My Birthday

Thanks for all the calls and email! They were all fabulous. Well, here are the pics from last nights festivities. I warn you, these are rated R. Yes the cake is a pair of breasts! Courtosey of my friend Sheasa who turned her amazing baking skills towards something really challenging....a pair of pirky ones at 29! HA!

Dave's Birthday

Happy Birthday Dave! Well most likely we are having a Gemini Birthday Party since there are so many of us Gemini's....but I thought we could at least celebrate Dave'd b-day with a fun cake. So, I made him a pirate cake...I blame it on Disney! But is was fun...it even has little pirates!
The people with Dave are our friends: Sheasa, Lane and Dublin (the child).

Playing in the fountain

So my friend Lydia came into town this weekend for her 5 year reunion...and while she was here we decided to celebrate her return in a truly Smith way, by jumping in the fountain in the science quad. Here is the video of this momentous occasion. Click Here!

Hello Everyone....so we are growing up...I know...sniff....we finally got curtains! The bedroom no longer looks like a dorm room! So here are the before and after:

Morning Glories and other Ammenities!

So I have been on an insane morning glory planting binge! Well, I had a lot of seedlings that needed to be transplanted...so transplant I did! Above you can see that I painted the right side planter...so now we look a little more balanced. But I have also added a cedar trim to seperate our new morning glories from the "lawn" Ok, we know the lawn is sad...but it is seeded we swear!
So one day it will be lush and green! And the morning glories primary function is to act as a decoy from the aweful porch. So instead of people saying...wow that is a unfortunate porch are you going to redo that..they will say something like...nice flowers...then we will know our plan is working! (twiddling fingers deviously)

Ok, this pic, in all its wonderful ambiguity, is actually newly planted morning glories at the base of our maple tree. We hope that they will grow up the tree. The second pic is the rock wall we are building around said tree...very English garden!



These next few pics are off the back yard, with the leaves actually growing! See we are no longer winter barren. And one is the hanging petunia basket on the back porch, of which I have 2.

New Truck Old Truck

So, most of you know....Dave got a new truck. This is a joyous event! and a sad one. He had to say goodbye to his old baby duelly! This pic was taken the day we traded it in...
But he traded it in for a beautiful Dodge Dakota!

In the Big Apple!

Ok..so these aren't the most exciting pictures, but the event was pretty thrilling. This is a pic of me underneath the ABC sign at the ABC building. We went there on friday for the launch of the new mentoring program...of which I am a mentee. I met my mentor, who is the head of the IT department, and think we will be doing some pretty amazing things. It was pretty cool just flashing my Disney badge and getting to walk straight into the ABC building...yeah...thats right....I've got connections! Well...my badge does at least!

Oh...and this sign was just funny!

Front of the House

Ok...I know it has been a long time coming, but here is the front of our house! Ooo...pretty!

This is the planter we created on the front of the house. This one also wraps around the side. Although this one is unpainted, it will be painted soon. You can see the white creeping over to that side of the house on the trellis which was just recently brown and blue. I like the white much better.


This is the otherside, already painted with my extra petunias sticking their heads above the edge. We like the white because it ties the house in with the windows. And now with the white going all the way across it creates a nice flow and continuity.

P.S. My fabulous friend Sheasa painted some of the lattice with me...in her Easter best no less!


So in case you didnt notice in the above picture, the lawn....not so much of a lawn. That is because Ray has been diligently tearing it up! We are starting from scratch! This is him tearing up the "garden" on the side of the house.

This is the front entry to the house...which will eventually be torn down because it is definately not Scottish (...and for those not familiar with that particular reference..."If its not Scottish, its crap!")
But I have pretty hanging baskets with petunias on either side of the steps, so that looks nice. They are flowering madly. I cant wait to have a cascading waterfall of flowers!

Gardening with the Gnomies!

Ok...so spring is finally coming to Massachusetts! We have small leaf buds on all the trees and our beautiful flowering trees are driving peoples allergies crazy...although they are very beautiful. So we have begun our gardening project, at least in the front.

First we pulled out that very large yellow bush Dave is preparing to punch. We were going to dig it out, but thought we would let the truck give it the old college try. Wonderfully, it popped right out. The reason we are getting rid of this bush, despite its pretty yellow flowers, is because it brings bee's and smells bad and was too close to the foundation. And everyone has them and who wants to look like everyone else anyway!

We Have a Wall!

We have a wall in our bathroom! This is truly amazing. Now dont get too excited, its only one wall, but more will be soon to come! We even have electricity! I no longer have to have a lamp plugged into an extension cord running from our kitchen to light the bathroom. It is so wonderful.
Ok, so the first pic is Dave working on the wiring. The second pic is the light bar we just installed. Isnt it so very nice! We are very proud of this fixture, there was a lot of deliberation. I will try to get a nice close up picture of it so you can see the detail. The last pic is Dave in our Edison blessed bathroom!

New Cabrio

So...I have a new car. I know, I cant believe it either! It is a VW Cabrio, 1999, black with a cream interior...and yes it is a convertable....and no I did not trade in the jeep. But I love my new cutie car. It is my first "adult" car...it even gets good gas mileage! But here is a picture of me with my new cabrio after Dave dropped it off at my work. See how fun it is! Plus I got a haircut, not that you can really tell in this photo.

Coffee Maker

Ok...so the pics of me are horrible. For those of you who don't know, I am sick right now...that is my excuse! But this is our new coffee maker. It has no caraffe! The little circular guage is like a gas guage, but for coffee with an E and and F to indicate cup level left! Yup we are in love and highy caffinated!

Coffee Maker

Ok...so the pics of me are horrible. For those of you who don't know, I am sick right now...that is my excuse! But this is our new coffee maker. It has no caraffe! The little circular guage is like a gas guage, but for coffee with an E and and F to indicate cup level left! Yup we are in love and highy caffinated!

We have a runner!

...and I dont mean that in a jogging sense. We just installed the carpet runner on our stair. The pictures below show the rug, and its various bends, of which we are very proud...and us working on it. I hope you enjoy the pics...soon will be pics of the bathroom, which is moisturizing for its facelift as we speak!

Still working hard...man carpets take a while! 

Dave working hard! 

Dave and I, working on carpet...obviosuly we are working hard! 

Ray and Dave working on carpet