A Few Updates

This is the first floor office/bedroom. We decided to make this our sports room. Of course it had to be done in Penn State colors so while Tim was away this past week I decided to surprise him by finishing/starting the room. We didn't want to spend much money on this room yet so everything in the room we already had except the paint of course! The stripes look fabulous from far away but up close they're a mess. Oh well...it was my first try and I'll figure out how to make it better next time!


This is the room before we moved in. Spotless and empty haha...that didn't last long!


This is the junk. I moved everything into the center of the room to paint around it. I couldn't believe how much was in there. I generally avoid the room!

I put two coats of bright white paint on the walls and then started taping up the stripes. Thank goodness for our neighbors and their laser level otherwise it would have taken me even longer then it already did!
This is the first coat of blue. It went on almost green blue and I started to get nervous....luckily three coats later it looked a lot better.
This is the only wall with more then one stripe.

This is after the 3rd coat. Finally back to dark blue!

This is the final product. Just don't look in the corners or too carefully at the edges of the stripes! For some reason Chester wanted to be in the shots!


There's still a lot of junk in the room but for now it stays. I want to get some shelves and put up some of our sports stuff but I'll have to get it back from PA first! We're running out to get a kitchen table now but when I get back I'll put up some more pictures of updates!

Beth's Baby Shower

This past Sunday was Beth's baby shower. Luckily Tim and I were already in town even though we all know I would have made the special trip. As if Beth had planned it herself there was barely a cloud in the sky. The house and grounds were gorgeous and I kept sneaking away to take as many pictures as possible. I took around 70 pictures of the farm and the party. These are just a few but it's a start. Everyone has made a grand point of telling me I'm horrible at keeping up with this blog so here you go. I'm not going to label them all, as I feel they are fairly self explanatory, but if you're not sure what something is....ask me!

NC Zoo!

Tim and I finally had a weekend in NC that we could just relax and enjoy. We took Saturday and went to the NC Zoo. It was awesome. We spent about four hours just walking around and talking to the animals. I have a lot more pictures but this is all I have the patience to put up right now. This is Tim in the bamboo forest.
These are a few of the pictures of the elephants. For those of you who don't know Tim LOVES elephants. We have a whole collection of elephant stuffed animals among other things. We spent a lot of time hanging with the elephants. They were so close...you could seriously almost reach out and touch them.
Did I mention I love my camera and my new lense. It really brings me right up to the animals.

This one is for Mom!

This is me playing with my nwe photoshop....I adore this picture and it's now my background haha!
Another flower pictures. I seriously have at least 20 pictures of flowers. I may not be able to grow them but I sure like taking pictures of them.
If you enter through Africa you walk over this huge pond/lake (I'm not sure which it is). This is the view after you cross it.

I'm going to try and put more pictures up tomorrow. I do have 6am swim practice and them work all day so assuming I'm not dead when I get home I'll get more up! NIGHT!

Okay so it's been brought to my attention that I suck at this blogging thing.....okay, that's fair. I haven't updated in awhile so I figured I'd do a little tonight! We're going to jump back a little to Easter when my parents were here.

This was the basket I made for my parents....it was Easter and everyone gets a basket!

This was Timothy's basket. I'm really not sure why but I did not take a picture of the basket he made for me.....sometimes I begin to lose my mind!

This is proof that great minds think alike. Timothy and I both got each other a copy of Rudy. What can I say....it was meant to be!

This was typical Dad,"I'm just going to rest my eyes."

Maddie and Chester both got doggie pizza's for Easter. They got half in the morning and then half after dinner. They were not so pleased about giving them up!

These pictures are mainly for Eric and his love of Greyhounds! When Tim's parents were down there was a street fair in Apex that we took Deb to. Well as luck would have it the Greyhound rescue has a huge area set up with a ton of dogs. We stopped to give so lovin...of course.