The Zoo and Possibly a House....

Oh my the last few days have been quite busy here......on Tuesday we took the kids to the Zoo ..they had a great time....we got to feed the Giraffes, and the Lady Giraffe is going to have a baby any day now....the weather was pretty nice....a little windy but not too cold.

and Yesterday CDR and I went to look at a house that hasn't even been put on the market yet...and.........................I think we are putting an offer on it today!! It's a smaller , older home that needs a bit of work.......but it's pretty cute. Built in the 1880's, in a great old neighborhood. Only a few blocks from Quaint Downtown Two Rivers....and only about a block from the Twin Rivers. The location is perfect. The yard is a pretty good size as well. It will probably just be a temporary home to live in while our VA house still waits to be sold. Once it sells we can decide to move into a bigger , nicer home if we want. Although, I can actually see us living in this one indefinitely, once we get it fixed up....Front Entry into Living Room....there's a sunroom porch off to the left of the entry...There is another set of these leaded glass windows on the other side of the fireplace....The Kitchen definitely needs renovating....we may even knock out the wall behind the stove and open it up to the Dining Room....The Dining Room isn't too bad.....needs new flooring....we'll put wood flooring, I think....The bedrooms all need new carpet or flooring of some sort. Wallpaper stripped and Paint....ceilings redone...we might even knock down some walls and/or expand out.This is the Master....we think we can expand outwards a little. There is also a tiny room right next to it that will probably become a walk-in closet or maybe a master bath?The paneling and wallpaper will definitely come down and the carpet replaced!Another room....Upstairs bath.....needs total renovation....that white door to the right leads to a balcony off the bathroom??? why????

There's another half bath downstairs that I forgot to get a picture of...it's lovely....brick walls..red carpeting.....black accents.......ooohhh

Upstairs hall....gotta love the pukey green old carpet!!Back yard.....up ahead is the two car garage....there's an alley behind the house to get to it. CDR would like to build a new garage next to the house.....but I hate to lose so much of the yard...Back of house and more yard.

Heat Wave....

Today it's supposed to be getting up into the 50s hopefully...so we plan to take the kiddies to the Zoo!! Should be a fun day..if it's not too windy. I do feel a bit of a cough and stuffiness coming on....hope I'm not getting too sick! CDR got a call about a new listing yesterday. It's an older home in town(no land) but it's supposed to be in pretty good shape, it's really cheap( would be a good temporary home for us..then I could move up right away instead of waiting on the VA house to sell) needs a little updating and it would probably be easy to sell when our house in VA sells and we then can buy what we REALLY want...He's going to look at it sometime this week, and then take me to see it on the weekend possibly.

Outfit of the Day

Wicked!!!!

Last night was WICKED at last !!! OMG!! It was SUCH a good show!!! I just can't even describe it...everything was so wonderful! The set, the lighting, the singing , the dancing!! I absolutely LOVED it! I feel so bad that I got to see it without Drama Teen....It's coming to Virginia in May and I am definitely taking her!! She would have loved it too!!!

I was a good mom though, and bought her a T-Shirt!!LOL

House Hunting

Saturday we went to MIL's and then House/Land Hunting out east. Commander spent a little time shoveling MIL's driveway. It's been ages since I've seen a shovel!! Almost didn't know what it was for. So far the snow isn't getting to me yet. We went to see this old farm house..I really loved the property ..it's about 5 or 6 acres..the house was cute and I would have loved it if it was in better shape.....the foundation was really bad though and CDR thinks we'd have to tear the whole thing down...The inside was quite dated as well, and would have needed lots of renovating, IF we could have saved it.The floors upstairs were on a slant!!And this old barn would definitely have had to come down.........which is really too bad because it was quite quaint and I loved it.So as much as we would have loved the property....and I really would like an old farm house...this one just wouldn't work for us.....On Sunday..... After Church.....we drove out to see a few pieces of land CDR was interested in....this one was nice...It's about 6 or 7 acres....

There's already one pond and there's another area we could put in another pond....The land is low lying though....and we would have to be careful where we build the house....and it would take a lot to get it ready...we looked at a few other properties we'd like as well...but this one is a contender if we decide to just build...honestly I'm really hoping we decide something soon...as I'm getting tired of living apart....I want to just MOVE UP already!!

These last few pics I HAD to take for Tia......see.... here I am ....in a dress....in the snow!!!LOL My boots were soaked by the time I got back to the car though....need to find a better pair, as these are just not cutting it!

Wild Kids...

On Friday we took the kids to Wild Aire so they could run around and let off some steam.....They had a great time...wore me out though...LOL...Then later that evening we went to Holiday's for Dinner with CDR's Sister....

Flashback Friday!!

Participating in Tara's Flash Back Fridays again this week. Head over and join the fun!!

Christmas in Maine.....I'm not sure what year this is. I am there in the light blue dress....I look to be about 18 months ...which would make it 1966? That's my mom standing in the Black Jumper. My Aunt on the couch and my cousins, Donald( in red), Jean Paul sitting next to me, and Louise sitting next to my Aunt. Donald died on my 10th Birthday in 1975. He was 12 and was hit by a drunk driver as he walked home from the Bus Stop.

Quick Blog

I have a little time to myself before SIL gets back with the Grandbabies....so I figured I'd try to get a post in...My visits been nice...so far the ccccccccold hasn't gotten to me yet...granted I guess it's been a little 'warmer' here lately...It's funny though because yesterday I went out a few times with my SIL and she kept commenting on how cccccold she was ...and I kept thinking...really? it's not really bothering me yet.....LOL Everyone is watching me , waiting for the shock of the ccccccold to hit me and so far I'm fine and thinking it's really not too bad..LOL

so here is how I will be spending most of my days here. With these two adorable little hatchlings..and one rambunctious puppy!!! SIL babysits her daughter's children everyday...it's been so long since I've been around such littles on a regular basis!! They are adorable and a lot of fun. Today, the plan is to take them to some fun kiddie place with bouncie stuff and games....

We were playing Hide and Seek...I was hiding behind the Chair..LOL

Land of Snow and Ice...

...well, I'm here...In the Frozen Tundra!! So far so good...the cold hasn't been toooo bad...Of course I've hardly been out in it yet! LOL. My flights were good.. I was delayed in Milwaukee for a bit and that wasn't too fun. But then.....................................

It was all made up for when we realized we had Cast Members from the Show Wicked on our Flight!!!! Yay!! One of the main reason I was flying up this month was becuase CDR gave me tickets to see Wicked with my SIL, here in Appleton!! I was beyond excited to meet a few members of the Ensemble....Two of the girls let me take their pictures....they were sooo worried they looked awful....well....I think they looked GREAT...I only WISH I could look as 'awful'!!

I finally made it into Appleton and my MIL and her husband were there to pick me up and bring me over to BIL and SIL's house(where the CDR has been staying)Unfortunately CDR was still at work so it was a few hours before I could see him.........finally he walked in the door and oh how wonderful that was. He looks a little different. He's been growing a beard....He had the beginnings of it when he came at Christmas, but at that time it was just a scruffy mess and I REALLY didn't care for it. I was sooooo hoping it would go away soon....SIL told me shortly before I came, that the beard was still around....and I was kinda disappointed....but ....seeing it yesterday...I really LIKE it!! It's fuller now and trimmed nicely so it looks pretty good. It's a MUCH different look than I'm used to seeing him in..being Navy he could never have a beard..I got used to the cleanshaven everyday look. I'm kinda hoping he keeps it now..I made sure to tell him this morning that I like it...

Anyway ..this morning the SIL is over at her daughters taking care of grandbabies....she'll be bringing them over here soon....but for now I have the house to myself...so I figured I'd take the opportunity to do a few things online....I don't want to be spending a lot of time online while there's family to visit...so I wont be on as much. This is probably a good thing...I spend too much time online anyway.

Cheese Rolls a la Scrumdillydilly

OMG! If you haven't found the colorful blog scrumdillydilly belonging to Jek, head over now.. I love her!

One of the things I love about the Blogging World....is all the cool ideas I find. As much time as I spend going from blog to blog to blog, amazingly I think I've gotten more done and tried more new things since reading them....

Today I decided to try this simple recipe from scrumdillydilly...They were easy-peasy just as she promised and oh soooo tasty! Yummm....I will definitely be making these again....I think I may try some different flavor combinations....adding a little raspberry jam to the cheese mixture maybe ?? or almond syrup? hmmnn the possibilities...I did have to bake them for a little longer than she suggested...at good 20-25 minutes....

Company Girl??

Ok , so I really dropped the ball with January's Company Girl.....totally vegged out and really didn't particpate...every now and then I checked out the blog and did one of the things she suggests..but I didn't really do enough to feel it was worth keeping track of the points or anything. It did get motivate me to do a few extra things here and there though....so all was not lost. February ...it doesn't look like it will be very condusive to follow it either. I'll be gone most of the month. So housekeeping schedules and getting my 'home' in order really wont be something I can focus on this month. I'll still check in and see if there are any little things I can add to my days, even as a guest in my SIL's home in WI. But I don't think it will be worth keeping track. As much as I'm excited about going up there and seeing and spending time with the CDR..I kinda hate that it infringes on things I'm trying to accomplish with my home and my life..LOL . Even losing weight is going to be hard to accomplish up there during this visit. It's like I have to put everything on "Hold"...

Sunny AND Warm!

Today was such a Beautiful Day!! I think it got to at least 65 degrees, maybe 70....it was definately a T-shirt and barefoot day..LOL I figure I better take advantage of it while I could...turned off the heat and threw open the windows. Wednesday's the BIG day. I fly out to the frozen tundra! Got most of my packing done today. I just can't wait!!!!

But Gosh I LOVED today....I LOVE Virginia!! Why am I moving, again?????

I'm wearing my For the Love of Nie T-shirt-bought in support of Nie Nie

Made it Thru

I can't believe I actually made it thru NaBloPoMo for January with only missing ONE day!!...There is a new Theme for February....WANT...I Have a feeling February will be a difficult month for me to particpate, since in THREE days I will be leaving for WI for 20 days!!!!!!!

I just don't know that I'll be able to faithfully post EVERY day....I may not even have a chance to post at all...I'm sure the family and hubby will be keeping me VERY busy. I will have my camera and plan to take TONS of pics...who knows......maybe we'll find some land or a house and actually BUY something while I'm there. A Girl can Hope........

Co-ed and I were invited to breakfast after Church, so we went to Southland in NC with some friends from Church. Father Richardson always LOVED going to Southland. It's right on the NC/VA Border...as a matter of fact ..right across the street is a place called Border Station that actually straddles the Border. They even have a 'line' thru the middle of the shoppe...so you can stand with one foot on one side and the other on the other side and be in two states at once. Hokey yeah...but it's a Big Deal around here..LOL

I wish I had a better photo of Co-ed's Dress..it was too cute......It's a Cream and Yellow Vintage Dress we thrifted last year. And she's wearing her new Thrifted Clip-on Earrings.

Anyway...lunch was nice...the food was "'ok'...but the Company was wonderful!

Today's Outfit:

Blue Dress-Dillards-bought it origionally for CDR's Retirement( one of the 5 dresses I ended up buying but didn't indeed wear)-this was the first time I've worn it. I'm not sure why ...I really loved it today.

Cream Colored Cardigan Jacket-New-Target-one of my Liz Lange Maternity purchases from yesterday.

Black Tights

My New Steve Madden Ruffle shoes

Blue Rose Swallow Necklace from Arete on Etsy