Finally Complete!

The mirror for our dresser finally came in today, and I am so happy that this room is DONE! Well. . .almost. . . we are going to get a new tv in the near future, but we are still researching for that purchase! I really love how it all came together!

First trip to Texas de Brazil. . .

 

left: Matt &  Carla Nix, Brian & Amanda Coats, Us, and Amy & Dustin Jones.

We have been trying to get this night out scheduled for months now, but something was always going on, or someone (uh,um Jarrod) was always gone! Everyone else had been several times before. I think they go at least a couple times a year, but it was our first time to go. We had reservations at Texas de Brazil in Memphis at 6:30, which seems like the best time to go because by 7pm the line to the salad bar area was insane! I wasn't necessarily looking forward to eating there because I'm just not a "meat" fan. I like some things sometimes, if they are cooked really really well done. But of course I wanted to go to spend times with our friends and Jarrod was really looking forward to it.  I was amazed at the different types of things were at the salad bar. Jarrod tried several new things, including smoked salmon, which he liked a lot!  The meats were pretty good, I didn't eat any steak, because the ones I got were all raw. . .not rare, but raw! Jarrod and the rest of the guys LOVED it. In fact we where there for 3 hrs eating! Then we came back to Jonesboro and had dessert at Cafe Buono. It was a really fun night!  We are really sad that Brian and Amanda will be leaving us soon. Brian got a new job in North Carolina and they will be moving! Brian is actually leaving Monday and Amanda is staying behind for the time being to sell their house. We are really going to miss them. : (

Jarrod is on his way home!

He called me this morning at 6:30 and said they were on the road and headed towards Arkansas! It surprised me since the last thing he told me was they would be coming home on Friday. He said he wasn't 100% sure that they were going to be able to leave this morning so he didn't tell me about it last night. He should be home sometime around 3pm. I think I am going to take off work a little early this afternoon so I can be there when he gets home. I need to go shopping! We have no "real" food in the house. I don't even have bread or milk! I have been living off soup (which I could eat everyday) and crackers and York peppermint patties. So, I guess I need to go restock our pantry with "man-foods" again. . . .

The weekend's over already?

Why do the weekends go by so fast? After staying up late Friday night I slept in on Saturday. . .ahhh, my favorite thing! I spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning and cooking for my "Girls night in" get together with some girlfriends from church. I guess you could also call it "Pie Fest" because I made individual chicken pot pies, mini pecan pies and pumpkin pie. . .YUM-O! It was all good but my pecan pies turned out AWESOME, this my be my new signature dessert! The girls raved about them. I should have thought to take a picture of my potpies, too. They looked pretty great also! I bought some extra large ramekins at Pier One on sale and used those. I will try to post the recipe (with my adjustments, ha!) tomorrow, because it turned out awesome and it was not hard at all! The girls wanted it since they all thought it was so good.

We watched "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" and "Baby Mama", both were really good! The last of my guests left around 11:30, so it was another late night! Sunday I got up and went to Hickory Ridge for Church and lunch. Then I took a much needed nap and went to see my Nanny and Papa. BTW if you are thinking about getting a puppy or know someone who is,  it looks like my Papa's Jack Russell is pregnant again! After church I headed back home and I was in bed by 9pm! It was still hard getting out of bed this morning! I was just not ready for it to be Monday already! I don't have any major plans for this week. . . I think I may start getting my fall stuff out, since today is the first day of fall! Yay!! I can't wait for the leaves to start turning and for the temperature to drop!  Time for mums and pumpkins, my favorite time of year!!!

Jarrod told me last night that unless something major happens he should be home Friday! I am not getting my hopes up. . .  well, I am trying not to get my hopes up. I know how easily the "plan" can change. So please pray that this week goes as planned and they can come home SOON!

Worth the wait!!

My new bedroom furniture was delivered this afternoon and it's just as gorgeous as I remembered! I spent this evening putting clothes away in our DRAWERS!! I can't believe we have so many drawers! I should have taken a before and after picture, but if you can imagine. . . we had some wood tv trays for nightstands and a piece (a tall skinny lingerie chest) from my bedroom suite I had growing up with the tv on top of it and the bed just on rails no headboard, the only thing the room had going for it was the lamps, bedding, paint job that Jarrod and I created and the curtains my mom made us. . . . but, now look at this. . . .

 

Ha! Notice how lost the old, little TV looks? I am sure we will be "investing" in a new flat screen to hang on the wall over this media chest. It's a cool piece. It has all the cable, phone jacks, and a surge protector built in the inside so all of that ugly stuff is hidden. . . I love that feature!

Much improved if I do say so myself! There is a mirror that hangs over the dresser and it is on backorder (how is it sold as a set but one part is on backorder and the other part isn't?!?!) but it should only be a week or so and we (or I) can pick that up easily when it comes in. The delivery guys moved what was in the room out, and setup all the new stuff. It was well worth the $ considering it took them 45 mins to put the bed together!

I can't wait to curl up here and go to bed tonight! The only thing that is missing now is. . . . my husband! Maybe this time next week he will be here! He was really disappointed that this came in while he was gone. But at least he will have something new and different to look forward to! I don't have any interesting news from him today. They are just working them really hard. I am pretty sure he is completely worn out. He said they are closing the main "staging area" where they have been getting most of their meals. Most of the workers are either gone home or leaving soon. But he isn't too upset about that since the food has been so bad, at least now they will be able to get food from restaurants and maybe get some better tasting food.  That's all for now! Have a great weekend!

Wednesday update. . . .

Jarrod got to Metairie safe and sound Monday night. The trip down there was a lot less dramatic this go around. They are working at the Leeville substation this week since the one in Carlisle is still too flooded to get in and work on anything there.  He said yesterday they saw a dolphin swimming and jumping around in the water just outside of the substation! I told him I bet that dolphin got lost! I didn't know dolphins would swim that far into the swampy areas?  Aren't they afraid of the alligators?!?! He tired to get a picture, but wasn't able to. Too bad that would have been a neat shot!

I am excited about Friday! It's going to be a busy day. We are moving our office. We will be staying in the same place, just moving to down two offices to suite 262, it's a little larger and has more offices. The painters are here today to repaint, it was the most awful shade of mustard yellow-gold and the trim was just a few shades lighter! It was really gross looking! The new paint color is called "Latte" with "Creamy" white trim. . . much better!

Then what I am most excited about is my bedroom furniture is going to be delivered on Friday! We ordered it 2 months ago and it finally came it! Well, all if it except the dresser mirror, which isn't a big deal to go pickup later when it comes in. I am having the delivery guy take the current furniture out of the room, and setup the new furniture for a small fee. I figure it's well worth the $$ not to have to mess with moving all that heavy stuff! You know I will have pictures to show you soon!!

Have a good day, I am headed to Waldenburg to work on a project with Brandy today. . . I am hoping we will get to eat lunch at Checkers in H'burg. . . their rotel chicken pizza is calling my name!!!!

10 more days to go . . .

The weekend went by way to fast! We went to the ASU game Saturday, but other than that we didn't do much. I still wasn't feeling great, so we just took it easy for the most part.

 

The game was fun, until it started pouring down rain! Luckily we had stashed some emergency ponchos in my purse, just in case. And boy were we glad we had them!  When we got there it was sunny and breezy, and maybe a little cloudy, but then it started getting dark! And before we knew it and faster than we could get our ponchos on it started pouring down rain. But thankfully it only lasted a few minutes and then it stopped for the rest of the game.  ASU didn't win, they lost 24-27. Bummer.

  

Saturday night was interesting, as what was left of hurricane Ike was passing by us. It was hard to sleep due to all the wind and hearing things crashing outside. I was sure our windows were going to blow out several times, but finally about 6-ish the winds settled down. We also lost our electricity from around 5am -8am. So, we didn't make it to  early service church. Which would have been interesting, since the church was out of power, too. Jarrod had to drive around after he got up at 7:00 to see who all was out of power.  . . Men?! We we got to church at 10:00 we found out that there were several around town that were still out of power, so we were lucky ours came back on when it did! We didn't have any damage, Just our grill and some things on the back porch were blown into the neighbors yard. The rest of the day was nice, we had lunch at O'Charley's and then I took a nap while Jarrod read the paper, and after church Sunday night my Mom & Dad and Dillon and Brandye came to J'town and we went out to eat at Colton's.  I didn't have to cook at all this weekend! Ha!

Jarrod left this morning around 7:30. They are supposed to be staying in the same hotel and the same room as they were last week. Hopefully,they will only be gone 10 days this time. I hope it is sooner, but I am not holding my breath!

Here is a map of where he is staying [Metairie] and where they will be working [Carlisle] and [Leeville].

Maybe this round will go by as fast as the last one and they will come home for good!