Younts

Meet Younts

 Younts has been a secret "want" for me since college. Younts wouldn't weigh more than 5lbs.  (Younts is full grown in the pic above).

Younts would be the PERFECT dog for being inside.

Grey won't let me get Younts.

Reason 1: Teacup Yorkies apparently have high suicide rates since they're so tiny.  For instance, if Younts were to fall off the bed, bam. If Younts were to fall off the top of the couch, bam.

Reason 2: Younts would weigh TOPS 6-7lbs.

Enter in Franklin at 11lbs:

Enter in Oliver at 16.5lbs:

Yeah...Younts would get punched in the face and bull-dozed by these panthers. I literally see them getting in a fight and boxing ole Younts in the face.  Bam.

Reason 3: When Oliver gets really excited, he tends to just run in whatever direction he wants to without any reserve as to who or what is around him.  This has caused many "Oliver goes running, runs into Becky's leg, and gets kicked in the side of the head" or "Oliver goes running, swerves but doesn't miss Becky's leg as she's walking, and gets slammed into the wall" moments. 

Yeah....Younts would get run over.

My only hope:  You know in the movies when cars are driving and they go under big 18-wheelers and then come back out?  That's how I would HOPE that Younts and Oliver would get along...

Thoughts?!

Finished

Before:

After: We're planning on alternating and doing 4 chairs in the yellow and 4 in the white.  We still need 3 more chairs to make our complete set of 8...

Homemade Groucho's for dinner! :)

4th of July wreath

Things I didn't know seven days ago

1. Roasted Brussel Sprouts are GOOD!  I can't declare the same of them un-roasted.

2. One small bag of potato chips is not enough for 4 adults and one 2-year-old going on a BBQ kick...DCW!!!!

3. It is perfectly acceptable for a 2-year-old to try a BBQ chip, hate it, spit it out, and then thirty minutes later when Aunt Becky is eating some, steal some of hers, and then declare that you must have more, lots more!

4. Sweet Baby Ray's sauce is "just for Nora" as she puts it.

5. I went to Plato's Closet today trying to sell some clothes in order to get some moo-lah for my ipod fund.  I took one of Grey's shirts, 5 pairs of dress pants (worn each maybe 1-2 times), and 4 dresses (worn each maybe never.....).  I sold Grey's shirt and 1 pair of pants for 7 bucks.  The others were apparently "in great shape with great name brands but way too old." 

Plato's closet my butt.

6. I need approximately 18 more dollars until I've saved up enough for my ipod. :)

7. Apparently, this girl (who shall remain un-named for pride's sake) can manage to shower Sunday morning, take a bike ride and run, and not shower again until Wednesday when she realizes that it's not her husband who stinks, but alas, herself.

Fail girl.  Fail.

8. Homemade coffee ice cream with chocolate chips is amazing.

9. Homemade coffee ice cream with chocolate chips 30 minutes before bedtime = drawing tattoos on Grey of "Eddie and Reba" on his arm, dancing and singing very loudly to "Knock Three Times" and then crashing and sleeping like a baby for the next 10 hours.  Maybe I should try caffeine right before bed more often?  I slept better last night then I have in the past week.

10. THIS IS POST 300!!!!! WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!

The end.

-B

Quilts and fruit flies

Two posts in one day...good gracious I was productive today!

Look! I've finally finished the baby girl quilt.  Either Jen or Kristi will get it (whichever one has a baby girl first)!

Isn't the fabric so cute?!

Grey left some unclean dishes in the sink while we were away for an entire week. 

 Enter in the fruit flies. 

Within the first 48 hours of our return, I had killed a solid 30+.  I knew we had to do something drastic.  After reading some discussions about how to get rid of them, I decided to do the apple cider vinegar method.  Apparently, the fruit flies are really into the whole fermenting process.

You pour some apple cider vinegar into a glass, heat for 10ish seconds, and cover it with a piece of plastic wrap.  You then take a fork and poke small holes all over the top.  Apparently the flies get into the vinegar but can't seem to find their way out. After leaving the two glasses of vinegar sitting around our kitchen for a good week, I'm proud to say that I only saw 1 flying fruit fly about in our house.  The other 40+ were dead in our two glasses.  Can you see them?

Happy 4th!!!!! :)

The Un-Thinkable

Yours truly just did something that I never thought I would EVER do.

I went to Walmart and bought...

BRUSSEL SPOUTS!

Can you believe it?!  All my life, I've avoided them.  Not because I didn't like them, but because so many other people didn't like them that I figured....they knew best.

On a whim, we decided to try Roasted Brussel spouts while in Florida.  Basically, you take washed brussel spouts, toss in olive oil, spinkle garlic salt and lemon pepper on them, and roast them in an oven at 400 degrees for 40ish minutes.  (If you make this, make sure you toss 'em around at least once during the baking time so it won't burn)
Just incase we still hated them, we sprinkled a little bit of cheese on top.

Oh my goodness.  Sooooo good!  Hence...the buying of more brussel spouts today at Walmart.
Good gracious.  It's like I'm turning into a non-picky eating adult or something.

LOOK OUT!
*By the way, each chair cushion doesn't have just 3 layers of fabric.  No. That would be too easy.  They each have FIVE layers of different fabric. :)  I'm excited!

My new project

I've decided to recover our dining room chairs.

Original:

Taking off the first layer revealed that there were TWO WHOLE layers under it that I get to take off...of each one. Yay. :)

Then Oliver got distracted (ole Jeff from the Bachelorette was talking to me in the background)

He decided that he missed me way too much the past couple of days.

"You wanna do what instead of pet me?  Are you crazy?"

1 layer removed...of 1 chair (about 20 minutes later)

"No. You must give me attention."

"I'm sorry. Did you really think that you doing this was acceptable?"

Frankie was worn out just watching the exchange between Oliver and myself. :)

More updates coming!!!!!