Look What I Won!

I am so excited! As many of you know my favorite place to shop is Real Deals, which is a home decor store. I am there so often that they know me by first name. It is such a great store that has super cheap prices for quality pieces and various genres of home decor ranging from americana and coutnry to shabby chic. Last Saturday Kristina and I went to see their Spring open house. There were all kinds of goodies and special deals. I entered my name into a drawing. Kristina and I went back on Thursday and Kim, the owner, informed me that I won this Easter wreath! I was so thrilled!!

Then, we rag painted our bathroom over Christmas break. I had been waiting to re-decorate and had been saving a collection of gift certificates to spend at Real Deals. Here is the final outcome of our guest bathroom. I just love it. I like to walk in there several times a day just to admire the satisfaction of my handy work!

This is a picture of the opposite bathroom wall.

.....and, Jason's sister, Rachel, and her family came to visit us over the vacation. I tried to get a family picture, but little ones just weren't cooperating. I thought it would be nice to have a picture of the two of them instead.

Five Years

Friday night, which was the start of Spring Break, Jason and I celebrated our fifth anniversary. We had a beautiful gourmet dinner at D's Magnolias in old town. Jason had prime rib and I had artichoke and spinach stuffed raviolis. Everything was delicous and the atmosphere was very quaint and romantic.
After looking at the dessert menu, I decided I could make most of them at home. So, we went to Shari's (of all places) and bought a whole S'mores pie which is one of our favorites. It was sooooo yummy!

A Special Guy

We had a quiet celebration for my dad's 60th birthday. On Friday his students (along with their parents) surprised him with a huge sheet cake and gifts. He was shocked and said in all of his years of teaching, students hadn't done anything that special for him on his birthday! Then we sent him balloons. Saturday evening we were going to all go out and celebrate, but I was really sick from some meds. Instead, they came over and my mom made a really nice dinner. We also got him a DQ ice cream cake, gifts, and then played several rounds of Sequence.