Good friends, Good food, Good Book!

Last night was our first official book club meeting - we still need to come up with a name girls! Had a great time and the food was FABULOUS! Dinner at The Melting Pot - how can you go wrong?! If you are there - try the snickers chocolate.... yummy!! The lobster was also one of my favorites.... and of course I loved all the cheeses too! Our first book The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes..... super good book - highly liked by all! Looking forward to our next book - no pressure Jenni on getting that picked out -- and our next night out... at McDonald's!! :) Maybe next time Monica will be fighting me for the front seat!! Enjoy a few pics from our big night out...

Yummy deserts - made even yummier by chocolate!

Bananas Foster with white chocolate.... a little surprise presentation!

The girls!! Jenni P, Kelly, Kerry, Jenni S, Katheryn, Christy, Kimberly, Monica and me



Thanks Girls for a great time!

More Progress made...

The house is looking good... they made lots of progress today... painted the door, painted the garage doors, stained the bookcases and the stairs, painted the doors, painted the trim, finished up the ugly wood floor.... I think that might be all! Here are a couple new pics.....

The front of the house before


The front of the house now!

The bookcases, mantle and stairs before....

The bookcase, mantle, and stairs now... (just need my spindles!!)


Now the stain isn't up the middle of the stairs because there will be a carpet runner up the middle...just in case you weren't sure what was up with that!! The stain also still needs to be polyurethaned too.


I will say that it gets harder everyday -- waiting - the more they do the more I just want to be in our home... with all our things.... settled..... again. Not much longer right?! But maybe a few prayers for patience would be good...

Take me out to the Ball game.....

and let me sleep there!?!

Friday night Colby was invited to go to Cardinals Camp Out with his friend Dustin - where you pitch a tent a Busch Stadium and sleep there for the night!! He had a blast... do you think he even realizes how lucky he is to do stuff like this!?!? They watched the game on the jumbo trons, got to check their pitching speed, ate lots of food, went in the dugouts, and locker room and had their pictures taken with the World Series Trophies!!! They also got really cool t-shirts to remember the big night with .... here are some of the pictures from the big event!!

A shot from the stands looking at some of the tents....


Dustin and Colby with the World Series Trophy for 2006....


The boys and Fredbird -- he is on a motorized cooler! (they are in the locker room here)


Sleeping?!!? This might be posed? what do you think? A career in fake sleeping one day?


On the jumbo trons...


In the locker room.... did you know they were that nice?! - because I had no clue!


Colby and Dustin in the stands - look close and you can see all the tents...


Thanks to the Reis' for inviting Colby - he loved it!!!

What an UGLY floor! ha!!

So here are some pics from the house today..... so excited..... I was trying to make a ticker count down for the move in date..... but it didn't look right when I posted it... any help from blogger world on that one??

On to the pictures...
All white trim and garage doors (with the exception of around the windows) will be painted the same color as our siding Tuscan Clay.... and the front door will be black, other than that the front is pretty much done!


I am in the kitchen looking into the living room - I LOVE the bookcases.... they will be stained still... and so will the mantle.... and of course you can see the shelves standing in the cases... but I was super excited with how they look!


This picture is me standing in the hall between the kitchen and the laundry room - with the view of the kitchen -- also loving how this turned out - although I am hoping to keep my counter tops a little cleaner than this! Looking forward to the appliances going in soon - they are in the garage now!


More of the living room from the kitchen...


From the living room looking back into the kitchen....


This is the view from my living room - of the stairs - still to be finished...


This is our master bath - sinks and counter.... love it!!


Our shower - minus a door - and tub - also a favorite.... can all the things be my favorites?!


More of the kitchen from the dining room... love my island... didn't have one of those in the last house!


This is the house from the back - need to pour the patio, and then this will be done - although one day I am hoping for a deck...


The picture you have been waiting for -- The UGLY floor!!! I tried to wipe off as much dust as I could - but you can still see it... there is a slight wave to the floor too - which is a little hard to see in this picture.... but all I have to say is I LOVE it!!


And in honor of the old man at the house....Camryn learned about the "old days" in school today.... to which she told me about how weird washing clothes was, and they had funny irons, and also that when kids got in trouble they had to sit in a corner with funny hats on while kids made fun of them -- and the last thing from the old days that she shared with me - was windows in cars that you had to crank open.... oh my!!! How OLD is that.... because I am pretty sure that I had those in my first car.... I am not THAT old..... and her young teacher STILL has them in her car... boy was Camryn disgusted!

Not Me Monday....

Now this is fun..... over at another site I frequent.... that MckMama writes - she has started a new post - called Not Me Monday!! In support of her and how much fun I think this is.... I decided to play along...

So.... I did not get my husband to go to DQ and get me a chocolate cookie dough concrete so that I could Wait until my kids were in bed, get in my own bed and eat it while watching HGTV... while thinking about how I will so start watching what I eat again on Monday..... nope not me, because that is what I would do every week.... start over on Monday!

I so didn't have 6 half empty diet coke cans on my night stand.... from I don't know how many days - just sitting there... that would mean I spend too much time laying in my bed and am too lazy to throw these out... I mean seriously I am not that much of a slob!

I also would never go to my nephew soccer game today.... and as the annoying lady in front of me cheered for her son -- so obnoxiously - feel the need to yell every time she did -- but for my nephews team and not her sons team (sorry Dan).... that would mean I stooped to her level.... and I would never do that!

Last - I would never threaten the readers of my blog to leave comments when they read or I will have to just quit doing this blog all together.... because I like to know what they think... and that I do this for a reason - I wouldn't do that because that would sound really pathetic....

Now if you want to play along - go check out MckMama's website and see how to do it....

And don't forget to scroll down - this is my second post today!!!

Back for now....

Ok - so I know I haven't had any posts in a while... no really good reasons for that - time just seems to get away.... With that said - you people reading out there better start letting me know that your with me - so I keep posting... no its not a threat.... I only hear from ya when I don't post....

With that - here is whats new....

House is great - although I don't have any pictures for you.... I haven't taken any in a while - sad but true.... I only go by there like 5 times a day... I will get some tomorrow and post them.... (if you comment -- hehe!) But serious progress has been made.... and I am loving all of it coming together... There is a man working on my house right now - who is doing all my trim.... so he has been there about a week and will be there all week again... He is an older man, like in his 70's... but he asked me who picked out my foyer floor.... its hard wood (a picture of it tomorrow.. maybe :)... anyway I told him I did and he said - well its ugly.... no lie - just like that - I thought it was funny - I mean its ok that he doesn't like my floor.. I love it... he did however approve of everything else! I did tell him that I was going to make cookies and would bring him some..... yes even after he told me my floor was ugly.... but when the cookies were done - at about 2 - he was already done working.... the next morning I made a dozen cookies and took them out there - and said - here are the cookies I promised, fresh baked this morning... his reply was - I thought I was going to get those yesterday!! I laughed and said well you needed to work past 2..... he really is a funny guy and means no harm... he just says what he thinks.... and I have to love that about him!

Kids are good, still loving school and doing well...Colby has been busy..... with cross country 2 mornings a week, soccer 2 days a week, baseball game at least once a week, and a soccer game too!! We went to Jefferson City, MO for a soccer tourney last weekend - lots of kids there and of course - Cage Fights.... yes - nice mix...
we did have a good time though - despite the dinner wait, and the fire alarms going off in the middle of the night....a few times....Camryn is doing well too.... getting pumped as she just picked out her Halloween costume.... we will share later... and she is still loving dance, and soccer -- and also had her first Brownie meeting on Friday....

Well.. I am going to leave you with a few pictures from the soccer tourney, we were rained out on day 2 by Hurricane Ike -- yep - thats right - Hurricane Ike here in MO, and for those of you who know my parent's have a condo in Galveston - the reports are it did great in the storm with only minor damage... Thank God... have a great night... and looking forward to hearing from all you lurkers and friends out there!

A light at the end of the tunnel....

YEAH - we have a closing date.... now of course this could change by a day or two -- but we are set to close on the house on October 20th!! Ahhh.... what a nice thought.... just about 6 more weeks..... I can hardly wait.... and yet so many things I want to get done before we move in! I am pretty good at procrastinating unless I have a time line and then - I can focus better.... so this is so good!!

Colby and Dean went to the PGA golf tournament today here in St. Louis. This was Colby's first time and he loved it... as a matter of fact - since they have been home - all they have done is watch it on TV since of course it was recorded today as well..... I mean being there isn't enough.... but it was pretty funny because we did see Colby on TV at one part... he thought that was pretty cool.