glingdidit February 24th, 2009
So not a lot going on in the Smith household right now. We managed to take a weekend away for Valentine’s Day, which was great. We went to our church’s yearly marriage retreat on Friday/Saturday and had a great meal out with friends for Valentine’s Day. It’s always fun to stay over in the city…and to get out of Greenville for a bit. Since then we’ve been homebodies…which is always fun. We’ve been catching up on lots of Tivo’d goodness and just cleaning up around the house. (Being a homebody = messy house.) We’ve managed to slack off on working in the basement…and we really need to get that finished. So if you’re bored….and like to fix-up basements…just let us know! This week I’m also finishing up 2 more classes for grad. school. As long as everything goes as planned…I’ll be done this summer. Yay! I’m so ready to not have to worry about homework again. I’ll just be happy that it’s done…and that I’ll actually have a master’s degree. Anywho…I’m gonna close this now. We have Mario’s pizza on the way and an episode of American Idol to watch. Adios!
glingdidit February 11th, 2009
So it seems as if for a moment…Spring is here in Greenville. Sadly…it’s also brought with it freakish amounts of rain! We’re praying that the basement holds tight and that our work down there was beneficial. It was a little damp this morning…so we’ll see how it goes.
Other than that, we’ve been pretty busy lately. This weekend we cleaned the house…and I may or may not have taken down the Christmas tree on Saturday. (whoops!) It’s fake though…and it was just too pretty! Either way….the house is back to normal. (Expect for the guest bedroom…it still needs some love.) We had Steve and Nicole over for baked potato soup and games on Saturday night…which actually turned into baked potato soup and about 10 episodes of How I Met Your Mother. (We’re all quite addicted.) Church went well on Sunday…and was again a great reminder of how thankful we are for our church family. God has really blessed us with some amazing people in our lives because of Metro…and I know it’s the perfect place for us. Sunday evening we headed into the city for supper at Maggiano’s with the office. If you haven’t been there…and you love Italian food…you should probably go. It’s family style…it’s a humongous amount of food….and it’s just down-right awesome. So we stuffed ourselves silly and headed back home. Monday night I made about 60 sugar cookies and some neon colored frosting for a birthday party for my friend’s 2 year old daughter. I helped her and her little buddies frost cookies…and it was so much fun! They did such a good job…and it melted my heart to watch their eyes light up at the site of my sugar cookies and frosting. Good times! Last night we headed back for our 2nd show at the Fox this year…Spring Awakening. It was definitely interesting…that’s for sure. Not my favorite…but the music was really good and it was definitely an experience. The night was made complete by a huge breakfast for dinner at Cracker Barrel. Yum!
And now…today…I’m finishing up a lot of busy work at the office. It’s just one of those days. I’m looking forward to making a pot roast for dinner and just relaxing. Should be a nice night!
glingdidit February 2nd, 2009
So we ate way too much food this weekend! Friday night we headed over to Highland to meet up with Steve and Katie for a game night. We made the trip to Cracker Barrel first, where I proceeded to stuff myself completely with their uber-delicious breakfast creations. (My current favorite is “eggs in a basket…sourdough grilled up with an egg in the middle…it’s super yummy.) We had a great time playing games and finally headed back to Greenville around 12:30.
The next morning I had a haircut (well multiple hairs actually)…and Jared and I were still hankerin’ for breakfast food…so we stopped by Kelly’s Cafe up on the square and had some more! It turned out to be really good…and a we’ll definitely be heading back again. We then went back home to find 2 snuggly kitties on our bed…so we curled up with them…and somehow managed to sleep until about 2:30 that afternoon. Whoops! I worked on some homework and we headed over to O’Fallon to get some groceries…and met up with a friend for even more food. This time the target was 17th Street (one of our favorite BBQ joints). It was super packed…but the wait was worth it…as always. We were stuffed…but then somehow convinced ourselves that we needed to get some ice cream from Maggie Moo’s. Since it’s close to Valentine’s Day…they have my favorite ice cream right now….red velvet. It’s soooo good!
Sunday we were up early for church, and it was a really good service. We talked a lot about living your life 100% for God…not 95%…not even 99.9%….but a full 100%. A good reminder for me! I had homework to finish up in the afternoon, so we decided to stay at home for the Superbowl. We made a nice night of it. I finished my homework before the game started and even got some laundry done. I made up way too much food for the two of us (potato skins, nacho’s, pizza-rolls, cupcakes…etc.)…but it was fun. I was more interested in the commercials and watching an hour of The Office afterwords…but it was a good game.
And now I’m back to work….but it should be a relatively calm week. Yay!