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Smile and Love It

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Happy Saturday!

Where life is full of farmer's markets, garage sales, house cleaning, outdoor adventures, and hubby time. 

However, I might start clocking Mr Smith's shower times. Or I can just wait for the drama of the first water bill!

Screw up of the week:

So this week I made shrimp/chicken stir fry with ramon noodles, shrimp/chicken alfredo w/ broccoli & squash and then a chicken/broccoli casserole. All of them edible and all of them turned out great except for the casserole. I was hesitant putting uncooked rice in, and to my surprise it failed. Well, only because I forgot to include the cream of chicken soup. So after an hour past when it should have been done, I finally realize it and add it. It looked gross and mushy, but surprisingly still tasted alright. Enough for Eric to eat seconds twice. It's just that the ritz crackers on top got a little soggy (the ones I couldn't manage to take off). Woops! "smile and love it"

New project coming soon: I bought a small brown cabinet at the thrift store. It has a shelf in there and thought it would be great for holding most of my scrapbook/craft stuff. It also reminded me of something I saw on pinterest so of course I'm just like *perfect project* and lost sanity. Well, it's fine after a little cobweb cleaning. Eric said he will teach me how to fix it up a little, sand it down and paint it! Now, I just have to decide on a color. Eric apparently hates green. We only have browns and beige colors currently, but that's not what I want forever. But it will be awesome.

Memories:
I just figured out how to get pictures off my phone

Eric built that wall! He helped Rachel and Regan build a pocket door for their kitchen among a few other things. He's such a handy man!


One of our many road trips. So cute. This is the time when I can listen to country music.


Installing Internet in our first apartment. I remember this taking longer than expected, but of course I was probably not doing much to help, except take pictures.


Oh and in the beginning, when we didn't have chairs or kitchen knives. . .


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