I was shopping the other day at TJ Maxx and found this beautiful electric fireplace at a great price. I had to have it! So I bought it and we brought it home today (thanks to B & L!). A little background – we are planning on re-doing our master bath and closet in the near future. The fireplace will go at the foot of our bed where the closet doors are now. This has been a part of our master plan and so when I saw it I figured we would get it a little early if we could …
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Rainbow
We had really strange weather today – rainy and windy. We had on and off rain storms. Around 5:30 the wind picked up and the sky turned really dark. As I was sitting inside watcing the weather unfold the power went out and stayed out for about an hour. Then all of the sudden this brillant rainbow appeared in the sky. And everyone saw it! All of my neighbors were out standing in the street looking at it. I grabbed my camera as fast as I could to take a picture. I got part of the rainbow – the end …
Mike in Mississippi
I just took down our tree this evening and packed up most of the decorations. It is very sad – it was a pretty little tree. Guess Christmas is official all over now. 🙁 Now I have to lug everything back up to the attic…I think that will be tomorrow. Mike is off to Bay St. Louis, MS this week with a group from Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church. He left this morning and then spent most of the day at the Atlanta airport waiting for the flight to depart. They should be just arriving in New Orleans right about now. …
Christmas Tree and Apex Parade
We finally finished decorating our tree on Friday night. Here is the final product: (I think it’s pretty cute!) Saturday night was the Apex Christmas parade in downtown. We missed last year so this was our first time going. It was a cute little parade – ok not little, it was a LONG parade. But it was nice. We were freeeeezzzzzing by the end of it! I didn’t take a lot of pictures because it was so dark but here are a few. Before the parade began – everyone lined up along Salem St. A Greyhound Rescue had all their …
Mike’s new toy…. A long way from our 19 in. TV we had the first year we were married!
Christmas Time is Here!
Thanksgiving is over – NOW we can start the Christmas celebrations. 🙂 Mike and I got some of our decorations up over the weekend – required buying a few things that we didn’t have last year. Garland for the mantel and 2 wreaths for our antique windows. The only thing left to get is a tree! We were planning on getting it today but the rain prevented that. No need to get a drenched tree and store it in the garage. Hopefully tomorrow will be sunny and dry and we can got pick one out then. I’ll get some pictures …
Happy Thankgiving!
Happy Turkey Day to all!! Eat lots of turkey and relax all day long! Got to store up that energy for shopping on Friday! 🙂
New Living Room
Well, not really – I just re-arranged it. I really do like it though! It makes the space feel so much bigger (and it hides the ugly dog cage). Here are some pictures – mostly to humor my sister. 🙂
New Backgrounds
I found this really great website for blog backgrounds. They have some really cute backgrounds which is great because I totally dislike the default backgrounds for blogger. And, they are super to set up. She has some other cute stuff (like Christmas cards) too – http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/.
Family Visit
This past weekend Mike’s parents, sister and aunt came down to North Carolina to visit. The weekend trip was to celebrate Warner’s 60th birthday! He knew he was coming to North Carolina but he had no idea that his sister, Barbara was flying in from New Mexico! That was his big birthday surprise – and they sure got him! Mike and I were also babysitting 2 dogs for friends. We had quite the house full! It made it even more fun and lively. 🙂 We had beautiful weather all weekend long – great fall weather with all the colorful trees …