Banquet and Porch Renovation

This past weekend we went to Lighthouses junior/senior banquet. Trev is one of the junior class sponsors, which meant that he was in charge of helping organize and set everything up for banquet. It was alot like prom....except no dancing of course :( It was at Old Hickory Country Club, and turned out really nice. The meal was good, and the entertainment (Mr. Keenan Hunter) was the best part. All the kids looked nice too! After banquet was over, we headed to our favorite place...Rita's of course!!!

The best DIL and MIL ever!

K-man jammin'!

Court being the paparazzi :)

King and Queen of Banquet

Say CHEESE!

Me and my love!

Trev and Timmy being silly :)

The next day, Tim came over to help us re-do our porch. Ever since we bought our house, the front porch has been falling apart, but we hadnt had the time or money to fix it until now. My awesome father in law agreed to build it for us. I told him what I wanted and he has turned the plan into a reality! He is pretty awesome! I am so excited to have a new front porch and can't wait until its completely finished!

My beautiful purple salvia!

Before pic of the porch...noted all the spindles that are missing on the handrail. Its hard to see just how rotted and messed up it was, but trust me--it was bad!

DEMO!

The new wood, ready to be cut and built into a porch!

Timmy Lee sawing....every time he started the saw I got nervous that he would cut his fingers off...luckily, he went home with all 10!

The end of day 1 (I forgot to take a pic of the end of day 2 so the next pic skips ahead a bit)

The end of day 3....its looking so good! I really love the squared look of the big poles instead of the 90's looking round ones :) All that's lacking are the rails and a few coats of paint! I will post an after pic once we are all done!

Happy Birthday Callum!

Today we got to celebrate the 1st birthday of sweet Callum! He is the son of some of our dearest friends, Shana and Chad. Today we all got together to celebrate the first year of this sweet little one. Thankfully we were able to make it to the party....Trev and I had a touch of food poisoning on Friday so it looked questionable for a while. We had a great time celebrating Callum and hanging out with other great friends! Here are some pics from the day....

My mom and I made the cake...she did the main part of the cake and I did the animals...

Sweet Cal and his momma

The birthday boy....dressed as a LION!

Growling with Auntie Ashley

Farneth Family Photo!

Britt and Avery

Avery chillaxin' in the ball pit!

Waiting for the cake :)

Happy Birthday to you!!!!!!

The highly anticipated first bite

This stuff tastes pretty good!

I LOVE eating cake...its delicious!

Callum's cousin Anna in the apron that I made for her, its a bit big but she'll grow into it!

Opening presents

Cal really enjoyed ripping the paper off!

Avery had so much fun that she passed out on her daddy!

What a great way to spend such a lovely Saturday! Ta-ta for now!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Every year, our cell group has a St. Patrick's Day party. It has become a great tradition and something that I always look forward to. This year we really missed our dear friends Virgil and Joy--they were the whole idea behind the party, and it wasn't the same without them. We miss you Virgil and Joy!!!!!!! Here are some pics from our fun night....we ate green food and dressed in green! It was a blast, as always!

A GREAT Saturday!

We had a really great day today! After sleeping in (10:00am) we went and had a late breakfast at Cracker Barrel...yum! Then we decided to be productive and cleaned out our garage. I wish I had taken a before picture so that everyone could see the amazing transformation. Just imagine boxes and stuff covering almost every inch of the floor and that's what it looked like before. And now.....so clean and tidy!!!!

Then I worked on a sewing project....a friend of mine had asked me to try and make easter basket liners that she had seen on Pottery Barn Kids....so I gave it a go. This one is by no means perfect, and the fabric is just some old that I had lying around (I was thinking gingham for the actual ones) but I think it turned out pretty good! Its a really cute idea, and a great way to personalize your kids easter basket!


Also for my birthday I really wanted a new vacuum. Even though my b-day is still a month and a half away, I noticed some vacuums on sale this weekend at Kohl's. I knew my mom had a 30% off coupon so we decided to go look. We ended up getting a steal of a deal. They didnt have any more of the one I wanted (the Hoover Pet Hair Vac) and they couldnt find the price on it. So they gave it to us for the next model down's price (109.00) plus 10% off since I was buying the floor model plus my moms 30% off coupon. We ended up getting it for $76 including tax!!! WOW! I cant wait to start vacuuming! :)

Lastly, and most exciting....my sis in law went to DC for the week of her spring break. The last time Trev and I were there we went to Georgetown Cupcake (star of the hit TLC show DC Cupcakes) and fell in love with the cupcakes.....so Court brought us some back! And boy were they DELICIOUS! I am pretty sure they are the best cupcakes ever! YUM!

After the plane ride home a couple got knocked over...but we rescued them :)

Eating a key lime cupcake!

Everyone taking their first bite (Ignore my face in this one....I was REALLY excited!)

The damage :)

Overall it was a great Saturday....great weather, great food, and a great time with family!

Black Spaghetti

So, for many months I have been admiring the "specialty" pastas at Target. I have really wanted to buy the black spaghetti, but couldn't really justify spending $4.00 on pasta when I can get the equivalent (minus being black) for about $1. But....today at Target I noticed that it was on clearance, which A. makes me think that they are discontinuing it so I better try it if I ever want to and B. makes me want to buy it since it probably will never be any cheaper....so I did! It was actually pretty good...not a whole lot of difference in taste but the texture was very smooth and slippery. The black color is squid ink...so YAY us for trying something new. I doubt I would buy it again, but it was fun for a try!!!

Kinda creepy and cool at the same time!