New Addition

Meet my new addition to my sea creature family. Sarah B sent me the awesome seahorse from her vacation in Hatteras. I have these hanging in the first room you see when you walk in my house. The curtains I bought matched the fish perfectly and then I decided that I wanted to collect other painted metal creatures to hang on that wall. I got the crab in a little boutique in Tappahannock, VA.

Here is a close-up of the pretty seahorse. She fits in perfectly!

Meet Delia

This is Delia Reese Bauckman. My good friend since Kindergarten, Amber, had a beautiful baby girl a few weeks ago. She's one of the prettiest babies I've seen. My first visit was Sunday before field hockey - hence the tacky red Field House shirt. Mom & baby are doing great! I visited them again yesterday and got to see Delia in her first bathing suit. We took her too the pool for a little bit - she was not happy about the cold water - it was hilarious!



Posing for Vogue!


I'm not sure if you can tell, but I've lost some weight. I'm excited to see some pictures that don't have triple chins =) So far I've lost 12.2 lbs. I started Weight Watchers about 6 weeks ago and it's going great. I'm actually very motivated to work out & I've been doing well with watching what I eat too. Hopefully the pics of me on this blog will just get skinnier & skinnier!

More Pics of Callie

Of course since I don't have any kids...I've got all the time in the world to take pictures of my cute kitten. I especially want to get lots of pictures when she is still tiny - I know she'll grow up and be a mean ol' cat sooner or later ;) Nothing too exciting has been going on. Work is super stressful & I just finished a week of Vacation Bible School teaching the 3-5 year olds. There were 20+ kids in my class each night and the majority of them were boys! Needless to say it was a LONG week!

I got fresh peaches from the Berry Farm last weekend. They were so delicious! And Callie decided to recycle the box and use it as a toy.


Here is another new toy. I found two awesome cat trees on eBay and they arrived this week. I put the monster one in the basement and this smaller blue one in the living room. I know she likes this one...and I'm hoping she plays with the cool orange one in the basement while I'm at work. This is what my hard earned grass cutting money went to!


She's so cute!


Here is the monster orange one. These trees were a lot cooler than I expected and they were pretty easy to put together.


Just chillin'


She's my little gymnast.

Pirate Party

Me neighbor had an awesome Pirate Party this past weekend. I couldn't believe that everyone actually came decked out in pirate attire. They even had pirate games, treasures, cannon balls, and a pirate ship! And of course it was nice being able to walk across the street to get to it. Thanks to Chris & Josh who let me borrow some pirate garb - I think my outfit turned out pretty well.


Picture of the people waiting in line for the costume contest. My other friend (and neighbor) Melanie won that contest - she's the one in the red & black.


Arrrgh Matey!

My New Little Friend...

Callie is her name & playing is her game. She's a calico kitten who is about 2 months old and she is an awesome new addition to my house. As I'm typing this blog she is standing on the computer table chasing my fingers as I type. I've had her since Saturday and she's provided many moments of entertainment. Below are some of my favorite pics...and even a video of her new toy I got her at Wal-mart.

This is her chilling under the chair on the deck. I was laying out catching some sun rays, but she prefers to lay in the shade and play with her cool toy from the clearance rack ;)


No...she's not trying to escape. She's actually climbing back over the gate to get to the kitty litter - what a smart one! I borrowed the baby gate from Sarah to keep her enclosed in a small area until I knew she would use the litter box. Since she was living outside until I got her I had no clue what she would do. Thank God she took to it right away and we haven't had any problems yet. As you can see from the picture she was making a big effort to get BACK to the potty.


This is another new toy I just got her. She just figured out how to use it tonight...hopefully she'll claw on this and not my furniture.


Here is a cute little video clip of Callie playing with her new favorite toy. I love this one because she can keep herself entertained.



Goodbye until the next cute picture....

4th of July

I had a great 4th of July with my parents & g-ma. It was very low key but we had some DELICIOUS food! Since I've started Weight Watchers again I had to save almost all my points for our dinner: bbq ribs, corn on the cob, fresh fruit, 1 biscuit and the best for last....HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM =) My parents only make it once a year and you wouldn't believe the calories in that thing...but I enjoyed my 1 cup portion down to the last drop. And after dinner I got the family to play ladder ball...even my 93 year old grandma.



As she shrinks, I think I get taller. Makes me look like a giant next to my g-ma.

S'mores

Yummy! One of my favorite things to eat - s'mores. Ooey-gooey marshmallows with melted chocolate =) I had BJ & Jason over one night for these delicious treats. They picked me up and we went to visit Ricky's grave, then to dinner at King's and then back to my house for dessert. Only I would have a personal/indoor s'more maker!