la...

Im currently in my room in the very nice hotel we are staying at in la. I have a bit of time between meetings and dinner so i figured i would blog to say i am alive and well and will be back in chicago tomorrow to turn around and leave sunday.

cicadas are loud and very apparent as of late. our bbq on monday was quite successful despite the cicadas and we hope to repete said bbqing later this summer.

thats about it for now.

SICK kay duhs

and this is on my little flowers.... you should see my trees.

Congrats...

They even signed it.

pop quiz

The reason our deck won't be up until the end of June
A. It took us a very long time to decide Trex vs wood and how large of a deck to build
B. The guy we have decided on to contract the building of the deck got the flu and has been sick all week
C. The lumber yard our contractor uses burnt down this weekend
D. A and B
E. A and C
F. B and C
G. All of the above

don't forget to scroll down and look and the Bedroom pics.

bedroom in stages

These are pics of our bedroom as we bought it.

This is the primer and closet stage

This is the painted not trimmed/put together stage

This is our bedroom currently.

pix but not the ones people want to see

this is the dark purle columbine that i got last weekend. it's starting to bloom.

that's all you've done?!?

so the pictures are slow coming mostly because bill and i haven't finished the touch ups and while you wouldn't see that in the pics i'm not hauling all of the painting stuff out of the room until we're really done.

Brian humbled us a bunch when we proudly showed off our room... apparently it just isn't as impressive to an outsider....

good news we have a mattress for any friend or family that come to visit.... we also have a door back on our bedroom and we have put away our luggage (sorta) that we had continued to live out of until our bedroom set came last week.

so today is may 3rd and it is important because a month from today bill and i will be boarding the first leg of our flight headed to Barcelona via London.

thats about all that is going on....