Thirsty Thursday

Thirsty Thursday continues!

This week we made white wine sangria!  It is super yummy!

The ingredients are:

1 bottle white wine
2/3 cup of white sugar
3 oranges (sliced)
1 lemon (sliced)
1 lime (sliced)
2 oz brandy
1/2 liter of ginger ale

Cheers!!!

Happy Birthday Uncle Adam!

Dear Uncle Adam,

Happy Birthday!!! 

I'm so sorry I didn't get my picture up yesterday, I fell asleep before mom could take my picture.  I hope that you had a very wonderful birthday and I am so happy you are coming to see me this weekend.

I love you!

Love,

Elizabeth (your favorite niece)

SUYL- Home Tour: Living Room

On Kelly's Korner her new series of Show Us Your Life Fridays is a tour of homes.  This week is all about the living room.  The epicenter of the home, the place where everyone 'lives'. 

We bought our house 15 months ago and the only big change to our living room has been the addition of the pack n'play 16 weeks ago.  We are looking to add curtains this weekend, but we don't have them yet!

We have a four-story town home near DC.

Here is what our living room currently looks like...

View from the stairs.

One of our end tables.

Baby corner

(pack n play, bumbo, boppy pillow, tummy time mat)

Other end table.

Views from other angles.

Thanks for coming by our house!

Gymboree Savings!

Right now Gymboree is having a "30% off fill your bag" sale.  You may also use any other coupons you have in addition to the sale.

Today I bought 7 items (6 dresses and 1 onsie) for $40.84!

All of the items were on sale, then I got 30% off and then an additional 20% off with the coupon I had!

Starting from left to right (bottom)...

The pink dress with flowers: Originally $36.95
The white and pink dress next to it: Originally $32.95
Striped dress with pink bow: Originally $32.95
Yellow Onsie: Originally $14.95

Starting from left to right (top)...

Pink dress: Originally $32.95
White dress with green and yellow: Originally $21.95
Bright pink outfit: Originally $26.95

Original total: $199.65
Total spent: $40.84

Thirsty Thursday

We continue our 'Thirsty Thursday' series with a new drink for both Ben and I.
It's called Southern Country Lemonade! 

It is:

One part Jack Daniel's Whiskey (or any Whiskey)
One part Triple Sec
One part Sprite
One part Sour Mix

Mix all the ingredients, stir and serve over ice.

We have everything but the Triple Sec so I picked some up today.

Ben got creative with the pictures tonight so I have a bunch of our Thirsty Thursday beverage.

Cheers!!!

Wait... it's Tuesday!??!

I've been saying that all day!  I keep forgetting that today is Tuesday!  Having Monday's off from work really throws me off as to what day it is.  But as someone reminded me at lunch, in a few weeks I won't have any clue what day it is because I will be off for summer!  Yahoo!

So here are some of my random thoughts:

I loved spending all day in bed on Saturday watching movies and I am so glad Ben wanted us to do that to relax!

I love kissing Elizabeth all over her stomach, arms, and cheeks.  She has started giggling A LOT when I do this and it makes me giggle and we just sit there and giggle and giggle.  I love it!

I really, really enjoy rotisserie chicken- we may make this a weekly dinner.  It is soooo yummy!  (And you can eat it for 2 nights in a row!)  Yum Yum!

Speaking of dinner- I love when Ben grills!  Last summer I couldn't stand red meat and we opened our grill maybe once- we have a lot of catching up to do this summer.  We had left over hamburgers and hot dogs last week from his camping trip and I think we have a few left to enjoy this week!  Yum Yum!

Today I started my new work-out.  Meaning, I started working out.  I haven't done so since my car accident because my neck has been really sore.  I did 30 minutes of cardio (15 on the treadmill and 15 on the bike) and then lifted for a bit (about 20 minutes).  This was also the first time I took Elizabeth to the gym daycare.  She slept almost the entire time and I am so glad that she did well.  Hooray for getting in shape (because despite my argument of round being a shape, Ben says that it isn't).

I have seen one episode of 'Mrs. Eastwood and Company' and the housekeeper says "yum yum!" all the time and since then I can't stop saying it.  Yum Yum! (see above)

Stacy will be here in two weeks!  I am super excited and I tell Ben every day that Stacy will be here soon.  Last time we were together was October...

Have a great week!

Yum Yum!!!

Thirsty Thursday

Continuing with our 'Thirsty Thursday' evenings, Ben and I had margaritas tonight to enjoy with our dinner of grilled hamburgers, french fries, and summer salad!  I LOVE summer and margaritas put me into summer mode (even though we have 19 days left of school).

Yum

Yum

Yummy!

(This is me playing with the zoom feature on my camera)

Cheers!!!