6. Vacation at a lake house 5. Girls only vacation

So, I did vacation at a lake house this summer.  I also don't have any pictures of it.  Let's just say, it didn't quite live up to my expectations.  It was okay, but not nearly as fun as my time with my sister-in-law and niece!  Being around her for so long was totally giving me baby fever.  Oh brother. 

Weekly Menu

Sunday: Cheddar Cracker Chicken
Monday: Dinner out
Tuesday: Turkey Croquets
Wednesday:  Leftovers
Thursday: Roasted Vegetable Stromboli
Thursday: Chicken Caprese
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: Renaissance Faire
Breakfast for the week!: Baby Quich Breakfast

Weekly Menu

Saturday: dinner out
Sunday: Crispy Yogurt Chicken
Monday: Leftovers
Tuesday: Black Bean Burgers
Wednesday: Leftovers/Cliff is on his own
Thursday:  Chili-Lime Grilled Pork Chops
Friday: Leftovers

House Before and Afters

FYI: All of these old pictures are from the MLS with the other people's furniture.

Old Exterior

New Exterior!  New shutters, power washed front and green grass make it look like a different house.

Old Backyard

New Backyard with a hammock, husband and dog, and a tiny pool for me to jump in when I'm hot from reading in the backyard.  I'll get my built-in pool one of these days!!

Old Dinning Room.  Still need a REAL dinning room table before I can post the new.

Old Family Room.  Note the random bell.

New Family Room with blue couch which will be going back to the living room once we buy another couch.  Note the cute dog.

Old Master

Old Master Bath.  I don't know why I didn't take any pictures of the new master yet.  There aren't any really big changes yet anyway.

New Master.  Needs new bedroom set and a picture or something over the bed. Ugh $$$

 

 

Old kitchen

New kitchen

This took FOREVER to redo the grout.

Cliff's office

My office

David Sedaris Reading!

I'm going to see David Sedaris again! Yay yay yay!
October 13th at 8pm and this time it's close to home in NJ!  We won't have to travel all the way to Baltimore, although that WAS fun.  This time it won't be nearly as expensive!  There are a lot of ! in this.  Can you tell I'm excited!?!?!?!?!

David Sedaris!

46. Watch 20 classic movies (3/20)

Breakfast at Tiffany's

I enjoyed it but now I want to read the book and compare them.  Not really sure what to think of it because I feel like it is one of those movies that people always talk about and love and whatever.  I am having trouble forming an opinion of it because I feel like it should be this amazing movie to me, but it was just a movie.  I don't know if I explained that well but whatever.

Watch 20 classic movies (2/20)

I watched Gone with the Wind a while back. Actually, my mom bought me the movie because she apparently loves it.  She also forced me to watch it with her.  She loves watching movies together.  She has things that she wants us to do together that she arbitrarily chooses and then obsesses over.  Kind of takes the fun out of it for me.  But anyway, the movie was good, if not really REALLY long.  We-had-to-watch-it-in-two-sittings-long.  Anyway, I don't know how many times more I'll be watching it because it's not one of those movies I'll just be throwing on when I do some ironing, but you know, I'll probably break it out again some day.  But, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.  Ha that was dumb.

Watch 20 new-to-me movies (14/20)

Into the Wild-3 stars (innnteresting but maybe I should have read the book instead?  it felt slow and also I can't really relate very well)
City Slickers-2 stars (expected so much more, couldn't wait for this to end, maybe I should give it 1 star?)
The King's Speech-4 stars (really, really enjoyed)
Precious-3 stars (a little too "real" for me though I knew what I was getting into)
Easy A-4 stars (ha I enjoyed this random find on instant watch)
The Fighter-4 stars (really enjoyed)
Unstoppable-3 stars (this has been done before)
Inception-4 stars (glad I finally saw this. interesting concept)
Larry Crowne-3 stars (though funny, the characters were not well-developed)

Kick-Ass-4 stars (loved this and thought I'd hate it.  When Cliff picked it, I was all ready to turn it off.)
Grown-Ups-2 stars (too stupid to enjoy)
The Other Guys-1 star (also waaaaay too stupid to enjoy)
No Strings Attached-3 stars (enjoyed way more than I thought I would)
Black Swan-4 stars (I'm having flashbacks of this movie right now--creeeepy)