Darrell has been working extremely hard trying to get the hot tub room ready for our hot tub, which will arrive this Saturday! I don’t think it will be completely done, but if you had seen the garage before, you would know how much work he did! Here are 2 pictures I took on Sunday!
And here you can see the window that I painted John Deere green! (It’s going to be a John Deere themed room!) Unfortunately I’m not the best painter……..
Last Friday I took my lunch early at 4pm, and drove to Plano where I had dinner by myself at Tastee Bite. It is so good! I had a chili cheese dog and fries and a pop. Then I treated myself to dessert, a birthday cake flavored ice cream hot fudge sundae! YUMMY! After that I had to go to the hotel in Sandwich for my election class, I am an election judge, have been for almost 12 years no, and in Kendall County every 2 years you have to go to one of these. It was 2 and a half hours of complete boredom! It’s like riding a bike for me, I never forget how, the minute someone says something about the election it just come all back to me. The thing is that, all the judges are old people, now I love old people, but the ones who are judges, are crazy sometimes. They asked the most stupid questions, that of course kept us there even later! Then when you actually get to the election day, they have no clue what is going on, yet they think they know EVERYTHING! The look at me and always think it’s my first time, well 12 years is definitely not my first time! Oh well, for some strange reason, I enjoy the extremely early, long, busy and hectic day! The class was definitely packed! (too bad I didn’t get a picture of the like 3 old men I saw who were sleeping during the class!)
My dad had just sent me the cutest picture of Oreo hiding in a blanket, and then I found Mary doing this. Look closely, it’s hard to see!!
Last Friday I got to work at the Girl Scout shop in Joliet!! Even though I had to leave earlier, I loved working there! It was great getting to be somewhere different, and I love how it’s out in the middle of nowhere, and I love how the shop is set up, and I really enjoyed getting to know the people who work there. Unforunately, it was the day of the huge snow, and I only had like 6 customers, and we ended up getting shut down at 2:30. Which, don’t get me wrong, I love, but I would have rather gotten to stay in Joliet for the full day and had snow day when I was back in Lisle. I hope I get to go back again someday or get to try one of the other shops too! Here are 2 pictures of the shop there!
Yep, it’s Girl Scout cookie time, AGAIN! ALREADY! A weekend ago I had to work at the Allstate Arena for the Cookie Rally! Here are some pictures of our shop booth!
Following the Cookie Rally, that Monday, at work, I had to hang up the new cookie shirts for 2012 and also I did my own cookie display of all of our new cookie merchandise!
Mary was laying on the back of the couch by me, and she was so cute, so I thought I’d take a picture of the 2 of us, right when I was about to take it, she put her paw on me, so I thought, awwww, this will be an even cute picture! Then after I took it, I don’t know why I have that expression on my face and it looks like she is attacking me, especially with the look on her face! What do you think?!
My Aunt Judy sent me some pictures of her Christmas decorations and of her Snoopy Nativity Scene, I thought they were really cute, so thought I would post them here for all of you to see!
And of course book 51 was the next book in the I Am Number Four series. It is called The Power of Six also by Pittacus Lore. It was also the 2nd book I read on my Kindle!! The story was SO GOOD! My dad and I had to keep discussing it and we are very interested to see the movie, to see what they used and what they didn’t! I really recommend this series to everyone!
I got to read book 50 on my Kindle that I got for Christmas!!!! It was just a short story called I Am Number Four: The Lost Files by Pittacus Lore. This was just some information that was written after the book I Am Number Four. It was very interesting, and got me craving for the next book in the series and the next movie!
A couple Wednesday’s ago, I want to a belated Christmas party with my mom at Mrs. Rohlfing’s house! After walking in the house, I was greeted by the cutest little thing, Maggie, and just wanted to spend the night with her!
Her whole house was decorated so nicely, it was amazing! Here is one of her trees!
And here is one of her Christmas villages!
This party was for the women who go to the church that is behind my parent’s house. Their Pastor, Paula, was at the party and brought her new baby girl, Anjali!
My mom wasn’t so good at using my camera phone, so here is another take!
Then right before my mom and me left, we got to go in Mrs. Rohlfing’s basement to see their train display! It was AMAZING!!
So the year 2011 is over, and it is now 2012. We are that much closer to the year 2525…….. Anyway, after a year hiatus (we went to Pheasant Run last year) Darrell and I went back to the Lisle/Naperville Hilton for NYE. We met my parent’s at a restaurant first for a small lunch and then we all went to the hotel. My parent’s gave Darrell his birthday presents early.
My dad and me went in the hot tub and then relaxed in the hotel room for a while.
My parent’s eventually left and Darrell and I got ready for the party.
We went downstairs, had some appetizers, got some drinks (kiddie cocktails for me!). Had some dinner, watched the band and listened to the DJ, and then danced the night away! It was great except for how cold it was. This is partly why it was cold…..
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
I am FINALLY going to be getting my hot tub!!!! We should have it by the end of this month! Darrell and I officially bought it on New Year’s day!! Darrell cleaned out our front garage yesterday, so that we can have the room for it, and then he’ll continue to work on the room before it’s delivered, and afterwards if need be.
Here are some pictures of a hot tub that my dad liked, but Darrell and me didn’t think it was big enough in case we had freinds over.
I really loved this room it was in!
Here is another one Darrell and I were looking at, that we think was kind of like my brother’s hot tub.
And this is OURS!!!!!
Here is a picture of both of them side by side.
And, nope, this is NOT what we had to pay!
I can’t wait to get it! I’ll be in it EVERY night! If you want to come over, let me know!!!!
Book 49 was Between A Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston. Ever since I heard about Aron and saw 127 Hours I had been dying to get his book and read it! I wasn’t disappointed! It was a great book! I mean, I knew what happened and how it ended, at least the movie version, but the book was so much more. It actually amazed me how much was different between the movie and the book. I loved the movie but the book was WAY better! I feel like I know this guy, and I’d be honored to meet him and go on a hike with him! Part of me is interested because he reminds me SO much of my brother!! Not to mention they live close to each other, and had my brother been some years older, who knows they could have been friends!!! I really recommend this book to everyone!
Did you know today was/is Cat’s Day?!?!? Yep it is!!! So I thought, what better way to celebrate than to post a bunch of kitty pictures that I took in the last couple of days!!
I will start with my Frisky standing on his favorite place, his steps!!
Next I have Pepper drinking some milk on the kitchen table, having breakfast with me!
Then there is Oreo in my suitcase. Whenever I come over, he can’t wait to climb in it, and play around!
While Darrell and me were packing for New Year’s, Mary climbed into my dress shoe box!
Then I got a picture of Batman, sleeping on his favorite blanket!
Last Thursday I made a stop at Aileen’s house to give her a Christmas present, I also brought a present each for her 2 kitties!
Here is Mindy playing!
And here is Maya playing!
Hope you enjoyed my kitty pictures for Cat Day!!
I should have done this post a long time ago, but I guess better late than never! Here are pictures of my parent’s RV covered for the winter and a picture of Darrell’s & my camper covered for the winter! We each bought covers to protect our campers, we had never had one before, and they are very nice, but SUPER heavy!!! I’m sure it will be fun to try to get it off in the spring!! haha!
