Miscellaneous Happenings

Things were pretty uneventful around here today.  Although I was able to cross two rooms off of my cleaning list, so that felt good.  Somehow I don't actually feel like the house seems cleaner though, but Nick says it does so I must be on the right track.  This weekend my college roommate and her husband and baby are coming to town so I have to get everything done before then.  At least I have a solid deadline to keep me on track!  Not to mention that I am super excited to see them all - Ella and Molly will be great playmates this weekend!

Some bumbo time - how cute are her little jeans??!

I also spent some time getting things ready and organized for Ella's first day of day care.  :(  I am headed back to work on Tuesday and I have very mixed emotions about it!  I know they will take good care of her and I am looking forward to seeing my work friends but it is going to be a hard transition.  Anyway, I had ordered some name bubbles since EVERYTHING that goes to day care has to be labeled.  They came yesterday so I had fun sticking them on things today.  Hopefully they really do hold up through the washing machine and dishwasher.

napping while Mommy cleans

In other news this weekend I re-covered our office chair.  It needed it SO BAD, Zoe apparently loved the fabric that it came with and completely clawed it up.  She doesn't claw on other furniture, but I guess she really loved the texture of this.  For probably close to 3 years I just had fabric draped over it and it looked like a mess all the time.  I had been mentally planning how I would sew a slipcover for quite awhile but finally decided that I was going to do it.  I got the fabric half off so it only cost me $15.

I couldn't believe how well it turned out!  I love it so much.  All I did was carefully pin the pieces together on the chair and did some very steady sewing right on the line that I pinned.  Such a difference - had I known it was going to turn out so well and be so easy I would have tried this a long time ago!  Lesson learned.

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

This morning we woke up to some HOT and HUMID weather.  We got up kind of early so we decided to head to our favorite breakfast place, Maxfield's, for some yummy breakfast.  We let Ella go in her pj's but I'll have to teach her that we typically do not make public appearances in our jammies.

I spent the rest of the morning and a good chunk of the afternoon re-painting my dresser.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out I think.  Although I am still somewhat on the fence.  I'm thinking about painting Nick's yellow but I have to convince him yet.  We will live with this one and then decide.  Either way, his is getting painted too.

While I was doing that Nick and Ella took in some Olympic action today and we got to see the double amputee compete in the 400 meter.  Pretty inspiring!  He did qualify for the finals... so he could win gold!  I then attempted to make "Pizza Balls" per a recipe I found on Pinterest.  I don't know if I did something wrong or what, but they were time consuming to make (who would have thought?!) and they weren't that good.  We were both pretty bummed.

And finally, today is my Dad's birthday so of course we had a special photoshoot!

Poor Lucky

Last night we noticed that Lucky had small sore on the side of her face.  She needed to get into the vet anyway, so I put it on my list to call them in the morning to get her in this weekend when Nick could go with me.  Fast forward to this morning and I woke up to a much larger oozing sore, I was so sad for my puppers!  I called the vet and thankfully they were able to get us in today at 5:20 so Nick was still able to come along.  They had to give her a shave around it so that it stays clean and she is now on some meds 3 times a day, but she should be healed up in no time!  Apparently it looks much worse than it is, and the vet said it is really very small.  So poor puppy is resting up.

Apparently Ella was tired yesterday too because she slept really good last night, only was up once and went back to sleep pretty quickly after that.  So we are feeling much more rested today, although my headache is still hanging on.  I need Excedrin to get back in production!  **News Flash!  I decided to do a quick Google search and its back!  YES! Proof here **

Today I wrapped up a little project I did to frame some antique keys we had but had no real way to display.  I took a $2 frame from Ikea, sanded it down, put the keys in it and backed it with a scrap of fabric and displayed it.  I left it like that for a few days but Nick and I both thought it was too white, so today I painted the mat that came with it to give it a little color.  I'm not totally convinced its the right color, but I'll leave it for a bit and see if I come up with something better.

Before

After

Nick loves coming home to cuddle with his Ella... sometimes Lucky gets a little jealous and wants to cuddle too, especially after the day she had today.