Sunday, January 18, 2009

Before and After...

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After:





Slightly better, eh?  For those of you who have not heard, we purchased a set of couches yesterday (since our  furniture was about dead) from the thrift store for $40.  But of course they were frightenly ugly, so we set out looking at slip covers.  The cheapest ones they had at Target were about $60, but of course the ones I wanted were $100!  Forutnatly, I ran into Alisa Tenney while I was there, and she told me she had just seen some at Ross (I have to remember to thank her for that!).  So, off we went.  We searched up and down every isle of that store at least twice to no avail.  Finally, Daniel asked someone where they were.  The girl first told us they didn't have any, but then remembered they did.  Turns out there was about four of them hidden in the bottom shelf in the corner of the isle full of towels.  Go figure.  So we found a couple that were not only slip covers, they were a "living room in a bag", complete with slip cover, two pillows, a blanket and a remote caddy lol.  So we got one "chocolate" and one "vanilla" as Kelsi calls them.  Bests of all, they were only about $25 each =)  As you can see from the pictures, I was in such a hurry to cover up the horror that I didn't even take time to wash or iron the slip covers, so they are full of wrinkles, oh well, I'll do that later.  So, all in all we were pretty excited for our new couches and slip covers for $100!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Matthias the Chef

Matthias had loads of fun playing with some of the play food and cooking items I pulled out for him.  And of course I took pictures...it was just too cute not to.   He's been making all kinds of food today, even Buddy got to share some!  Sadly, I can't convince him that the rolling pin is not intended to be eaten, maybe it's because he's never seen Mom use one lol =)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Kelsi the Supermodel

Here are a few pictures of Kelsi showing off her new cardigan.  She had a bit of fun if you can't tell lol.














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Monday, January 12, 2009

Zombies and Cardigans

Since my house was overrun with zombie killers yesterday, my choice of activity was limited.  So I decided to make Kelsi something.  Now she gets a cute, little, cropped cardigan.  Hopefully it fits, but sadly she won't be home until Wednesday, so I won't know for a while =)

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Matthias is gone...

...and he has been replaced by a bottomless pit!  For breakfast today, Matthias ate:

  • 2 eggs

  • 1/2 waffle

  • banana

  • handful of grapes

  • whole peanutbutter sandwich


Yep, he's a pig.