the cabin

Life on the ship

It was so much fun to get out of the house on Thursday. Trish and I went to a bunch of thrift stores. I found a cute lamp and a old window to put pictures in. Thursday night John took me out for dinner and we went shopping. He bought me a new flower arrangement to go on the tv cabinet and he also got me some new light switch covers. I think I am done with decorating the living room for now. I really like how it turned out. We will be leaving on Monday for the cruise. I am so excited. I will take lots of pictures.

Living room pictures

A new look for the living room

Thursday night John watched Joy for me while I went to Walmart. I decided I wanted an accent wall in my living room to go with the butter yellow. I picked a color that was just few shades darker in the yellow tones. I also decided to paint my trunk that I use for a coffee table. When I got to the paint counter there was no one to help me. I asked two Walmart workers for help. They paged someone for the paint department. Nobody came. There was women who was waiting for help too. She picked up the phone at the paint desk and tried to get some help. Five calls later and a manager finally shows up. All of this took 30 minutes. When he arrived he was talking on his cell phone. Boy was my patience being tested. Finally he got off the phone. I told him I needed a quart of each color. They only had the brown I picked in the gallon size. Fortunately for him he only charged me the price of a quart for the gallon. I say fortunately for him because I might have had to hurt him if he didn't give me a good deal.
Friday morning I started painting the wall and I hated the color after all of that. So I used some yellow I had that also looked awful. At this point I was very discouraged. I decided to call John. I jokingly told him he was going to have a brown wall when he got home because I had tried all the colors I had. After the yellow,the other yellow, primer, trying to go back to the original butter yellow, I tried the brown and loved it. It is a very pretty pecan brown.
Saturday John cleaned his shed out. See miracles do occur. I went to the thrift store and found a new mirror for $5.00 to go over my tv.(I glued some shells on it) I also saw a coffee table I liked. I went home to measure my space to see how it would fit. When I went back to buy it ,it was sold. So, I convinced John to make me one. It looks sooo much better than the one in the thrift store and cost us nothing to make because we already had the wood. It has a nice cubby for my lap top,remote controls,and magazines. Kmart had rugs on sale for $10.00 so I bought a new rug to complete the look of the room. I love my new living room!

John has been picking on me about all the painting. He is wondering what is next. I am just keeping myself entertained. I am definitely not a home body. I am counting down the days till the cruise. We leave on the 31st. I'm soo excited.! John has been home for the last two Saturdays and should be home this Saturday. He had been working overtime for six months(10-14 hour days and Saturdays). It is so nice to have him home. We have been total couch potatoes. I am going to work in the yard today. I need to add a few herbs to our herb garden and put a few grass plugs in. The grass is doing very well except for the spot that our dog Angel pees in and a few spots that don't get much sun. I also need to make some banana bread.
I found this light at a yard sale a while back for $4.00 isn't it pretty?

What I have been up to

Things I have done lately:
painted the livingroom (butter yellow, it is real hard to see in the picture but it turned out real nice)
painted the bedroom (kind of like a flesh tone, also hard to see)
taking care of Joy (it takes six hours a day to feed her, you fill her feeding tube every ten minutes for two hours at a time)
planted flowers
booked a cruise on carnival we will be going July 31st-Aug.4th)
I will write more soon!

Enjoying Life

Life is starting to get back to normal around here. I am feeling so much better. Yesterday I got to drive the car for the first time since the operation. It was so nice to get out and shop. Today I also went out. We got to spend the day at Evelyn's. The boys had a blast playing with Jonathan. I had a blast beating Evelyn at Phase Ten.
June is a big month for John and I. Both our birthdays and our anniversary is this month. John also gets Fathers Day. Presents all month it's great. John bought me a new surround sound system and a bigger TV. I bought him some DVD's and a real nice knife set. All the gifts are so nice because we can share them. John really gets a kick out of the surround sound and I love that the speakers are smaller than the ones we had before. I can't wait for his knives to arrive in the mail. John said I could use them but the kids can't. Aren't I special.
I have been watching Lost the first season and am really enjoying.
I saved the best news for last. We received the bill for the hospital and needless to say even with insurance there was still a lot we had to pay. I was very upset because John has worked sooo much overtime and what we had saved would all be gone. But, here is the good part. John received a surprise bonus in his pay check that was exactly the amount we owed the hospital. Isn't that awesome. God is so great!

Feeling so much better

It is so nice to be able to sit and feel comfortable again. Thank you so much for all your prayers. I am so thankfull that the doctors ran some extra tests and found out it was my appendix. It was very strange because my symptoms were nothing like appendicitis. Right after the test I was wisked away to surgery. It was such a blessing to have mother here with me.God's timing is perfect. We were still able to go shopping. She pushed me around in the wheel chair. We also went to the spa. Mom got an hour long massage,a pedicure,and facial. I got a facial and pedicure. When I am all better I plan to go back for the massage. My mom said it was heavenly.
Thank you Tricia for posting for me. You are so sweet. Thank you Darla and Darlene for picking my mom up from the airport. Darla,thank you for taking care of my babies so I didn't have to worry about them. Thank you Evelyn for taking my mom back to the airport.

This isn't Lisa

After seeing the post, "Fun this Weekend." foever, I knew I had to rescue Lisa. Because she hasn't been having fun the past two weekends. She has been to the hospital, had surgery and is in pain. Thankfully her Mommy is there to take care of her.
Feel better soon! Tricia

Fun this weekend

John came home around 3:30 on Saturday from work. It was so nice to see him so early. We swam in the pool for a while. Then we went to McDonalds to eat. After that we enjoyed the disney movie Eight Below at the dollar show. Our huskie is just as beautiful as the ones in the movie. It was a very nice afternoon. Today we went to church and then came home and took a nap.
I am getting so excited. My mom will be comming to see us in a week. We are going to have so much fun shopping and hanging out together. I have some things planned for us. If anyone has any suggestions of things we could do please leave a comment.

Relaxing Sunday

Today was a nice relaxing day. John smoked some ribs in the smoker. Michael and I went to the flea market for a little bit. We all swam in the pool. It was nice to have a day were we had nothing we had to do.
Memorial day weekend we are planning to go to this resort http://www.condoexpress.com/caribe_royale.htm for a night. It has a big pool with a huge slide to go down. It will be great.

Exhausted!

We have been doing a lot around the house lately. We worked on our patio out back and we also put an above the ground pool in. The pool was a lot of work because we had to hoe up all the grass and level the ground. Tomorrow we are not doing any work. We are going to play in the pool and barbecue some.

Poster for the patio

John and I worked on the patio this afternoon. We got all the bricks down that we bought at the yard sale. We decided we would buy a few more bricks to make it bigger. I will post a picture when we are all done. We are going to lacquer this poster on a piece of wood and hang it by our little patio. Isn't it pretty!

New Grass!

The grass was delivered at 9:00 this morning. The boys and I finished putting down the grass by 1:00.We are tired. John will be so thrilled when he gets home and sees it all done.

Tug a war with Angel

I found this trunk at Ross for $32.00. They wanted $40.00 but I talked the manager down. It was originally $200.00. It has a little damage on the top and it needed bigger screws for the hinges. I love it. It has a nice drawer on the bottom.It is real wood. I love bargain shopping.

Christopher's 13 th birthday

I can't believe I have two teenagers!