Saturday's Project...

We have been wanting to change the light fixtures in our bathroom ever since we bought the place. Robert and I both prefer silver versus gold. The sinks and towel holders are silver with gold. The shower casing is gold. The light fixtures are gold. On Saturday we went to Costco to buy a vacuum (which we did pick up), and came back with new light fixtures for the bathroom (they were an incredible deal)!

We got right to work. Robert pulled off the old fixtures. We had wondered if there would be wallpaper underneath. We found out quickly- we had more work to do! Lucky for us the last homeowners left some wallpaper for the bathroom.


Rob went to The Home Depot to pick up wallpaper paste (after reading online how to wallpaper). When he came back he had me bring the scissors into the bathroom to cut the wallpaper (I had been wrapping presents). We pieced the pattern together and pasted it up on the wall. It looks pretty good (you can only tell it has been pieced if you are looking for it).

The light fixtures look great. Robert worked hard and it paid off. We love the updated look.

Now if we could just get the shower up to date...

Football Game- Old Timers vs. Young Bucks

Rob was all geared up and ready for the annual Old Timers vs. Young Bucks football game. The firm puts it all together. They even got refs for the games!


Rob played hard when he played. He made some good runs and got open a few times.

Here Rob was wide open for the pass. The QB just couldn't throw the ball to his waiting hands. (Push the play button in the lower left hand corner to watch the clip)

Although Rob played hard, Lauren had the play of the game. Luckily I had the camera rolling and captured it for you to enjoy as well. (Again, push the play button in the lower left hand corner to watch the clip)

In the end, the Young Bucks came out on top for the first time ever. Here they are with the prized trophy! Good work Young Bucks!

Frisco Square Light Show

Frisco Square is about 2 miles away from where Robert and I live. They have a lot of activities there throughout the year. All throughout December they have the light show- over 150,000 lights. On Friday and Saturday nights they also have snow machines going to make it more "Christmasie." Happy Holidays!

*You need to hit the play button in the lower left hand corner to watch the video! Enjoy!

Christmas Lights

We have been wanting to put Christmas lights up on the house, but we don't have a ladder tall enough to get to the roof. However, yesterday (the temperature in the 60s) we went outside to see if there was a way to get to the roof with our small 6 foot ladder. It turns out there is. If I hold the ladder, Rob can pull himself up to the roof off our back patio and then scamper from roof ledge to ledge to reach the front of the house.


We had already bought Christmas lights from Costco, so we (and by we, I mean Rob) were ready to string the lights. Rob got to work, with me watching anxiously from the ground. I had intentions of catching him if he fell off.

Luckily, there was no need to break his fall. He stayed on the roof and strung the lights. I tried to string some around the entry way, but they looked really ghetto. I ended up taking them down after I snapped a picture.

Rob conquered the roof! Now we need to work on the ground lights. Happy Holidays!

Tree Hunt

Robert and I finally went on our annual "tree hunt." The last couple of years we have gone with our friends, the Furse's, to go and chop a tree down out of the mountains. We have thoroughly enjoyed taking "Big Blue" to the snowy mountains, riding Mark's 4-wheeler through the snow, searching for the perfect tree, using a chain saw to cut it down, strap it to the truck and haul it home. When we moved to Texas, one of our concerns was where we were going to find a Christmas tree. On Friday night, we had my work holiday party. We found out that Home Depot has trees for a reasonable price. Home Depot is close to us- so we figured we would check it out. Although it does not compare to our past adventures in the snow, we have a live Christmas tree now. We found the one we liked and had the stump trimmed. We then strapped it to Blue Lightening and brought it home.

We brought the little tree in (it is only 6 1/2- 7 feet tall). We still had to trim it up a little bit.

In the end, the tree has done its job. It has made our house nice and festive.

I even added all the other decorations (I had them out last week, but had no motivation to decorate without the tree). Here are pictures of parts of the house with decorations:

Flowers

For those of you who don't know me very well, I LOVE flowers. My family and I went to the Middle East a couple of summers ago, and I have a picture of every flower I saw. When Robert and I found our home here, I was thrilled to have such beautiful flowers in front of the house. They are bright and vibrant. They bloomed all summer and spring...

Until this last Wednesday afternoon. I walked outside and saw this,

and this!

My flowers just dropped dead overnight! Now I have these ugly stems and flower corpses to look out when I go out the front door. I think I can trim them, but I am not sure. Does anyone out there know what I should do with them now? I want them to grow back next year...

Thanksgiving Feast

On Thursday we had our friends, Natalie, Sean Mia (2 years old) and Crew (2 month old), over for Thanksgiving. Everything turned out so well. Rob and I had originally planned on deep frying our turkey, but after finding a fryer we decided it wasn't worth the cost. So Natalie and split up the food assignments and got to work.

On Wednesday I started baking rolls. I had to call Jane, my mother-in-law, to get a roll recipe. They turned out so well. I did both orange rolls and regular rolls. Rob couldn't stop himself from snitching the orange rolls.

Thursday morning I mixed up a raspberry fruit salad and put the turkey in to bake. I put to turkey in at 10:30- much to the astonishment of my mother and sister- and had it out by 2:45. It was cooked, carved and on the table a little after 3:00. Natalie and I worked on the potatoes and green salad together. She did the gravy, yams and a couple of pies (banana cream and apple crisp). I bought a pumpkin pie (as it is so much easier than baking it!).

All the food turned out well. I believe we were all satisfied. We lounged around for a couple of hours afterwards and played Settlers of Catan (yes, Rob did win!). All and all Thanksgiving was a success!

*Notice the new table? It is our first "big" purchase since we moved to Texas!