Not Good at Documenting

A lot of my peeps have been asking me to post pictures of my new house...but I am a negligent blogger b/c I have taken almost none! This is mostly due to the fact that there is no decorating done and there are still boxes everywhere! You may be asking yourself "self why are there still unpacked boxes when she has had two full days of help unpacking them, plus the rest of the week to quietly decorate her new surroundings," and the answer is simply this- we have too much stuff! (If I had thought of it, I would have all caps locked that last statement.) So, since I lack pictures and probably wont take any until it looks the way I want it around here, I will describe...

-Our neighborhood is called Slash Cottage...doesn't that name make you feel like we live in a really scary movie? To be honest I don't think that anything bad happens here because as the name suggest all the houses look like cottages and most have beautiful,well kept, flower garden yards.
-According to our Ashland neighbors, we live on the best street in town. (we could never afford this house if we weren't renting)
-We have a great back yard with pretty trees, you should come over for a picnic on the lawn!
- We have a front porch, perfect for seasonal decorations, a deck in the back for bbq's and a screened in porch with a green wooden floor...very cottagy! I have to say that our Florida "lani" furniture does not match it!
-We have a spacious downstairs floor with living room /dining area, office(complete with fireplace), and an eat in kitchen which we can't eat in b/c our only eating table is in the dinning room! There is also a 1/2 bath downstairs, a laundry room, and a large pantry....a woohoo!
-Upstairs and boy do we have stairs, we have a three bedrooms and two bathrooms! The upstairs even though it is a rental will undergo some redecorating...nothing major just some paint so our stuff will match!
So that's it, I can not emphasize enough how much stuff we have. We have more knick knacks than any one person should own. Bless Kevin's heart for he alone with intermittent help was in charge of carrying every heavy box of them in from the POD. I and my protruding belly am in charge of cleaning and unpacking...as long as it's not too heavy!

Does Anyone Really Live In Florida?

We've been in our new house for 4 days now. The last two I have been flying solo, since Kev started his new job. Both days in the afternoon I have ventured out so that I can start to learn my way around the new area. Yesterday I went grocery shopping and today I went to a shopping center that had all the important shops, you know like Petsmart, Michael's, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, plus some delicious chain restaurants. As I was taking in my new surroundings, waiting for my Grande, Iced, Vanilla, 1/2 non fat, 1/2 breve, decaf, latte, I started thinking about how much I liked going out to places like this in FL. I loved going to Gulf Coast Town Center or Coconut Point to wait for a nice dinner out at say Ted Montana's or PF Cheng's. Here's the thing, until today I never truly realized the people who were there waiting for dinner with me were mostly people on vacation. When you people watch in these places, you always see 4somes of 50-60 somethings waiting for their tables, holding there glass of Pinot Grigio, wearing their brand new crisp vacation clothes, and their freshly acquired Florida tan either from pool, beach, or golf coarse. Here no one looks like they're vacation, they just look like they live here. Don't get me wrong, no one looked liked this is some kind of decrepit area, but no one had that "I'm on vacation in the sunshine state" look. It made me a little sad though, and I realized that I would miss those vacationers and there perfectly coiffed hair, freshly painted French pedi's, crisp white capri pants, and watermelon colored tops plus the satisfaction of knowing that when the season was over they would go home and I was a local girl who got to stay in the place where everyone else vacations!

Hodge Podge Of Creativity

Decorating my daughters room is proving to be more challenging them I thought. I have a picture in my head of what I want it to look like, basically Anthropolgie, but on my budget. So my newest challenge is the furniture. This is the dresser I registered for from Target, plus the crib to match...

However, my mom is planning on making this purchase for us and is not so sure about the quality of it! So last night we went to look at this, which is what my friend Erin bought for her daughter baby Hope, which by the way I love...

Now, after she saw this she decided that she loved the quality but would like the pieces to be something that will grow with our daughter and the drawers from these pieces are just too small! So after searching today I found this on Craig's List. These ladies actually have there own furniture website called Primitive and Proper. This isn't the only thing that I like, there are about four that I hoping to see in real life!!!!!

I don't know about growing with her through life, but I really love most of the stuff that they make! I hope that mom likes the quality!

Two Things

If you were wondering how the strawberry pie tasted, the one piece that we all had was scrumptious. If you have 4oz of berries laying around I recommend trying it! However, that one piece piece was all that we got because a certain Old English Sheepdog ate the rest! Bad dog or smart dog?????

Secondly, this whole blogging thing is getting wonderful!!!!! All of my friends are getting blogs. Here are two new ones to check out from my favorites Jenn and Teri's. Two lovely gals that I worked with and miss dearly, but are now keeping me, and the rest of the world who have nothing better to do with there time, updated by writing things and posting pictures!

Wahoo!

Pictures All Around

My sweet sister and her family had some pitures taken by a lady they know who enjoys photography...They turned out great, but made me a little sad b/c I can't believe how my little sweeties have grown up so much! Never the less it makes me so excited to see them later this summer!

Sidney looks just like Amy

Allison call her Dad, "my Buddy"

Beautiful brown eyes

So pretty and so big! I feel like they should still be little babies! Time flies when you're having fun!

I Made A Pie!

Yesterday my mom and I went to a Strawberry Festival at the Benson Hammond House here in Anne Arundel County. We bought half a flat of strawberries and since I didn't know what to give my Dad(the greatest Dad in the whole world) for Father's Day, I decided to bake him a pie. It turned out very pretty, seeing that it is my first pie to ever make. Now all we have to do is taste it!!!!!

For some reason I got it in my head that I wanted to bake the pie, not make a strawberry glace pie in the fridge, which is what my mom had a recipe for. I scoured the Internet for a recipe and here is the one I found. It is called "The Old Boy's Strawberry Pie" and here are some pics from the festival.

My mom bought this hand made Raggedy Anne doll for Libby's room. We also bought some local honey, some home made strawberry preserves, and some hair bows for my sweet nieces. It was fun place to go, but it was too hot for a pregnant woman!

Oh the Places We Will Go

I have been trying to post this for two days! I had some really sentimental things that I had written, but believe it or not I lost it all. So here with no artistic words are the pics from our big move. Lets just say that we don't feel like moving for a long time!!!! It was hard but we made it!

Here is our sick puppy. He got into the trash and ate two very old pound cakes. He was disgustingly sick...I can't really discuss it, this isn't the place!Empty house Kevin and Trouble equally annoyed with their circumstances. in Kevin's defense, he worked so hard! He is taking a break right now and is visiting Europe and England!

Partially packed POD

Very full car
Gus and I all ready to go!

Gus in his special harness

The POD with no more room at all

Home sweet home! See Ya!