Just so everyone knows, we added some pictures that we found to our Chicago Post. It's towards the end of the blog. :)

Recipes

Hi everyone! So I need some help. We're trying to get healthy at our house, so if you have any fantastic healthy recipes that you love please leave a recipe in the comments. I've tried some things that are good, but a lot that are not the best tasting... so I figured if the recipe came from people we know maybe we might have better luck. I'll try to put some on in the comment field a little later that we did like so that you can all get some new recipes too! Thank you... and please no sea food. :)

Laundry Room

Okay, so the UGLY picture is a picture we took before we bought the townhouse. This weekend we put a bunch of time into the laundry area of the basement. I painted all of the walls a light peach color, and also painted the floor white. We put this clear apoxy stuff over the paint on the floor because I guess it makes it waterproof and not get scratched as easily. We are going to have the wall color and floor color in the laundry area be different colors than the rest of the basement so that it feels like it's own room. So after all that we put these great shelving systems in. We're hoping that all of this will make the laundry area a lot easier to work in and be a pleasant place to be (rather than a dingy basement). Over the next couple of weeks we intend to paint the remainder of the walls and the floor in the rest of the basement. And then I really need to get back to working on the main floor and upstairs. There are tons of tedious little things that we need to do all over the house to make everything look finished. If anyone wants to help... I would take it. Or I'll just pay Briggs to help... he's always willing to help out for a little bit of money.

And then the picture of Oj... well isn't he special. He was trying to ruin my picture by being a nerd. So I figured if I put a dorky picture of him on the blog, just maybe, he'd never do that again. Probably won't work, but I have to try.

So a few weeks ago I added some flowers and some mulch to my flower garden. I am proud to say that the Daylillies in front of the fence are actually starting to do better, but already the plants in front of the window are deteriorating. I definitely did not inherit a green thumb... I think I would do much better in the desert with Rocks!!! (I just have to make Oj get a job somewhere like that... maybe St. George or Vegas.) Cross your fingers for me, but don't get your hopes up!