For my birthday, as a late present, I've asked Jody to build me a coffee table. I saw one once in an Ikea catalogue that I've wanted ever since. It was pine with a glass top, but under the glass it was like a giant shadow box. Sort of like a 3D tic tac toe grid, only with more boxes in it. The thought came to me again this morning as I was trying ( Read more... )

So, I made up a long list of things that need to be done around the house to get it back in order after all of the trips and the times where we just shoved things into a corner instead of putting them away. I got my closet cleaned out yesterday, and the bookcase in our bedroom emptied off so Jody can fix it, as it was poorly made and tilts sideways ( Read more... )

I'm back at home, and now looking to find space to store my haul of loot. If anyone is interested, here is my list of ( stuff: )

I thought I would pop in here and post before I crash for the night. Hopefully Tripp will let me sleep in tomorrow! I'm going to hide it behind a cut, as it's quite long. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.

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We were blown away by the great time shown to us by Walt, and got thoroughly spoiled. We started off with a nice meal at Panera Bread, then took a water taxi to Navy Pier. Tripp got the seat of honor on the boat, right next to the Captain. He had a quick splash near the fountain until he nearly got sprayed on the splash pad. We walked down the pier ( Read more... )

...we are heading down the tracks to Chicago. Serendipity is still with us after a nice visit with Mr. and Mrs. Beah. Despite the fear of Jody's truck dying on the way to station, we made it just in the nick of time. They didn't even ask for my ID! I was terrified they would demand the credit card, which I forgot at home ( Read more... )

Things are coming together nicely for our trip. I've been extremely blessed by friends. One of the guys who works the 7-4 shift generously agreed to trade tomorrow for my 10:45-7:45 shift tomorrow so we could make the trip up to Kansas City tomorrow afternoon. We'll actually be going up to St. Jo's to stay with a Hunebeah. In the morning we'll get ( Read more... )

Tripp and I now have our tickets to go up to Canada. Jody won't be coming with us, as he is working on setting up his cabinet company ( Read more... )

Well, we survived the vacation at the beach with the in-laws. Besides the fishing expedition with Jody, we went to the actual beach one to three times a day. After the first mouthful of saltwater when we got hit by a wave, Tripp decided that he preferred to play in the sand and refused to get close to the water. Not necessarily a bad thing, I ( Read more... )

I'll have to post some more about our beach trip when I get back, but couldn't resist telling about our fishing expedition on the pier. I had the first catch, but Jody out-caught me 16-6. Between the two of us we caught 20 small sharks and 2 blue fish.