Our weekend

Can you believe that I actually went 2 whole days without blogging?? Glad my addiction is kinda fading, and to be honest I starting to feel that I am running out of things to blog about! But I will continue to try to blog daily and try to make it exciting. . .

We had a fun weekend. Friday evening we went to the mall to look at window valances and draperies. Someone is supposed to come out this week to measure and bring fabric swatches so I can have draperies made for the front room and dining room. Then on Saturday night we went to Steak and Chop night at the golf course and then went out to look at the fireflies. They get a lot of them, it is pretty cool. But the local Texans laugh at us since we get all excited by the bugs they are all so use to! And Lily had fun running around the course:

Sunday morning we went to brunch at the course and later celebrated my Mom's birthday by going out for Mexican food and then opening presents and having cake and ice cream back at the house. Lily helped grandma open her presents. We got her a set of Texas dishtowels and matching potholders! And a birdhouse(feeder) with an book on "Birds of Texas" for her new house. She is the hardest person to buy for, and since last time she was here she commented on the birds, I thought this would be a suitable gift!

The best part of the weekend (for me) was finally getting some of my light fixtures hung! I was going to have Lowes install them, but they came out and quoted me $500 bucks to install the 3 lights -- that is more that they cost! So my Dad and Chip hung them and it only took like 20 minutes each! $500, what a total rip off! We still have to find a way to do the one in the foyer -- it is 22 feet up in the air, so we'll have to borrow a big ladder from the course! But the one in the kitchen and dining room are hung! Woo-Hoo! I am slowly getting rid of all the brass fixtures in the house. Here is a pic of the new kitchen table and the new light fixture. The art is also new. All I need now is to get valances for the windows. . . and someday replace the blinds with the wood plantation shutters. Someday, we may paint some of the walls since they are mostly all white. But we don't really have the time now, so this will have to do. (I like how Britney posed on the bench for the photo).