Monday, May 26, 2008

silly woe's

So we have lived in this home for about 3 months now, and I wanted to paint the living room. It is currently brown and cream with a lot of brown thrown in for good measure. You see we wanted to have hardwood floors, that added brown in a big way. Then we have the shrunk....which is brown. Of course we bought out sectional which is 3 shades of brown. And there is the issue of the brown wall from the previous owners. I HATE BROWN!! So I have decided to go with a light Wedgwood blue for the walls. Hoping that it will look tasteful and not too "fad-ish". So I guess while Jay is gone with work, I shall try it out.....maybe. If I can get other things done, then I might just go ahead with the painting....maybe....

Sunday, May 25, 2008

I've been around for 30 years....

Ok so I turned the BIG 30 on April 29th....yeah me! I just figured that I was going to get 30 of something from Jay and call it a day. Boy was I wrong! On the 28th Jay was returning from the field and told me to have a bag for Emily and I packed for an overnight trip. He wouldn't tell me where we were going.....drove me nuts not to know what was going on. So when he got home we finished up a couple of things and headed down the road. All I was told was that we were going somewhere in Nebraska. (I figured since Emily and I just got home from visiting Cherith and Morgan that there was no real good reason for us to drive 7 hours just to get up the next morning to return home, so I had no clue where we were going.) We drove about 2 hours to...well...I forget the name of the town at the moment, but after about an hour into the trip he told me that was where we were going. We stopped for gas and some coffee, and once he got back in the car he confessed. We were not stopping in at_______(still forgetting the name of the town), but we were going on to Omaha. SURPRISE!! Ok so you would think that I would be happy to make the trip again in less than a week, but I was tired. I was not prepared for such a long trip. It was late and all I wanted to do was lay down in a comfey bed. BUT no. I couldn't do that. We still had about 6 hours worth of travel ahead of us. So we carried on. At that point we had no cell phone reception, so we wern't able to contact Cherith and let her know how far we had to go. We finally stopped at a truck stop and called her. A few hours later we arrived in Papillion. Around 2am...in the morning people. Emily had a nap...well she fell asleep and after about 4 hours she woke up ready to play with Morgan. SO finally around 4am we all fell asleep hoping that Emily would sleep past 7am. Well she did, she slept until 8am.....woo-freakin-who. 4 hours of sleep....not good!! I woke up on my birthday with a headache and I was tired as crap! I still had no idea what was going on that day. I wanted to take a nap, and Jay sad that I would have the opportunity. What was the opportunity you ask? Well it was another 4 hour car ride from Omaha to Harrisonville Missouri. So for the 4 hours I tried to get out of him what was going on. NOTHING!! He wouldn't tell me anything. We arrived in Harrisonville after picking up Cisco (our brother in law) tired, hungry and a little cranky, but we arrived. Jay had managed to rent the B&B next to his parents house, and our families were waiting there to celebrate my birth. HOW freakin cool was that? I had NO clue, his family knew...even Britt his sister, who can not keep a secret to save her life. We ate and talked until late in the evening and then headed off to bed. The next day Cherith and Morgan headed down and stayed with us for a couple of days. On Thursday we had a photo shoot with Cherith, which was FUN! Other than the not knowing what was going on (I like the idea of being surprised, but I don't like it when I can't figure it out before hand), being a built in baby sitter, and having my mother in law do something really STUPID, we had a great time. So that's what I did on my 30th birthday. Jay finally pulled of a surprise, and it only took him 9 years...lol. I would love to hear what you did on your 30th!