Grandma & Grandpa are HOME!!

All is right with the world for the next few months because Gma & Gpa are home in NY! I drove out Monday after work to have happy hour with them! And I got the BEST present when I got there! My fabulous Grandmother made me a beautiful afghan with the prettiest pink and sage colors!




Yesterday I curled up on the couch under my warm new blanket! I could barely watch TV because I found myself staring at it and admiring the stitching and all the work Grandma put into it!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH GRANDMA!!! You made my day!! I love you!!!

We got a new couch!!

Goodbye ugly brown love seat. HELLO cute blue couch with pull out bed!!




Our living room literally just became ten times better with just this addition!

Sunday Fun Day!

Can you believe I got up at 8:30a on a SUNDAY!? Well I did and started to spring clean right away! I organized both closets in the living room, windex the sliding glass door in and out and washed all the dirt off the siding (I couldn't sit on the deck another day looking at it). I cleaned my room, organized my closet, packed away all winter clothes and brought out summery things! (woohoo!)

Also, I finally did I a project I wanted too. All winter I've been saving our coffee cans for a planter project I saw in a book. Today I finally sat down and painted them!


The final product:


I have Lavender planted in the one labeled Lavender obviously, then a colieus in the orange, repotted a plant in the green, and planted daisies in the yellow!!


And look, a great garage sale find from Mom! Or should I say garage SNAIL find! LOL



Then I walked to the store to buy a few things to make chicken parm tonight! I took a little backpack and my earth day grocery bag. It was a beautiful, sunny day, I knew I was fit enough, and gas is expensive! I figured, why not!? LOL

Spring has Sprung!

We have a pear tree right off our deck that is starting to bloom! It will be in it's glory soon! And hopefully the pears will be edible!


It makes me wonder how my mom's magnolia tree is doing! It's always a breathe-taking sight in the spring! My friend Heather actually just bought a house last fall, and I was looking at a tree in her front yard over the winter that I thought was a magnolia tree... and I was right! It's starting to bloom as well! And look, I even found a few tulips poking out at me!


Living in the city certainly makes me miss our country home with my mother's beautiful gardens. But I'm planning on doing some small countainer gardening on our deck this Spring. I can't wait!

Yesterday, I got out in the sun early and hit a few balls at the batting cages. Softball starts on May 7th! I'm super pumped! Then I headed over to the driving range with my clubs for the first time this year. I did surprisingly well, my driver and irons were dead on almost every time!

To stay in the sun a little while longer, I even took in the first few innings of a high school baseball game! I blended in with the crowd and cheered, and once it started to cloud over headed for the gym. The rest of my day was spent cooking a few things, and I even used my apron from Aunt Molly!



I love summer and the warm weather! I'm super depressed it's suppose to rain all week, but that will give me more of an excuse to drive out to Albion for happy hour!! I can't wait to see Grandma & Grandpa and give them big hugs!!!

Kabobs!

Wednesday night I made kabobs on the new grill! They were PHENOMENAL!! I got a 2lb London broil steak and marinaded it in a mandarin orange marinade. Then added pineapples, peppers and cherry tomatoes before grilling. I could have eaten 20 of these! A must for all you grillers!!

88 Minutes

Last night I went to the movies and saw 88 minutes with Al Pachino. I thought it was good, but not one of his best. And some parts seemed corny and a little too rehearsed. It wasn't bad and I was happy to be at the movies! And guess what... it didn't take 45 minutes to drive there either! Just right around the corner! I love the city!!

First taste of Summer!!

What a beautiful, FUN weekend! Friday started with Happy Hour @ Cozumel with friends & co-workers. We figured since it was nice out, so we'd go somewhere with an outdoor patio... well that's what everyone else was thinking too! It was packed, but fun!





Saturday started with Breakfast @ IHOP and then off to Wally World to buy a grill for our cookout!! You don't even know how pumped I was to have our own grilled burgers for diner!! This was definitely a good purchase!
Here's Jim & Wendy putting it together! Well Wendy was just an onlooker, lol!


I swear I took about 10 pictures of the grill that night! But here's me flipping the burgers for the first time!!



Oh and after the grill and before the cookout, the three of us went to Brighton Park to throw around a softball and hit at the batting cages. Softball season is right around the corner!

Around 8p us girls went to an house party/bonfire!! Here we are with, Jeff, our host!!


The best part was Jeff had his nintendo wii set up outside with a projector!! The "screen" was just a sheet on the side of his garage!! I was totally impressed!! So we played maybe 8 games of bowling!! It was sooooo much fun and I kicked everyone's butt pretty much!!



Sunday Wendy and I went to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester! It was tons of fun, and they had some awesome collections! I loved all the dollhouses, random collections of paper weights and ink wells. I especially loved the butterfly garden! There was over 800 flying around! Wendy was freaked because they kept dive-bombing her head! HAHAHA









What a great weekend, eh? And I took those butterfly pictures myself! Awesomeness!


**Now it's Yankee time!! :o)