wil and kris (and gracie and ava)

i had no idea it was labor day this weekend until about thursday or friday of last week…which means i did not realize i had an extra day off. woot! it was a nice surprise to say the least, but when sunday night rolled around, i had no idea what i was going to do with this free day.

with wil at work, i sipped come coffee after waking up (at a very respectible hour mind you…i can’t seem to sleep in anymore with these two maniac dogs), and i decided i felt crafty. i went out to the garage, found some pieces of board and planned on painting some pictures. i was done priming, and i walked back into the house, and the kitchen screamed at me… “paint me!”

i’ve wanted to paint our kitchen since the day we moved in, but always talked myself out of it since i knew the entire job was just cutting in and trimming. bleh. but this morning, with the whole day ahead of me, i was ready to take on the job! (besides when moving into to new places, i’ve noticed that i seem to paint rooms on random whims…odd) the color is not something i necessarily picked out…the dining room walls have this color under the wainscoting, and then in continues into the adjacent ‘hall’…so it only made sense to keep that color going through the rest of the kitchen…especially since i have greens going on in the den that it’s open to. (*note: it looks quite baby poopish on the screen…i promise it’s better in person, and i bet people who have been here didn’t even notice the color in the existing spaces)

still in my pj’s, i set my coffee down (forgot about it till about an hour ago!) and went straight to it. by one i was pretty much done except for putting some of the hardware back up. it felt like a great accomplishment and so glad i finally convinced myself to do the work and deal with the labor.

i was still in the crafty mode after finishing up so i still painted my painting that started it all…just something fun to hang in the den.

yay for paint! our friends are moving into a fixer upper this week, so let’s hope the affair with painting lasts, since i’ve offered my hand and brush!

big sad face….

the olympics are over.

wil and i really got sucked into them this year…there wasn’t a sport i wasn’t interested in watching! ok, i totally take that back; i happily changed the channel if it was boxing, basketball and other boring things….but i did enjoy the swimming, diving, gymnastics, running, fencing, rowing, volleyball and the like!

go usa!

we’ve had online rented dvd’s sitting on our mantel for the whole two weeks though, so even though i’m sad the olympics are over, i’m glad i have time to watch movies again! and our favorite shows are coming back on soon too! office, scrubs, lost (mad men and project runway have already started). yay for tv entertainment!

another week has swiftly passed since stopping by here to write a post….wil and i joined some friends for a weekend camping trip and had a great time. the weather was great, the campground was perfect on the lakeside, and the company was pleasant! the usual camping routine filled our days (thurs night to sun afternoon)…food, reading, clue, cards, fishing, swimming, firepits, and smores. the dogs snoozed in the dirt and the sun and waded in the water ever so often…but upon coming home they curled up on their sofas and beds and slept like they’ve never slept before. i wasn’t too inspired to take many pictures of us being lazy and dirty, so there’s not much to show. you might see a handful of shots show up in my flickr, but that’s about it.

it was just a nice escape from reality, while only being about 15 minutes from our house! (we had no idea we were so close to such greatness)

hope everyone else had nice weekends!

watching a nashville ’sounds’ game on a perfect friday night with friends, hot dogs, peanuts, and fireworks!

i have the perfect ingredients for a great evening…wil is having a boys night watching nothing other than the uber manly ‘godfather’… so i’m have a girls night. (well, me and the two dogs at home alone hardly counts, but shh…who’s actually paying attention to the details?)

• i’m in my pj’s
• got a bowl full of cereal (of recently re-discovered smacks…forgot how good those were!)
• the dogs are relatively quiet
• have a whole series of ‘mad men’ free on demand…i have gotten bit by the bug. i’ve only seen three episodes but i am hooked and dying to power through the first season so i can catch up to the second season that just started on sunday. so good!

but shoot…the on demand isn’t working for some reason. : (

perfect night- spoiled.

so i haven’t written anything…but wil’s been storing up ideas for posts…so i’m just waiting for him to sit and write. just fyi…

last night was filled with amazing music and good friends as we celebrated our friend’s cd release party/show at the five spot. dave asked me to take pictures throughout the night (stressed me out way more than it ought to have because they turned out better than i thought on the computer), so here are a few of my favorites (larger set here).

dave is the lead singer of the champion and his burning flame (wil and dave go back to working at the downtown franklin starbucks together), and so we have also gotten to know the rest of the guys through the band, mutual friends and starbucks of course (everyone we know seems to work, have worked, or been related to someone who works at starbucks…it’s an interesting community).

their music is really amazing…wil and i blasted our new cd through the house while we enjoyed pancakes and bacon this lazy saturday morning. their myspace gives you a little hint. enjoy!