Lost a friend

Lastnight a friend of mine passed away. =( Being as young as we are, you would think it was in an automobile accident or something like that. My friend just turned 23 two months ago. A month after turning 23 he was dianosed with stage 4 colon caner. Just last week he decided to let all of his friends know of his situation. I drove to Ann Arbor the next day to go visit him but because of his condition they were not allowing any visitors. The doctors/nurses said that it would take too long to stabalize him after the excitement of having visitors. I did however get to meet his father, which was nice.

Anyways, lastnight he passed away. Its simply crazy. I will probably be traveling over to the east side sometime in the near future to attend his funeral. Things like this really make you realize how important it is to stay in touch.

Following in my family's footsteps

So I have recently been inspired by my Aunt Kathleen. My hubby and I have (slowly) been working on some home improvement projects to our home in Traverse City. So.... I have decided to share some before and after pictures. Keep in mind however that our budget for such renovations is quite limited at this point in time but we are doing what we can. Plus my Aunt Kass is much more experienced with this sort of thing...much more fancy. =) Finally, a post about something other than baby Scott. Funny how much life has changed. Anyways, here we go....

This is a before picture of the downstairs large bedroom. The walls were really beat up. Scott living here as a bachelor, the house got very little decorating. Also, because our house is on the river with there being a high water table, we do not have a basement so the circuit breaker box was in the master. Lovely!

This here is the "in-progress" picture. You can see my lovely husband decided to lend a helping hand to my project. Obviously we could not do much about the circuit breaker pannel and its location so as an attempt to make it look less-horrible, we painted it the same color as the walls to mask it a bit.

Here is my kinda-finished project. We are going to paint the trim and doors white once the weather decides to cooperate. I like how the natural wood trim looks with the color but we kind of have a theme going throughout the house, plus the white blinds don't look so great with the wood trim. Also, I want to refinish some of the furniture we are using in there. But this is a HUGE improvement. So that was my weekend.

Spring Pictures

So I mentioned in my last post (which seems like forever ago) about how I was disappointed with my picture taking experience at JCPennys. Lucky for me, I have a cute kid who takes pretty cute pictures regardless of the crappy photographers. haha. Anyways, here is two of my favorites =)

Things here are good. This past weekend we went to Sault Ste Marie, MI where my sister and her family live. We went to see my niece, Amber's Ice show. Interesting thing happened during the afternoon performance. The zamboni came out to clean the ice at intermission and caught on fire. The driver quickly jumped off to put out the fire, started the zamboni again and the thing made this big explosion sound and caught fire again. It was crazy. In all of my days hanging around the ice arenas, I've never seen a zamboni catch fire. My parents also came to see Amber's Ice show so that was nice to see them. Though they could care less about seeing me, it was more to see little Scotty.

slacking...

So i'm not really good at this blogging thing. Oh well. I'm making somewhat of an effort I suppose. Nothing new going on here. I recently got little Scottys pictures done...last Friday. I went to JCPenny because they had these really great coupons however I guess the old saying "you get what you pay for" is 110% true. The staff wasn't very friendly at all. They only used 2 backgrounds, plain white and plain black. And there were only a couple of pictures that I just couldn't live without. Last time we had his pictures taken (at Sears), it killed me not to purchase them all. The lady who took his picture there was also sooooooooo nice and helpful. She gave me as much time as I needed to pick out the pictures and package I wanted. So.....next time I will be going back to Sears.

For the baby shower my dad bought little Scotty this cute little car walker. We recently got it out and put it together and he just LOVES it! Its so cute! It really looks like a little car. It has a leather seat with "GT" embroidered on it. haha. Here are a few pictures of him hanging out in it.

Anyways, that is it for now. I will try to do better this week.

Getting started

Well I have never blogged before and until recently, haven't read any. However with my new found freedom, I will jot some things down here just for fun. Even if nobody reads this, I can use this to get some things off my chest. =) I guess that is really all I can think of to write right now. I will work on writing some more interesting things as time goes by.