Like a haircut...

Well what a girl I am. After living with the yellow for a couple weeks, I am now loving the yellow. I've decided its like a drastic haricut, you might cry at first and its so different your not sure but by the 2nd or 3rd week your loving it! I can always re-paint down the line for re-sale since yellow's not everyone's cup of tea but for now its here stay here's a video tour if you'd like to see for yourself:

The anatomy of a bad decesion...

Well the roller coaster continues. I finished painting the living room after working on it almost all weekend and every night since then and I do not love it, yea I don't even like it and my stomach is turning at thought of all the work its going to take to re-paint it but I don't think I can live with this color. So I find myself doing some self talk to re-group reminding myself its just paint and it can be fixed, everyone makes mistakes and there are much much worse things in life. So I keep coming back to how did I make this mistake? For two years I've been wanting to do a shade of yellow but somewhere I took a wrong turn just haven't figured out where, I would like to find out so I can avoid such a bad choice again but at last examining the anatomy of this decision has revealed no point I even considered not following through with this plan. Sometimes it just happens.

Allie and Chloe are staying the night and I just have to laugh when I asked 6 year old Allie what she thought, she sweetly said, "Well its not people's favorite color but it matches well". It might "match" but its not my favorite color either, back to the drawing board!

Pond Project.

Ryan's goldfish pond creation turned out great! The water gathers in this spot anyways and washes away the mulch so of course Ryan would never put something like this in unless he could also say there was a "practical" reason so that practical reason helped sparked the idea of the pond. The 10 goldfish cost us a wopping $1.27. They like to hid in the shade of the waterfall so you can't always see them out and about during the day, we will see if we can keep them alive. Overall a great project:




My painting project has been quite a roller coaster, I will post more on that when its finished.

Memorial Day Weekend and other updates

Well as always 3 day weekends are great! I enjoyed mine without having to do any paperwork for work, which is always nice. I don't have pictures yet for this post, but we will soon have some before and after pictures of the front yard to show. Here's the run down of weekend events:

Saturday was packed full: I got up early to join A.M. for a morning run by the lake, followed by a girls prayer brunch with some girls from my small group at church. I returned early afternoon to the house to help Ryan work on the yard to plant flowers and do other much need up keep to get ready for summer. That evening we grilled out chicken, asparagus and mushrooms. yum!

Sunday, I taught bible class and then headed out after church to B.A. I took the nieces to stay the night with my mom. We grilled out hamburgers and then slept in and enjoyed hanging around the house and visiting since to our disappointment none of the pools were opening till this coming weekend.

Monday we returned to OKC. I returned to a giant hole in the garden bed, Ryan and I had briefly discussed the possibility of a small gold fish pond before I left, thats a project thats been worked on every night since and I think is nearing completion, I must say I think its going to be pretty cool.

I am gearing up for plans to do a major painting project to start this weekend to paint my living room, dinning room and kitchen, yikes! I've wanted to paint it for two years so its time to do it!
Also Ryan got news he passed one section of the CPA!!! 1 down 3 to go!

Well that brings you to speed for now.

Fun in the Kitchen...

Chloe and Allie spent the night Thursday and Allie and I made home-made Pizza's, Chloe preferred to watch Sponge bob instead, fun was had by all:

I've been looking for raspberries for a while now to make some yummy raspberry lemonade, finally today Target had them in stock:

5 Years of married life!

Well its kind of hard to believe its already been 5 years ago we were married. We celebrated Saturday night by going to the melting pot, which was so amazingly yummy. Our real celebartion will be our Key West trip to Florida at the end of June.


Here's 5 highlights of those 5 years together:
1) Vacations together: Cozumel, Tree house cottages in Eureka Springs, Chicago, Bahamas, ITALY!
2) Buying our first home.
3) Adopting our Rory pie. (1st dog together).
4) Both finishing graduate school and finding jobs in our respective fields that we actually like for the most part.
5) Finding a church home.

I can honestly say I am really looking forward to what the next 5 years hold for us. After 5 years I know marriage isn't always smooth sailing, it takes an ongoing commitment to make a million small choices to make your relationship not only work but be fulfilling for you both. I love Ryan and I love our life together and look forward to this next phase of our married life.

Cinco De Mayo and runing update.

Well its 3:30am and I am regretting taking the cold medicine that still has me awake. So guess I will do a blog post. Today was cinco de mayo. Usually I would not be aware of such a thing but this year I was acutely aware as apparently most of the OKC area celebrates this to my surprise. For me it was more like Cinco de ruin my plans day. Book club was suppose to be tonight and we unknowly planned our dinner at a mexican restuarant down town, we realized during the day half of OKC, a radio station and masses of others might come there from the facebook and gazette adds to celebrate Cinco De Mayo here would not make this a good place for our book club discussion. So book club is postponed and a few of us that decide just to meet for dinner somewhere else and I had the bright idea of going to this great Italian restaurant. Italian right, should be safe from Cinco De Mayo craziness!? Well think again. I pull up walk up to the door and the sign says "Sorry we are closed for a private Cinco De Mayo party". We try for a third time and find luck this time at Olive Garden where to my satisfaction there appeared to be no cinco de mayoing going on.

On a second note I have faithfully kept up my 5K training plan. First week was pretty easy this week is getting mild to moderate in difficulty. I jumped ahead in the program to get ramp it up a bit. However, today I am feeling not good at all, cold, soar throat, ears hurting tomorrow is a running day and I really don't want my sickness to affect my training plan, I might trade days and run Thursday instead. I just hate to already altering my training plans but whatever it takes to keep on track and momentum going.