Well.. what do we have here

Its been exactly two weeks since I last posted. I really haven't had much to write about. I mean the usual. House work, work-work, errands, more house work + a mix of nice weather, crap weather & lawn mowing. We have a few projects going on at the house right now and its driving me nuts. I really hate when we don't finish one project before we start another.... So I tomorrow I am going to focus on finishing up one of them. GOALS. whew. Growing up stinks.

Busy Bee

Hey Folks! Hows life treating you all? I have some amazing news but I have to wait a few days to share! I know nothing like the opening line to today's post to keep you hanging?! It just means you HAVE TO COME BACK! Suckers...

Ohh well this weekend I had Drill it was uneventful and boring... but it means I got to spend some time with my Old folks. They came down to Delaware and hung out until 11. Wayyy past this little girls bedtime on a Saturday night! Especially because I had to be up super early on Sunday for the 2nd day of my drill weekend. Phew. I was passed out before my mom sent me her -I'm home- text. We had a blast though. Mom and I went to the farmers market and cooked an awesome German dinner. All while Mr.B and my Dad worked on that HOLE in the wall project. All I've got to say is they better get used to it because I have a strange inkling that they will be working on the bedroom/office wall before they know it!

My Monday was spent doing house work and lounging around. I actually took a nap and it was wonderful. I am such a napper. I could close my eyes right now and be passed out in no time! Yesterday I also spent a good amount of time on the computer looking up healthy recipes. I am having a hard time finding some good ones with foods that I actually like! Its driving me up a wall. Anyone out there in bloggers land have any good recipes that aren't loaded with bacon (ohhh bacon I'd love you right now). ehhh.... Please share them!

xo

Tomorrow I'm going to the Flower show!!! I will be posting pictures when I return

till then...

Mrs.B

March....

Already? Well I haven't written much in the month of February. It was much like a whirlwind. There was so much that I did that I could have written about but I just didn't... #badbeginnerblogger... I was, wasn't I? So March I am going to try to vow to write more often! Let me try to tell you about the month of February...

My oldest sisters 30th Birthday

(the first picture is my sisters and I with our boys men & the second is my cousin Ashley who just found out shes expecting a little one btw I may have baby envy...)

Then Mr.B and I have been working on the living room and dining room "conversion" like crazy (while both sick as dogs). I already told you about that ugly cast iron thing here... since then we've painted the living room and dining room the same color, installed a chair rail, cut an 8x3 hole into the wall & decorated (furniture curtains etc). I LOVE it. We still want to get new furniture but we want to sell our old stuff first. I have to take more pictures before I write a post so I can show you before and after.

After that was all said and done we tried to move some of our furniture in our upstairs rooms because we were feeling cluttered. I don't know how we managed to fit all of this stuff at my parents and in a 10x10 storage unit. But we moved our clothes out of the guest room FINALLY and we put my sewing stuff in there. We are waiting on a free (crossing fingers) mattress and then we will get a little night stand and call that room quits.

Ahhh the little things. Well I have to go wake Mr.B from his slumber and then we are going to hit up the gym. OHH the gym I cant wait to tell you about my progress!

Till next time.
XO
Mrs.B

Falling off the wagon!!

So its pretty much official I am off the weight loss wagon & I NEED to get back on! I knew it would be hard but I didn't think it would be THIS hard! I am going to try to focus less on the numbers and MORE on how I feel. I know in the past I had luck using Myfitnesspal (ckohler502 FIND ME we can motivate each other) so I am going to give that a try again along with a little bit more of a strict eating/working out regimen. I know its pretty much what everyone else says, I have even said it before on this blog... but I am going to go all in this time. I feel entirely too good when I am in the gym and eating cleaner that I should not put my body through the weight loss roller coaster and not good for your body food.

The best part about all of this is, I have done it before & I know I can do it again! I just need to stick to my guns and follow through.

Anyone out there feeling the same way I am?

Any good recipes?

Send me some motivation!!! 

xo

Mrs.B

Sickness...

There is a gross sickness taking over the B house and I don't like it!

I have so much to catch you up on.

My sisters 30th birthday

The remodeling in the living room, dining room/kitchen

& my work dilemma.

Anyone in my area making chicken soup on this beautiful 2 degree day please bring some my way

xo.

Mrs.B

Last Vday post I promise

About a month ago I signed up for a Valentines day swap with Fabulous but Evil ! It was my very first blogger swap! I was so excited if anyone knows me, they know I love to give and receive presents. They are pretty much my favorite though I am awful at keeping secrets! So I was partnered up with Erin at Coffee level critical ! When I got the package in the mail I wasn't even home! My Hubby called me and told me knowing it would brighten my day. He asked me if I wanted him to open it so he could tell me what was in it.. pshh I know his tricky ways!

I didn't get any photos pre-opened package because I couldn't contain my excitement! But I did take this... (on my very fancy work quilt that I got from Target a year ago haha)

In the package there was a box of chocolate covered pretzels individually wrapped so I don't HAVE to eat them all at once (but I may - I had one and I want another already) 2 pair of earrings, that I'm searching for something cute to wear with & Sea island cotton body lotion from Bath & Body works.

I gave her a DIY wreath that you can re-use for every season/holiday. I decorated it for V-Day and she can work some magic for the others, a re-usable craft/shopping bag, hot pink nail polish, high socks (v-day themed), little tissues & a small bag of sweet tarts :) I think it was a great swap and I look forward to more!

Thank you so much Erin! Hope you enjoyed your package!

xo
Mrs.B

V-Day isnt just for lovin'

Its also for home remodeling... if your off work of course.

Valentines day. It was pretty amazing. I woke up at work & went directly to Fishtown. Where I get my good ole' taxes done. My tax man is pretty awesome anyone in the Philadelphia area looking for someone let me know! I have your guy. With the house and moving out of state I knew it was going to be a little more difficult this year but I made out pretty well. I owe DE which is stupid. Especially after only living there for 5 months and I owe them 500+$! So not only do I pay my property tax I also pay about 100$ a month in tax just to live in the state? Either way I did make out good so enough about that.

When I got home I woke up Mr.B. We exchanged gifts - here is what I got!!

A new heart bead (the shiny one not the one with horns)!! I also was gifted some pretty awesome roses, carnations a frog teddy and candies. Oh and one of the sweetest cards hes ever written. I got him a Philadelphia Union jersey - they just got a new 'kit' which means they changed all their uniforms - which really means I was out 80$ for a pretty blue jersey.
After our gift exchange we went to a diner for brunch. Once we got home we were on a painting whim. We painted and removed this ugly thing - The cast iron looking room divider. YUCK yuck yuck. It was so hard and left ugly marks in my nice wooden floors but we were able to fill them and they look like new. Here is another picture of it.... kind of looking through...

Which leads us to the wall between the kitchen & dining room that we came to a compromise on. We are going to make it a half wall/bar looking like a thing. But we are going to leave a column at the door frame so we don't have to re-wire any of the electric.

Here's how its looking mid-painting. We are painting both rooms the same color I call it yellow and Mr.B calls it goldishh with a bright white trim. We wanted to try to keep it continuous so the rooms would look bigger which I think is very well accomplished. Please don't mind the everything mess!

We have a few more hours of hard work and love to put into it... This weekend we are borrowing my Dads truck so we can make our final cosmetic purchase for it - wait for it... wait for it.... a chair rail! I am pretty excited. After all of our hard work painting I was ordered to go get a pedicure. While I was reluctant - yeah right I pretttty much ran out of the house Mr.B made me this fancy meal (as if I didn't already load you up with pictures... here are some more) My lovely dinner, a very lovely rose & my v-day pedicure!

&& after dinner we relaxed and watched Shriek!

Hope you all had a wonderful Valentines day!

xoxo

Mrs.B