Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I haven't posted anything in a long time. Y'know, I got busy what can I say. I have pictures of our outdoor gas fire to post but I have done it yet :-) Was going to do it over the weekend but Friday went to a neighbors for dinner. Saturday, went to another neighbors for dinner. Sunday, ran out of the house to run to the neighbors just to grab something and they were hanging out with some other neighbors having wine so joined in. You see how it goes. I'll put the fire out there soon. Oh, and the vampire feeling is still going on. We don't have mirrors back yet. They should be here this week so fingers crossed.
This is Thanksgiving week. We always spend our holiday with our friends D & S. She has been out of town helping her Mom with some medical issues. Didn't think she would be back for the holiday but today found out she will be back Friday. Yay! So, Thanksgiving Day I hope we are having a nice meal together with D and on Friday, we will do it up good with D & S. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Enjoy your family and friends and here we go into the holiday season!!!

Happy Halloween

Just dropping a note to wish everyone a Happy Halloween and leave you with a goofy Glenn Halloween picture. Happy Halloween!!

I feel like a Vampire!

You know how Vampire's can't see their own reflection? Well, I feel like a Vampire because all of our bathroom mirrors have been taken down so when I walk into any of the bathrooms, it's just a blank wall where the mirror used to be! It's a weird feeling I tell ya! So why are the mirrors gone you ask? We are having the bathroom mirrors framed so they were picked up and taken away so we will be without mirrors for a while. There are still mirrors in the powder room and our medicine cabinet mirrors are still here so makeup and hair can still be done thank goodness. I took some before pictures so once we get them back, I'll take some after pictures and show you what we had done.
It's the right time of year to be feeling like a Vampire isn't it?! This past Saturday, we went to a Halloween party in the neighborhood. There were some really good and creative costumes. I'm not really into Halloween and the whole dressing up thing so we did simple costumes and went at Charlie Brown and Snoopy. On Halloween night, us and a few neighbors are going to set up a bbq outside and we are going to bbq and have drinks outside in front of our houses while we hand out candy. Fun!!

Before and After - Family!

I will post some more before and after pictures of the house but, we just got back from a week in Seattle so thought I would post a before and after pic of me, my sister (the blonde) and my neice (the brunette of course!). You don't see us all gussied up very often!! We visited family and friends and had a nice week but we went this particular week for my oldest sister's wedding. The wedding turned out to be very nice and a nice time had by all. We clean up ok huh?!!

Before and After - Backyard

I've been wanting to do this for a while and I'm finally getting to the first and I hope to do a few more. I'm having a hard time finding the "before" pictures that I wanted which tells me we need a new system for archiving our pictures as we can't find anything that we are looking for! I did my best so here's a few before and after's of our backyard. When we bought this house we loved the house but were concerned that the backyard was too small for what we wanted to do. Now that it's done, we love it. We love to sit out on the patio for coffee in the morning and use the table area to eat in the early evenings. Our backyard isn't as big as most of our neighbors backyard's but it has everything we want so we are happy!

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OMG - YUM!!!

I just have to share my new discovery! I have just discovered the most wonderful liqueur. It is Domaine De Canton Ginger Liqueur and it is sooooo000 good! It's Cognac and a baby ginger infusion with some vanilla, honey, ginseng and mmm mmm mmm is it yummy. You have to really like ginger as it has a very strong ginger flavor. So far I've tried it straight on the rocks which is yummy and in a "Classic Ginger Martini" which is quite delicious! There are several more recipes that came with the bottle and are online as well. Hmmmm, the weekend is coming up and I see some experimentation in my future!!!

Hellooooooo

Hiya! I have recieved e-mails from a few people wanting to know where the pictures are and why I haven't posted for so long. Well, I um had a thing going on, um - ok, I have no good excuse! As LS said, I've been lazy about posting and she is right, I have been! So here is a post and a picture of Emily because she is just so darn cute! I take lots of pictures of her and they never seem to turn out very well but this one is great. How cute is she?!!

We were in Las Vegas for a few days last week. It was a family gathering for Glenn's sisters Master Degree graduation. We had a really good time seeing the family and we had some friends that just happened to be in Las Vegas the same time we were so we met up with them as well. We did a little shopping and had some great meals. We didn't go to a show but we went to the Bodies exhibition while we were there which was kind of cool. Not as creepy as you might think. We drove to Vegas and we brought Glenn's parents home with us so they were here for a few days visiting. They were here on my birthday (yesterday) and we went to an upscale mexican restaurant for dinner which was great. It is my new favorite mexican restaurant ever! Ok that's all for now. Talk to you again soo!