Spray Paint

I bought some metallic spray paint in hopes of upgrading the home.

I still have one brass light fixture in the hall bathroom and had some mismatched curtain loops. Cue spray paint.

Hubby wasn't home (aka turning off electricity etc) so the light fixture remains brass but B helped me accomplish the other project.

 Two coats later...

How to take a picture of a light fixture without light? Difficult.

To do.

Mt. Hood

We had an amazing snowboard trip the other day. Hubby's work offers a 30$ bus ride and lift ticket special which was TOTALLY worth it. We didn't have to drive or wait in line for a lift ticket once we got there we just got on the lift!




It was night skiing- my favorite. I like night skiing because there are less people. I like less people because I am an AWFUL snow boarder and the less people that have to avoid me on the slopes the better I feel. You see, if you know anything about snowboarding you know that a person is either "goofy" or "regular" meaning right or left food first. I simply cannot decide. So instead of one foot facing down hill the whole time I slide down both feet facing forward and sometimes when I am feeling brave one foot goes before the other the tiniest bit. That is why I fall. I am not a lover of speed so going down like I do can control that. The one time I rode like a normal boarder would I had a good fall. My chiropractor wasn't too happy about that one....


Unfortunately taking pictures as an inexperienced rider is out of the question. So we took these while sitting down, most likely post-fall.

It got really windy after a few runs. This meant that I couldn't control where I was going so I sat the rest of the night out. Hubby went out a few more times and really enjoyed himself. 

Delilah's Splint is off- do a happy dance!

Saturday morning we all took a moment of silence in hopes that Delilah's splint would be removed for a few reasons.
A. Poor Dear has had it on most of her short life
B. Its expensive to keep going every weekend to get it checked out!


So as you have guessed from the title it worked! We took her in, they took some more x-rays (ouch $$$$) and she was good to go. She has an infected dew claw so she is on antibiotics for awhile. Other than that she is just limping around trying to get back to normal. She is working on building muscle up on the bad foot. Its quite pitiful how she has it dangle there. She was so used to using it as a crutch that it has to be a hard adjustment.

 

Poor leg

Noticeably different sized legs

Not putting weight on it.

Remember the person who wrote "My Mommy did this to me" on Delilah's cast? She gave this to me. Hilarious? NOT.

Want to see the progress of x-rays? Check out these posts one and two.
Way to go Delilah! My little healer.

Bookcase re-do

I have had this cheap bookcase since I was in middle school. Its plain and simple.

White shelves, white backing. 

Back when I was selecting colors for the master bedroom I picked up a sample of Martha Stewart paint in Sea Glass.

It was too green for the master but I still had the sample. I have been trying to figure where to use this and thought of a great solution.

It wasn't sticking too well to the backing.

I was painting over it many times and getting the same results.

End result!

I had extra paint and decided to paint a few white Kassett boxes from Ikea so spruce up the room. More on that later.

Happy Leap Day!

Its my cousins birthday!

She is now 6 years old! Happy b-day stitch!

A new meaning to kissing cousins ;)

For my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary we took a cruise to Alaska

Cinco de May 2007

Sorority Bid day

My birthday 2007

This is what we do

Christmas break 2007

Sumo wrestling!

We are Oregon people

and weirdos...

Remember when I was in a sorority? 

Megs 5th birthday- Gangsters

We truly thought we were cool

(side bar- this was supposed to post on 2/29/12 obviously, but the computer had a little difficulty recognizing that the date actually happened woops)