cross your fingers for us

TOMORROW we are looking at this house!!!!


2 things we are waiting on.
1. will they accept our pets?
2. is there a washer and dryer hookup?

home sweet home

my little vegetarians

I always feel really guilty before a trip because we have to board our dogs at a doggie daycare. though I know they are taken care of, this trip we will be gone almost a full week. I made the dogs a "special" meal tonight. it included sauteed spinach, steamed asparagus, black bean soup and pasta. YUM!


here they are patiently waiting


the doggie daycare has pictures on their site. we were looking through and found santos in a few of them.


it reassured us that they have a good time there!

IT IS BACK

I am SO excited! ROSE IS BACK!!!!!


I added it back to the site. rose is one of my favorites!

help us raise money for cora!

a few weeks ago I found out a friend's little girl had leukemia. she is 2 1/2. I simply can not imagine what they are going through. it is hard to know what to say, what to do, or if you should send something? one thing I do know is that they will have a lot of medical bills! little cora will have to have years of chemotherapy.
I would like to help raise money for their family.

by purchasing these 2 items, you can help me do just that.

on special is our popular itty-bitty-apron can be found HERE and a small white canvase tote that can be found HERE.

all sales will be donated to the garola family.
please help me make this a success!

also, there is free shipping on these items
and they will be delivered before christmas.

thanks for your support!

the best one YET

so the house I just posted about yesterday does not take dogs. so I found this one tonight. it must have just become available for rental. please, please, please take 3 dogs. this place is SO us. everything in it. I am crazy for the kitchen and bathroom!

our moving is cursed

I am not kidding. every single time something becomes available in a good area or a good house and it has been sitting for a while, it gets rented right before we are going to look at it. back in august my dad found a house for us to rent. we went over and looked at it. it had a HUGE fenced in backyard and the house seemed to be nice. the realtor couldn't show it to us but we were planning on looking at it next week. the realtor wrote last night and said that it had been rented out and they are moving in this weekend. this house has been sitting since JULY! UGH!

I did find this one and wrote the realtor but I have dealt with him before and he is not good at communicating. so, we'll see.

mr superman

the other night as I was sitting on the couch,
I noticed half of stewart's body


I didn't know what he was doing.
I got up and peeked on the other side of the side table


he was chewing a bone. then I realized the only reason he was in that position was because the blanket had fallen off the arm of the couch and it made a good place for him to lay and chew.


superman style, of course!

all I want for christmas

is a yellow lab

I told my husband the other night that for christmas I wanted a yellow lab. he said, "absolutely not". I have always wanted to have a chocolate, black and yellow lab. I was on that path but then sophie came along.


how could we say no? the yellow lab above is 10 years old. isn't he sweet? I know I could convince bry if we lived in that house that is on 5.5 acres



I love rescue dogs, OLD dogs and BIG dogs.

love this kitchen

I love how simple it is and the HUGE hutch. oh, and the sink

clean house

don't you LOVE it when your house is clean? everything organized and new linens on your beds? I watched oprah's clean your house america (or whatever it was called) and decided I could clean out some closets.
I have been waiting for it to get cold here so I could bring out my new quilt. it hit 49 (and that is cold in florida) so I brought it out. it was so nice and warm last night.


new quilt for the guest room since we are having a visitor this weekend!


holiday pictures hung in our bathroom


rearrangement of furniture. I moved the nightstands from our bedroom to the family room and the family room ones to our room. then I moved the rug from my office to the family room. sophie approved.


cleaned the kitchen


reorganized


my favorite new place for our towels


and to top off the evening, I made homemade chocolate chip cookies


hopefully it can stay this clean. at least until the weekend!

istock

is anyone else addicted to istockphotos? I couldn't sleep so I got up, ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and browsed pictures for 2 hours.

my finds:







these will be hanging in our bathroom tomorrow.
I am about to decorate for christmas!

isn't she sweet?

merry christmas

soon it will be time to decorate for christmas. I love bringing out all the christmas decorations and remembering where they came from. one of my favorite things is a plate my bff brooke bought me in college. and also a mini christmas tree she brought to my house when I was a senior in high school. we made my room all christmasy so after school we could turn on the white lights, watch oprah and eat chocolate chip bagels.
to add to my collection this year, I am thinking about this.


how cute is this? and it is hand-painted. people on etsy are so talented! this sign is from countryworkshop

satisfied customers

love these pictures!