My Review of Texsport Osprey 3-Season Tent

iPhone post #1

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Mariah and I have been quite busy. I really don't have much time to update at the moment but I wanted to let anyone know that reads this that we're doing well and having a great summer. Hope you are too. I'll update more often and more in depth soon. Oh.....and here's a pic of Lilly.


Isn't she sweet?!?

Granite Tile Countertops & Subway Tile Backsplash

We obviously we needed new countertops (I know I know, how could we not love those lovely green laminate counters??) So Adam was able to lay the new Absolute Black Granite tile countertops and the White Subway Tile back splash.

First he had to remove the old countertops and back splash. Then he had to cut out plywood to fit the counters for support. Next he cut the backer board to fit. Then he cut and laid the granite tile. The counters proved to be a lot easier and less time consuming then the back splash, but they both turned out beautiful. Due to us adding an additional light fixture and a garbage disposal in the next few days, he has not completed grouting the tile yet, but he will and pics will follow soon. Check out Tim the Tool Man's counter laying skills....

It's all in the details...

We have taken a much needed 2 month hiatus from working our butts off on the house, but we have started gearing back up. Here are some small additions we have made in the last month or so...

We installed the chandelier that my grandmother gave to us in our dining room about a month ago. When we first installed it, it gave off way to much light, so Adam went back and later added a dimmer. Check it out...






We also added a new light fixture in the kitchen. Very pretty....





Adam's lovely Aunt Linda, who lives in Florida, checked out our blog and saw exactly what we needed in our bathroom, monogrammed towels! We love them!

Twitter & TinyURL's

I've become a bit obsessed with blogging here lately. This seems to be my personality as some of my interest seem to eb and flow in how much time I dedicate to them. Also technology as a whole seems to amaze me a little more everyday. I recently created a twitter account and kept seeing these links named www.tinyurl.com/xxxxxxx or whatever and I had no idea how they did that so I did some research. My favorite search engine, next to google, is wikipedia and I could get lost on this sight for hours. Just ask my wife. Anyways wikipedia's definition is as follows:

http://tinyurl.com/dmsfm


But if you don't wanna read all that it basically turns any web address into a short link to get you to the same place. TinyURL's help to turn web address that look like this:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqmap.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252KZmeiIh6N%2bIgpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvNlygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrfXNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP

into this:

http://tinyurl.com/6

I just thought it was neat and thought I'd share that with you

Really Michael Phelps?!?

Disclaimer: I do not endorse nor recommend the smoking of bongs.

I do think that this video is hilarious though and thought I'd share it here.

Cake decorating and mobile blogging

Well it's official.....I really like being able to blog from my blackberry. It's so much easier to send a MMS text than uploading a photo from my phone onto the computer and then onto the blog from there.

Anyways, Mariah is taking a cake decorting class at Hobby Lobby and tonight she had to get her cake ready to decorate.

As you can see the cake turned out great and we had enough left over blue icing for Lilly to have some, which she was extremely grateful for. Haha.