fridge?

Friends Pic

Baby Gifts

Filed under: Alba,Ali,Babies,Cristin,Gifties — JeniQ @ 5:12 pm

We’ve started getting baby gifts!

This is the first gift we got for the baby, from a co-worker. She took great pains to say the name several times – it sounds funny!!
It’s a lovely, soft blanket in bright colors from IKEA. Yay!

Barnslig Prickar

Then Cristin gave me Toby socks!!!!! What can I even say? LOVES!!!!!!!

Toby Socks

And my friend Alba sent me this adorable fleece poncho from Colombia, along with some soft fuzzy socks for me and coffee for Dave. She thought of the whole family, I’m impressed!

Poncho

And last, but totally not least, is this ADORABLE sock-cat from Ali. 1) Whoever thought to make a sock-monkey in cat form was SMRT. 2) I think someone’s going to have to start giving me synonyms for “adorable” at some point in the near future.

Sock Cat

Thank you all!!!!

A home for books

Filed under: Books,Decorating — JeniQ @ 4:52 pm

Been meaning to post a picture of our new bookcase for a while now.

It’s enormous, and gorgeous, and flawed in subltle ways that only loving craftsmanship can manage. It’s amazingly heavy. It’s got almost an entire shelf dedicated to sci-fi paperback novels. I love it!

We had it handbuilt by a guy named Jon Shriver. I will give you his number if you want him to build a beautiful bookcase of your very own.

Bookcase 1

Bookcase 2

November 19, 2007

GAH!! SO PERFECT!

Filed under: Shopping — JeniQ @ 4:14 pm

Raisins

The perfect sentimental t-shirt.

November 13, 2007

Yay!! Wormy Shirt

Filed under: Worm Bin — JeniQ @ 1:42 pm

Look what Sean gave me:
Wormy Tshirt

And he was nice enough to deliver it to me. How cool is that? I’m am SO wearing this on Fun T-Shirt Friday!

November 11, 2007

The View from Here

Filed under: Babies — JeniQ @ 10:26 pm

My view at 22 weeks

View from here

Project 1: Kitchen Redo – Complete!

Filed under: Decorating — JeniQ @ 8:52 pm

We put the final coat on today, then peeled off all the tape, touched up all the trouble spots, and cleaned up. It looks great!!

Kitchen Finished - Coffee Maker

Kitchen Finished - Stove

Project 1: Kitchen Redo – In Progress

Filed under: Decorating — JeniQ @ 12:00 pm

As a reminder, there are two parts to the our project in the kitchen: the tile backsplash and some new paint. The subway tile backsplash is in! We selected a paint color – Roast Coffee won.

So now comes the hard part, to paint the walls, and that’s been our task this weekend. Saturday morning we spent prepping the kitchen for painting. Prep is definitely the longest and most tedious part of the project, and we took our time hoping to get every piece of trim, edge and corner just perfect. Then Dave moved the fridge all by himself because he’s awesome, and I did some last minute caulking behind the fridge. After that we draped everything in plastic and then we finally got to painting!

Kitchen Paint Prep 1

Kitchen Paint Prep 2

Dave Painting Kitchen

Kitchen Paint In Progress

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