Hot Stuff's parents just left today after being here two weeks.  It was such a nice time; however, I figured after being allowed a mini break from painting, cleaning, blogging, and pretty much everything else in my life, I'd better start my life back up again and post a few pictures from the past, oh, couple  months or so :)

I was so insanely excited when I made these homemade funfetti cupcakes! They looked and smelled SO good...until I took them out of the oven and realized they were super dense :( I frosted them anyway and took a picture because even though they tasted terrible, they were super cute :)

Near the end of July, my brother and his family came up for a few days, and he had a book signing at our library :) I'm so proud of him! I finished his book in two days. It was awesome. He's already got a second book (not in a series) finished, just waiting for someone to publish it! He was always such a great story teller growing up-as weird as it sounds, I could imagine him reading his book out loud to me :) You can buy his book on Amazon :)

My friend Heather and I met up for dinner after work recently. We went to James St. Station where they have $3 appetizers! We were so excited :) We got deep fried pickles, deep fried beans, chili cheese fries, and santa fe chicken wraps...all super bad for you and SUPER yummy :) I absolutely love hanging out with her!

We walked downtown where there was some sort of festival going on, and House of Flavor's was handing out FREE tubs of ice cream! It was awesome.

I was reading a great blog, This Heart of Mine, the other day, came across her rhubarb crisp recipe and knew I had to try it. I didn't add enough rhubarb (I accidentally didn't buy enough); but even without enough rhubarb, it was super yummy.

This came in the mail a while back-doesn't it sort of look like a horror movie? haha

This was at a family reunion...

Rebecca, Micah, and I went blueberry picking about a month ago :). So much fun! Micah especially loved eating the plants haha! It wasn't super hot or anything, but Rebecca and I both got major sunburns (not Micah-we took great care in making sure he was covered)...

He's so stinkin' cute. It was getting pretty hot when we were done, so Rebecca and I got some waters; Micah LOVED licking the water droplets off the bottle haha!

Today I got out of work early due to having to stay late twice. It was perfect timing-first day Tim's parents are gone, and both of us are able to be at home, relaxing. I'm watching Grey's Anatomy (I'm in the middle of part 2 on hulu-so suspenseful!!!) and Tim's playing WOW. Surprise surprise haha. The rest of my night I think I'll spend finishing up book 5 of Harry Potter, writing up some blog posts, and watching Iron Man 3 :)

I've heard a lot lately about how good apple cider vinegar is for you-helps with indigestion, allergies, weight loss, gerd and whatnot. I've tried drinking a teaspoon of it...it's not awesome. This morning I had the bright idea of adding the vinegar to water, thinking it would mellow out the flavor? Um, no. It was so disgusting I almost puked. Then I threw my water out. I did see a few recipes where you add honey and orange juice and some other stuff-I'll probably try that next time.

I've been nonexistent in the blogging world for the past month because....DUH DUH DUH DAH!!! We closed on our HOME!!!

Apparently this is the only picture of the outside you get to see right now because it's the only one I took haha! 

I'm super excited to start posting our renovations because Lord know the house needs some!

The hardest part for us so far has been money...lack of it...our closing costs ended up being almost $1000 more than we anticipated, then we bought a stove ($150 at a yard sale-It was practically brand new! The oven was never even used!), add a couple trips to the Home Depot, then buying Tim's books for the semester...all in three weeks? Yeah. Renovations will happen slowly but surely! If anyone has ANY tips, please let me know! Or if you've had any mishaps, please share so I don't make the same mistakes :)