Weekends of fun and projects.

The last couple weekends have been beautiful.   We have been getting out and playing outside quite a bit.  

We have been working on home improvement projects  and  re-furbishing some chairs that my dad gave us from his move.  We made our Home Depot list and headed out to get supplies.   When we made our list we also thought about future home improvement projects that we would be undertaking.  The  home improvement list is long. 

The chairs started out a gross red/brown color peeling and  in desparate need of stain.

The weather was gorgeous but windy and poor Peter's allergies were in full force.   He was a trooper.  The worst part was getting them apart.  I think it took us the same amount of tiem to get them apart as it did to sand and stain them.

They turned out beautiful. This picture is not so great but the chairs really do look great.



We  started fixing and staining our deck.

We got the first coat on and it looks a thousand times better already.  Obviously it was in desperate need of repair.


We also went to a Stars hockey game. 

We ate neon orange cheese, saw a fight, an ejection, and a section of  the glass shatter into a thousand peices.

Yes, I put my son in a white shirt for the hockey game. 

No, I did not realize that we would be eating neon orange cheese.  It was delicious.

Yes, I stain sticked the heck out of the shirt when we got home.

I have become....

A Pinner! 

Yes I know....let's add another internet site for me to keep up with. 

I really really like it though and I can actually say that I have tried several of the recipes, and a couple of the craft ideas that I have pinned. 

So I am actually using it and feeling pretty awesome about what I have accomplished with it. 

Does anyone else pin?  Have you successfully used it for projects and such?

March Maddness

I don't have it.

In fact it would take me a little research to  tell you who is even playing and also where they are in the tournament. I am just not a college basketball person.

Even with that fact I have somehow managed over the years to get talked into joining a bracket of some sort.  Which ususally lead to me choosing my teams based on color of uniforms or mascot because I knew nothing about any of  the contenders.

This year we were really busy around sign up time and we did not get in on the action.  I hear from people weekly that their bracket was messed up by one team, which when you have a bracket that big one is usually all it takes.   Koodos to those of you playing the field this year.   I am OK with the fact that I am not playing this year. 

I am a football fan.  Well to be more precise I am a Husker fan.  The Red and White Spring game is April 14th this year.  It is basically just a glorified practice, but really fun to watch.   When I was younger I attended a few of these games by being involved with the drug free program at my local school.  You went down on the field at half time and took a plegde to be drug free.  It was a fun day out for a great cause. 

 A few years ago when we got a new coach,  they started selling tickets to this practice. soon the Spring game turned into a regualr game day, which if you have ever been to a game day in Nebraska.... well lets just say it's pretty awesome.  It gives everyone the oportunity to be a Facebook sports writer for the day, giving out their predictions on who should be the QB and what the D looks like this year. 


I do enjoy watching other athletic events.  Unfortuanately basketball just never really grew on me.