Jessi's New Room

This is Springtime Green. Pretty Huh? Would you paint an entire room this color?

Well, here is what I spent my whole week doing. Jessica really wanted to re-do her bedroom, and make it more "teenagery". (I know it's not a word, but I use it all the time :O). We started about two months ago looking through paint swatches trying to find what she wanted to do her room in, but was having no luck finding what she liked. I made the mistake of telling her she could do anything but black - black paint was not going on any of my walls.

We went through hundreds of green paint swatches, and she finally decided to take a book in for color match, because swatches weren't working. The book didn't work, because it was glossy, so the computer couldn't read it. Bummer, back to the color swatches..........when there it was, in the Disney colors ironically. SPRINGTIME GREEN. I have to admit, I was super nervous about this color, and we had to paint fast before dad got home and could stop us.

(Ha, ha! I just noticed that you can see me in this picture - funny!! Look in the mirror)

I have to say, I am actually really excited about the way her room turned out. At first, when it was just paint, I felt a little overwhelmed. Aaron was funny too, when he got home after the first coat of paint. He walked down the hallway to our bedroom, and 30 seconds later I heard "Holy Crap!" It was hilarious!!

Once we finished painting though, and starting putting her room together, it looked great. We did everything in black and white accents, and it goes great with the green. It does look very "teenagery". Jeff said it looks like a college dorm, so I guess we achieved Jess's goal. Jess is so excited and absolutely loves it, so there I reached my goal.

Books are so important to Jess that they are the main focus in her room. She bought these black book shelves that look great and she has plenty of room to grow her library. (awesome deal, on sale at Target for $26 a piece - for bookshelves that is just increadable!) And, if you look in the previous picture you will see her little reading nook with her cool white chair and hanging paper lamp.

It was a fun week spent with Jess before she goes back to school. I would have never in my entire life painted a room this color, but it works for her. And, in the end, I am really happy with the way it turned out. We still have a few more things we want to do, but we ran out of money, so they will have to wait. Maybe during the holiday breaks we can finish it. That will give us something to look forward to together.

Jeff Rockin' With Friends

Jeff got to take the day off yesterday, and go to the Pain in The Grass Concert with a couple of friends - Brett Perkes and Michael Welch. Of course, he didn't take a camera for pics, but they all had a blast hanging out and rocking to some great bands. I also think Jeff's CD want list just got a little longer :o).

Below are all the bands that were there. With the exception of Queensryche of course, who is the band they really went to see, I think Jeff's favorite was Sevendust. I think he'll be out getting their CD soon.

Another Funny Sign!

Did Sweeny Todd Move into the Neighborhood?

Music and Jamba Juice

Well, we had one more sunny day, in between crappy rainy ones. Aaron and I again found ourselves at home alone, so we took off to watch a local "band". It was really just two guys called "The Two Buck Chucks" but it was fun to just sit in the sunshine sipping our Jamba Juice (Yum!!!) and listening to music.

I do have to say though, that I look HIDEOUS in this picture!!!!!!!I almost didn't put it in here. Yuck, but whatever. Hey, I'm getting old. Not much you can do about that........Can you?

I Love Gardening

This is my favorite time for gardening!! I love to see all of your hard work of weeding, plowing, seeding, weeding, watering (the rain did a good job of that for me this year) weeding, feeding and weeding pay off. When all of your little tiny seeds turn into thriving plants producing fruit/veggies. I love it!

I just wanted to take some good pics of some of the great stuff I'm getting this year. Plus, I just love to take pictures!

This is just one days worth of harvest. He he, I went out to harvest today. What a farmer! We are getting a lot of food this year!! Last year I made a bunch of pickle relish, because I am the only one in the family that will eat cucumbers. But, everyone loves pickles and relish. So, this year Jess and I are trying pickles for the first time. I hope we did it right. It seemed like an awful lot of extra stuff in there with the sliced cucumbers, but I trust Amy. She said this was a good recipe. So, thanks for the help Amy, and hopefully Jess and I did it right.(Does it look right?) I guess we'll find out in a month how they taste. I still have another batch to do, so hopefully it's right!

Jeff Turns 19 today!

Today is Jeff's birthday!! Wow, his last official year as a teenager. Time flies so fast I can hardly believe it. We took Jeff out to lunch to his new favorite Mongolian Grill before he headed off to work.

Here's what he got:

From mom and dad - $20 to go out with Damon to celebrate together, and the new Disturbed CD.

From Jessica - Iron Maiden Concert T-Shirt (bought early at the concert)

From Grandma Smout - $20

From Damon - A Queen T-Shirt

From Grandma Taylor - The new Soul Caliber Game

Since he had to work on his actual birthday, and we have had so many desserts between reunion BBQ's, Wedding Luncheons and combo birthday parties, we decided to do something a little different. We made Nachos for dinner last night (one of Jeff's favorite dinners) and put candles in that for him to blow out. It was silly, but it made him smile, so it served it's purpose.

HaPpY BiRtHdAy JEFFERY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lightning Storms!

We have had some pretty awesome lightning storms the last couple of nights here. On the first night it woke us all up at around 3:30 in the morning - even Jess if you can believe that!!! We sat there for about an hour watching these beauties. It was an awesome storm!