A New Nephew!!

Ronnie's brother James and his wife were expecting their 2nd little girl. Well it was a bit of a surprise when they had their baby last night and it was a boy!!!

I finally got a picture of this sweet boy. Introducing Calvin James Slaven at 8lbs and some ounces (Ronnie took the call...hehe).

Garden Update

Well Ronnie has been working 12-15 hour days. Last night he walked in the door at 10pm.  Lame. Someday maybe we'll see some fruit from his labors.  Until then I'm poor and lonely....


Well ...hopefully we'll see some fruit of my labors in the garden. Literally. :) I'm just excited to see things growing. It makes me happy. So please excuse another boring post!!



Here we have basil and a pepper plant, zucchini, and a lemon tree.

 Full view of our garden plot...laughably small.

We've planted tomatoes and peppers here. Previously planted blueberry bushes,

spinach, lettuce and violas are still there.

Remember my spinach...it's still growing!

I haven't killed anything yet. We'll see how long that lasts.... How is your garden doing?

Floating Shelves

I had a vision of floating shelves....

They said it couldn't be done. Floating shelves cannot hold books.

But they can and they do! A little brain power from my dad and Ronnie and we've got floating shelves that CAN hold books!!

My dad showed us how to build the first shelf and we did the second.

Ronnie is cutting the metal that holds the shelves up.

 Screwing the metal into the wall.

Measuring and building...

 Skip ahead a little and we've got shelves!

Materials: MDF board, metal, big screws, Particle board, wood filler, paint.

Price: 2 MDF boards $20

Wood filler $3

Big screws: already had

Particle board: Donated by dad

Metal: Donated by dad

Paint: already had

Total: $23!!

The second bedroom is sl...oooww..llyy.. coming along. But we're working on it bit by bit.

Hope everyone is having a beautiful spring Sunday...we sure are!!

A Cake to Celebrate

My mom's birthday is this week and I made her a cake on Sunday.

It was funny...she kept saying she couldn't believe she was turning 27...MOM! I'm 27!! haha!

I made a southern classic...Humming Bird cake.

I used this recipe: Humming Bird cake. The recipe is for cupcakes but I just baked it for 30 minutes and it worked out great.

Happy Birthday Ma!!!